Five others injured in digging accident on Rafah border while attempting to fix a shaft destroyed by the Egyptian army By Itamar Sharon and Times of Israel staff In this Monday, September 30, 2013 file photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza […]
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Middle EastMUMBAI, India — Mohammad Abdul Yaseen sat cross-legged beside a tree, hunched over a smooth marble slab. He moved a metal straightedge into position, making a gentle scraping sound, and drew a small line on the marble with a pencil. He has done this for half a century, carefully etching the stones that mark the
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InternationalThe Upper Galilee Regional Council has announced a plan to build a promenade from where the Snir (Hasbani River) and Hermon (Banias) streams meet until the Pekak Bridge. The promenade will include parking garages, picnic tables, bike paths, small bridges, and entertainment infrastructure, and will cost 30 million NIS. Work will begin in 2017 and
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Middle EastSwastikas and vulgar graffiti were discovered on Saturday on vehicles and homes in Orchard Park, a suburb of Buffalo, New York. The Buffalo News reported that about a dozen residents of the town found their vehicles and property defaced with spray-painted swastikas and vulgar graffiti Saturday morning, and local police said reports had been coming
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USALiberal group’s first conference of Trump era features Bernie Sanders, Saeb Erekat, Joint (Arab) List leader MK Ayman Odeh By Eric Cortellessa US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks as he debates with Democratic presidential candidates former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during their MSNBC Democratic Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire on February
One of the world”s smallest and most geographically isolated Jewish communities has united behind an effort to fulfill a Holocaust survivor”s last dying wish, and give her a proper Jewish burial in the Land of Israel. The Jewish community of the Canary Islands – an Atlantic archipelago under Spanish sovereignty west of Morocco – numbers
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastJoomie asks new students questions about their Jewish identity and habits, and pairs them up with likeminded dorm mates By Gabe Friedman Students sitting in the College Green outside Sayles Hall on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island. (Wikimedia Commons) Finding a Jewish roommate at college can be a challenge, given that Jews
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAMore than 150 French lawmakers signed an open letter on Sunday urging outgoing President Francois Hollande to officially recognise the Palestinian Territories as a state. The move comes during a period of renewed international determination to revive the two-state solution, after the last talks brokered by then US secretary of state John Kerry collapsed back
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — A White House spokeswoman said Sunday that it was too soon to say whether a special prosecutor should look into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. Calls have grown louder from Democrats in Congress for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the issue because of his role as a
Citing anonymous sources, Politico says US State Department ‘questions value’ of the UN body, which is ‘biased’ against Israel By Judah Ari Gross US United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at the Security Council meeting on February 21, 2017 at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR) The United States reportedly could
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International, Middle East, USALawmakers in the state of Montana on Saturday advanced a bill that pledges solidarity with Israel by refusing to do business with firms boycotting the Jewish state, reports The Associated Press. Republican House Speaker Austin Knudsen of Culbertson said his bill allows Montana to stand in solidarity with Israel. The bill, he added, “sends the
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Middle East, USAU.S. Vice President Mike Pence reiterated the Trump administration”s steadfast commitment to Israel while vowing that Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon. Pence”s comments were made on Friday as he addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition”s annual leadership conference, taking place in Las Vegas. “President Trump is personally invested in forging a lasting peace in
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Middle East, USAUS VP tweets ‘support for the Jewish people,’ but accidentally uses Central American county’s volcanoe, sun and rainbow flag By Times of Israel staff United States Vice President Mike Pence pauses before speaking during a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool) While his impulsive
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International, Middle East, USADemonstrators block roads, high schools cancel classes as judges decide whether to renew permit for hazardous facility By Times of Israel staff The ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry) Thousands of protesters filled the streets of Haifa Sunday morning demanding the closure of an ammonia storage tank
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