(Editor’s Note: Yoni Peres, a huge soccer fan, recently stood-in for his father, former Israeli President Shimon Peres, at an awards ceremony sponsored by the Taeda Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this article he describes a private tour of Buenos Aires.) Story and Photos by Yoni Peres BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — I was picked […]
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodThe cyber revolution is at its height. The meeting point between the power of thought and connectivity is changing our world, and affecting all spheres of life, as individuals and as a nation. Israel’s power in science and technology is creating a great opportunity to position ourselves in the forefront of cybernetic innovation. Together with
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Video has emerged of Iranian Jews preparing for the upcoming Passover festival by baking matzah, the unleavened bread that is the key traditional food eaten during the festival. The video, published by the Kikar Hashabat website last week, shows several members of the Tehran community manning a small matzah-baking production line. Strict religious rules govern
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement activists on Sunday vandalized and tore up signs on the Paris subway advertising the “Open Door a to Israel” exhibit, currently on display at the Louvre museum. “BDS activists have once again shown their true colors. They are not human rights activists, but a group of extremist law-breakers whose
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International, Middle EastThe British government will no longer fund the War on Want organization, following reports that the group had been fundamentally transformed from an anti-poverty charity into a front for anti-Israel activists. Founded in 1951, the War on Want organization was initially geared towards fighting poverty around the world. Because of its humanitarian work overseas, the
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is a lot of news hereabouts. The items may be threatening to individuals, but not, apparently, to the society. Indeed, some of them may help us clean a bit of the dirt that accumulates here, not all that different from other places. We’re still dealing with the soldier who
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World leaders gathered on Friday in Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit to discuss the growing threat of nuclear terrorism. Noting the chilling possibility of a nuclear attack, US President Barack Obama remarked that Islamic State terrorists have already made use of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, and that there is evidence
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Former Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich said Saturday that suspicions of misconduct plaguing current party chief Isaac Herzog were “a tough, burdensome end” to her week, adding that she hoped the probe would not take a heavy toll on the party. Yachimovich, who lost the party leadership to Herzog in 2013, and who is widely
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Israel is to extend the distance off the Gaza Strip coast that some of the Palestinian territory’s fishermen are allowed to operate from Sunday, their trade union said Friday. Fishing boats working out of ports in the southern part of the Strip will be allowed up to nine nautical miles off the coast, the chairman
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An Arab Knesset member reportedly accused Israel Wednesday of being a terrorist state, saying the government is responsible for systematic discrimination against Israeli Arabs. Speaking during the main annual Land Day demonstration in the Bedouin town of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, MK Taleb Abu Arar of the Arab Joint List said that Israel
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu this week called for Israel and Indonesia to develop bilateral relations, but Indonesia has rejected the call. Netanyahu”s call came during a meeting on Monday with a delegation of senior Indonesian journalists. At the meeting, Netanyahu told the journalists that “the time has come for official relations between Indonesia and Israel.
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International, Middle EastBelgium’s federal hotline for the extremist attacks in Brussels has fired an operator who told a Jewish caller that Israel does not exist and should be called Palestine instead. An unidentified Jewish man called the hotline, run by the Belgian Interior Ministry, telling the operator that he was a volunteer for the city of Antwerp’s
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International, Middle EastWhen meeting with former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres on Wednesday, Vice-Premier Liu Yandong said “there is huge potential and great prospect for two-way cooperation in various fields, particularly in innovation cooperation”. At their meeting in Tel Aviv, Peres said both two countries value innovation, and he is delighted to see the outcomes in science
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International, Middle EastThe Palestinian Authority president reached out to Israel on Thursday, saying he opposes near-daily Palestinian attacks on Israelis and suggesting the violence would stop if the defunct peace process were to resume. Israel has accused Mahmoud Abbas of failing to condemn the wave of Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians and security forces that erupted in
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