By Yaron Doron, Eli Barak and JNS Staff (Israel Hayom via JNS) The two Israelis killed in a terrorist shooting at a Tel Aviv bar on Thursday night have been identified as Eytam Magini and Tomer Morad, both 27, from Kfar Saba. Magini and Morad, who are childhood friends, will be laid to rest on Sunday. […]
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Middle East
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — We recently spent an enjoyable time with Michal’s classmate from ACHS (Atlantic City High School). Jimmy has a great love of Israel and a great interest in Judaism — although, or maybe because — he’s a religious Christian. Jimmy began his tour with three days in Tel Aviv-Yaffo
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Dianne Lob, Chair, William Daroff, CEO, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice Chair, of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, on Thursday issued the following statement: “We are appalled by the shooting in Tel Aviv’s city center today, which took the lives of at least two individuals and caused
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Middle East, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — In a rebuttal brief filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, attorneys for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel, also known as American Quality Products (AQP), and its owner Avi Zinger note that Defendant Unilever (in its opposition brief) “Effectively concede[s] that the only reason for not renewing AQP’s license is
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Middle East, USA
(JNS) Israeli Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata visited the Israeli field hospital in Mostyska on Thursday, together with a delegation of Jewish Agency for Israel and Keren Hayesod leaders. Tamano-Shata and the delegation landed in Poland on Wednesday, where it met with Jewish refugees from Ukraine who are immigrating to Israel, according to The
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International, Middle East
By Richard L. Cravatts (JNS) The suppression of pro-Israel views on campus has been a troubling development in the ongoing cognitive war against Israel. Now, the silencing of pro-Israel voices even appears in college newspapers. This week, the University of Chicago’s student newspaper, The Chicago Maroon, followed that ignoble path by violating journalistic and free
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Middle East, Opinion, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By David Isaac (JNS) The problem of national food security, which formerly preoccupied specialists, began to penetrate the world’s consciousness with COVID-19 supply disruptions, but it’s Russia’s war with Ukraine that has given governments a jolt. Ukraine, together with Russia, supplies the world with 27% of its wheat and 53% of its sunflower oil and
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International, Middle East
By Yehuda Shlezinger, Ariel Kahana and JNS staff (Israel Hayom via JNS) Coalition chairwoman and Yamina Knesset member Idit Silman on Wednesday confirmed her resignation, and called for the establishment of a right-wing government. The immediate cause of her resignation was a dispute with Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz over the entry of leavened bread and
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Middle East
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — Buying a home in Israel is very different than in the U.S. The language is different, the payment structure is usually different, the legal process is different, and the numbers are different. Let’s focus on some of the numbers: Floors In the U.S., if you look at an apartment on
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Business & Finance, Gedaliah Borvick, Lifestyles, Middle East
By Alex Gordon, Ph.D HAIFA, Israel — During the Russia-Ukraine war a history is made, which is important in itself, but which cannot undo the history of the relationship between Ukrainians and Jews. Ukraine is bleeding, but this misfortune does not blot out the rivers of blood shed by Jews in Ukraine throughout its history.
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Alex Gordon, Holocaust, International, Middle East, Opinion
By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) A 10-day, large-scale American-Israeli navy drill recently included joint activities by medical personnel from both fleets, including the setting up of a hospital at sea onboard Israel’s largest type of sea vessel. The Deputy Surgeon General of the Israeli Navy, Lt. Cdr. Dr. Y, told JNS in recent days that the
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Middle East, USA
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Professor Abraham A. Sion — author of the interesting, significant, and eye-opening book “To Whom Was The Promised Land Promised?” — knows the subject of the Israeli and Arab claims to the land of Israel better than most people. He served as deputy state attorney for
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Middle East
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Last week four Israelis were stabbed to death in Beer Sheva; two Border Police officers were shot to death in Hadera; five Israelis, including one Christian Arab police officer, were shot to death in the Haredi city of Bnei Brak; another Israeli was stabbed and seriously injured while riding
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It goes without saying that a certain amount of cognitive dissonance is inevitable in the psyche of anyone living in Western society in this day and age. Our mental balance depends on finding a way of coping with the situations in which we find ourselves. Recent events in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Opinion