Frequency of lightning strikes key to climate change

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — The Doomsday Clock, which measures the likelihood of global catastrophe, last month ticked a minute closer to “midnight” — the apocalypse. The symbolic clock was set to 11:57 by a board of atomic scientists featuring 17 Nobel Laureates, who warned that the planet, beset by climate change and nuclear proliferation, faced […]

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share

Turkey’s P.M. denounces Jewish, Armenian, Greek lobbies

ISTANBUL (WJC) — Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said his government would not succumb to “the Jewish lobby, the Armenian lobby or the lobby of the Turkish-Greek minority”, a sentence he said in regards to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s words two weeks ago that members of the Gülen movement had joined forces with the Mossad.

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Travel and Food

Uruguay names bomb- planting Iranian suspect

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (WJC)–Uruguay’s government has confirmed reports that Iranian diplomat Ahmed Sabatgold, 32, had left the country after being suspected by Uruguayan security forces of collecting intelligence about a building housing Israel’s new embassy in Montevideo since December, and helping to plant a bomb nearby. Sabatgold served as a political adviser in the Iranian Embassy

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International, Middle East

Israel elections again? How depressing!

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — And so once again, only two years after the previous election, Israel’s long-suffering population has been thrown into the maelstrom of another election campaign. Though perhaps “maelstrom” is too strong a term to describe the boredom and drudgery of being exposed to another round of groupings and regroupings

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

AIPAC: Suspend aid to the Palestinians

Editor’s Note: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Thursday, Feb. 5, issued a memorandum calling for the suspension of aid to the Palestinian Authority.  Following is a text of that memorandum: WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Over the last year, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has pursued a series of counterproductive moves aimed

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Middle East, USA

Rivlin: ‘Our friendships are above political parties’

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin met with heads of the Israeli diplomatic missions in North America, including Israel’s Ambassador to Canada and consul generals from across North America, including a number of diplomats about to take up appointments there. The President welcomed the representatives, and expressed to them the importance of their roles to the

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