SHA’AR BINYAMIN, Israel (Press Release) – This Thursday, the One Israel Fund held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Binyamin Medical Center (BMC), the first major medical facility in Samaria. The BMC will address an unmet need for medical care for the more 75,000 Israelis living in 45 communities in the Binyamin region, and for tens of […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump balking on his vow to shred the Obama-negotiated Paris agreement on climate change, the last place the pact’s staunch opponents wanted to see the president is where he will be this weekend — meeting other world leaders unanimous in their warnings that withdrawal from the accord would seriously damage
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International, The World We Share, USACHICAGO — Harold Katz didn’t require a crash course in Hebrew before his bar mitzvah next week in Wilmette, Ill. He started preparing 76 years ago, and his skills never got rusty. Katz, 89, who lives in a North Side retirement home, was to have celebrated the occasion in Czechoslovakia back in 1941. But that
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Jewish History, USABRUSSELS — President Donald Trump likely crushed anxious NATO allies’ hopes for an uplifting message and full-throated endorsement of NATO’s core missions Thursday. Instead, Trump lectured the group for failing to live up to its financial obligations and leaving it to U.S. taxpayers to shoulder the organization’s defense burden. During a ceremony opening the new
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International, USAIn the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing on Monday night, several groups and celebrities have stepped up to help and encourage the city in their own special ways. style=”display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-8420654331411867″ data-ad-slot=”1313712966″> Queen Elizabeth II, a vision of grace and elegance, visited the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital to chat with the bombing victims and their
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InternationalLook out below. Goats grazing in an argan tree in Morocco. H Garrido/EBD-CSIC Goats climb mountains. Why wouldn’t they climb trees, too? But the sight of a herd of goats perched in a tree like a flock of birds is pretty startling. It certainly was to biologists traveling through Morocco. “We were astonished to see
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Middle East, The World We Share, Travel and FoodBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Sadly, President Trump’s visit to the Middle East only confirmed my skepticism about what might come out of it. Trump went to the region with nothing to offer to mitigate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and received no commitment from either Israeli or Palestinian leaders to resume the peace negotiations in
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USADemocratic Representative Al Green has said he is pushing ahead with the process of impeaching President Donald Trump and is currently drawing up articles of impeachment. Related: Are White House lawyers preparing for the worst as they research impeachment proceedings against Trump? The Texas congressman last week appeared on the floor of the House of
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USAThirty-eight days ago, my husband, Marwan Barghouti, began a hunger strike from his cell in an Israeli prison—alongside over one thousand other Palestinian prisoners. The reason they are all putting their lives at risk is simple: they want to be treated humanely and with dignity. Considering that some of these prisoners are at risk of
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Middle EastThe Associated Press, in a near-unprecedented move for a mainstream news outlet, fired a freelance journalist it employed after it was discovered she posted anti-Donald Trump remarks on her Facebook page in 2016 – and then sneaked into a closed Republican event and reported negatively on Kellyanne Conway. At least, that’s what the freelancer said
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USAThe Republican candidate for Montana’s open congressional seat was cited for misdemeanor assault Wednesday after a political reporter for the Guardian newspaper complained he was grabbed and slammed to the ground. The announcement by the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office followed a bizarre series of events in which reporter Ben Jacobs alleged that the front-runner in
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USAIt’s well-documented at this point that President Donald Trump plays an odd game of dominance when he shakes hands—he contorts, jostles and pulls the person he’s greeting to make sure he’s in charge of the shake. But newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron seems to have studied the American president and was prepared for Trump’s odd
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International, USAManchester police have stopped sharing intelligence on the arena attack with the United States after a series of leaks to the press that police say may have “undermined” the ongoing investigation. Forensic evidence gathered at the scene by British authorities was published by The New York Times, including detailed descriptions and photos of the bomb.
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International, USA‘You may feel an Israeli is attacking you’ in voice, facial expressions and body language, Israeli-founded international gambling firm tells staff By Times of Israel staff Illustrative image of a businesswoman threatening her colleague. (iStock by Getty Images) Israelis are direct, aggressive and unapologetic, according to a tech company’s instruction manual training staff for good
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