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Daily Archives: August 14, 2019

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Forgotten heroes: The Jewish resistance and ‘Exodus 1947’

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This July and August mark the 72nd anniversary of the journey of the Exodus 1947 (originally named the SS President Warfield), perhaps the most dramatic post-World War II attempt to breach the British naval blockade and bring...
Yoav Sorek, the father of Dvir Sorek, the yeshivah student and IDF recruit who was found stabbed to death near the Jewish settlement of Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion, speaks with the media outside the family home in Ofra on Aug. 9, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

May Dvir Sorek’s legacy be a lesson to the Jewish left

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The slaughter last week of 19-year-old yeshivahstudent and Israel Defense Forces’ recruit Dvir Sorek from the Judea and Samaria community of Ofra was not exceptional. Palestinian terrorists with hatred in their hearts and weapons in their hands...
Israeli Home Front Command soldiers take part in a defense drill simulating a building collapse following a chemical missile attack in the city of Jerusalem on August 27, 2012. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Israel’s Home Front Command revolutionizes the ability to respond to emergencies

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Personnel from Israel’s Home Front Command walked on the stage in San Diego on July 10 and collected an award for something extraordinary. The personnel had turned the Esri Geographic Information System (GIS) software,...
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks at “The Des Moines Register Soapbox” at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Aug. 13, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

Buttigieg calls US recognition of Golan ‘interference’ in Israeli politics

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DES MOINES, Iowa—Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, denounced on Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s official recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Credit: Michael Vadon via Wikimedia Commons.

Sanders pledges to ‘leverage’ US funding to ‘end some of that racism’ in Israel

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said on Tuesday that, if elected, he would be even-handed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and even leverage U.S. funding “to end some...
The United Nations building in New York City. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

In first-ever review, UN racism panel presses Palestinians on fomenting anti-Semitism

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The United Nations’s anti-racism committee began a mandatory two-day review on Tuesday of the policies and practices of the Palestinian Authority, whose delegation responded by criticizing experts of the 18-member panel for asking about...
View of a giant election campaign poster in Jerusalem showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, March 31, 2019. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The big parties head into final stretch as Israeli elections near

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a living example of how an election campaign can be decided at the last minute, on the days the polls open. In 2015, he amazed everyone when he...
The Monastery, Petra, Jordan, Sept. 30, 2011. Photo: Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons.

Jordan stops production of fictional film for referencing Jewish ties to its land

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The Jordanian government has suspended the production of a film set in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra because it references historical Jewish ties to the land. The film, called “Jaber,” is fictional and based...
A view of the Temple Mount. Credit: Judy Lash Balint.

Jordan outraged after Israeli minister calls for new Temple Mount status quo

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A spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry warned on Tuesday that a change of the status quo on the Temple Mount would have serious consequences. The statement came in response to Israeli Public Security...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 27, 2018. Photo: Alaa Badarneh/AP.

Abbas ‘aggressive’ in talks with Democrats, rejected overtures to working with US on peace...

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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas avoided answering whether or not he believes that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state and seemed “aggressive” in talks with U.S. lawmakers regarding the Trump...