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Daily Archives: July 23, 2019

Don’t Miss Hannah Senesh

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HANNAH SENESH (a play with music and song) Previews July 24 – 28; Performances July 29 – August 18, 2019 An award-winning play. Written and Directed by David Schechter. Developed in collaboration with Lori Wilner. Based upon the diaries...
The front of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires, with the names of the 85 people who died in the July 18, 1994 bombing that also left more ta 300 injured, July 18 July 2015. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

AMIA 25 years on: Insult, injury and Argentina’s upcoming election

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In 2006, Argentine government lawyers led by the federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman formally named the eight leading Iranian officials who planned the bombing attack 12 years earlier, at 9:53 a.m. on July 18, 1994,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Nov. 24, 2010. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash 90.

Netanyahu’s accomplishments will stand for decades

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Currently at the head of a caretaker government between two elections in the same year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, breaking the record set by...
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London in 2017. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Boris Johnson, Britain’s newest leader, once described himself as a ‘passionate Zionist’

LONDON—In August 2014, Boris Johnson, who was then mayor of London, described himself as a “passionate Zionist” and declared Israel as a “great country.” Speaking on LBC radio, Johnson, who on Tuesday won the race...
Boris Johnson. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Boris Johnson becomes UK prime minister amid Brexit, tensions with Iran and anti-Semitism in...

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Boris Johnson overwhelmingly was elected by his Conservative Party on Tuesday to become the next party leader and prime minister of the United Kingdom. In his victory speech, Johnson, who defeated Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt...
Participants in the Al-Qassam Brigades summer camp. (MEMRI)

Hamas launches Facebook page for its ‘Liberation Vanguards’ summer camps

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Hamas’s military wing, the ‘Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, or simply Al-Qassam Brigades, launched a Facebook page on Sunday titled “Tala’i’ Al-Tahrir” (Liberation Vanguards). The page, which features the group’s activities and military training in the...
Yukiya Amano, then director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations, addresses the U.N. General Assembly as it considers a report of the IAEA on Dec. 12, 2016. Credit: U.N. Photo/Rick Bajornas.

IAEA chief Yukiya Amano dies at 72, led agency in overseeing Iran nuclear deal

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The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, died at the age of 72, announced the agency on Monday. Amano led the nuclear watchdog since 2009 and oversaw the 2015 Iran nuclear deal...
Floor of the praying platform revealed. The base of one of the pillars is visible on the right. Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority/Jon Seligman.

Hebrew inscriptions revealed at Great Synagogue dig sites in Vilnius, Lithuania

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Hebrew inscriptions were discovered for the first time since the beginning of the excavation project to expose the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, which was burned during the Holocaust and demolished by the Soviets. According...
Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu enjoys pre-Shabbat preparation acivities with young campers at the OneFamily Sleepaway camp in northern Israel in July 2019. Photo: Eytan Morgenstern.

For Israeli children coping with loss, a week of hope and healing

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Losing members of one’s family to violence is traumatic for anyone, let alone the very young. Unfortunately, this is something too many Israeli children have experienced—terrorism and war have torn asunder thousands of Israeli...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump with senior White House adviser Jared Kushner at the start of a meeting in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Netanyahu is ‘darkness,’ Trump and Kushner his ‘messengers’—song on official PA TV

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the “darkness” and U.S. President Donald Trump and his senior adviser Jared Kushner are his “messengers,” according to a music video broadcast by official Palestinian Authority TV last...