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“There is a great opening here for trade, the economy and tourism that, in effect, makes for a truly new and different Middle East,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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“How can Saudi Arabia educate Saudi youth of the mutual benefits of promoting relations with Israel if Israel is not even shown on the Saudi maps?” asked ZOA national president Mort Klein.
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Israel can help the UAE expose its tech startups to partners and investors in the West, while the UAE can be Israel’s gateway to Asia and the East.
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Nobel laureate Lord David Trimble calls for the two leaders to be granted the award for their “far-reaching achievements, courageous leadership and relentless pursuit of peace.”
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Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr tells “The New York Times” that the Palestinian Authority is changing its “pay for slay” policy, after conveying the opposite message in Arabic.
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“We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons.”
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The man who served as a Nazi concentration-camp guard has lost his appeal to halt his deportation.
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The information Iran has provided “doesn’t add up” from a technical standpoint, says U.N. nuclear watchdog Director-General Rafael Grossi.
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“There is no place in Israeli society for such comparisons that desecrate the memory of the Holocaust,” says Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
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The sanctions were announced on the one-year anniversary of street protests by Iranians.
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Iran has begun feeding uranium hexafluoride into the cascade of 174 IR-2m centrifuges recently installed at Natanz, says nuclear watchdog agency.
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The Defense Department, State Department employees, the United Nations and humanitarian groups are reportedly against such a move.
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Such a link would be “shorter, faster, cheaper and safer” than currently used trade routes, says the Bank of Israel.
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The expected withdrawals come in the aftermath of shakeups at the Pentagon in which U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper was fired and replaced with Christopher Miller.
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“I have switched a lot of, uh, you know, I guess, culturally Jewish people. But being a practicing Jew, like, people who are religious about it, they are very difficult. I’ve had a hard time connecting with them in that way.”
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Out of 1,650 religious-motivated hate crimes, 60.3 percent, or almost 995, were anti-Jewish.
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The possibility of doing so caused some pushback from some State Department officials, lawmakers and the Anti-Defamation League.
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Israel would give Pfizer a $35 million advance as early as next week and an additional almost $202 million in January, when the possible vaccine would begin arriving.
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Republican New York State Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis got 57.9 percent of the vote; Rose, a Democrat, received 42.1 percent.
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As a child, Gross was part of the small Jewish community in Alaska and celebrated his bar mitzvah there.
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The move underground, which can protect the plant from aerial attacks
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It will be part of a 10-day visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Europe and the Mideast, starting with France, Turkey and Georgia.
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Tehran has also been enriching uranium up to a 4.5 percent purity, higher than the 3.67 percent allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal.
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The Israeli delegation is being led by Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan • Abbas adviser Nabil Shaath says the visit is “painful to witness.”
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The Trump administration cut all U.S. funding to UNRWA in September 2018 due to criticism that the agency enables the Palestinian refugee issue and teaches anti-Israel material in its student textbooks.
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The Israeli prime minister attends the inauguration of an “innovative” coronavirus testing lab at Ben-Gurion International Airport.
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The Trump administration imposed sanctions on 19 entities and individuals on Monday that it accused of providing support to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.
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“We are here today to normalize the normalization in reality,” says Hussein Suleiman, the leader of a delegation of Arab businessmen aboard the flight.
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The platform said a network used fake accounts to develop fictitious personas who purported to be based in Israel and Iraq.
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The move comes a week after the Trump administration reports that it intends to sell 50 F-35 fighter jets to the UAE.
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Kamala Harris said the Biden-Harris administration would oppose annexation and settlement expansion, and reverse Trump's steps against the Palestinian Authority.
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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz could not rule out anti-Semitism as a possible motive.
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Several Jewish congressional members are expected to retain prominent leadership roles in the 117th Congress
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UAE and Israeli citizens can visit each other’s countries visa-free, owing to the recently signed Abraham Accords.
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UAE official Dehrar Belhoul Al Falasi: “The UAE is committed to the cause, to the Palestinian people. ... If we want to pay, we pay the people.”
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Palestine Action is seeking to raise 10,000 pounds to “support direct action against Israeli apartheid.”
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Israelis overwhelmingly view the Trump administration as a historic period that has fundamentally transformed the country’s international standing and security.
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The Trump administration has “isolated Iran ... recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital ... Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights [and] extended ... cooperation to Judea and Samaria,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The measure was approved Thursday via conference call and will take effect upon approval by the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.
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According to researchers, the tiny gem seal, the third ever found in Jerusalem from the Second Temple period, was likely the property of a Jew.
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IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi says he doesn’t think Tehran has a “significant quantity” of uranium “to indicate amounts which could be theoretically used for the development of a nuclear weapon.”
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The flights included those hailing from 14 states and three Canadian provinces, ranging from young students to retirees.
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“Someone that I’ve never met, never seen, hates me for a reason I can’t control, because of who I was born to be,” said Seth Blattman.
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“The few remaining buyers of Iranian crude oil should know that they are helping to fund Iran’s malign activity across the Middle East,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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Negotiations are expected to be completed in the next few days • “This is the type of purchase that could be the start of something amazing,” said Koen Group owner Naum Koen.
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“We are not afraid of being returned. We hope the agreement with Israel points to the current situation in Sudan,” says Sudanese asylum seeker.
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The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice program is seeking “information on the activities, networks and associates of Hezbollah that form a part of its financial support.”
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The Joint Arab List was alone in voting against the normalization deal with the United Arab Emirates in the Knesset, upsetting many Israeli Arabs that welcomed a move that is likely to become a key economic, education and tourism opportunity for the community.
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“I am glad that so many Senate Democrats have now echoed that sentiment,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
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After the “Oruç Reis” survey vessel returned to the eastern Mediterranean, countries criticized the move.
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The EAPC-MED-RED plan, which will include other countries as well, is to avoid crossing the Suez Canal and save time for Asia buyers.
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Trump is preferred by 74 percent of Orthodox, 23 percent of Conservative, 20 percent of Reform, 3 percent of Reconstructionist and 14 percent of secular Jews.
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Jewish leaders and groups, specifically the ultra-Orthodox community, have sharply criticized the two leaders for their enforcement of coronavirus restrictions amid a spike in cases.
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“This represents the toughest sanctions on Hezbollah ever proposed by Congress,” said Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.).
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The number of settlement homes approved in 2020 is more than 12,150.
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The statement did not specify the type of cancer or how severe it is.
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Still, Rabbi Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association said “the battle isn’t over. It has merely been postponed. If you kick a can down a road, you will eventually run out of road.”
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During the meeting, representatives held “productive talks and reaffirmed their commitment to continue negotiations later this month,” Washington and the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon said in a joint statement.
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The UAE and Bahrain will have to “answer to Allah” for signing accords with the Jewish state, says cleric Muhammad Ahmad Hussein.
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Responded the Simon Wiesenthal Center: “At a time when the Internet is awash with fake news and technological tools that enable governments and virtually anyone to manipulate information, we welcome Facebook’s change of policy to stand with historic fact and the 6 million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany during World War II.”
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Haifa Port Chairman of the Board Eshel Armoni: “This is very exciting. This is a new era in the Middle East."
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The UAE and other Arab Gulf states have boycotted Qatar since 2017 and have demanded that it close the base.
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“Expiration Date: 2030. Thanks and love to all those who helped,” in a Facebook post featuring a picture of his new visa.
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Israel and its supporters have expressed objections to possible sales, saying that could undermine Israel’s regional Qualitative Military Edge.
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New premier Yoshihide Suga has an opportunity to build on Shinzo Abe’s legacy, as well as make a few needed changes to the Asian nation’s Middle East policy.
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A state administrative judge ruled in August that William Latson should be rehired, though reassigned. Donald Fennoy, superintendent of the School District of Palm Beach County, has recommended that Latson be reinstated and given $152,000 in back pay.
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Coronavirus antibodies were found in 5.5 percent of the population—far short of the figure required for “herd immunity,” according to the ministry.
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“This judgment is the first step in the pursuit of justice for Robert Levinson, an American patriot, who was kidnapped and subjected to unimaginable suffering for more than 13 years,” said his family.
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Castro also wants to condition U.S. military assistance to Israel on the Jewish state not applying sovereignty to the Judea and Samaria.
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Osman Butt, 25, was charged with burglary and criminal mischief for allegedly breaking windows of the Shore Parkway Jewish Center.
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Harvey J. Alter, along with Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice, received the prestigious prize for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
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Upgraded Boeing 767 includes defense systems against cyber and missile attacks, and a conference room equipped with encrypted satellite communications mechanisms.
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Israeli Defense Ministry and Israel Aerospace Industries hand the “keys” to the spacecraft to the military's Intelligence Directorate.
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Omar Barghouthi threatens boycotts against “every company and every establishment that gets involved in implementing the agreements of shame and betrayal of the Palestinian cause.”
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The Gulf nation will work to ensure that its agreement with Israel “opens new intellectual horizons in the region,” says UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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Doha, with Ankara's support, has proposed to P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas that he form a joint list in the Palestinian Legislative Council with the Gaza-based terror group, and then a national-unity coalition.
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Halie Soifer of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, sought to dispel the notion that they were objecting to the substance, saying “the measure was manipulated using anti-Semitism for political purposes.”
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Dia Saba is to sign a three-year contract for $3 million per season after previously playing for the Chinese Super League club Guangzhou R&F.
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Shulem Lemmer will be interviewing U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir to gain more information to pass on to areas in New York that are seeing a rise in cases.
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“The enforcement process results in more communal division than unity, and significant time and resources,” said William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents, in a statement.
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Is there anything more Israel can do to focus efforts on the most vulnerable populations, rather than on the entire country?
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The Lawfare Project warned that by permitting a documented terrorist to use its platform to communicate directly to U.S. college students, Zoom could possibly violate federal law.
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The president reiterated that the recent normalization and economic deals represent “the dawn of the new Middle East.”
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“Having Chinese tanks, or Chinese air-defense systems or defensive missile systems in Iran in the first instance threatens the people of Iran, in the second instance, threatens the people of the Middle East, and the next people who come under threat are the people who live in Europe,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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“At a time like this, the State of Israel must lend a hand to its people and help those who need it,” says President Reuven Rivlin, clarifying that fines violations of COVID-19 regulations will not be reduced.
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The deal reportedly must honor an agreement with Israel that guarantees a “qualitative military edge” over any Middle Eastern states that purchase U.S. weapons.
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On Oct. 12, El Al plans to resume flights along its main routes to New York, London and Paris.
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The verdict did not mention Hezbollah, but the prosecutor’s office showed evidence the two defendants, who were tried in absentia, “had links to the radical wing of the Shi’ite group.”
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The move comes as the U.N. arms embargo on the regime is set to be extended indefinitely.
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The restaurant will be operated under the rabbinical supervision of Rabbi Levi Y. Duchman, rabbi of the UAE, who has certified the venue with glatt-kosher and pas Yisroel.
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It was found in a manuscript written just after the Expulsion, which was likely used by Catalonian exiles living in Provence.
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“With recent developments, we expect that demand for kosher food in the UAE and region will grow quickly,” says Emirates Flight Catering CEO Saeed Mohammed.
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Poland is the only European Union member-state that has not adopted a national comprehensive private-property restitution law.
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Koral Zaarur said the measure was in response to posters of Adolf Hitler and swastikas on campus, though it “turned into so much more.”
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“You can’t allow Iran to have more money, power and arms, and at the same time try to disconnect Hezbollah from the disasters it provoked in Lebanon,” says the U.S. secretary of state.
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The president said that he would be willing to sell the same arms to other Middle Eastern countries as well.
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The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned six companies based in Iran, the United Arab Emirates and China for allegedly supporting Triliance’s continued involvement in the sale of Iranian petrochemical products.
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Thousands of young adults from around the world have arrived in or are preparing to travel to Israel for a gap year, internship, study abroad, volunteer or professional training program.
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls the move “a positive first step,” but says sanctions are on the table if Ankara refuses to “return to the path of logic.”
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