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Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Gantz to supporters: ‘I share your pain and disappointment’

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Blue and White leader Benny Gantz told supporters in Tel Aviv on Monday night that he shared their “pain and disappointment” as exit polls indicated a convincing win for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...
Palestinian chief negotiator and Secretary General of the PLO Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Jericho on Feb. 15, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Erekat: ‘Settlement, occupation and apartheid have won the Israeli elections’

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Following the release of the first exit polls from Israel’s Monday elections, PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat said the results would “force the people of the region to live by the sword.” “It is obvious...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, address their supporters on Israeli election night at Likud Party headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 3, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu promises ‘strong, stable government,’ vows to ‘heal the rifts’

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In his address to supporters, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the initial results from Monday’s election, the results of which are poised to make the Likud Party the largest in the next Knesset...
Samir Sharifov, Azerbaijan’s finance minister, addresses the 2020 AIPAC Policy Conference. Source: Screenshot.

Azerbaijan minister makes history by attending AIPAC, praises ties with Israel

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Azerbaijan made history on Sunday by becoming the first country with a Shi’ite majority to have a cabinet-level minister give a speech at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. Samir Sharifov, Azerbaijan’s finance minister, told the...
A group shot of the some 25 participants on the Friends of Access Israel (FAISR) climb up Mount Kilimanjaro. Credit: Friends of Access Israel.

Trekking Mount Kilimanjaro … in a wheelchair

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When New York cardiologist, Dr. Aaron Gindea read the entire Torah portion of Beshalach at the Kibo Hut on Mount Kilimanjaro, he may have broken the record for reading from a Torah scroll at...
Israeli Supreme Court justices, in addition to Supreme Court president Esther Hayut, arrive in the courtroom in Jerusalem. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli high court overturns surrogacy law excluding single men, gay couples

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Israel’s High Court of Justice unanimously ruled on Thursday against a law that excludes single men and gay couples from using surrogacy to have children. Current law allows only heterosexual couples or single women who are unable...
Former U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt speaks at the OurCrowd global investor summit at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem on Feb. 13, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Greenblatt joins Israeli OurCrowd as partner for building Mideast relations

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Jason Greenblatt, the former U.S. special envoy to the Middle East in the Trump administration, has joined OurCrowd, a large venture-capital investment company in Israel, as a partner whose responsibility is building ties with...

Sermon à la mosquée Al-Aqsa : Il est temps d’annoncer le califat, de libérer...

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Le cheikh palestinien Mohammed Ayed « Abou Abdallah » a déclaré, dans un discours prononcé à la mosquée Al-Aqsa et mis en ligne sur Internet le 4 février 2020, qu’il était temps que «...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the Likud Party's election rally in Ramat Gan on Feb 29, 2020. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

Israeli exit polls give clear edge to Netanyahu’s Likud Party, nearly a 61-seat majority

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Exit polls from Israel’s general election on Monday indicate a strong victory for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, setting the stage for the longtime Israeli leader to break the political stalemate and...

While Wall Street Journal highlights the success of Harry Potter in Yiddish, two new...

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The first time in Yiddish! Pride and Prejudice - Gayve un Forurtl By Jane Austen - Volume One Translated by Barry Goldstein Dos ershte mol oyf Yidish! Gayve un Forurtl Fun Dzheyn Austen - Band Eyns Ibergezetst fun Berish Goldshteyn דאָס ערשטע מאָל אױף...