NEW YORK (WJC)– In reaction to the discovery of the bodies of the three Israeli teenagers abducted and murdered by terrorists on Monday, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) is mobilizing Jewish communities around the world in support of the victims’ families and the people of Israel. “This horrendous crime has sent shock waves throughout the […]
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International, Middle East
By Anav Siverman and Aryeh Savir MODI’IN, Israel (TNA) — The families of the three murdered Israeli teens conducted separate services and eulogies before laying their children side-by-side in a joint funeral in the Modi’in cemetery on Tuesday, July 1. Thousands gathered together in the home communities of Gil-ad Sha’ar (16), Naftali Frenkel (16)
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Middle East
By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn PHILADELPHIA –Jews throughout the United States will hold memorial services this week to mourn the murders of the three Israeli teenagers. There will be tears, there will be prayers, there will be words of consolation. And then the mourning needs to be followed by action — political action. The
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Middle East, USA
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – During the early hours of the morning a group of some thirty Israelis established a new community in the disputed E1 area near Ma’aleh Adumim. The members of the group announced that their action is in response to the murder of the three boys. Five months ago 15,000 protesters
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The IDF and Israel’s other security services have found the bodies of the missing boys. Indications are that they were killed shortly after being taken. The operation throughout the West Bank, along with an escalation with respect to Gaza, is not only about the boys. There have been more than
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastAMMAN, Jordan (Press Release)– U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Florida), Ranking Member of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, issued the following statement after visiting with King Abdullah II of Jordan and touring a refugee camp for Syrians who fled the
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Middle East
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Patients with Alzheimer’s disease run a high risk of seizures. While the amyloid-beta protein involved in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s seems the most likely cause for this neuronal hyperactivity, how and why this elevated activity takes place hasn’t yet been explained — until now. A new study by Tel
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
JERUSALEM (Press Release) – A delegation of presidents and chancellors from top U.S. universities are visiting Israel to explore opportunities for bilateral academic partnerships and collaboration through an educational seminar conducted by Project Interchange, an institute of AJC (American Jewish Committee). The delegation will meet with their counterparts from Israeli universities, including Bar-Ilan, Haifa, Hebrew
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationDeveloping Story HALHUL, Israel (TNA) — The bodies of the three abducted boys –Naftali Frenkel (16), Gilad Sha’ar (16), Eyal Yifrah (19) — were found Monday, June 30 by IDF searchers. They disappeared on June 12 from a hitchhiking spot not far from this community where their bodies were discovered. The teams working to recover
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Middle East
By Deborah Fineblum/JNS.org JERUSALEM (JNS) — Omelet sandwich: 5 shekels. Iced coffee: 5 shekels. Tuna sandwich: 5 shekels. Fresh-squeezed orange juice: 5 shekels. Cheese bureka: 5 shekels. There’s plenty more on the Cofizz menu, but you get the idea. Dani Mizrahi and Amir Amshalm, two Israeli men in their early 30s, asked themselves: Why not launch
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Middle East85,000 attend Tel Aviv rally for kidnapped Israeli teens (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Some 85,000 people flocked to Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Sunday evening, uniting in prayer and hope for the safe return of abducted Israeli teens Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Frenkel. Radio and TV personality Avri Gilad, who hosted the rally,
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – The Cabinet approved on Sunday, June 29, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for the socio-economic development of Jerusalem. The Government is working in a variety of ways to develop and strengthen the city. For the first time, a comprehensive socio-economic development plan was presented for eastern Jerusalem. One of the
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Middle East
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Several Israeli police officers, on various levels of command, were dismissed from their positions, some of them may be fired as well, following the police’s blunder regarding their handing of a phone call which came from one of the three abducted boys a short while after they were abducted.
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Middle East
By Anav Silverman TEL AVIV – Israel’s newly elected president Reuven Rivlin called upon world leaders and religious figures to pray for the return of the three kidnapped Israeli boys at a massive prayer rally at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square this Sunday evening, June 29. “The call for the safety of these boys doesn’t
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Middle East