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Daily Archives: July 30, 2018

Pause to Rearm

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DAVID BEDEIN, JERUSALEM POST, JULY 30, 2018 The Jerusalem Post mistakenly reported that a “cease-fire” was achieved with Hamas (“Shaky cease-fire after Gaza sniper kills IDF soldier,” July 22). The paper’s use of the term “cease-fire”...

Return of the refugee crisis

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Thanks to a decision by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, an international agency tasked with caring for refugees is facing budget cuts. But rather than providing more proof of why Trump shouldn’t...
Kim and Trump shaking hands at the red carpet during the DPRK–USA Singapore Summit by Shealah Craighead. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un, and North Korean human rights

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S President Donald Trump traveled to Singapore to negotiate urgent nuclear matters, and not to discuss North Korean violations of basic human rights. Nonetheless, any such willful US indifference to these violations in another...
A Jewish Revival: Communities Return to Poland, Sicily and Myanmar

A Jewish Revival: Communities Return to Poland, Sicily and Myanmar

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The ornate colonial building on a bustling alleyway fits right in with the neighborhood. To enter, visitors don’t need to pass through any security checks or barriers — increasingly commonplace around the world, given...
A Nazi swastika spray-painted on Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel, Ind. Credit: Debby Barton Grant via Facebook.

Pence reacts strongly to synagogue vandalism in home state of Indiana

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Vice President Mike Pence expressed sympathy and outrage on Sunday after a synagogue in his home state was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti on Saturday. “Sickened and appalled by the cowardly act of vandalism at Congregation...
IDF video surveillance operators with the Border Defense Array unit. Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit.

IDF Border Defense Array, which is ‘the most familiar with the enemy,’ set to...

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Two months ago, Cpl. Shani Davidyan, an Israel Defense Forces video surveillance operator, was sitting in her operations room, monitoring the Gush Etzion sector south of Jerusalem, when she suddenly received a radio report...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Knesset Plenary Hall session ahead of the vote on the Nationality Law, which will enforce the foundation of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people, on July 18, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Amid nation-state law controversy, Netanyahu urges lawmakers to ‘fight for the truth’

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Israelii Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday told ‎Likud ministers he expected them to express ‎‎“unreserved and unapologetic” support for ‎the controversial nation-state law.‎ ‎“The Jewish nation-state is the basis of our ‎‎existence,” he said....
A Palestinian boy holds a cake with a picture of Ahed Tamimi during a protest rally in the city of Hebron on Jan. 30, 2018. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

Ahed Tamimi concludes eight-month prison sentence after assaulting IDF soldier

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Ahed Tamimi, who gained infamy in Israel and acclaim inside the Palestinian Authority after a video of her assaulting Israeli police officers went viral, was released from HaSharon Prison on Sunday after serving an...
View from the scorched Be’eri forest in southern Israel, caused by the many airborne firebombs launched by Gazans, many of them children and teens, into Israel. July 20, 2018. Photo by Yaniv Nadav/Flash90.

UN exhibit in New York shows fire damage in Israel from incendiary kites and...

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An exhibition featured at the U.N. headquarters in New York this week will show viewers the damage that Gazan terror kites and flammable balloons have caused inside Israel. An initiative of Yesh Atid Party Knesset...

Soaring unemployment pushes Gaza’s tech sector forward

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“The Palestinian startup ecosystem is in its early stages and still maturing,” reads a July 11 report by the World Bank. It called the Palestinian situation “relatively similar” to those of Lebanon and Tanzania, explaining that startup...