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Staff Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, was awarded a posthumous medal of bravery in September 2016 for his courage in confronting two terrorists while unarmed.
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Champions of the Flyaway is the largest international competition of its kind, with birdwatching teams coming from all over the world.
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Yael Farbstein won first place in the category of the International Multi-Floral Sourced Honeys of the Black Jar Honey Tasting Contest.
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"They are acting like children, lying about history"
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“On Sukkot, we will go up to Jerusalem; say yes to the Western Wall, no to UNESCO’s decision!” wrote Deri.
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A group of female graphic designers from across Israel have spearheaded a project to commemorate Na’ama Henkin.
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Hundreds of Israelis gathered across the country on Monday to pray for the welfare of their Syrian neighbors the night before the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur.
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When 36-year-old Levi Levine crossed the finish line at today’s BMW Berlin Marathon, his emotions far exceeded his personal pride at having successfully finished the 42-kilometer course.
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Thousands of people gathered together to celebrate 40 years to the establishment of Samaria’s first community – Kedumim, now home to over 900 families
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“Every moment that we have water, I thank God.”
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“We are extraordinarily pleased with this generous donation of dairy in honor of Shavuot," said Shai Davaroff, vice president of logistics at Leket Israel.
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“The Camera Man,” exhibition at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem is on display from May 26 — December 12, 2016.
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Residents of Hebron are marking 49 years to the liberation of the Tomb of Patriarchs.
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Israel’s largest airport was chosen among 10 other international airports as the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards for 2015.
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JERUSALEM (TPS) - It hasn’t been easy for Jerusalem residents this past month, as a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks has continued to terrorize the capital as well as other parts of the country. On Monday morning, October 12, a stabbing attack took place outside the Old City at Lion’s Gate in Jerusalem, where an […]
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Thousands of people came to pay their respects to the murdered couple, Naama, 30, and Eitam Henkin, 31, who were buried on Friday morning, October 2 in Jerusalem.
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(JERUSALEM) - Beekeepers from across Israel delivered their honey products to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin this week in light of a festive event held at the President's Residence in Jerusalem for the upcoming Jewish New Year. A delegation of the Israeli Honey Council, which also included a three-generation family of children, parents, and grandparents in […]
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Not satire: Hamas released a warning to its members to be cautious of further encounters with dolphins.
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“I still wait to return,” Hodaya Giat said, “I still have hope that someday we can return to the beaches, to our homes.”
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On board were 32 families including 95 children and 53 singles, of whom 12 will be joining the Israel Defense Forces.
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The Temple Institute is working together with an Israeli cattleman to raise a red heifer in Israel.
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The Israeli wetlands are among the 2,208 Ramsar wetland sites from across 169 countries around the world.
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“The idea of adapting the unit actually came from our soldiers who recognized the need for it in the field,” explained Captain Dr. Lev.
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The House of Bishops, led by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, overwhelmingly defeated the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions resolution.
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Mirella Petteni Haggiag, a former Italian model from Rome, makes her way through the tombstones with a garbage bag in her hand several times of year when she visits Israel.
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Reminiscent of ISIS, Arabs continue to destroy Jewish graves on the Mount of Olives.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
In honor of Ramadan, food vouchers totaling 1 million NIS will be provided to 2,600 needy families in the Arab community by the IFCJ.
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Around 5,000 Jews continue to live in the ancient community, which according to some sources dates back to the time of King Solomon.
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"We have Arab students, alongside Haredi and religious Jewish students, as well as children of foreign workers, and sabra Israelis, rich and poor"
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Professor Carmi, who is a stem cell scientist, was presented with the medal and scroll personally signed by Queen Elizabeth II at the British Ambassador's Residence.
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New Polish Parliamentary Israel Allies Caucus was launched in Warsaw
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Hundreds of competitors including an Israeli national team made up of both Chinese and Israelis, paddled their way to the finish line.
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Hadera drew the attention of El Paso officials for the city’s desert environment, a large electric power plant, desalination plant and manufacturing complex, and the high-tech incubation programs at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, located 30 miles away.
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Eight years ago, an Israeli rancher from Moshav Zippori in the Lower Galilee region reached a breaking point. Thieves and marauders had been targeting Chaim Zilberman's sprawling ranch; his land was burnt black and cattle fences cut down. On the verge of bankruptcy, the rancher told his family during a Friday Shabbat dinner one night […]
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The educational organization will bring 1,500 French Jews to Israel to learn about the Jewish state and immerse them in their Jewish heritage.
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PM Netanyahu sent a letter of condolences to the Levinger family on the passing of the late leader Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who was known for his life work in establishing the modern Jewish community of Hebron and as one of the founder of the Gush Emunim settlement movement.
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MyECheck has bought Israeli company, Seergate Ltd, which concentrates on electronic payment solutions, for $3 million.
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When they return home, participants will serve as goodwill ambassadors building bridges between the United States and Israel.
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The largest oil and gas conference in the world, known as the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) was held this week and 14 Israeli companies were present.
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“I had just got the role of my life, Shylock,” recalled Elias. “But following all the hostilities, the Zionist underground members came to the rehearsal and took me away.”
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Netanyahu said, repeating the mistakes made with North Korea, this time with Iran, is a great historic blunder.
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On Monday, 2 El Al planes flew out carrying out more than 200 doctors, sanitation engineers, machinery technicians, as well as medical equipment including oxygen tanks, medical ventilators, X-ray machines, medicines and engineering equipment...
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In Jerusalem, the bells from 18 churches in the Old City of Jerusalem rang 100 times on Thursday evening, April 23, to remember the Armenian Genocide.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in the ceremony to sell the State of Israel's chametz to Abu Ghosh resident Hussein Jabar.
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The Knesset opening session was buzzing with new faces, as 39 new Members of Knesset joined their veteran colleagues in the swearing in ceremony.
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Israel’s Government Building Becomes ‘Greenest Parliament’ in the World
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With one week to go before Passover, 110 new Ukrainian immigrants landed in Israel on Tuesday morning, March 24. The majority of newcomers are refugees who fled the fighting zones in the eastern part of the Ukraine including the husband of a woman killed by a direct rock hit that slammed into their house in […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
While the antisemites celebrate "Israel Apartheid Week", a local survey found that 65% of Israeli-Arabs are proud to be Israeli.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The employees of Israel’s Knesset are also completing preparations as they bid farewell to those Knesset Members leaving and welcome new members to Israel’s parliament building.
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Wein's artwork depicting his journey to recovery recently won first place in a unique art competition.
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How the volume made its way from a 17th-century Frankfurt printing press to finding its twin in Haifa is a fascinating story.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The app placed first among 800 other nominees as the contest, which has been described as the Oscars for the mobile world.
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It was probably the first time that the marble relief portrait of Moses hanging in the House Chamber ever received such public acknowledgement.
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The unique desert landscape that covers large parts of Israel allow for its positioning as a leading destination for cyclists, with a comfortable climate year-round and spectacular desert scenery.
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Hamas security forces stopped PA Arab writer, Atef Abu Saif, from attending a book fair in Morocco recently where the noted writer and the fiction award finalist had been nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
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“I have come here to offer comfort in the midst of your terrible grief,” the president told the family. “Adele touched all of our hearts, and indeed became a symbol.”
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“Regretfully our president is the Neville Chamberlain of our day – he doesn’t know how to handle evil,” commented Pittenger, “Netanyahu is Winston Churchill – and the American public deserves to hear his point of view as the prime minister of the country that sits in the heart of it all.”
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“Deliveries in ambulances always place us under even greater stress until we hear the first cry of the baby,” said paramedic Aluma Simon....
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The Pacific Island nation known as the Marshall Islands will soon have its first water purification vehicle – thanks to the Israel.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“It’s a hard time to be a Danish Jew whether you’re in Denmark or living outside the country,” said Shimon following the deadly attacks in Copenhagen...
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s sharing of its know-how in research, manufacturing, marketing and application of energy efficiency and renewable energy products, was very much appreciated by the experts who took part in the workshop and study tour.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Until now we had been unable to tell the complete story of the Babylon Exile and to understand what actually happened to all the Jewish refugees once they were forced out of Judah.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
In honor of Tu B'Shevat, youth volunteering with Leket Israel, are picking excess fruit remaining on trees in people's private gardens to give to the poor.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
President Rivlin has a longstanding family connection to Hebron. His mother’s family, descendants of Chabad Hassidim, lived in Hebron.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Fifteen Auschwitz survivors, aged 80-94, returned this morning, Monday January 26, to the infamous death camp, Auschwitz, some for the first time.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
During this year’s Operation Smile campaign in Vietnam, two Israeli doctors joined 300 delegation members from 18 countries.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Israel firm, AORA, will be the first to provide solar-biogas hybrid power solutions for rural communities in Ethiopia.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
"It was a very difficult scene inside the supermarket. It was as if time stood still, with shopping carts full of food in preparation for Shabbat in the cashier aisles and deliveries waiting to be sent to customers..."
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
In Jerusalem, on a cold rainy night, nearly 100 people gathered together at the French consulate to pay homage to the victims of the deadly terror attack.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“There is a lot of symbolism in the fact that this concert takes place in Paris, in this period of rising anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism in France and Western Europe."
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Israeli president and the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III both spoke at the annual event.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
During the past five years, education accessibility for Bedouins has undergone a major transformation, with high schools being built in the tribal districts themselves. Today around 90% of high school-age Bedouins are now being educated.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Doctors at Sheba Medical Center are currently fighting for Ayala Shapira’s life, who suffered burns to 50% of her body.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
When Mark Halawa lights his family’s menorah during Chanukah, it is not without recalling his unique journey as a Kuwaiti Muslim to Orthodox Judaism.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The oldest continuously running social welfare organization in Israel, Colel Chabad, is hosting its annual retreat for 260 orphans and widows this Channukah.
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I wanted to proclaim that Israel is not occupying any land and has Biblical and strategic rights to Judea and Samaria and a unified Jerusalem.”
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An initiative of the Israeli embassy in Senegal recently led to the inauguration of a drip-irrigated vegetable farm in the city of Fatick earlier in December.
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President Rivlin commented that Angola has a central role in Africa. “We are impressed by your progress in the area of water and agriculture, and successful use of natural resources,” Rivlin told the Angolan ambassador.
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Hungarian-Israeli Scientific Society Established at Bar-Ilan University
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As part of a joint Yad Vashem project, Israeli border police stationed in Jerusalem ‘adopt’ Holocaust survivors living in neighborhoods across the capital.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Over 200 hair salons across Israel took part in the annual nationwide drive to collect hair for the Zichron Menachem Cancer Support in Israel in partnership with Pantene Products Israel.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University of the Negev have discovered an earlier way to diagnose brain damage.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
But even with the cloud of sadness that descended on Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood, as the community mourned the gruesome murders and the bloodied synagogue, there was a spark of happiness felt – in the synagogue itself.
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Thousands attend slain rabbis’ funerals; international community condemns terror attack
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Police documents reveal that Hezbollah has been providing the Brazilian gang with weapons while also acting as intermediaries in the sale of explosives that the PCC stole from Paraguay.
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“We promised to take care of the residents of southern Israel and we are keeping that promise,” emphasized Minister of the Economy, Naftali Bennett.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
War of Words Between Bibi and Obama Drives Out Turnout of US Citizens in Israel
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Second Israeli Fatality of Wednesday's Palestinian Terror Attack Dies of Wounds
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“We in Fatah are not ashamed to take responsibility for the heroic act he carried out today…”
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The connection runs so deep, that the Arab villagers have alerted Efrat authorities against terror cells.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
China has acquired $7 billion in Israeli assets in the past three years.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Well-known Temple Mount activist, Yehuda Glick, was seriously wounded in a shooting in Jerusalem late Wednesday night and is being treated for serious wounds in Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital.
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“For these international artists, the history and heroism at Masada together with performing at the lowest point on earth - 424 meters under the sea - is something that is truly unique,” Yossef explained.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israelis of all ages watched in fascination as the Hawaiian-born Japanese-Samoan former sumo star, Konishiki Yasokichi shared his moves during a special workshop for children in Jerusalem.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
An Israeli and an Arab poll results after the war.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
In a sukkah on a hilltop outside Jerusalem, 20 international parliamentarians gathered together at the Psagot winery on Sunday evening, October 12 as part of a solidarity trip to Israel with the Israel Allies Caucuses.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
3000 years ago, King David probably never imagined cars racing at 240 kilometers per hour through the ancient capital of the Jewish people.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Reuven Rivlin made a festive visit to the northern Israeli town of Kfar Yasif near Acre, in honor of the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice, Eid al-Adha, which coincided with Yom Kippur this year.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“The meaning of Yom Kippur takes on an added significance when we think of all the rockets that were fired and the people who were saved by miracles this summer.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli police revealed on September 30 that they are now investigating the possibility that a fellow Arab worker may have cut the cable that held Arami as he was doing exterior work on a building.
