By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)- Economy Minister Naftali Bennett announced Wednesday, June 25, that he will work to stop Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas from continuing the policy of paying monthly salaries to convicted terrorists jailed in Israeli prisons. “Did you murder Jews? Have you abducted children? Get up to 12,000 shekels a month from […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, met on Wednesday, June 25, with President Obama at the White House. President Obama asked President Peres to join him at a meeting with the leadership of the Jewish community in the US; hosted a working lunch with Vice President Biden,
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Middle East, USAMassive Times Square billboard calls for return of missing Israeli teens (JNS.org) A massive new billboard in Times Square calling for the return of the three missing Israeli teens has been launched by a local New York synagogue. The 40-foot-by-40-foot digital ad was purchased by the Young Israel of the West Side congregation for an
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International, Middle East, USABy Dr. Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — The recent kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers near Hebron, who are now the subject of a massive Israeli military-security search, should give pause. Israel says it has evidence of involvement by Hamas, the U.S. and European Union-listed terrorist group that calls in its Charter for the worldwide murder
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Middle East, USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — Taglit-Birthright Israel has passed a significant milestone with the designation of the program’s 400,000th participant: Ryan Hunter, 20, a student from Syosset, New York (Long Island). By reaching this milestone, Taglit-Birthright Israel turns a corner and has now provided a free heritage trip to half of the young Jewish adults who are
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (WJC) – The World Jewish Congress on Wednesday, June 25, welcomed the passage in Israel this week of a law naming November 30 as the national day for commemorating the flight of Jewish refugees from Arab lands. “I am pleased that the Knesset has designated a day for public institutions to mark the
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JERUSALEM (WJC)–Israeli Jews want the views of the Jewish Diaspora, and the impact Israeli government action could have on it, to be taken into account by their government, according to a new survey by the Israel Democracy Institute presented in Jerusalem on Wednesday, June 25. The newspaper ‘Haaretz’ reports that asked whether the Israeli government,
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WARSAW (Press Release) – Polish, American, and Israeli government officials joined AJC leadership, including AJC President Stanley Bergman, in Belzec on Wednesday, June 25, to mark the tenth anniversary of the memorial and museum erected at the site of the Nazi death camp in southeastern Poland. “Belzec is a stark lesson that we must never
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International, Middle East, USABy Lloyd Levy LONDON –Developments in the Middle East at this time, are so far reaching and rapid, that it is difficult to comprehend or estimate the final outcome. Although the threat to Israel from the new Islamic Caliphate is immense, the rise of a new State of Kurdistan, or even a new Druze State,
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) — “An end to seafood by 2050?” “Fish to disappear by 2050?” These sensational media headlines were the result of a 2010 report by the United Nations Environment Program, declaring that over-fishing and pollution had nearly emptied the world’s fish stocks. That scarcity portends disaster for over a billion people around
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareBy Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel –The media often uses major sporting events, such as the current FIFA 2014 soccer World Cup, to provide audiences with a little light relief from the seemingly endless stream of bad-news stories. In contrast, I present you with a blog of positive news featuring some of the recent achievements of
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee is currently on a week long visit in Israel on what has been defined as a fact-finding tour, focused on the challenges facing Israelis in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, as well as the threat of anti-Israel de-legitimization efforts such as
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Middle East, USAToday, we’re coming after the Saturday people; after we finish, we will come after the Sunday people By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — My personal history with the Presbyterian Church goes back to the early 1990s, when they accepted me as a student for their doctoral program. In the three years I
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USAIDF arrests 17 additional Palestinian terrorists, including senior Hamas operative (JNS.org) The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) arrested 17 additional Palestinian suspects overnight on Wednesday, including a senior Hamas operative near Bethlehem. Overall the IDF has arrested more than 350 Palestinians in the search for three missing teens, Gilad Shaer, Eyal Yifrah and Naftali Frankel, the
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