The US-led consortium leading the development of Israel’s offshore gas reserves has announced its first sales deal since a reworked agreement on a key offshore field was given the go-ahead. The consortium, led by US firm Noble Energy, Sunday announced a $3-billion deal to supply 13 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the Leviathan
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Middle EastLag Ba’Omer fires may have sparked the massive blazes in Emek HaArazim, Ramot, and Jerusalem’s Romema neighborhood the Fire Department announced Monday. A campfire in Emek HaArazim, near Ramot, probably started the blaze as Lag Ba’Omer festivities ended, spreading due to northwest winds at approximately 12:05 pm Thursday, the Investigative Department of the Jerusalem Fire
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastJordan’s King Abdullah on Sunday dissolved the country”s parliament and appointed veteran politician Hani Mulqi as caretaker prime minister, Reuters reported. Mulqi has been charged by the king with organizing new elections by October. The king accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour before appointing Mulqi by royal decree. Under the constitutional rules the
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Middle EastAli Larijani was re-elected on Sunday as the temporary speaker of Iran’s new parliament which is dominated by first-term deputies, Reuters reported. Larijani, who is considered a “moderate conservative”, cooperated closely with the government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in approving Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers last year. He won 173 votes in the
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Middle EastMoscow- Russia is preparing to return an Israeli tank captured by Syrian troops in the 1982 war that is exhibited at a museum near Moscow. “Israel got the notification that Russian President Vladimir Putin met the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return the tank that the Syrians gave the Russian army and that
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International, Middle EastDefying BDS calls for a boycott of Israel, Italy has committed itself to bring the largest ever delegation of Italian academics to Israel. A series of conferences and events will take place across the country for four days this week. Italian and Israeli researchers will be invited to participate in an exchange of information and
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International, Middle EastOne-third of Americans believes that a boycott of Israeli is justified and represents a legitimate means of bringing pressure to bear, according to a survey carried out in the US in advance of a United Nations conference tomorrow, Channel 2 News Online reports. The survey finds that the campaign of the BDS (boycott, disinvest, sanction)
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Middle East, USAThe European Jewish Congress (EJC) called on European Parliament President Martin Schulz to take action against MEP Martina Anderson on Monday, after she said Israeli lobbyists were “all over this place like a rash” during a parliament meeting last week. “Once again we hear deeply offensive statements about Jews from a European public figure and
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International, Middle EastThe Israeli government on Monday morning formally approved the appointment of Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman as defense minister. The approval came after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu finally secured the vital backing of the Jewish Home party, after a compromise deal with Education Minister Naftali Bennett was successfully brokered by Health Minister Yaakov Litzman
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Middle EastFormer Bradford West MP Naz Shah was “ignorant about Judaism” when she made the anti-Semitic comments leading to her suspension, she stated at a Leeds synagogue Sunday night. “It is my job in the Muslim Community to highlight the issues of anti-Semitism,” she stated, according to the Jewish News. “Going to Auschwitz is a fantastic
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International, Middle EastThe small Jewish community in Edirne, in northwest Turkey, has waited patiently since 1976 for a wedding in its local synagogue – and when it finally occurred yesterday, the response it drew from other Turks was less than celebratory. The wedding was set to be such a significant and joyous event that it was decided
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Middle EastDemocratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday emphasized that he believes in Israel”s right to exist, but also said that in order to achieve peace in the Middle East, the United States would have to take the Palestinian Arabs into account as well. “I am 100 percent pro-Israel in the sense of Israel’s right to
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Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday night accepted Health Minister Ya’akov Litzman”s (United Torah Judaism) compromise on the changes to the Security Cabinet, leading to the end of the crisis with Education Minister Naftali Bennett. As such, the Cabinet will meet Monday morning to approve the appointment of Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman as Defense
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Middle EastBritish Labour Party MPs have expressed “shock” over the failure of the party to respond to an invitation by Israel’s Labor Party to visit the country, even as the UK party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn fends off accusations of anti-Semitism in his party’s senior ranks. In April, Israel’s opposition leader Isaac Herzog responded furiously to the
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