About 20 firebombs were hurled towards the fence of the Binyamin region community of Psagot on Saturday night. There were no injuries or damages as a result of the firebombs, which were thrown from the direction of Ramallah. The incident is the latest in a series of attacks on Psagot in recent weeks, including a […]
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Middle EastIsraeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (also spelled Lieberman) headed to American Saturday night, for his first official state visit since taking office. During his trip, Liberman will be meeting with several senior US administration officials, including his counterpart Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. On top of the agenda will be ongoing discussions concerning an upgraded
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Middle East, USAAn historically significant event has just taken place which has been largely ignored by what the “Wall Street Journal” called the “obsequious” media: fifty-one active-duty US diplomats issued what is called a “dissent channel memorandum” denouncing the policies of the Obama administration towards the Syrian conflict. The original dissent memorandum came to be called the
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Middle East, USA(AFP) In the middle of southern Israel’s desert, engineers are hard at work building the world’s tallest solar tower, reflecting the country’s high hopes for renewable energy. Once completed in late 2017, the Ashalim Tower will rise to 240 meters (787 feet), taller than Paris’s Montparnasse Tower and London’s Gherkin, according to the Israeli government
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Middle East, The World We Share, USAPalestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Saturday visited the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Hamdallah was accompanied by Palestinian General Intelligence Service chief Majed Faraj and head of the Palestinian Preventative Security Service Ziad Hab al-Rieh. The visit was coordinated with Israel, and follows Friday prayers a day earlier that
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Middle EastThe government on Sunday approved Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s recommendation for an additional budget of 70 million shekels to communities in Judea and Samaria. Included in that budget is a one-off Interior Ministry grant of 15 million shekels to local councils in Judea-Samaria, to help them cope with ongoing Arab terrorism. The Agriculture Ministry will
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Middle EastA Texan hi-tech PR and social media guru killed in a tragic car accident in Tel Aviv Saturday night has been eulogized as one of Israel’s biggest supporters in his field. San Antonio public relations specialist Alan Weinkrantz was among three people killed when a car veered off the road and slammed into a restaurant
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Middle East, USACommunities bordering the Gaza Strip usually make the headlines in stories about terrorism, attacks, and tunnels. A new initiative aims to change that a technology incubator named SouthUp the first technology incubator in the southern border communities. The parties involved in establishing the new incubator are the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council, Sapir Academic College, OurCrowd
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Middle East, San Diego County, USAJewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett has hit back in response to criticisms of the current government by former defense ministers Moshe Ya’alon and Ehud Barak at last week’s Herzliya Conference. Both Barak and Ya’alon took aim at the government for being, in their view, too right-wing, and Ya’alon took the opportunity to announce his
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Middle EastZionist Union chief Isaac Herzog”s spokesman Ofer Newman stirred up controversy Saturday night with provocative comments posted on Facebook targeting Jews living in Judea and Samaria. The post came after the airing of the TV special “The Settlers”, inspiring Newman to publicly air his feelings on the Jewish communities over the Green Line. Launching into
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Middle EastThe ministerial legislation committee today rejected a bill proposed by MK Yael German (Yesh Atid) that would allow the local authorities to decide whether to operate public transportation on the Sabbath. German told “Globes” today, “We won’t give up. We’ll submit the bill again in six months, and again in a year, and again and
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By Raphael Poch JERUSALEM- When you meet an everyday person who does something incredible, it can take your breath away. Ronen and his wife Neomie are two such people. Both volunteer as EMTs for Israel’s national volunteer EMS organization, United Hatzalah, and they collaborate to make their volunteering as well as their personal lives work
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Jeremy Ben-Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — Political change is coming to Israel. That’s the conclusion I came back with from a recent Congressional delegation to Israel and the West Bank. Most Americans who care deeply about the future of Israel have watched in agony as Prime Minister Netanyahu has led the country ever further to
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Middle EastIsrael allowed hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip into Jerusalem for Ramadan prayers Friday, an official said, a week after revoking entry permits in response to a deadly attack. The 300 Palestinians are believed to be the first from the Strip to be granted entry to pray since Israel shut the border after terrorists
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