By TOI staff The Israeli army on Saturday launched a military strike on three Syrian-made artillery cannons across the border in the northern Golan Heights, hours after a pair of projectiles landed in an open field in Israeli territory as a result of spillover fire from the fighting in Syria. “Even if this is just
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Middle EastMK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) on Saturday slammed the Israeli government for approving new housing units in Judea and Samaria. “The settlements do not add to Israel’s security,” Livni said. “The State’s concept of security is based on soldiers protecting civilians, and not their protecting a family which goes to live on an isolated hilltop
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Middle EastStefan Schomann attempts to stitch together a real-life impression of China With its long history, China has always been a treasure trove of soul-touching sagas of epic proportions. The intercultural love story of a Jewish young man and a Chinese woman in war-torn Shanghai during World War II is one of them. It was discovered
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalOver seventy years after 90% of Polish Jewry was killed during the Holocaust, the Polish government on Saturday published proposed legislation that would address property confiscations. The draft legislation as proposed would exclude most Holocaust survivors and their families. “We are profoundly disappointed that the Polish government”s proposal excludes the vast majority of Polish Holocaust
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International[video:2034099] Border Police officers on Saturday night foiled an attempt to steal dozens of tons of produce from greenhouses in Shekef, a moshav (agricultural village) in south-central Israel. 67 illegal Palestinian Arab infiltrators, residents of the Palestinian Authority – 40 minors and 27 adults – are suspected of working for several hours to steal tons
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Middle East[video:2034098] A 12-year-old boy from the Jewish community in Hevron was injured Saturday afternoon when an Arab hurled rocks at the victim and at two other Jewish children in Avraham’s Spring. The large rock caused a cut to the boy’s head, and he temporarily lost consciousness, falling into the spring. Miraculously, the boy survived the
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — It was just the other morning that I saw and heard the anguished yet determined report of a mother whose soldier-son was killed in that ambush in Niger. The news media, which drowns us with equal parts information and hyperbole, was trying to extract a statement from her—a
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USASome popular children’s gadgets, including smartwatches available internationally, have been found to have security flaws so serious that individuals could track and eavesdrop on kids’ conversations, according to a consumer safety panel in Norway. The Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) reviewed the smartwatches with European security company Mnemonic and found gross invasions of privacy. When the
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InternationalNew Zealand will have a center-left coalition government led by the nation’s youngest prime minister in more than 150 years. When New Zealanders voted in a general election almost a month ago, neither of the two major parties, the center-right National party, which had been in power for nearly a decade and won more seats
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USAlas vegas shooter note The suite rented by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock will remain locked indefinitely as hotel employees work to preserve evidence related to the shooting. MGM Resorts International, which owns and operates the resort and casino, announced Thursday that they will not rent the 32nd-floor room following the Oct. 1 massacre that
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USAA key member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has joined a chorus of congressional Democrats calling for Ivanka Trump’s security clearances to be reviewed because her failure to fully divest herself from her business empire poses serious potential for conflicts of interest. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the ranking member of the GOP-controlled committee, is
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USABy TOI staff The official Palestinian mission to Colombia on Thursday night tweeted a quote from former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat calling for the destruction of the State of Israel. The tweet read, “Our goal is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations…. We don’t want peace. We want WAR
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International, Middle EastDubbed the “Czech version of Trump” by Forbes, the wiry, grey-haired, Slovak-born farming, media and chemicals mogul is the Czech Republic’s second-richest man. Andrej Babis set up the populist ANO (Yes) party in 2011 as a political outsider determined to lure voters with promises of clean politics in the EU country of 10.6 million ranked
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InternationalWASHINGTON – Patrick Kennedy, it seemed, had been waiting for a public opportunity speak directly to the nation’s health insurers. “The historic treatment of addiction and mental illness has been a separate and unequal process,” the former Rhode Island congressman and a member of the president’s opioid commission told a group of insurance executives on
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