By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – The current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is to end Monday, Aug. 18, at midnight, and there is no clear indication whether the ceasefire will be extended again, whether an agreement will be reached or will Hamas renew its rocket attacks on Israeli civilian targets. As the Israeli delegation
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Middle EastShut up, I’m Talking….and Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government by Gregory Levey. By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–A young Jewish university student from Toronto finds himself, at the request of the Israeli Delegation, occupying a seat representing the State of Israel in the General Assembly of the United Nations. A vote begins
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two recent articles emerge from IDF’s operating in Gaza, and concern the tensions between Israel and other western democracies, most notably the United States. An item in the Wall Street Journal comes with the provocative headline, “Gaza Crisis: Israel Outflanks the White House on Strategy.” Could it possibly mean that
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Google “president disengaged” and 1,290,000 entries pop up. Okay, fair enough. Google is not the best way to take the measure of President Obama’s active engagement in the workings of the world. So note that today, Friday, Aug. 15, is the funeral of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene,
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Combination therapies, or “drug cocktails,” are part and parcel of modern anti-cancer treatments today. The more researchers learn about cancer and its surreptitiously lethal impact on the body, the more urgent the need to diversify the arsenal at clinicians’ disposal. To that end, Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, and doctoral students Hemda Baabur-Cohen
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The New York Times Israel correspondent, Jodi Rudoren, is dreaming along with Hamas of a seaport in Gaza. One can imagine that Thomas Friedman, Roger Cohen, and a few others from that otherwise distinguished newspaper are nodding in agreement. The editors gave the article considerable space with a large picture.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Forty-four years ago, an official of the Israel Government Press Office took me on a tour of the West Bank, which had been named by the Jordanians to contrast it to Jordan, the East Bank, a few years before the Jordanians were kicked out of the West
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VIENNA (WJC)- The president of the Austrian Jewish Community, Oskar Deutsch, this week led a delegation of 10 Austrians on a solidarity mission to the south of Israel. The area for years has been under constant rocket fire from Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza and suffered greatly in the recent round of fighting.
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) – A contingent of New York government officials and businessmen are spending three days in Israel on a unity visit this week. The bi-partisan delegation, which include Governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arrived in Israel
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release)— Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed — and misdiagnosed — behavioral disorder in children in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unfortunately, there are currently no reliable physiological markers to diagnose ADHD. Doctors generally diagnose the disorder by recording a medical and social
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) – Despite tensions surrounding the war in Gaza, 338 new Olim (immigrants) from the United States and Canada arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning, August 12, on an Aliyah charter flight to Israel. The special Nefesh B’Nefesh flight was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption and
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Middle East, USABy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Operation ‘Protective Edge’ has generated various financial challenges for Israel’s economy, as the financial activity slowed down during the operation and the costs of the military campaign will weigh heavily on Israel’s upcoming annual budget. One of the Israel’s most known financial segments, its tourism, has taken a big
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — As I look around me this mid-August morning in 2014 I see a number of crap shoots, or games of chance. We can argue what historical events they reflect. Among the candidates are the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Arab Spring that began toward the end of 2010 with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Foreign Press Association in Israel including almost 500 members from all parts of the media from 32 countries, issued a statement protesting “in the strongest terms the blatant, incessant, forceful and unorthodox methods employed by the Hamas authorities and their representatives against visiting international journalists in Gaza over the past month.”
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