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U.S. President Donald Trump with the rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz (left), at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Trump won’t roll out Mideast peace plan before ‎Israeli election

The Trump administration will not present its long-awaited Middle East peace plan before the Israeli ‎election, set for April 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ‎Netanyahu said on Monday. ‎ ‎ The rollout ‎for the plan,...
Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction Yoav Galant at the 15th annual Jerusalem conference of the “Besheva” group, Feb. 12, 2018. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Eyeing Likud primaries, Housing Minister Gallant ‎quits Kulanu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named ‎Yoav Gallant ‎ as immigration and ‎absorption minister on Monday. The ‎move followed Gallant’s announcement that he was ‎leaving the Kulanu Party. ‎ Netanyahu’s decision aims to allow Gallant, formerly...
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Who knew? Hebrew could be the basis for many English and European words

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English and European words such as alphabet, earth, loco and habitat could come from Hebrew, according to an independent Israeli linguistics researcher who has written a number of unpublished dictionaries, articles and books. According to the English Oxford...
Thousands pray for forgiveness at a Selichot service, prior to the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sept. 16, 2018. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

At the start of 2019, Israel’s population nears 9 million

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With the start of 2019 approaches, Israel’s population is 28,000 away from 9 million people, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced on Monday. The count of 8,972,000 is 174,000 more people than the previous year,...
Young women arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport after a Nefesh B’Nefesh group aliyah flight, October 2018. Credit: Jonny Finkel Photography.

In 2018, more than 3,500 North Americans made Israel their new home

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Following the publication of the official year-end statistics by the Jewish Agency for Israel, Nefesh B’Nefesh assisted a total of 3,546 new immigrants (olim) from North America in cooperation with the Jewish Agency for...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Mideast. Credit: U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe.

Israel announces that it is officially leaving UNESCO

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Israel will officially no longer be a member of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, on Tuesday. “Israel will not be part of a body that continually rewrites history, including by erasing the Jewish...
Cleveland Clinic Miller Family Pavilion. Credit: HealthMonitor/Wikimedia Commons.

Cleveland Clinic medical resident fired for online anti-Semitic statements

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The Cleveland Clinic announced on Monday that it fired a medical resident amid reports of her making anti-Semitic remarks online, such as tweeting in 2012 that “ill purposely give all the yahood the wrong meds.” “This individual...
Flag of jihad flying in Rotterdam, 2014, photo by Wouter Engler via Wikimedia Commons

Terrorism as Power over Death

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Opposing terrorism, especially jihadist terror, has become a continuous security obligation of the US, Europe, and of course Israel. Still, too little serious analytic attention has been directed towards identifying remedies for...

Catherine Shakdam, analyste installée à Londres, sur une chaîne iranienne : La résistance armée...

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Voir les extraits vidéo sur MEMRI TV Le 17 décembre 2018, l’analyste politique basée à Londres Catherine Shakdam a été interviewée sur la chaîne Press TV (Iran). Elle félicité le Hamas d’avoir uni le peuple...

Cheikh Alaa Al-Musawi, dirigeant du Waqf chiite en Irak : Les chrétiens célèbrent Noël...

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Cheikh Alaa Al-Musawi, dirigeant du Waqf chiite en Irak, a déclaré lors d’un sermon mis en ligne le 25 décembre 2018 que les traditions et fêtes monothéistes non musulmanes, comme Noël et le Nouvel...