By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Forty-three reserve officers and other personnel of IDF Intelligence Unit 8200 have received local and international coverage for a detailed letter of protest and a refusal to serve further in their function of listening and reading Palestinian communications. Their letter claims that the unit’s work violated the civil rights and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Toby Klein Greenwald KFAR ETZION, Israel — On the morning of June 12, my heart was ripped out of my chest. It was the Friday that, as a teacher in Makor Chaim (“Source of Life”) yeshiva high school, I received a text message that two of our students had been kidnapped. Later we heard that there
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Middle East, Toby Klein GreenwaldBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — China’s Yuanda Enterprise Group announced last week that it had bought the Israeli company AutoAgronome Israel Ltd for $20 million in order to expand its business to high-tech agriculture. The Israeli company produces smart irrigation and fertilization systems that are successfully used with 70 different types of crops in
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When Western journalists walk into the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem, as many of them often do, they will almost immediately be approached by several Palestinians guides anxious to help them develop their stories, says Aryeh Green, director of Israel’s MediaCentral. Do the journalists need a
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Despite the significant reduction in the overall incidence and death rates from strokes in the United States over the past twenty years, more attention needs to be paid to specific age groups, a recent study found. The new research, conducted by Dr. Silvia Koton of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Aryeh Savir HAIFA (United With Israel)–The IDF on Friday, September 12, held a special annual event honoring its fallen soldiers from the Druze community. Titled “For the Boys,” the theme of this year’s happening focused on the extraordinary bond between Israel’s Jewish and Druze citizens. The event was attended by some 15,000 participants and
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State Kerry is in the Middle East, looking for regional allies for President Obama’s proposal to deal with the threat of the Islamic State (IS). That is entirely appropriate — IS poses a more immediate and dire threat to regional players than it does to the United
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — President Obama conceded, perhaps not in so many words, that his Sept. 10 speech would not defeat Daish and its allies. It had been preceded by days of expectation and commentary, and the actual contents had no surprises. No doubt we’ll be reading about it for days, and perhaps years Among
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walked off the stage Wednesday night, Sept. 10, after hecklers booed his words in support of Jews and Israel at a Washington dinner sponsored by In Defense of Christians, a group that seeks to raise awareness of the persecution of Christians and religious minorities in the Middle
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Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman Tazpit News Agency JERUSALEM (TNA) — District firefighters and rescue volunteers, alongside U.S. Marines and families of 9/11 victims, in a special ceremony held in the Jerusalem Hills, marked the 13th anniversary to the September 11 terrorist attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead “It’s a very sad day – as
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Middle East, USA
RICHMOND, Virginia (Press Release) — Carole and Marcus Weinstein of this city have donated $5 million to underwrite construction of the building that will house the Cyber Security Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva, Israel, it was announced by American Associates, Ben Gurion University (AABGU). “Carole and I are excited to be
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–The season of a baby’s birth influences its motor development during its first year of life, a new study by University of Haifa researcher’s shows. Babies born in the winter (between December and May) start crawling earlier compared to babies born in the summer (June-November). The research was conducted by Dr. Osnat
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationPalestinians want U.N., not U.S., as peace broker (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wants the U.N. to take over from the U.S. as the main peace broker between Israel and the Palestinians, senior Abbas adviser Nabil Shaath told Bloomberg News in an interview published on Tuesday. “We are telling the U.S.,
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Wednesday morning we woke to our neighborhood in the headlines. My inbox included two notes from overseas inquiring about our safety. “Activists” (“terrorists” is on the other edge of the politically correct; “thieves’ or “vandals” may be correct in this instance) from Isaweea torched the French Hill gas station and looted its
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