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Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid speaks during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on April 19, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Yair Lapid officially appointed leader of Israel’s opposition

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Yesh Atid-Telem Party chairman and Knesset member Yair Lapid officially became the leader of the Israeli opposition on Wednesday. Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin made the formal announcement about Lapid’s new role at the opening of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris, France, on June 5, 2018. Photos by Haim Zach/GPO.

Report: European leaders call on Netanyahu to shelve sovereignty plan

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Leaders of major European countries have been urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shelve his plan to apply sovereignty to large parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, Channel 13 News reported on...
Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv as temperatures rise to 40 degrees Celsius (more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit) in some parts of the country on May 16, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israel to limit surveillance as infection rate drops

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The Israeli cabinet decided on Sunday to limit the Shin Bet security service’s surveillance of cell phones of people infected with the coronavirus and only use it as a last resort. Because of the decreased...
An aerial view of the Old City of Jerusalem, Dec. 17, 2019. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Israel’s plans to bring cable car, fast train to Old City Jerusalem threaten to...

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Imagine being able to exit Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport, hop on a fast train to Jerusalem and within about 45 minutes, stand at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. That day could come...
The campus of George Washington University. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pro-BDS interim dean of international affairs school not up for permanent role

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Amid backlash from Jewish and pro-Israel groups over a faculty member at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., with an anti-Israel history being named interim dean of the university’s Elliott School of International Affairs earlier this month, the...
Mounds of garbage disposed of outside the Palestinian village of Rammon on Dec. 8, 2014. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

With less law enforcement during coronavirus pandemic, PA continues to dump garbage

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While Israel was busy dealing with the coronavirus crisis, the Palestinian Authority continued to illegally dump garbage in Judea and Samaria, according to Israeli NGO Regavim. “Today’s technology allows us to gather very detailed data...

Verter fun der Vokh – Gardens feed the soul

Gardens feed the soul // דער גאָרטן דערנערט די נשמה annual (n.): דאָס אײ֜ניאָרלינג, ־⁠ען; דאָס אײ֜ניאָריקע געװי֜קס, ־⁠ן blossom (n.): דער קװײט, ־⁠ן; די בלום, ־⁠ען blossom (v.): קװײ֜טלען; אױ֜פֿבליִען; צעבליִ֜ען זיך bud (n.): דער קנאָספּ, ־⁠ן;...

May 27, 1915: The writer Herman Wouk, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was born

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On May 27, 1915, the writer Herman Wouk was born, who died in May 2019 shortly after his 104th birthday. Among his best-known writings are "The Mutiny of the Caine" and "A Girl of...

Return to Eden

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Dear Reader — if you are looking to be happy, creative, in harmony with God and with the universe, the Torah has the answer — Return to the Source. When we speak about Returning to...

Liban : un analyste politique dénonce l’approche pro-iranienne de l’ambassadeur de France et suggère...

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Dans le quotidien libanais Al-Liwa, sous le titre « Ambassadeur de France à Beyrouth – le diplomate qui promeut l’hégémonie iranienne au Liban », l’analyste politique Ahmad Fahed Al-Ayoubi accuse l’ambassadeur français au Liban, Bruno Foucher,...