By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Chairman of the The Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky announced on Monday, June 23, that global Aliyah (immigration to Israel from around the world) is up 55%, due largely to dramatic increases in immigration from France and Ukraine. Speaking at the opening plenary of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors’ […]
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)–Ziad Awad, 42, a terrorist released in the Gilad Schalit deal, is responsible for the murder of Baruch Mizrahi, the senior Israeli police officer killed on Passover eve near Hebron, according to Israeli police. Awad, a resident of the Arab village Idna near Hebron, was arrested by an elite police unit
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM — Israel’s Air Force attacked nine Syrian military targets Sunday night, June 22, in response to the attack on Saturday that killed a 13-year-old Israeli citizen and wounded two others. The targets included head quarters, bases and shooting positions. Directs hits were confirmed. “Yesterday’s attack was an unprovoked act of aggression
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JERUSALEM (TNA)– An explosion along the Israel-Syria border on Sunday, June 22, killed a 15-year-old boy who was visiting his father, a civilian contractor engaged in building a security fence. The father was severely wounded and a third person was lightly wounded. They were airlifted by IAF helicopter to the Rambam Hospital in Haifa. In
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israeli governments have long recognized the need to tread carefully in pursuit of national security. Greater powers have a limited tolerance for Israel daring to approach what they do in defense of their own interests. Part of the balance is the considerable power of the Israeli military that can threaten any state
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – President Shimon Peres met Sunday morning, June 22, with Esther Pollard, wife of incarcerated Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, and the heads of the Knesset Caucus to Free Jonathan Pollard, MK’s Nachman Shai Ayelet Shaked, at the President’s residence in Jerusalem. The meeting took place a day before Peres is scheduled
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Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –The road to hell is paved with good intentions, so the saying goes, and that certainly seems to be the case in the Middle East. Once again (or is it still?) it seems to be well on its way to hell due to the actions of people who think
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Several terror incidents were registered on Friday and Saturday, June 20-21, throughout Israel. Israeli security forces continued to operate over the weekend in the Judea and Samaria region as part of Operation ‘Brother’s Keeper’ to locate the three abducted teens. The forces continued to target Hamas operatives and the organization’s terrorist
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — It’s hard to rationalize the incongruity of the recent cover of TIME Magazine, which petulantly asks the question, “Was he worth it?” The feature was a symptom of our malignant gossip culture. Smug pundits and cynical politicians muse with alarming insensitivity about issues without offering any moral context.
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congressman John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky) has announced that he voted in favor of a provision to prevent the administration from sending U.S. combat troops to Iraq when the issue came before the House of Representatives on Thursday evening, June 18. The amendment to the FY2015 Department of Defense appropriations bill, introduced
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Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel– There is no doubt that Israel’s best friend is America. Without American support in the United Nations Security Council, binding resolutions against Israel would be much easier to pass. Without American aid, Israel’s military strength would be diminished. Without the backing of American citizens and America-based businesses, perhaps Israel
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) on Friday, June 20, released the following statement on the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank: “I strongly condemn the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers, one of whom is also an American citizen, and support Israel’s ongoing efforts to return these boys
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Middle East, USADETROIT (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee called Friday’s Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) decision to divest from major companies doing business with Israel a setback for efforts to attain a negotiated, sustainable Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and a breach with a Jewish community committed to Jewish-Christian relations. By a vote of 310 to 303, the PCUSA General
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — If there is a New Middle East on the horizon, it does not look anything like that which Barack Obama envisioned in his Nobel-winning Cairo speech of 2009. Beyond the lives of three boys and whatever develops between Israel and the Palestinians as a result, the bigger noise in the
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