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From left: Natan Sharansky, Dr. Miriam Adelson and Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan stand in front of the new Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Educational Leadership Academy at Yad Vashem. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Yad Vashem launches academy to train future leaders in Holocaust awareness

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One hundred stalwart souls braved the chilling Jerusalem rain and influx of new COVID-19 cases on Jan. 5 to witness the rollout of what is designed to be the next big step for empowering...
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the building. Credit: Tyler Merbler via Wikimedia Commons.

Who’s helping to heal a divided nation? Not those who claim to speak for...

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A year ago, Americans were appalled by the sight of a violent mob storming Capitol Hill on the day that the Electoral College votes from the 2020 election were counted. The events of Jan....
Protesters attend a demonstration against vaccines in Belgium. Credit: Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.

Has the time come to bribe the unvaccinated?

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“How can we as a society stand by and watch people die when a simple shot could prevent a life-threatening illness?” That was the agonized question asked by a group of nine health-care providers...
Palestinians receive food aid at an UNRWA distribution center in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on May 26, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Biden administration ‘deeply blind’ to inherent flaws of UNRWA, say Mideast experts

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The U.S. State Department’s Population, Migration and Refugees Bureau ended 2021 with another payment to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a move some experts have criticized as wrongheaded and in line...
View of the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, on April 8, 2019. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90

With uptick in Bedouin crime, calls grow for Israeli government to take back control...

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Israel’s Sovereignty Movement, headed by Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover, organized a tour of the Negev Desert on Dec. 28 for journalists, think-tank professionals and influencers to get a glimpse into the lives of...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Credit: Screenshot.

ZOA calls on Ocasio-Cortez to fire staffer who called Israel ‘racist European ethnostate’

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The Zionist Organization of America has asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to “immediately” dismiss legislative assistant who made anti-Semitic comments targeting Israel on social media. “Hussain Altamimi has made false, hateful, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel accusations on...
Gilad Erdan, then Israeli Minister of Interior Security and now Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at the 17th annual Jerusalem Conference of the “Besheva” group, on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Erdan submits UN resolution opposing Holocaust denial and distortion

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan has submitted a resolution to the U.N. General Assembly to combat Holocaust denial and Holocaust distortion. The resolution defines Holocaust denial; calls on countries and social-media companies...
photo by Dorothea Shefer-Vanson of book cover

Biography of David Sealtiel Tells Struggles of Pre-State Israel

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This small book, subtitled (in German) “I want to be a compatriot of the Jewish people,” describes the life of the man who rebelled against the bourgeois and orthodox way of life of his...
From left: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the White House for the signing of the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty. A photo of the peace treaty's signing was added to the new edition of “The Geography of the Arab World and the History of Modern Egypt,” a ninth-grade Egyptian textbook. Credit: Warren K. Leffler via Wikimedia Commons.

Jordanian former minister: Narrative about ‘Zionist enemy’ has become defunct

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In an article in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Jordanian journalist and former culture and information minister Saleh Al-Qallab wrote that the Arab states’ perception of Israel recently underwent a historic shift. Weary of...
Banners featuring Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani on the road in Beirut leading to the Rafik Hariri International Airport in January 2020. Source: An-Nahar.

Statue erected to honor slain Iranian commander torched hours following unveiling

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Hours after Iran erected a statue to honor the slain Iranian commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Qassem Soleimani, unknown assailants burned it, Iranian media reported on Thursday. The statue was erected...