Middle East

Chinese investors laud Israel’s high tech

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — One of Israel’s most influential business meetings, the 12th Go4Israel Conference, was held this week on Tuesday, October 27, at the Hilton Tel Aviv, and paid particular attention to China. Over 1,000 participants took part in the conference including international and local entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders. “The conference reflects […]

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International, Middle East

Netanyahu: Abbas partly responsible for Glick shooting

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that incitement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was partly to blame for the shooting of a Temple Mount activist a night earlier. Netanyahu convened a meeting of top security officials on Thursday morning, a day after Rabbi Yehudah Glick, a prominent activist for Jewish

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Middle East

AJC: Sweden’s recognition of Palestine a disservice

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has called Sweden’s recognition of the “State of Palestine” an act of empty symbolism that will not advance the peace process. “Sweden’s misguided act will further complicate the quest for peace by telling the Palestinians they can skip the negotiating table with Israel, while telling Israel

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International, Middle East, USA

Bibi vs. Barack: How important are leaders’ friendships?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It approached the mythic stories of conflict between giants. Or maybe between a giant and a midget, or David and Goliath. Perhaps just a street brawl among ruffians. Whatever image, and whoever is defined as giant, midget, David, Goliath or a ruffian, it occupied the pundits until a shooting of a

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Youth may now apply for Bronfman Fellowships

ALBANY, New York (Press Release)–Applications are now being accepted for the 29th year of the Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel (BYFI) .  The Bronfman Fellowships selects 26 outstanding North American teenagers for a rigorous academic year of seminars including a free, five-week trip to Israel between the summer of Fellows’ junior and senior years of high school.

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Middle East

Jewish officials decry insults in Israel, U.S. relations

NEW YORK (Press Release)– Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations leaders stated on Wednesday, October 29: “We are deeply concerned by a number of recent public and private criticisms, personal insults and inappropriate characterizations emanating from official sources. These often anonymous, but no

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Middle East, USA

‘Between Gaza and Berlin’ prompts one to reflect

MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Between Gaza and Berlin Those two place names signify so many different views, concepts and even worlds, seeming to encapsulate the distinct worldviews that are so much a part of our life, here in Israel. In a local and very provincial sense these are the names of two roads in Rechavia, the Jerusalem

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

Arabs harm each other to score points against Israel

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Amid the international clamor against Israel for settlement over the 1967 border and other actions said to harm Palestinians, there is a contrary view of Palestinians harming themselves. Or more accurately, various figures claiming to be Palestinian leaders harming the people, seemingly for the sake of Palestine. It appeared most

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

JNS news briefs: October 29, 2014

Senior Obama administration official calls Netanyahu ‘chickenshit’ (JNS.org) A senior Obama administration official told The Atlantic magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickenshit.” “The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the

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Middle East

RJC: Obama seeks to provoke crisis with Israel

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) responded to a spate of troubling expressions of hostility toward Israel coming from the Obama administration in recent days. RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said: “Last week, the Obama administration went out of its way to ‘humiliate‘ a top Israeli official in retaliation for private remarks for

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Middle East, USA