In May, 21-year-old Rotem Rabi was crowned Miss Israel 2017, making her Israel”s contestant for the Miss World beauty contest, to be held in China this December. A former Air Force medic and native Jerusalemite, Rabi now finds herself representing Israel in more ways than one since her arrival in China last week. Raised in […]
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International, Middle EastFormer Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Thursday vowed that the Palestinian Arabs will forcefully cancel the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which proclaimed Britain”s support for the establishment of a Jewish national home in then-Palestine. Speaking at a conference in Gaza, Mashaal attacked Britain for boasting of the “crime” of the Balfour Declaration instead of apologizing for
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International, Middle EastThe United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on Thursday marked the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration with an event focusing on its “impact on the Palestinian people.” Speaking at the event, Professor Rashid Khalidi, a former adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said, “For Palestinians,
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International, Middle EastA South Florida Jewish center’s planned celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration Thursday was canceled over a bomb threat from a local college student, the Miami Herald reported Thursday night. Police believe it was 21-year-old Florida International University student Oscar Aguayo who issued a threat against the Miami Beach-based Jewish Museum of
By Garry Fabian MELBOURNE, Australia — While well over seven decades have passed, many of ones life the experiences are deeply embedded in our mind and specific dates have a significant impact despite the passage of time. While the aim in life should be take each day as it comes, and generally always be forward looking,
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International, Jewish HistoryWASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s inner circle expressed shock when Hillary Clinton failed to quickly condemn Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein after allegations of sexual assault. Now, the president’s team may find the shoe on the other foot as allegations land on a business partner of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Until June, Mnuchin co-owned RatPac-Dune Entertainment, a
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAU.S. federal prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against Sayfullo Saipov, 29, an Uzbek immigrant accused of carrying out Tuesday’s deadly terror attack in New York. The suspect is accused of using a rented truck to run down people on a busy bike path in Manhattan, killing eight and injuring 12 others. The attack raised concerns
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International, USABritain’s defense minister resigned Wednesday after allegations emerged about inappropriate sexual behavior — the latest twist in a growing scandal over harassment and abuse in the country’s corridors of power. Michael Fallon said in a resignation letter to Prime Minister Theresa May that his “previous conduct … may have fallen below the high standards that
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, an immigration hard-liner and climate change skeptic, announced Thursday that he will leave Congress at the end of his current term. He’s the second GOP chairman this week from Texas to retire. He chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and under GOP rules would hit a
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USAWASHINGTON — Sam Clovis, a fiery Iowa talk radio host and former Trump campaign co-chairman who has been caught up in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, has withdrawn his name from consideration to be chief scientific adviser to the secretary of agriculture. The nomination was controversial because Clovis, 68, had no scientific or medical degrees
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International, USAWASHINGTON — A liberal activist group on Thursday labeled Ralph Northam’s campaign “racist,” criticizing the Virginia Democrat running for governor a day after he declared that he would not support “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants. “Let’s be really clear: If Ralph Northam wins next Tuesday, it won’t be because he publicly backtracked on his commitment
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USABy Tamar Pileggi Hours after Israel allegedly struck Hezbollah targets in Syria, Lebanese President Michel Aoun warned that all the citizens of his country are willing to battle Israel in a future war. “All the Lebanese are prepared to fight against Israel,” Aoun told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai on Thursday. “Yes, we are a small country,
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Middle EastHillary Clinton’s campaign took over the Democratic National Committee’s funding and day-to-day operations early in the primary season and may have used that power to undermine her rival Senator Bernie Sanders, according to the party’s one-time interim chairwoman. The DNC official, Donna Brazile, now a political analyst, wrote in Politico Magazine on Thursday that she
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USABy Dov Lieber Israel on Thursday said that until there is progress toward releasing Israeli citizens and remains of IDF soldiers held in Gaza by Hamas, it will not allow the terror group to retrieve the bodies of terrorists thought to have been buried under rubble when the military destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel on
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