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According to Diardio de Chiapas, Helbrans' group of about 40 ultra-Orthodox Jewish families entered Chiapas three weeks ago legally from Guatemala, after having been expelled.
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'Most of the Jews in the United States, even those who come to Temple once in fifty years, or those that don’t come at all, are not Reform, and the Reform movement does not represent them.'
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Apparently, the folks in Gaza can go without their refrigerators, as long as somebody does something about those pesky settlements.
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'I could not support the resolution two years ago. It was too simplistic,' Mennonite World Conference president Nelson Kraybill said, speaking in support of the motion during comments at the microphones.
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Only 43% of the residents of the Gaza Strip feel personally safe and secure, compared with 53% in the Palestinian Authority. Believe it or not, though, these grim figures mark an improvement: three months ago, 38% of Gazans felt secure and in the PA only 50% did.
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'In the face of Palestinian criminals, the State of Israel has no teeth.'
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'What can the Diaspora give us?' Rabbi Riskin asked, and answered: 'First and foremost, the idea of pluralism, that these, and these, too, are the words of the living God.'
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In 2016 the PA paid 26,800 killed terrorists' families a total $183 million, and 6,500 terrorist prisoners $135 million.
Another Labor party chairman is rejected after just one term.
Seven candidates are looking to rule the party that currently barely warm up the back benches of the Knesset.
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Last February, facing a serious challenge to his nomination from members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who are allergic to comparisons to things Holocaust, coming from the right or the left, Friedman bowed down and kissed the PC ring.
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75 Jewish, Christian, and Muslim youth from around the world gathered at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Sunday for a unique summit, answering Pope Francis' call to create a culture of encounter for peace.
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Although only one of the gang shot the two policemen – all three have been charged with murder.
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Netanyahu, who left the Sharon government half an hour before the troops descended on the 8,600 Jewish residents of Gush Katif, back in 2005, has since managed to wiggle his way out of confrontational situations by making promises to evicted settlers – promises he very rarely kept, usually after concentrated public shaming.
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In his ruling, Judge Itay Bresler-Gonen wrote that Ghattas "took advantage of his status as a member of the Knesset and the trust given him by the democratic system and the IPS.'
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The Prosecutor's Office wanted to postpone the parole board hearing indefinitely but only received a one-week postponement. A request for an extension was rejected by parole board chair, retired judge Rachel Goldberg.
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Alas, this dispute is not over a connection to God but over political turf, both regarding the Kotel and the conversions.
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Public figures in Japan, a German ally in World War II, occasionally cause controversy when they express favorable comments about economic or other aspects of the Nazi regime.
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Both of Netanyahu's decisions caused a storm and created a rift with Diaspora Jews, most emphatically in the US.
This tweet by Eugene Kontorovich sums up the Kotel conflict in 140 letters or less.
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'Regarding India and Egypt, I think we will start talks this year, probably closer to the year-end. Negotiations with Israel have already started.'
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Speaker Edelstein was invited to give the speech exactly 30 years after he had completed a three-year sentence in a Soviet labor camp for his Zionist activities.
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As a matter of course, Vizhnitz devotes little or no time to learning about sexual orientation, other than those well known verses in Leviticus that frown on guys behaving like girls.
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Senior Jewish Agency officials are saying Sharansky is livid over the government's decision to cancel the Kotel plan.
Israel's Cabinet Secretary call on those exploiting the government's Western Wall decision to be precise with the facts.
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Bedek and Tianjin expect the new partnership will be up and running quickly so that the first Converted B737-700 Aircraft is certified and delivered to their launching customer.
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The Al-Mayaden website reported that "the Israeli attack resulted in two martyrs and three wounded troops of the Golan regiments," and on Sunday Israeli shells also landed on the Syrian side of the Golan.
Liberman believes that the quality of life of Arabs in Israel would improve if they voted for an Arab party that concentrated on improving the lives of its constituents.
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The SPD's objections come down to the Israeli drones' ability to carry out targeted killings.
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'The message is that the establishment of Iranian arms factories will be intolerable for Israel,' the diplomat said.
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Only 15% of the cadets who began the flight school will be on the parade grounds on Thursday to receive their wings.
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A senior PA official said Abbas refuses to meet the US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman because of his well documented support for the settlements, for which Kushner and Greenblatt rebuked the Chairman during their meeting.
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The International Quds (Jerusalem) Day demonstrations started in Tehran and about 900 other Iranian cities on the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, IRNA reported. Quds Day was initiated by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 to oppose Zionism and Israel, as well as Israel's unification of Jerusalem. It was conceived […]
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'In light of sizeable gaps, lack of trust, and an absence of readiness for serious compromises from the Palestinian side, and the fact the Palestinian Authority is unable to provide an effective response to terror threats, it is difficult for me to envision the possibility of reaching a political agreement in the coming years.'
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Imam Ilyasi told the participants that his visit to Israel had helped clear many of his misconceptions about the treatment of Muslims in the predominantly Jewish country.
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'We will build a youth movement – not for police action but to deal with the norms of our youth,' the Commissioner vowed.
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'I have a recommendation to the people of Lebanon: Hezbollah has chosen to stay and infiltrate some of your homes – if you leave your homes as soon as the conflict erupts you will not be harmed.'
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102 housing units will be built in the new settlement, to be named Amichai, which is being built in the Shvut Rachel area of the Benjamin region.
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An official ceremony at 8 PM will include a message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Jerusalem led in 2016 in number of divorces: 725 couples. Meanwhile, Modi'in Illit saw a 45% rise in divorces. In all, in 2016, 10,841 couples were divorced in Israel, compared with 10,653 in 2015.
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In less than a year, by last April, some 2,200 Arab terrorists had been identified using these methods, while at various stages of planning and carrying out terrorist attacks.
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The fact that the new President is elected by the Knesset creates the possibility that 'the Knesset Speaker's rulings would be influenced by his intention to run for president.'
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The bill would reduce the great burden borne by the Supreme Court in its role as High Court of Justice, for which the justices would surely be grateful.
"It is important to make clear, before the start of a diplomatic process, that Jerusalem will never be divided under any circumstance."
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With a $20 million donation from the Adelsons, Ariel will become home to Israel's sixth medical school.
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The deadline for government's response to the high court's order is next Sunday.
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Alon Friedman of the Hillel organization waxed philosophical: 'A Jew is not someone whose grandfather was a Jew but someone whose grandson would be a Jew.'
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Instead of asking his soldier if his girlfriend is waiting for him at home, it would be preferable for the commander to ask if his girlfriend or boyfriend is waiting at home.
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Never mind historical and theological inaccuracies, PM Netanyahu is all about the future, and business.
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12 years after the evacuation of settlements: 'The benefit of disengagement in Judea and Samaria: zero.'
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'For four years in a row now, members of Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Zionist groups have been permitted to intentionally and successfully disrupt a student-organized, pro-Israel event.'
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'What came across to me as unique and fresh was how do you live with pain? How do you have a life after such atrocity?'
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The film explores the Jew hatred in Europe today, showing the relationship between anti-Semitism and Israel bashing in the media.
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The deal includes more than 8,000 missiles and more than 300 launchers, and this order is expected grow, as the Indian Army wants to provide Spike missiles to all its 382 infantry battalions and 44 mechanized regiments.
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'Just because the situation is ugly, and the wars are ugly, it's not our fault.'
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The Municipality removes garbage from the main roads and ensures that parks and public gardens are cleaned during Ramadan, to provide a dignified atmosphere for all celebrants.
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Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, said on Sunday that Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman's optimistic data on settlement construction in Judea and Samaria are inflated.
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The pressure to go ahead with the bill came from rightwing Likud members, as well as from Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beiteinu).
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During the final court hearing, the defense argued that Sarna's post was a parody.
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'The president can, as a matter of constitutional law, direct the attorney general, and his subordinate, the director of the FBI, tell them what to do.'
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'The absence of children – particularly children being raised in the Jewish religion – represents yet one more missing incentive to Jewish communal engagement.'
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The Ministry of Religious Services will pay the municipal taxes, carrying charges and electricity of religious families who clock 15 weekly hours hosting secular guests and teaching Jewish family values.
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The desert soil in the midst of tank shelling, range firing and navigational tracking, is also home to thousands of marijuana plants belonging to Bedouin criminals in a large number of greenhouses.
"In bilateral relations they will be with Israel, but when it comes to multilateral relations they need to be okay with everyone."
The Ambassador, who serves as Israel Consul General in New York, is a brilliant and dynamic diplomat – but also a dyed-in-the-wool entrepreneur.
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Her sensible and tolerant approach to life, religion, and politics, has made her one of the most pro-Israel senior American politician.
No one was brave enough to challenge Miriam Naor's choice for Supreme Court president.
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The inherent philosophy of the Iron Dome anti-missile system matches Ya'alon's inherent philosophy of risking life and treasure not to defeat and eliminate, but to catch and release the enemy.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer gal? Goes without saying, except that the irony of her lament is escaping the talented but, alas, humorless Nini.
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The three Gulf states gave Qatari citizens two weeks to pack up their belongings and leave.
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President Trump reportedly yelled at PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Ramallah, accusing him of reneging on his commitment to cut off payments to security prisoners and their families.
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'The fundamental difference between Israel's right and left is that "the left hides its head in the sand believing that these two aspirations can be reconciled, while I believe that this is not possible.'
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According to a PLO senior official, cooperation with Israel to improve the lives of Arabs living under PA rule must be stopped, just in time for the water shortages of July and August.
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The recycled picture of a poor Syrian refugee girl has emphasized the interest of UNRWA in perpetuating rather than ending the stretched-out refugee problem in Gaza.
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Haley has stated that she plans to make her recommendations to the President on staying in or quitting the UNHRC based on her discussions in Geneva.
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'Now, in the new era we are in, the excuses are over and we expressly expect compensation and correction for all the years in which the settlement enterprise was hung up to dry.'
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President Rivlin: 'Hebron is not an obstacle to peace, Hebron is a test of our abilities to live together, side by side.'
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In the last hearing, the military court of appeals asked the parties to consider a compromise.
To honor his commitment that he made throughout his campaign to move America's embassy from Tel Aviv to the capital, President Donald Trump does not have to do anything at all. He just has to let June 1 arrive without signing another waiver.
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One hundred years after the last Turkish soldier was chased out of Jerusalem by the invading British Empire, Turkey's channeling of millions into eastern Jerusalem is gaining sympathy and support.
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The group included businessmen who expressed their desire to establish partnerships with manufacturers in Judea and Samaria.
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Yesh Atid used the data for direct mail inquiries sent to the same Holocaust survivors prior to the March 2015 elections.
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Daniel Bar-Tal, Emeritus Professor at the School of Education at Tel Aviv University, Areas of expertise: Militarism in Israeli society; Culture and ethos of Conflict
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Today, the only access road to the Wailing Wall from the Jewish Quarter is the stairway, a drop of about 26 yards.
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The findings of an experiment conducted by Police have shown that the camera documenting an incident changes the policeman's behavior for the better and improves the service he or she provides.
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'This is particularly deplorable in view of the abysmal health situation in other parts of Syria. According to the UN, last year alone, more than 300 medical facilities in Syria were targeted.'
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It is curious that only 18 hunger strikers required medical care after a supposed 40-day strike.
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'At no point in history was Jerusalem or Judea and Samaria subject to Palestinian Arab sovereignty.'
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The new Senate sanctions bill, with 48 co-sponsors, imposes sanctions on anyone connected to Iran’s ballistic missile program, including corporations doing business with the program.
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Hint: it ain't Jason Greenblatt, Ivanka Trump, or Jared Kushner.
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Our friend Yishai Fleisher was on the Temple Mount on Wednesday, Jerusalem Day, to experience and describe first hand the clashes.
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'100 new cleaning staff will be added for upgrading public spaces across the city; garbage collection routes will be added to improve neighborhood cleanliness; manual sweeping operations will be extended.'