Netanyahu proposes return of Israeli Independence Day military parades (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday suggested that Israel reinstate the tradition of military parades on the country’s Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut). Israel held such parades from 1949-1968, and then once more to mark the Jewish state’s 25th independence anniversary in 1973. At a Yom […]
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International, Middle East, USABy Jeremy Ben-Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today marks 68 years since Israel’s founding as a modern independent state. For some, Israel’s rebirth after 19 centuries of exile is nothing short of a divine miracle. For others — like me — Israel’s existence is a testament to the hard work of real people against enormous odds. Israel
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-56th in a Series- Exit 23: Lake Jennings Park Road, Lakeside ~ Eddy Pump Corporation, El Cajon By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – A pumping system estimated to save the U.S. Navy millions of dollars over the equipment’s lifetime was invented by a Jewish surgeon with a PhD in fluid dynamics and a master’s in
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu”s office on Tuesday evening issued a clarification of comments made by the Prime Minister earlier in the day about the 2011 attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Speaking at a Foreign Ministry ceremony on the eve of Yom Hazikaron, Netanyahu had claimed that Israel had threatened to send troops to
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Middle East, USAOn May 9, the New Jersey State Senate unanimously passed legislation that would prohibit state pension and annuity funds from being invested in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses. The major sponsors of the bill are Sen. James Beach (D-Dist. 6) and Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Dist. 37). “We have Israel’s back,” said Beach.
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Middle East, USAThe Foreign Ministry rebuked the Israeli consul in Istanbul, Shai Cohen, following the interview he gave to the Reuters news agency about the reconciliation talks between Israel and Turkey, Kol Yisrael radio reported on Tuesday. According to the report, Cohen’s comments in the interview were deemed to have strayed from the state’s official position regarding
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Middle EastFrench Prime Minister Manuel Valls will visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority this month in a bid to relaunch the peace process, his office said Tuesday, according to the AFP news agency. Valls” visit, from May 21-24, comes as France seeks to engineer a peace deal based on a two-state solution. As part of the
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International, Middle EastIntensive negotiations between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog are continuing apace, following reports yesterday that a unity government deal was “closer than ever.” Now, the price of including Herzog’s 24-seat Zionist Union party into the Likud-led coalition is becoming clearer. Sources close to the prime minister say Herzog has been offered
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — A functioning State of Palestine is the aspiration of most members of the United Nations. They’ve been dreaming about it ever since 1967, when Israel took control of Judea and Samaria from Jordan, which had occupied the region since Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. It sounds great
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Middle East, Steve KramerSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Federation of San Diego County and community partners have scheduled an annual community event to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut on May 15 at the San Diego Jewish Academy, 11860 Carmel Creek Road, from 2 pm to 5 pm. This is a free event to celebrate and educate our local community about
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Middle East, San Diego CalendarNews of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau NEW YORK (Press Release) – In an effort to assist Palau confront its severe water shortage, AJC has made a donation to the Pacific Island nation to help build a new desalination system. Israel will be providing the equipment and technical support.
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By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — My in-laws got married in a forest in Slovakia during the Holocaust in 1942. They gave birth to a little boy, and about six months before the war was over, went into hiding in a storeroom beneath the home of a non-Jewish woman in a nearby village. Since
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Jewish History, Middle East, Toby Klein GreenwaldTrump calls Israel ‘great bastion of hope,’ says he will visit Jewish state ‘soon’ (JNS.org) Asked for his message to Israelis on Yom Hazikaron, the Jewish state’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview published Wednesday by the Israel Hayom newspaper that
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