WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Congressman Trent Franks (R-Arizona) announced that legislation to honor Israeli President Shimon Peres with the Congressional Gold Medal (H.R. 2939) passed the House of Representatives by voice vote on Monday, May 19. The bill was introduced last year by Rep. Kennedy and Rep. Franks in the
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Middle East, USABy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Israelis living in the Old City in Jerusalem and tourists coming to visit the Holy Basin are the target of an increasing wave of violence perpetrated by Arabs, this according to a report compiled by a civilian security company guarding the area and published by IDF Radio. The report
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Palestinian organizations got just what they wanted from this year’s celebration of Nakba, what they call the disaster of Israel’s creation in 1948. Videos show enraged young men and boys, and some women throwing stones at nearby soldiers, and using slingshots of the David vs Goliath variety to hurl their rocks
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There are sins of commission, and, especially in the eyes of the Zionist Organization of America, there also are grave sins of omission. The ZOA on Monday, May 19, faulted President Barack Obama, a Democrat, for what he didn’t say when he participated in the opening of the
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release)– Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (HWZOA), and Young Judaea have inaugurated a Leaders of Tomorrow Award for Young Women. This highly selective merit-based award gives two high school women the opportunity to receive full tuition for a four-week Young Judaea Teen Summer Program in Israel. With this gift, these young
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Middle East, USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — In a lively ceremony during Tel Aviv University’s annual Board of Governors Meeting, the university conferred its most distinguished award — the degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa — on former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso and six outstanding leaders from diverse disciplines. The recipients were individually
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Monday morning (19 May 2014), in his Jerusalem office, with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong. Following are their remarks: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I’m very pleased to welcome Vice Premier of China, Liu Yandong, to Jerusalem. Madam Liu, it’s a pleasure to see you here
JERUSALEM (UWI) — India seems to be at the top of the agenda in Israel’s desire to strengthen economic ties with Asia and Latin America, and the interest is mutual. Israel may have a “staunch new ally” in South Asia with the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2014 national elections, according
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International, Middle East
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — Since last summer, 16 U.S. Congressmen have visited Judea and Samaria including two recent visitors, Andy Harris (R-Maryland) and Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) who toured the region with the Yesha Council on a Yes! Israel Mission last week. The two members of the U.S. House of Representatives and their wives visited Gush Etzion,
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Middle East, USA
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Corporal Diego Tapia, 28, is not your typical IDF soldier. Born a Catholic in Bogota, Colombia, Diego discovered Judaism during his research in university, converted and immigrated to Israel. After completing tree years of study in Yeshiva in Jerusalem he enlisted in the IDF. Last Wednesday was a unique
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International, Middle EastBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — The Israel Ministry of Tourism is investing approximately NIS 10 million ($2.9 million) in marketing initiatives and infrastructure projects before, during and after the visit of Pope Francis to Israel, on May 25-26 May. The marketing investment is centered around the dedicated website for the Catholic Pilgrim (www.holyland-pilgrimage.org), including
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Middle East
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM–Over and above the scandal and shenanigans surrounding the prosecution, trial and eventual conviction for accepting bribes and betraying the voters’ trust by the erstwhile mayor of Jerusalem and former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his associates is the very material existence of the building that lies at the heart of
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel is a fascinating place, a hot house of domestic and international pressures. The cities we recently visited in Italy are more peaceful, and the wine good and not expensive, but I’m too old to learn Italian. We recently experienced incidents on three of the cultural boundaries that are always
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By David Bedein When the Pope visits UNRWA Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, he will see murals on the walls of a UN facility that glorify homicide killers who died in the act of murder. These pictures were photographed in Deheishe on May 10, 2014 A monument ALL OF PALESTINE hovers over Deheishe. Deheishe
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