Daily Archives: June 15, 2018
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Addressing the security needs of Jewish communities focus of OSCE/ODIHR event in Bratislava
Addressing the security needs of Jewish communities was the focus of an event co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of...
Trump, Kim and the ‘good citizen’
One of the many memorable scenes in “The Lives of Others”—an exemplary German movie whose plot centers on the Stasi secret police in the late, unlamented German Democratic Republic—involves the indiscreet telling of a...
Report: Hezbollah rejects Russian request to withdraw from Syrian positions
Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shi’ite terrorist organization, has rejected Russian demands to withdraw its forces from the Lebanese-Syrian border, a prominent Syrian-rights group indicated Thursday.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Hezbollah is still...
Making beautiful food and music as part of Philadelphia Orchestra’s trip to Israel
A delegation of 60 donors from the Philadelphia Jewish Federation traveled to Israel this month with the Philadelphia Orchestra, playing three concerts there from June 1 to June 7. Wildly popular Israeli-American chef Michael...
The United States and North Korea: Deterrence, Not “Denuclearization”
“Men as a rule willingly believe what they want to believe.” (Julius Caesar, Caesar's Gallic War, Book III, Chapter 18)
Following the manifestly inconclusive Singapore summit, when not even the definition of "complete denuclearization" could be agreed upon,...
US threatens to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council over anti-Israel bias
The United States is close to withdrawing from the U.N. Human Rights Council after talks to reform the Council have failed to meet Washington’s demands.
A U.S. source told Reuters that the withdrawal appeared to...
White House to present Trump’s Mideast peace plan some time after August
The White House is unlikely to present its Middle East peace plan before August, a source familiar with the issue told Israel Hayom on Thursday. Jerusalem officials confirmed they had no information regarding an...
Netanyahu gets impromptu visit from head of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got an impromptu meeting with the leader of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization.
Yahya Cholil Staquf, secretary general of the 60-million member Nahdlatul Ulama, visited with Netanyahu at his office in...
Naval arms race between Israel and Hamas picks up steam
Hamas’s military wing in Gaza increasingly finds itself blocked off by Israel on land, underground and in the air. As a result, it appears to be making a greater effort to develop its abilities...
Fast or no fast, life-saving volunteers observing Ramadan keep up with their work
Five United Hatzalah emergency-medical volunteers responded to a large-scale fire in Umm al-Fahm on June 13, the penultimate day of the month of Ramadan—the holiest month in the Muslim calendar. The blaze took place...