By Marissa Newman and Alexander Fulbright Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay on Monday urged the government to call new elections for the sake of political stability. “In the past few weeks, we’ve been hearing about a conflict in the coalition: On the one hand the prime minister wants to call elections as soon as possible,
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Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu signaled Monday that Israel would take military action in Syria when it sees fit as it seeks to ensure Iran-backed forces stay away from its territory. Israel has long accused Iran, its main enemy, of taking advantage of Syria’s civil war to send its Revolutionary Guard and its Lebanese Shiite ally,
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Middle EastPoland’s right-wing leaders on Monday spoke out against xenophobia after a controversial Independence Day march organised by far-right groups. Having started small in 2009, the annual event attracted a large following this year, with police estimating the crowd on Saturday in Warsaw at around 60,000. While many marchers denied membership of or sympathy for extreme
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InternationalHate crimes in the United States rose moderately last year, with hate-motivated incidents against several target groups, including Arabs, Muslims and transgender people, showing sharper increases, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s annual hate crime statistics, released Monday, showed there were 6,121 hate crime incidents in 2016, up 4.6 percent from 5,850
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USAZionist Organization of America chief Morton Klein ridiculed claims that Israel has “occupied” Judea and Samaria, telling supporters at the ZOA annual gala Sunday night in New York that no Palestinian Arab nation ever existed. “This was never their sovereign land,” said Klein. “And if it was their sovereign land, how could it be that
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Middle East, USASteve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News and former chief strategist for President Donald Trump, has called upon American Jewish conservatives to join his effort to oust Republican leaders and upend what he has called the “GOP establishment”. On Sunday, Bannon delivered an address to the Zionist Organization of America”s annual awards dinner, urging
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Middle East, USA[youtube:2034936] Police arrested a New York man in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn last Thursday after he threatened a Jewish man as he walked past him. The incident occurred at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Eastern Parkway last Thursday afternoon. The suspect reportedly spat on the Jewish man and yelled “all you Jews
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– A friend responded to one of my recent columns with, “How many Trumps would it take for you to trade for one Bibi?” We’ve recently passed through a year anniversary of Trump’s election. He’s only been in office for 10 months, but that provides enough for at least a tentative
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Ira Sharkansky, USALOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers are headed to Mexico next season. The Dodgers and San Diego Padres will play a three-game series May 4-6 in Monterrey, Mexico, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly. An announcement is expected Monday. The Padres will be the home
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International, Sports & Competitions, USA“Star Trek” icon and progressive activist George Takei has denied allegations that he groped another man at his Los Angeles condominium, saying he was “shocked and bewildered at these claims.” “The events he describes back in the 1980s simply did not occur, and I do not know why he has claimed them now,” Mr. Takei
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USAA former prosecutor who worked alongside GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in the 1980s said it was “common knowledge” at the time that he dated high school girls. “It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird,” former deputy district attorney Teresa Jones told CNN in comments
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USAA strong earthquake that shook the Iran-Iraq border region on Sunday killed at least 66 people, authorities and state media in the two countries said. The Islamic Republic of Iran News Network quoted the head of the country’s emergency medical services, Pirhossein Koulivand, as saying at least 61 had been killed and 300 injured on
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES — Some wore T-shirts with the words “Me Too” emblazoned across the front, while others held up signs that said “No more sexual abuse” and “Rape is not a joke.” On Sunday, several hundred survivors of sexual harassment and assault and their supporters gathered in front of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood to
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USAMANILA, Philippines—Hours after President Donald Trump taunted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Twitter, suggesting he is “short and fat,” the White House chief of staff said he doesn’t carefully follow Trump’s comments on social media and tells other aides not to react to them. “Someone, I read the other day, said we all
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