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Daily Archives: July 17, 2019

Internationella flyktingdagen: Perspektiv från Jerusalem

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Vår nyhetsbyrå, som finns på internet på www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com, har engagerat professionell personal sedan 1 augusti 2000 för att undersöka och översätta de nya skolböcker som utfärdats av den palestinska myndigheten för utbildningsministeriet och används...
Chabad of Poway, Calif. Credit: Google Maps.

Overshadowing the battle against anti-Semitism

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The U.S. Department of Justice devoted a day to a summit this week about combating anti-Semitism. With other government agencies taking part, the event represented a significant commitment to deal with an issue of...
Sarah Halimi, z"l

Decision to lesson charges of Halimi murderer ‘contradictory’ at best, ‘anti-Semitic’ at worst

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One day before making aliyah to Israel from France, Jewish community leader Simon Midal expressed his concern that France’s preliminary court decision to dismiss the murderer of French Jew Sarah Halimi applied an anti-Semitic double standard. On...
Oregon’s state capitol. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Oregon enacts law requiring public schools to teach Holocaust education

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Oregon public schools will be required to teach students about the Holocaust and other genocides after Gov. Kate Brown signed on Monday a bill, which unanimously passed in the state legislature, into law. “Today more...
Opening ceremonies of the European Lacrosse Federation (ELF) Women’s European Lacrosse Championship in Jerusalem, July 15, 2019. Photo by Josh Hasten.

International lacrosse competition cradles its way to Israel

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As evening approached, and the heat of another scorching summer day in Jerusalem broke, more than 300 young women from 16 different countries across Europe proudly marched into the fan-filled stadium at the Kraft...
Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh (R) speaks to the press in the southern Gaza Strip on September 19, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

In humiliating blow, Egypt prevents Hamas leader from leaving Gaza Strip

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Egypt is preventing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh from setting out on a fundraising trip to several countries, chief among them Iran, Gaza media reported on Tuesday. Hamas’s official mouthpiece in the Gaza Strip, Al-Risala, claimed that...
Orthodox Union leaders meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to talk about boosting Jewish-identity issues and funding for adults and youth in the United States, July 16, 2019. Photo by Eliyahu Yanai.

In Israel, OU leaders talk of increasing Jewish-identity initiatives in Diaspora

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Orthodox Union leaders from the United States and Canada met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to talk about the need to increase and expand initiatives focused on Diaspora Jewish education and...
Israeli Prime Minister and Likud Party head Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media at the Knesset on May 27, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Report: Netanyahu expresses reservations about possible West Bank-Gaza passage

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed reservations about a $5 billion proposal for a highway and railway between the West Bank and Gaza as part of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace deal for...
Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks during her farewell ceremony at the Ministry of Justice offices in Jerusalem, June 4, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Former Israeli Justice Minister Shaked calls for right-wing unity ahead of September elections

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Former Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked told a group of New York Republican leaders visiting the Jewish state this week that Israel’s right-wing, which unsuccessfully ran under separate banners during the recent April elections,...
The University of Haifa. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Startup nation to revitalize entrepreneurship, innovation on university campuses

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Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE), the government agency overseeing colleges and universities just unveiled “The New Campus Vision,” aiming to expose students and faculty from all disciplines to the worlds of entrepreneurship and innovation....