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Daily Archives: October 24, 2019

Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz speaks during an election campaign event in Tel Aviv held by the Blue and White Party on April 8, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Benny Gantz reaches out to all sides

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Benny Gantz’s career-switch from general to political leader seemed awkward. His statements were few and usually inane. One was left with the impression that he had nothing to say or that his three sub-leaders...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announces her run for the 2020 presidential elections, Feb. 9, 2018. Credit: Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Warren, Palestinian Jew-hatred and the destruction of the West’s moral compass

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The Democratic presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has suggested that she would consider cutting military aid to Israel to force it to halt construction of settlements in the disputed territories. “It is the official...
U.S. Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer addresses the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 23, 2019. Credit: Jackson Richman/JNS.

US Navy Secretary assures: ‘We’re completely defensible’ against Iran

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U.S. Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer said on Wednesday that the U.S. Navy is “completely defensible” against the Iranian threat, including in the Persian Gulf. Spencer’s talk consisted of how the U.S. Navy has prepared...
A view of the smashed headstones at the Chatham Memorial Synagogue cemetery near London, October 2019. Source: Twitter via Dalia Halpern.

Authorities are investigating desecration of 300-year-old Jewish cemetery near London

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Authorities are investigating the desecration of a 300-year-old Jewish cemetery near London, reported the United Kingdom’s Jewish Chronicle. Assailants reportedly used sledgehammers to shatter, upend and split headstones at the Chatham Memorial Synagogue cemetery. The damage was discovered...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin presents Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz with the mandate to form a new Israeli government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Oct. 23, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu to meet with Gantz for unity government talks

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Blue and White and Likud party leaders Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in the coming days to discuss the possibility of forming a unity government, the parties announced on Wednesday...
Residents of El Talento, a small town in Colombia adjacent to the city of Cúcuta, have been introduced to the GEN-M, Watergen’s medium-scale atmospheric generator that produces water out of air, October 2019. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli technology converts air into water for residents in northern Colombia

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Residents of El Talento, a small town in Colombia adjacent to the city of Cúcuta, have been introduced to the GEN-M, Watergen’s medium-scale atmospheric generator (AWG) that produces water out of air. The machine, a...
Religious Israeli soldiers pray near the city of Beit Shemesh, Sept. 27, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The Israel Defense Forces is becoming ‘God’s army,’ warns Lieberman

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The Israel Defense Forces is becoming an organ of the country’s Chief Rabbinate, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday. His comments, which he posted on Facebook, came in reaction to a booklet authored...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin presents Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz with the mandate to form a new Israeli government, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to form one, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Oct. 23, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Gantz vows to form ‘liberal unity government,’ invites Netanyahu to join

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Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz vowed to form a “liberal unity government” after being tasked by Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin to form a new government on Wednesday. “I will work for all of...
The Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a mass shooting took place during Shabbat services on Oct. 27. Credit: Google Maps screenshot.

Governor orders flags to fly half-staff to mark year since Pittsburgh shooting

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a proclamation declaring Oct. 27 as an official day of remembrance, ordering state flags to half-staff one year after the attack at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in...
Twitter graphic. Credit: edar/Pixabay.

Lawmakers accuse Twitter of allowing content from Hamas and Hezbollah, violating law

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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers accused Twitter on Tuesday of violating U.S. law in allowing content from U.S.-designated terrorist groups, including Hezbollah and Hamas, to appear on its site. Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Tom...