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Terrorism / IDF & Security / US / Government / Iran

PM Bennett Meets Biden's NSA Sullivan on Plans for Iran

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

"It’s important that we sit together and develop a common strategy, a common outlook."

Politics / Hamas / Elections / Palestinian Authority

Survey: PA Arabs Prefer Fatah over Hamas in Local Elections but Demand Chairman Abbas' Resignation

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The poll shows a decrease in the percentage of those who believe that armed struggle is the most effective means of ending the Israeli occupation.

Terrorism / Politics / Police and Crime / Left vs. Right / Israeli Arabs

Rehovot Resident Files Complaint Against Arab MK Who Punched him in Hospital

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The MKs and other supporters of the terrorist confronted the hospital security guards as well as patients' families who complained about the commotion.

Media

Ex-AP Reporter Reveals: Int’l Media Coverage of Israel is a “Bluff”

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The Western media in general, “refuses to report that religious conflict is at the heart of what is going in and around Israel.”

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs / Health and Medicine

Hatzalah's New Psycho-Trauma Unit Aiding Shock Victims

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Shock and trauma prevention and treatment now being administered for victims of terror at scenes of attacks.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Special Needs Student Joins the IDF

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Yinon Refaeli received the opportunity to fulfill his childhood dream.

Politics / Israeli Arabs

Ha'aretz on War Path Against Pro-Israel Arab Host Lucy Aharish

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Pundit Gidon Levi ran piece titled "Lucy Aharish - Good Arab," as in Lucy Aharish - Uncle Tom

IDF & Security / Intifada

Violence, Tunnel Attacks Anticipated as Hamas Urges Gazans to Storm Israel's Border Friday

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Residents in Gaza vicinity communities have complained in recent days that they hear sounds of tunnel digging.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / News Briefs

Israel Shoots Down Syrian Sukhoi-24 Fighter Jet In Israeli Airspace

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The IDF shot down a Syrian fighter jet that infiltrated Israeli air space, using a Patriot missile.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / The Temple Mount

Rabbi Yehuda Glick Arrested for Temple Mount Contraband

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Whether on or off the Temple Mount, the police just seem to love to arrest Rabbi Yehuda Glick.

US / Government / News Briefs

Israel, U.S. Reach Agreement on IRS Regs for Dual Citizens

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The Israel Tax Authority has reached agreement with the U.S. to coordinate info between the IRS and Israeli banks.

Interviews and Profiles / Politics

Brooklyn-Born Candidate Running for Efrat City Council Seat

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Avraham Ben-Tzvi believes the Eitam hill, Efrat’s only remaining land reserve, must be developed urgently, or the town will lose it for good.

News Briefs / Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan

IDF Spokesperson: Air Attacks Continue, As Do Rocket Launches

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Late last night The Jewish Press attended a phone briefing with IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich. This is a transcript of the conference, with some of the figures updated.

News Briefs / Sports / Olympics 2012

Video of Jewish Gymnast’s Parents' Anxiety Goes Viral

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

A clip from NBC showing Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman’s parents’ reaction to her uneven bar routine has garnered close to 100,000 hits on You Tube.

US / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

State Dept. Objects to Levy Committee's Legalizing Outposts

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The State Dept. press director Patrick Ventrell said, "We’ve seen the reports ... but we do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity."

Jewish / Global / News Briefs

Police Arrest Leader of Mumbai Terror Attack

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Following more than three years of investigation, Indian security forces have arrested Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari aka Abu Hamza, alleged member of Lashker-e-Taiba (Army of the Righteous) and the Hindi instructor of 10 terrorists who executed the murderous attack in Mumbai in 2008.

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Wins Egyptian Presidential Elections

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

If official results stand, Mursi will have won Egypt's first post-uprising elections with 51.89 per cent of the vote, succeeding toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak. The ruling military council will "hand over power" on 30 June.

US / News Briefs

Claims Conference Employee Admits to Stealing $550K from Survivors, $57 Mil. Missing

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Zlata Blavatnik, 65, was part of a ring of 31 individuals, including Claims Conference former employees, who, over 10 years, allegedly stole $57 million in German reparation funds intended for Nazi Holocaust victims. Blavatnik is cooperating with the FBI investigation.

Politics / News Briefs

Bill to Save Ulpanah Hill Defeated

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The Knesset on Wednesday rejected the proposed bill to save the Ulpanah Hill neighborhood, which was ordered by the High Court to be demolished at the end of this month. In a preliminary reading, the Knesset voted the bill down by 69 to 22.

Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Reform and Conservative Leaders Deemed Rabbis, to Receive Israeli State Funds

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The Israeli government announced on Tuesday that, for the first time, it will pay the salaries of a small number of Reform and Conservative rabbis who are considered leaders in their communities, and will also recognize them as rabbis.

Israel / News Briefs

Indictment Filed Against Arrested Ramat Migron Residents

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

On Monday an indictment was filed against two youths from the Ramat Migron outpost charged with assaulting a policeman. The two were arrested just before Shabbat last week, after, according to police, they refused to leave the outpost despite a closed military zone order effective on the site. According to police they violently resisted their removal from the site.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Intelligence Chief: Instability Changes Our Military Options

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The regional instability has changed Israel's security outlook in a number of ways, said Chief Intelligence Officer Brigadier General Ariel Karo, most notably in recent months in the Sinai Peninsula. Moreover, he said, the nature of the IDF's enemies is not always entirely clear, with the lines between military and terrorist groups blurred.

Israel / Jewish / Global / News Briefs

Thousands of French Jews Consider Aliyah

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Some 5,000 French Jews participated in an aliyah fair in Paris. The fair, organized and run by the Jewish Agency, took place on the Sunday of Francois Hollande's election as their new president, beating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy—the Jewish community's favorite. A recent poll found that 26 percent of those surveyed said they have considered emigrating due to French anti-Semitism.

Politics / The Knesset

Netanyahu Wins, Knesset Dissolved

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government on Monday submitted a bill to dissolve the 18th Knesset and call for early elections, which was passed by the House Committee vote of 13 to 4. The move was designed to undermine Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's attempt to promote his bill calling for drafting Haredi citizens.

Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Arab Youth Harasses Jewish Girl; Police Arrest Girl's Father

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

After a teenage boy on Monday afternoon had been harassing a Jewish girl in a playground at Jerusalem's French Hill neighborhood, the girl escaped from the playground and called her father, who called the police. But the arriving cops ended up arresting the girl's father on suspicion of attacking the Arab boy.

Photo of the Day

Mourning

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his son Yair, at the funeral of the Prime Minister's father, Benzion Netanyahu, in Jerusalem on April 30, 2012. Benzion Netanyahu died at the age of 102, early Monday morning, in his home in Jerusalem.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Witnesses in Uniform Travel to Poland to Reclaim Jewish History

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

A delegation of some 60 IDF commanders arrived in Poland on Monday, April 16, as part of the Witnesses in Uniform program. Guided by educators from the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial Museum, the officers started a four day study of pre-war Poland, the Holocaust, and contemporary Jewish Polish life.

News Briefs

Likud Bigwigs Seek Anglos' Endorsements

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Some twenty influential, English speaking Likud central committee members met on Wednesday with a group of Likud representatives looking for central committee positions. Deputy Minister Ayoob Kara, Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee Chairman Danny Danon, Women's Right's Committee Chairwoman Tzipi Hotoveli, former Finance Committee Chairman Ofir Akunis and Minister Michael Eitan, all gave their […]

Global / News Briefs

Toulouse Day 2: Maybe the French Need Some Israeli Commando Help?

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Three explosions were heard around midnight from the apartment building in Toulouse where the Muslim gunman suspected of murdering Jewish children and their father has been holed up. reporters described seeing Police moving the gunman Mohammed Merah under a blanket to a waiting car and driving away. But then French Interior denied the news.

Jewish / Global / News Briefs

Toulouse Victims Arrive in Israel for Burial

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The bodies of the four victims of Monday’s shooting attack at the Otzar Hatorah school in Toulouse arrived at Ben Gurion Airport accompanied by ZAKA volunteers. The bodies were flown out on the midnight El Al flight from Paris to Tel Aviv.

Global / News Briefs

Toulouse Police Preparing to Raid Al-Qaeda Man Who Murdered Jewish Children

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

France's interior minister Claude Gueant told reporters at the scene that the suspect has links to Jihadist and Salafist groups. Two French police officers have been hurt during a shoot-out with the suspect. The elite officers were injured during a Wednesday pre-dawn raid in Toulouse.

NY / Global

Students Ask, ‘Where Was The NY Times During The Holocaust?’

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Last April, NYU student Emily Harrold embarked on the production of a film exploring why The New York Times under-reported the Holocaust during the 1940s. Now, a little less than a year later, the project has expanded to more than twenty students.

Jewish / Global

India to Expel Lubavitchers for Espionage – or Maybe Just a Farbrengen

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Two Israeli Lubavitchers are about to be deported from southern India for what intelligence forces describe as suspicious behavior, but may only be harmless spiritual get-togethers into the night.

Israel / Jewish

Israeli Rabbinate Warns against Tu B’Shvat Figs

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The Kashrut Dept. of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate published a warning on the eve of Tu B’Shvat, cautioning against eating some of the holiday’s traditional fruits. Figs are at the top of the list, because of concern regarding insects and worms which "hide inside the fruit’s flesh and are difficult to detect."

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