By Judah Ari Gross Two Bedouin Israelis were arrested on Friday on suspicion that they had stabbed a soldier to death in southern Israel last week, the Shin Bet security service announced on Monday. On Thursday night, Sgt. Ron Kokia was stabbed to death at a bus stop in the city of Arad in what […]
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Middle EastPresident Donald Trump took his tacit support of Republican Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore to a full-fledged endorsement Monday with a series of tweets and a phone call to the embattled candidate. To the former judge, who has been hit with a string of allegations that he preyed on and sexually assaulted minors when
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USABilly Bush is back. He might not have a media job (yet?), but he stepped up Sunday with an essay confirming that no matter what the president might say now, it was indeed Donald Trump speaking on the “Access Hollywood” tape that leaked more than a year ago. “Of course he said it. And we
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USAHe has never held public office, once likened power to “poison”, and saw his politician father and grandmother assassinated. Now Rahul Gandhi is poised to take over as leader of the party that has ruled India for much of its history. The 46-year-old’s expected nomination as president of the Congress Party follows years of speculation
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InternationalSheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, is one of the world’s most powerful women, but even she has experienced sexual harassment. In a Facebook post Sunday, Sandberg wrote that she’s never been sexually harassed or assaulted by anyone she’s worked for, but she has dealt with “unwanted sexual advances” on the job. “A hand on
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USAFRANKFORT, Ky. — The communications director for the Kentucky House Republican caucus sued the Legislative Research Commission on Monday, alleging that she is being unfairly punished for shedding light on sexual harassment claims by a female colleague who was in an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with then-House Speaker Jeff Hoover of Jamestown. In her whistle-blower lawsuit,
In an illustrated campaign poster hanging in Sankt Hans Torv in Copenhagen, Muneeza Rosendahl stands like a cartoon superhero brandishing a broom midswing, sweeping dust toward an open door. The dust, in this case, is racism and the patriarchy. “Ud med racisterne! Ind med feministerne!” her campaign poster reads. Translation: “Out with the racists! In
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InternationalCHICAGO — A bus company that runs shuttles between college campuses and the Chicago area drew strong rebukes for a racially charged ad that took a swipe at the number of Chinese students attending University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The ad from Suburban Express, sent Saturday via email, was publicizing routes being offered during the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy TOI staff An ultra-Orthodox singer caused a stir when he covered his eyes with masking tape in the middle of a concert in order not to see women who were dancing in front of the stage. Yonatan Razel was playing his keyboard and singing at Jerusalem’s International Conference Center on Sunday night when he
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsUS President Donald Trump said Monday he “feels badly” for his former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty last week to lying to the FBI, and lamented that his former rival Hillary Clinton “lied many times” and nothing happened. Trump’s comments to reporters were the latest in a series of outbursts over the
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USASally Abrams Last week, we marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Partition Plan, which paved the way for Israel’s declaration of statehood six months later. We are going to be seeing the number 70 a lot between now and Yom HaAtzmaut next spring. There will be no shortage of words written and spoken about
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Middle EastLeaders Unveil LifeWay Research Study, Form Alliance to Educate the Church on Israel’s Critical Past and Future Roles WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — A new LifeWay Research study, sponsored by Chosen People Ministries and New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg, released today reveals that the overall support of Evangelicals for Israel will
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Middle EastBy TOI staff A blind and mostly deaf British backpacker who seeks to visit every country on Earth can now check Israel off his list. Tony the Traveller, as 39-year-old Tony Giles calls himself, arrived in the Jewish state in November, his 124th country. Giles says he has already visited all seven continents and has
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodMK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) sent a furious letter to Nitzan Lavi, director of the Super Pharm chain, under the heading “Discrimination in Services for Judea and Samaria Residents”. In his letter the MK says, “I learned today that Super Pharm provides a delivery service to the customer’s home.” However, continued Slomiansky, the company’s webpage
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