NEW YORK (Press Release)– EL AL Israel Airlines has reported a net profit of $25.4 million in 2013, a significant contrast to the $18 million loss in 2012, as well as a four percent growth in revenue totaling $2.10 billion. Cash flow totaled more than $185 million last year as compared to $78 million in 2012, an […]
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Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) – Prominent leaders and supporters of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) from the United States and Panama will join 50 IDF officers as they experience a remarkable 10-day “From Holocaust to Independence” journey spanning Jewish history from Poland to Israel this spring. The trip, from April 28-May 9, will celebrate
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International, Middle East
By Anav Silverman MODI’IN, ISRAEL – An Israeli company was chosen to be part of a nine-member team of technology vendors in a digital security system project for the Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York Harbor. Assembled by Total Recall Corporation, a video-centric security technology provider specializing in surveillance solutions, the company put
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Middle East, USA
By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Following US Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion at the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress on March 13 that it is “a mistake” for Israel to require the Palestinians to acknowledge Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People as part of the peace negotiations, Allan Baker, head of
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Middle East, USA
By Aryeh Savir TEL AVIV – One hundred fifty Christian citizens of Israel demonstrated Sunday, March 23, outside the European Union’s delegation in Tel Aviv against the EU’s silence in relation to what they termed “the ethnic cleansing of Christians throughout the Middle East.” The protesters demanded that the EU act on their own cry for
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Let’s imagine, at least for a brief moment, that at this Sunday’s meeting of the Netanyahu cabinet, the prime minister will announce that he has decided not to insist that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state as a precondition for a peace settlement. According to the
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Are the emperors wearing any clothes? We can ask the question about those leading the US, Israel, Palestine, and no doubt several other places. Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon reached the headlines again for what ranking Americans perceived as insulting remarks about the weakness of the United States shown in dealing
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
Editor’s Note: The following report was commissioned by the Center for Near East Policy Research, a Jerusalem institution which publishes Israel Behind the News. By Arnon Groiss, JERUSALEM (CNEPR) — UNRWA – the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees in the Middle East – was established in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Since Secretary of State John Kerry started the nine-month clock on efforts to reach a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we’ve known there would be crises along the way. With eight of those nine months already past, we are at precisely such a crunch point that is testing the two major players –
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– As the Obama administration prepares to kick its efforts to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations into higher gear, the government of Israel is advancing plans to build 2,372 new housing units in West Bank settlements. News of this new round of settlement construction plans was publicized Thursday, March 20, by Americans for Peace
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Middle East
GAN YAVNE, Israel — In light of recent hostilities with Islamic Jihad, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz lays down the gauntlet. During a presentation on Wednesday, March 19, to a high school in Gan Yavne in southern Israel, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz was alarmingly candid. “If we want to make sure that
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Middle East
By World Jewish Congress Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday voice doubts about the scale of the Holocaust, questioning the West’s “red lines” on freedom of expression. In a speech in the city of Mashhad Ali Khamenei said that In Europe, “no one dares to speak of the Holocaust, the crux of which
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Jewish History, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)- White City Shabbat has announced that it will be setting the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Shabbat Dinner set to take place in June 2014, at the Hangar 11, Tel Aviv Port. In order to break the record, at least 1,000 Israelis and new immigrants must attend the dinner.
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Jewish Religion, Middle East
SDEROT, Israel (TNA) — It’s a quiet day in the sandy border town of Sderot. The first day of spring brings blue skies and a warm wind as residents go about work and routine activities. Exactly one week earlier, a heavy Gaza rocket assault against southern Israel had sent residents from Ashdod to Sderot fleeing
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