The 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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By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For more than a week, we’ve been rocked by commentary, partly in support, and sharply critical of a speech that the IDF Deputy Chief of Staff, Major General Yair Golan, made on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The most complete version in English follows, taken from a report in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Five candidates for U.S. Senate dramatically split on the issue of admitting Syrian refugees to the United States, with two Democrats pleading for compassion, two Republicans citing security concerns, and one Republican saying he has no problem with refugees but the total number of immigrants to this country
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Middle East, USAA convoy of Hezbollah terrorists and weapons was hit in an apparent Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, according to Arab media reports. The convoy was reportedly traveling through the village of Anjar, close to Lebanon’s border with Syria, when it was hit. Anjar is located in the Bekaa Valley region, a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon. Israel’s
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Representative Peter J. Roskam is warning American and European companies not to sell airplanes and other products to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, he took to the House floor to continue sounding the alarm bells over The Boeing Company’s ongoing negotiations with government-run airlines in Iran. Last week, he joined
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Middle East, USAFrance is gearing up security for the Cannes film festival set to kick off this week with bomb sweeps, hundreds of extra police and the help of a former Israeli general, as the country faces its highest-ever terror threat. The 69th Cannes Film Festival comes six months after Islamic State jihadists launched coordinated attacks in
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTwo elderly women were stabbed and moderately injured in a suspected terror attack at the Armon Hanatziv promenade in southern Jerusalem, police said Tuesday morning. Both women were rushed to a local hospital in moderate condition, the Magen David Adom rescue service said. An MDA spokesperson said the two were in their 80s,…
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