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IDF intelligence: Assad used lethal sarin gas against Syrian rebels
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used lethal chemical weapons, mostly sarin gas, against armed rebels several times in the past few weeks, and is continuing to do so, the head of...
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
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American-born MK on U.S. speaking tour
Dov Lipman is coming to the United States this week for the first time without a U.S. passport. As a precondition for joining the Israeli government as a Member of Knesset, Lipman, 41, had to make ...
Apr 19, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 61 61 recommendations | email to a friend
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Israel attacked by Gaza rockets during Obama visit
(JNS.org ) Four Gaza rockets were fired at Israel on Thursday, with two of them landing in the often rocket-battered city of Sderot, during the second day of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit t...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Next Israeli government formed after 39 days of negotiation
(JNS.org ) At the culmination of a long, complex and nerve-wracking negotiation — lasting a whopping 39 days — the coalition agreements that will finalize the(next Israeli government have come to...
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Norway questions funding of PA after Palestinian Media Watch findings
Recent findings by Palestinian Media Watch on the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) glorification of terrorism against Israel were featured in a news report by a television station in Norway, one of th...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Israel and Turkey seek to reconcile ahead of Obama’s visit
Israeli and Turkish officials have been engaging in dialogue over the past few weeks, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported. The head of Israel’s National Security Council recently met with a high-ranki...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Israel to award Obama with medal of distinction
Israeli President Shimon Peres has announced that he will award U.S. President Barack Obama the Presidential Medal of Distinction during his upcoming visit, the Associated Press reported. Pe...
Feb 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Benedict will be the first pope in over six centuries to voluntarily resign
Citing advancing age and diminished energy, Pope Benedict XVI will reportedly become the first pope in 600 years to voluntarily resign from the post. The 85-year-old pontiff announced that he ...
Feb 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gorenberg: Israel’s election a step in right direction, but not far enough
(This is a revised version of the story that appeared in this week's Chronicle, and contains the names of the sponsors of the program) You might think, given the title of Gershom Gorenberg’s upc...
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama will visit Israel for first time as president
White House officials said Tuesday that President Barack Obama, whose relationship with Israel routinely garners attention due to his reported tension with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, plans ...
Feb 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bibi’s party wins Knesset vote with surprisingly slim margin
(Editor’s note: This is a revised version of the story posted last night and contains additions throughout.) Israeli voters showed again Tuesday just how unpredictable they could be. Political...
Jan 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jack Lew, Obama’s pick for Treasury secretary, is the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in U.S. government history
Jack Lew, President Obama’s current chief of staff and his pick for Treasury secretary, is the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in the history of the U.S. government. It’s a distinction that imposes so...
Jan 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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First snow for new Ethiopian immigrants in Israel
Hundreds of Ethiopian olim (immigrants), who are living in the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) absorption centers in Safed, experienced snow this week for the first time. The children pictured hea...
Jan 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stormy weather brings Tel Aviv to standstill
Jan 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
Torrential rain and strong winds have brought much of Tel Aviv, Israel's business hub, to a standstill, as the stormy weather of late in Israel continues. Roads and highways have been affected and ...
Shut out for years, Bnei Menashe Jews moved to Israel
by Eetta Prince-Gibson, Tablet
Jan 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
On Monday, Dec. 24, afternoon, Geula Tautang, 19, paced frenetically through the arrivals area at Ben Gurion Airport, but her eyes never lost focus on the automatic sliding doors. Her mother would ...
Yosef Tolidano has opened the first kollel for deaf men in the Jewish world
by Deborah Fineblum Raub/JNS.org
Jan 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM—If you are a religious deaf man in Israel, the traditional doors to Jewish learning have been in so many ways closed to you. But Yosef Tolidano—a young deaf man descended from a long...
Jihadist-turned-Zionist, like book that changed his mind, makes case for Israel
by Maxine Dovere/JNS.org
Dec 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK—In 2000, as a young teenager on a trip to Pakistan to visit family, Muslim ex-radical Kasim Hafeez saw violence praised and “learned” that America, the Jews, and Israel were behind all war...
The defense minister said he would remain in his post until the next government is established.
by JNS.org
Nov 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
At a dramatic press conference on Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced his resignation from politics after nearly 50 years in service of the country. “I have decided to resign from...
Goals against Hamas reached
Nov 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the goals of Operation Pillar of Defense have been achieved. At a news conference he stated, "All our objectives were reached...
Dozens wounded in Tel Aviv bus bombing
by Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org
Nov 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
An explosive device was detonated inside a bus on Tel Aviv’s Shaul Hamelech Street at noon Wednesday in what Israeli police said was a terror attack. Magen David Adom medical services said 20 peopl...
Amid conflict, Israel’s hospitals treat Gazan patients
by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich/JNS.org
Nov 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Israeli hospitals, amid the ongoing conflict, are treating dozens of patients of all ages who came to Israel from Gaza to get health care unavailable there, and are making provisions f...
Israelis share their stories on Gaza rockets
by Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org
Nov 19, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
The day that longtime Sderot resident Adi Kaslasy, 25, was driving home in her car as rockets started falling around her, a cease-fire was supposed to be in effect. It was one of those frequent cea...
Kiryat Malachi, Israel rocket damage, November 15
by The Israel Project
Nov 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
On the front page of the world's newspapers, you've only seen images from one side of Operation Pillar of Defense. Here's what it looks like in Israel, after 1 of more than 900 rocket and mortar a...