By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) – Beekeepers from across Israel delivered their honey products to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin this week in light of a festive event held at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem for the upcoming Jewish New Year. A delegation of the Israeli Honey Council, which also included a three-generation family of […]
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Middle EastBy Michal Ordman NETANYA, Israel — I usually publicize the positive achievements of the Jewish State. This week, however, I want to illustrate that much of Israel’s work also goes into counteracting the negative side of life in the modern world. Disease prevention is a top priority of Israeli medical research. Israel’s Avraham Pharmaceuticals has
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationAnti-Semitic cartoon printed on credit card from Norwegian bank (JNS.org) A credit card issued by a Norwegian bank sparked a controversy by featuring an anti-Semitic cartoon that resembles a throwback to the Nazi era. The DNB Bank card features an unflattering image of a large-nosed Jewish man wearing a prayer shawl that bears the Star
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One can guess that the Palestinians have gone the route of Mt McKinley. The time of both in the spotlight may have passed, but we’re not sure of either’s demise. Barack Obama’s move to bestow on what had been called Mt McKinley for more than a century the name given
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Enough hot air has been expelled in the last few months, mostly by Republicans, to fill several dozen hot air balloons. As I wrote in my last column, the nuclear agreement with Iran, painfully and carefully negotiated, was a done deal the moment it was signed by
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International, Middle East, USAIsraeli government gives Arab sector $230 million in aid (JNS.org) Israel’s Arab municipal councils will receive a one-time budgetary supplement of $230 million from the Israeli government before the end of the year. There are a number of predominantly Arab towns and local councils in Israel, most of which are characterized by poor populations. “The
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Middle East, USABy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — I have always had a peculiar fascination for Jewish gangsters. Over the years, I would read much written about the Jewish mob. How could I not be enthralled with guys who had nicknames like, “Little Farvel”, “Legs”, “Dopey”, “Waxey”, “Greenie”, “Who-Ha”, “Kid Twist”, “Dutch”, “Tick-Tock”, “The Bug”, “Dimples”?
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Middle East, USABy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — Many provisions of the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran are not satisfactory, which leads to the conclusion that the agreement itself is unacceptable. The most important issue is totally intolerable – namely, the proposed 10- to 15-year duration of the agreement. For some reason, opponents of the
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Arkady Mamaysky, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s time for another round of that hoary folk song about disaster just about everywhere, i.e., “They’re rioting in Africa, they’re starving in Spain . . . ” The ugliest story concerns more than 70 bodies, decomposed to a smelly lump making counts difficult and identification impossible, found in a
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAReport: Hezbollah enlisting Palestinian operatives to carry out attacks (JNS.org) Hezbollah is working to enlist Palestinian operatives from Fatah’s Al Aksa Brigades to carry out attacks against Israeli targets in Judea and Samaria as well as inside of Israel proper, a Palestinian security source said. A Palestinian security source told the Saudi daily newspaper
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The proposal by Gilad Erdan, Minister of Internal Security to appoint Gal Hirsch to head the police provides us with some insight into the workings of Israeli society and politics, as well as some general lessons about difficult decisions. The appointment is one of the most important that can made in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIAEA says Iran may have expanded Parchin nuclear facility (JNS.org) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, said in a report that Iran may have built an extension to part of its Parchin nuclear site since May. “Since (our) previous report (in May), at a particular location at the Parchin site,
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International, Middle EastWWII-era Jewish café reopens in Shanghai (JNS.org) A café that was a popular spot for Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War II has been rebuilt and reopened in the city’s Hongkou district. The Zum Weissen Rossi’l café, better known as the White Horse Café, first opened in 1939. On hand for the reopening
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — If there was a measure that compared a place’s contribution to the noise of the world to its size, Israel would be somewhere close to the top . Over the years we’ve seen claims that Israel leads in the number of foreign correspondents per capita, the media space and time
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