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Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor David (“Dugo”) Leitner in Moshav Nir Galim in Israel on July 27, 2023. Photo by Liron Moldovan/Flash90.

Funeral takes place for Holocaust survivor David ‘Dugo’ Leitner, 94

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David “Dugo” Leitner was born in Hungary in 1930 to his parents, Meir and Golda Leah, and raised in an Orthodox home. In March 1944, invading Nazi Germans corralled his family to the ghetto;...
This 2,000-year-old coin was discovered in Jerusalem's City of David National Park. Credit: The Israel Antiquities Authority.

Evidence of Second Temple’s destruction unearthed in Jerusalem

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Tangible evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple and the devastating events that unfolded in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago has come to light with the discovery of a rare coin in Jerusalem’s City...
Children at the Pardes Jewish Day School in Scottsdale, Ariz., play on covered equipment, July 2023 Credit: Courtesy

Arizona schools adjust to sweltering heat as kids start new academic year

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On the same day that public school students in parts of Arizona headed back to the classroom, the city of Phoenix set a record for the number of consecutive days over 110 degrees. In a...
U.S.-Israel Medicine & Science,Ocean,Earth,Astrophysics,Papua New Guinea

Israeli-American astrophysicist believes he may have found alien life

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Israeli-American astrophysicist believes he may have found alien life The purported discovery took place more than a mile underwater near Papua New Guinea. Those in search of aliens from other planets would typically look to the...
U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley speaks to VOA Persian at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2021. Credit: VOA Persian via Wikimedia Commons.

US State Department to brief lawmakers on suspension of Iran envoy Malley

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Details remain sketchy, but Robert Malley confirmed at the beginning of the month that the U.S. State Department had suspended him from his role as special envoy for Iran. Malley, who as an undergraduate penned a 1980 Yale...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses a conference in Israel organized by “The Jerusalem Post” and the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, April 27, 2023. Credit: TPS.

DeSantis campaign fires staffer for video featuring Nazi symbol

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The campaign of Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis fired Nate Hochman, a former writer for National Review, after the speechwriter retweeted a video he had created featuring the Florida governor dissolving into a rotating Sonnenrad. The...
The UAE and Israeli flags. Credit: Leonid Altman/Shutterstock.

Netanyahu offers condolences to UAE president on death of his brother

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday offered his condolences to UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on the death of his younger brother. The death earlier in the day of Sheikh Saeed bin Zayed...
A OneFamily widows' retreat in 2019. Credit: onefamilytogether.org.

Women who lost loved ones to terror gather in Jerusalem

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As the July heat beat down on a tent city erected by opponents of judicial reform in Jerusalem's Sacher Park, not far from the Knesset and Israel’s Supreme Court, hundreds of women were gathering...
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Jan. 25, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel, Ivory Coast sign framework agreement

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Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his counterpart from the Ivory Coast, Kandia Camara, signed a framework agreement on Thursday in the fields of agriculture, water and technology. Cohen led a business delegation in the...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, July 27, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Ben-Gvir ascends Temple Mount for Tisha B’Av

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Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Thursday in observance of Tisha B’Av. The annual fast day commemorates tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, with a focus on the...