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Egypt reportedly offers Abbas a Palestinian state in the Sinai (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reportedly offered Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas a Palestinian state in Sinai. Egypt had been working on the proposal for several weeks and presented it to Abbas in Cairo over the weekend, Army Radio reported Monday. […]

To Dance by Valery Panov, Principal Dancer, Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet Company, Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Russia By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — When the Soviet Union finally approved Valery Panov’s application to emigrate to Israel, his wife, Galina, was hemorrhaging from a miscarriage.  He lifted her into his arms and carried her through the airport and onto the

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The following is a Joint Statement by Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on the ISIL meeting held Friday, Sept. 5, at Celtic Manor in Wales, United Kingdom. This morning (Friday, September 5) we had a meeting with some of our key allies and partners

Green Dome: Trees to protect southern Israeli trains from rockets (JNS.org) Workers have started planting hundreds of trees along the train tracks leading from Asheklon to Sderot in southern Israel in an attempt to protect the trains and passengers on that line from rocket attacks, Israel Hayom reported. After consulting with experts, Israel Railways and

Arab party’s former MK faces jail time over 2007 Syria visit (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Former Member of Knesset Said Nafa, who served for the Arab party Balad from 2007-13, was sentenced on Thursday by the Nazareth District Court to one year in prison after being convicted in April for visiting an enemy state and

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The U.S. State Department on Wednesday, Sept. 3, issued the following statement by Secretary of State John Kerry on the beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff by an ISIL terrorist. “Yesterday, the world bore witness again to the unfathomable brutality of ISIL terrorist murderers when we saw Steven Sotloff, an American journalist who

Islamic State beheading victim Steven Sotloff was Israeli citizen (JNS.org) The Islamic State terrorist group on Tuesday released a video showing the beheading of American-Jewish journalist Steven Sotloff. The Israeli Foreign Ministry revealed on Wednesday that Sotloff also held Israeli citizenship. A video released in August showed the Islamic State’s beheading of American journalist James

Abbas to demand Israeli withdrawal from West Bank in 3 years (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is set to unveil a plan for a return to negotiations with Israel over a nine-month period. Abbas’s plan will propose an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank in three years, reports say. The plan was revealed

Syrian mortar explodes in Israeli territory (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A mortar shell fired from Syria exploded in Israeli territory on Monday morning, causing no injuries or damage, as fierce fighting continued between the Syrian military and rebels on the Syrian side of the border near the Quneitra border crossing. The Syrian military is reportedly

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Obama Administration imposed sanctions on Friday, Aug. 29, on a series of companies and individuals under various Iran-related authorities targeting those engaged in proscribed activities. These actions underscore U.S. resolve to enforce sanctions as the P5+1 and Iran work toward a comprehensive solution to address the international community’s concerns over Iran’s

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — I was thrilled to read the Yom Limmud roster of speakers and see that the distinguished music professor of the Hebrew University, Edwin Seroussi, was going to give two lectures during the day of learning, Sunday, August 24 at the Lawrence Family JCC. Since hearing about his series

  By Ze’ev Ben-Yechiel JERUSALEM (TNA)–Israeli security forces announced on Thursday, August 28, the arrests of 27 Israeli Arabs suspected of drug dealing for Hizbollah. The arrests, carried out by the General Security Service (GSS) and the Israel Police, followed weeks of widespread investigation into smuggling activities conducted between Israeli and Lebanese dealers that involved

Report: Netanyahu, Abbas met secretly in Jordan before cease-fire (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Jordanian newspaper Al Ghad reported Thursday that several days before the cease-fire agreement struck between Israel and Hamas on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas secretly met in the Jordanian capital of Amman. According to the