JERUSALEM (WJC) — The Israeli Defense Forces uncovered and destroyed a Hamas attack tunnel penetrating southern Israel, the first to be detected since the end of the military campaign in Gaza in the summer of 2014. The tunnel was about 30 to 40 meters underground, lined with concrete slabs and equipped with communication lines, air supply and rails for
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Middle EastUNESCO approves resolution ignoring Jewish ties to Temple Mount (JNS.org) The executive board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a resolution on Friday that ignores Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem. With 33 votes in favor, six against, and 17 abstentions, the resolution solely refers
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Middle EastIn recent years as Europe grows more hostile Israel has increasingly been turning to the East, building alliances with Japan, China, India, Taiwan and South Korea – an historically groundbreaking visit on Monday reveals that Singapore is the latest key Asian ally of the Jewish state. Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is to arrive
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International, Middle EastDemocratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has recently had a spate of anti-Israel comments, and on Sunday he continued the streak as he said US President Barack Obama has not been far enough on the Palestinians’ side. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC, Sanders was asked about his debate with frontrunner Hillary
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Middle East, USAThe Israeli government held a unique session on Sunday, travelling by helicopter to the Golan Heights for a special meeting. While the venue of the cabinet meeting was unusual it was perfectly suited for the Prime Minister”s message, which declared that Israel will never surrender the Golan Heights. “I chose to hold this festive meeting
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Are Facebook and Twitter finally cracking down on Palestinian incitement? If the recent closure of multiple accounts linked to Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is anything to go by the answer is yes. On Friday, Twitter shut down the account of the al-Qassam Brigades’ official spokesman, who goes by the nom de
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In preparation for the upcoming Passover holiday, President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday carried out the ritual selling of the chametz (leavened foods that are forbidden on the Jewish holiday) with Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Rabbi Shlomo Amar. In the brief ceremony, the President appointed Rabbi Amar to act as an emissary of the President
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By Raphael Poch JERUSALEM – In the land that Moses walked and the Jews wandered for some of their 40 years, the land in which Ben Gurion said that Israel will be tested, Israel’s national volunteer EMS organization, United Hatzalah is making waves and saving lives daily. The Negev desert has long been one of Israel’s
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By Steve Kramer NETANYA, Israel — We recently attended a lecture sponsored by AACI Netanya. The lecturer was American-Israeli Hank Citron, who divides his time between Manhattan and Netanya. A former history professor in New Jersey, Hank is a colorful character who, among other things, grew up in a Zionist household, the son of European
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Steve KramerBy Hillary Clinton/JNS.org I didn’t grow up celebrating Pesach. But over the years, I’ve attended seders where I was inspired by the remarkable story told in the haggadah—a tale of a people who, sustained by fortitude and faith, escaped slavery and reached their freedom. As Jewish people around the world prepare for this festival, I wanted
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We can wonder if anger or pity should be our response to an item that has gone viral. It shows a young Jewish woman who reached a top place in Bernie Sanders’ campaign–his Jewish outreach director–expressing a hatred that goes over the boundaries of pathological. In a Facebook screed, Simone
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAThe information Jonathan Pollard obtained while spying for Israel in the 1980s continues to be deemed “top secret,” and could still cause real damage to American national security, Channel 10 reported Friday, citing a written statement by US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. According to the report, Clapper, in a document he submitted to
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Active in Israel for over half a century, Motorola Solutions, the non-cellphone “twin” of the legendary electronics firm, announced that it was opening an innovation center in Israel. The company already has several hundred employees at a research and development center in the Tel Aviv area, which aims at finding and developing deals with Israeli
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Middle East, USAThe conditions suffered by Palestinians at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank are “shameful and a disgrace to the State of Israel and to the security establishment,” Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel said Friday. Ariel, best known for his fiery right-wing rhetoric and his insistence on Jewish rights to the Temple Mount, told Tel Aviv Radio
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