HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Israel’s Anti-Trust Authority, Chief Prof. David Gilo, announced on Monday, Dec. 22, his decision to prevent the investing companies in Israel’s natural gas sector to hold stakes in both of Israel’s major offshore natural gas fields, obligating them to sell their stakes in one of the fields – Tamar or Leviathan. Prof. Brenda Shaffer, […]
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Middle EastIran warns Western powers against ‘illegitimate demands’ in nuclear talks (JNS.org) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned Western countries against making “humiliating, illegitimate demands” in the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. “I am confident that a comprehensive agreement is within reach,” Zarif wrote in separate letters to Western counterparts, the Mehrnews agency
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Middle EastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California — It was October 1939—I was twelve years old. My parents, my brother and I were sitting in the basement of our Paris apartment building with gas masks on. We did this every night as the sirens screeched and German planes flew overhead threatening to gas us. We
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International, Natasha Josefowitz, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I was wrong when I speculated that Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister, would take his party into Likud to challenge Binyamin Netanyahu for the leadership. But I’m not wrong in believing that Lieberman wants to be the next prime minister of Israel. He said as much in Wednesday’s Ha’aretz
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –What is Palestinianism? According to journalist Ben Cohen, anti-Semitism has become less a political phenomenon, and more a social movement, with what he calls “Palestinianism” as its key ideology: “Palestinian Arabs have assumed the status of iconic, transcendental victims, as the Jews did for a brief period after World
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International, Middle East, Steve KramerWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Americans for Peace Now (APN) on Wednesday reiterated its call on the Obama administration to support French-led efforts to gain consensus around a United Nations Security Council laying out terms of reference and a timeline for Israeli-Palestinian, two-state negotiations. APN urged the Obama administration to reject efforts to delay such a resolution until
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International, Middle East, USAHAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — The issue of vaccination hesitancy and refusal often makes headlines in the media and worries health authorities. However, a new study by Dr. Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Dr. Yaffa Shir-Raz and Prof. Manfred S. Green from University of Haifa, School of Public Health, published in the Journal of Risk Research suggests that even
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationLARISSA, Greece (WJC) — The Jewish cemetery in the Greek town of Larissa was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti signed by “Larissa Skins” on December 23rd. Following this act of vandalism, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, the WJC affiliated umbrella organization of Greece’s 5,000-strong community, issued the following statement: “The Central Board of Jewish
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InternationalBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Even if we don’t formally celebrate Christmas, we in the Jewish community honor and venerate its true meaning and implication. Though this December holiday season has been too often co-opted by commercial anxiety and undeniable stress, we recognize the feelings of hope and serenity that are at last realized
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Travel and FoodIDF soldiers attacked by Hamas sniper fire (JNS.org) An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier from the Bedouin Reconnaissance Battalion was seriously injured Wednesday as Israeli troops on the border with Gaza came under sniper fire from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. “The IDF soldier suffered a severe chest injury from Gaza sniper fire, he was
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International, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)— The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)reiterates its call of last week for President Barack Obama to free Jonathan Pollard, after President Obama freed three convicted spies who spied for an enemy regime, Cuba, and now that he has also freed ten terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo. The first of six, freed the previous week
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Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ North Korea has accused the government of the United States of involvement in the making of The Interview because Hollywood would never voluntarily make a tasteless comedy with Seth Rogen and James Franco. Moreover, North Korea denied it had anything to do with the hacking of SONY Pictures and threatened
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — It’s winter in some parts of the world, and summer in other regions, and even in America the temperatures vary widely from Alaska to Florida. It might be pouring raining in one state and snowing heavily in another state. But one thing strikes me as we enter a
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The World We ShareAbbas: No U.N. resolution, no more cooperation with Israel (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to break off ties with Israel if the Palestinian-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution demanding Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank by 2017 fails. Speaking to reporters in Algeria, Abbas said that the Palestinians are “determined to restore
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