Palestinian terrorist stabs Israeli policeman in latest attack (JNS.org) A Palestinian terrorist was shot dead Monday after stabbing an Israeli border policeman at Tapuach Junction in Samaria. The policeman was lightly wounded in the incident. The attack was the latest incident in a surge of Palestinian terrorism in recent weeks. On Saturday, two Israeli security […]
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The British government provides for petitions to be listed on a web site that people can sign electronically. If 10,000 people sign, the Government is expected to look into the matter; if 100,000 people sign, it must be considered by Parliament for debate. Sounds like a lovely way to involve the
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastLike Dreamers, The True Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, by Yossi Klein Halevi (HarperCollins Publishers, 2013) By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In June 1967, the Israeli Defense Forces miraculously overcame the combined attack launched by three of its neighbors: Egypt, Jordan and Syria. But as miraculous as
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — It was a brilliant move by Prime Minister Netanyahu to appoint Danny Danon as Israel’s next permanent representative at the United Nations. Not that it’ll do the country any good there, but it’ll get rid of a troublemaker within Netanyahu’s Likud – the man who until now has held important
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The US State Department and Justice Department are wrestling with an issue concerned with a verdict handed down by a Federal Court in New York. It involves a civil suit, brought by American families who suffered injuries and death due to Palestinian terror attacks in Israel. The jury decided in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAIDF reveals defense strategy for first time in 60 years (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday released, for the first time in 60 years, a document outlining Israel’s defense strategy. In the introduction to the 33-page document, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot states that the military’s basic operational strategy is based
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International, Middle EastHamas claims it is making use of crashed Israeli drone (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Hamas terrorist group’s “military wing” on Wednesday claimed that it has rebuilt and is making use of an Israeli Skylark drone that crashed in the Gaza Strip last month. “The Zionist enemy must know we are lying in wait and
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s worth pondering at some length Barack Obama’s overlooking of Winston Churchill in his comment that he does not remember a case when a foreign official involved himself as much in American politics as Benyamin Netanyahu. Churchill was intent in bringing the United States into the European war, and it is
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAIsraeli officials reportedly meet with Egyptian counterparts in Cairo (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A delegation of senior Israeli officials visited Cairo on Tuesday for a series of meetings and discussions with Egyptian officials, the Turkish news agency Anatolia reported. According to the report, which was based on information from senior Egyptian sources, the Israeli delegation
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International, Middle East, USAEditor’s Note: In the first part of this series, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights, explained why he holds Israel responsible for civilian deaths in last summer’s Gaza War. In this second part, author Seth Moreida explains why he rejects many of Ascherman’s positions. -Second of a two-part series- By Seth Moreida
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Not long ago I was invited to join a group on Facebook that goes by the name of ‘Yecke Yeckes, Hoppe Hoppe Reiter, Young Descendants of Yekkes Seeking to Preserve the Yecke Heritage.’ That’s more than a bit of a mouthful (and I had to have the site’s
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East91-year-old Israeli man wins world championship in running for seniors (JNS.org) Three months after being named European champion, 91-year-old Israeli long-distance runner Semion Simkin on Monday won the world championship for senior runners in Lyon, France. Simkin finished the 6.2-mile race with a time of 1:20:01, beating the runner-up from Argentina by 21 minutes and
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Barack Obama’s latest contribution to relations between the US and Israel is the comment that he does not recall a foreign leader who has involved himself in American politics as much as Benyamin Netanyahu. That may be true or not. It is hard to conceive of a metric that would measure
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM –Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir stated in Berlin on Monday, August 10, that Iran has been blatantly interfering in the internal affairs of several Arab countries. Al-Jubeir commented that Iran was continuing to interfere with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen during a joint press conference held with German foreign minister,
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