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According to the chief rabbis, the plan is to create a system whereby the conversions done by rabbis who meet the chief rabbinate criteria would be approved.
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166 Ethiopian Israelis have been recruited to the police force over the past two years, and today 613 police officers are Ethiopian.
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Bennett promised that next the government will impose Israeli sovereignty on the town of Ma'ale Adumim, creating an urban corridor that eliminates any chance for a future contiguous Palestinian State.
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Key is often asked why he didn't speak any German, considering his Austrian roots, and his response is: “The simple answer is my mother refused to teach me. She did not want to reflect on her history.”
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In August 1991, during the Crown Heights pogrom, Sharpton led a march of some 400 Blacks in front of the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters.
If she joins Yesh Atid, it would be the fifth time Livni jumped from a sinking ship.
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'It's well known that when a coalition MK votes against the government line he knows he's going to pay a price.'
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A whopping 80.5% of the Jewish public agree with the recent statement by Ambassador Ron Dermer that “Israel has no doubt that President-elect Trump is a true friend of Israel.”
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A local official believes most of the missing money is being kept in the Agriculture Ministry's coffers.
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The artist was no doubt referencing the gold statue of the past dictator of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov.
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Should the new bill be submitted without the retroactive application to Amona, Habayit Hayehudi politicians will be expected to prevent clashes between the residents and security forces.
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On the occasion of International Volunteer Day, December 5, 2016, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics released selected data from its 2015 social survey about volunteering in Israel.
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Furnished with arrest and search warrants issued by Jerusalem Magistrate Court, Police confiscated the suspects' personal computers, mobile devices, and removable media.
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MK Gafni: Real news for the children of Israel. New law will help level playing field for poorer children.
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Instead of trying to hide anything, the commander offered the scheming soldier help and psychological care.
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MK Bezalel Smotrich said, 'Apparently, had Netanyahu been in charge instead of Ben Gurion, we would not have had a state. Ben Gurion had courage, he established a state against all odds.'
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'If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you. If you divert revenues from Israel, New York will divert revenues from you. If you sanction Israel, New York will sanction you, period. Thank you.'
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'New information recently has come to light that raises serious concerns about whether Rep. Ellison faithfully could represent the Democratic Party’s traditional support for a strong and secure Israel.'
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'A judicial branch that intervenes in the legally created product of the legislative or executive branches is not adhering to the democratic model and it is our duty to bring it back on track.'
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'The government of Israel should know that they are hurting us, hurting our future, and scarring us horribly for the rest of our lives.'
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Beyond its academic value, the conference sends a message challenging the validity and purpose of the BDS movement,
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Many locals boycotted the cinema because unmarried men and women drank alcohol and even slept together in the guest house that was attached to Cinema Jenin.
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If students on the tour encounter foreign journalists, European MPs, or anti-Israel propaganda tours led by radical Left NGOs, they will be permitted to educate them, politely, about the hypocrisy of the delegitimization campaign against Israel.
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Last year the WZO established 140 new Hebrew language centers, most of them in France, Argentina, and the UK.
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'Anti-Semitism, hatred, internal strife are all ancient elements of our historical destiny – always problematic. […] We must therefore look for a way out; we must be brave to remain within our destiny. If Judaism is a tragedy, let us live it.'
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Israeli farmers upriver from the Kinneret have been refused an increase of 11 billion gallons annually, precisely the amount Jordan continues to siphon from the lake for its own agriculture.
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Fifty years after that catastrophic Arab failure, in 1977, the UN declared an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, to be celebrated each year on November 29.
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Gush Shalom founder Uri Avneri was one of the first Israelis to meet publicly with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
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According to Chabad, the way to "bring the messiah" is by spreading Hasidic teaching, so that once every land has in it Jews capable of Hasidic meditation and action, redemption must come next.
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The Elbit F-35 HMD provides the pilot with a virtual Head-Up Display (HUD), making the F-35 the first tactical fighter jet in 50 years to fly without a HUD.
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Carlos Galindo-Elvira, Director of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, who told local TV station 12News that 'when you joke with symbols like the swastika you begin to normalize them and make it very casual within our society.'
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A group called Israel’s voice has launched a 'successful and humble campaign' delivering hundreds of pizzas to firefighters, security forces, and volunteers who have been working non-stop to control the fires.
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A fight has ensued between the Obama and Clinton camps over the wisdom of the concession so early in the process, and of trying to force a recount of three Rust Belt states: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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'Netanyahu's incitement intifada is raging across the country,' Goldblum posted. 'It's difficult not to see the connection between Netanyahu's incitements following the arsons and the submarines scandal.'
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In August 2016 two Be-200s were sent to Portugal to help in extinguishing forest fires. Four days later it was reported that the fire was prevented from spreading in the direction of two settlements and a national park.
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MK Issawi Freij (Meretz) announced that separating the Shabbat calls from the Muezzin bill exposes it for what it is: yet another example of Israeli racism.
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Judge Marzel ruled that the potential personal harm to the archeologists and their research justifies concealing their names.
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According to a 2004 Chicago Tribune article, Muslim American Society is another name for the US chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Netanyahu's office issued a written directive at 4 PM Sunday asking cabinet ministers not to make contact with the president-elect or his staff.
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Some 50 years ago, real estate developer Fredrick Trump was among the main donors to the Beach Haven Jewish Center at 723 Ave. Z in Flatbush, NY.
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“He asked us to come, we never invited him," ZOA President Mort Klein stated, adding, "Of course, an important guy like him says he wants to come, I say yes.”
The AG and Prosecutor have decided there's nothing criminal to investigate against Netanyahu from Channel 10's report.
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The two Arab claimants own only a sliver – about half an acre altogether, out of the 125 acres of the Amona territory – less than .5%.
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Meanwhile, Rabbi Amihai Eliahu is accusing the entities behind the move of attempting to cleanse the IDF of its religious warriors.
Channel 10's latest accusations against PM Netanyahu have created a political storm.
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Interestingly, Netanyahu’s most ardent foe these days, Ehud Barak, served the shortest term in office as Prime Minister: eight months and one day.
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Earlier last week he attacked after two synagogues, a Jewish prayer center, a mosque and a church.
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Huckabee was one of the guests invited to a sit down with President Elect Donald Trump on Friday, after which a transition official said he would be "America's top diplomat in the Jewish state."
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"Soon we will each be applying for colleges and we are very concerned by the recent rise in anti-Semitic behavior on campuses across the country. Thanks to today's meeting with Tammi, many of us feel better prepared for what we might encounter."
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On May 29 the five Democrats met with Shawan Jabarin, a long-time member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some pro-Israel activists recall, with dismay, Ellison's efforts to unseat a pro-Israel New Jersey congressman, Steve Rothman, in 2012.
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"In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted, 'The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy,'" Boxer said in her statement. "I couldn't agree more. One person, one vote!"
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White supremacist Richard Spencer compared the move against his neo-Nazi movement as both "corporate Stalinism" and the Gestapo's 1934 "night of the long knives" purge of the SA’s leadership.
By Marc Gronich
We have to be very clear-headed and cautious about what is said because what is said by the U.S. president is paid minute attention to by the rest of the world.
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Both Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) and Coalition Chairman David Bitan (Likud) warned that the bill would be suspended should it meet resistance from the Supreme Court.
Years before alt-right was in the news, Bannon exposed his worldview. Are these the words of an anti-Semite?
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In 2014, White House spokesman Josh Earnest described the new, legal occupants of Kfar HaShiloah as individuals "whose agenda, by definition, stokes tensions between Israelis and Palestinians."
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Interestingly, several Muslim and European countries have enacted laws compelling their mosques to "muffle" their loudspeakers, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
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Out of Israel's children, 1.996 million are Jews (71.3%), 718 thousand are Arab (25.7%) and the rest, 84 thousand children (3%), are neither.
The witch hunt against Bannon is animated by the impotent rage of the "anyone but Trumpers."
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According to Klein, ZOA's experience and analysis of Breitbart articles confirm Bannon’s and Breitbart’s "friendship and fair-mindedness towards Israel and the Jewish people. To accuse Mr. Bannon and Breitbart of anti-Semitism is Orwellian."
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"If, God forbid, you will not manage an arrangement of the homes of Amona's residents ... we will stand as a fortified wall together with thousands who will arrive here from across the country."
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"For 21 years, the Left has been trying to blame Netanyahu for the incitement. Over and over Netanyahu said we disagree, but there should be no incitement. And now you're trying to silence him."
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One student said the experience "felt very violating and personal because it happened in a space where we live, where we hang out, where we sleep."
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A whopping 25 out of Netanyahu's 30 Knesset Members have signed a commitment to pass the Arrangements Act, which would force a war between the government and the high court.
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The original Muezzin bill was tabled and the Knesset ordered a report that said mosque loudspeakers have been around since loudspeakers had been invented, recommending a dialogue with the Muslim authorities.
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This week, Ingraham has been twitter-shaming Obama for not intervening to stop the violent protests against the November elections results. "Where is Pres Obama urging calm?" she tweeted on Saturday.
Clinton supporters want the Electoral College Electors to vote for Clinton and not Trump.
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The committee began its investigations in 1995, following bloody clashes in Passover of 1994, between the followers of a Yemenite Rabbi and police.
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Somebody should tell Ivanka Trump and Jason Greenblatt as soon as Shabbat is out.
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He served as the commander of a joint special operations task unit, commander of a Mark V Special Operations Craft detachment, and commander of an al Qaeda targeting cell.
Speculation is rising that these anti-Trump protests are not organic...
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In March 2000 the Israeli government was refused permission to purchase BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles.
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Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said, with noted condescension, "If the Israeli right knows what Trump position regarding Israel is, I believe they know more than Trump does."
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The Volcani tour will conclude with new sensors to monitor milk quality and output in cows, and new wheat storage solutions that protect against pests.
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The museum depicts Arafat’s role in the rise of Palestinian nationalism as a reaction to the arrival of Zionism.
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If you had to find the one Hasidic Rebbe that would attract President Elect Donald Trump's attention, it would have to be Reb Israel Friedman of Ruzhin.
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None of the participants need be corrupt or sinister in any way, the website doesn't provide smarmy details about their sins, all they've done to be included here is be Jewish.
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted that "we must adjust to the fact that American foreign policy will get less predictable in the near future."
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Clinton, Bush and Obama all pledged on their campaign trails to move the embassy to the "eternal city."
The US Embassy has thrown a voting party in Tel Aviv
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"Israel has a principle: we do not interfere in regional crises, including in what is taking place in Syria," the ambassador said.
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Strangely enough, the Knesset legislation known as the Aliyah Day Act 5776-2016 states that on the 7th of Cheshvan the country will celebrate the Israelites' entrance into the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nissan.
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Ben Gurion University lecturers award $5,000 to the group against school policy and students' protests.
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In 2015, the Israeli cyber sector reached $4 billion in total sales, representing 5% of that year's global sales in this sector.
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Podesta's aide Doug Band called Chelsea a “spoiled brat kid.”
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"It has been brought to my attention recently that in my city of Jerusalem there are cases which are similar in principle, whereby Arab settlement has been established on Jewish owned land in the eastern part of the city,"
Netanyahu told cabinet ministers that relations with Washington are “solid” and would continue to be strong with either Hillary Clinton or Donald J. Trump in the White House.
Speakers and participants at the event sharply criticized organizers, saying the gathering was a “cynical political rally” for the Zionist Union.
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As the US Presidential elections draw closer, the candidates are looking for all the support they can get.
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Sabeel spokespeople, particularly founder Ateek, disparage Judaism as “tribal,” “primitive,” and “exclusionary,” while contrasting this to Christianity’s “universalism” and “inclusiveness.”
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According to Human Rights Watch, the Egyptian authorities demolished at least 3,255 residential, commercial, administrative, and community buildings along the border, forcibly evicting thousands of people.
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This contradictory message is liable to cause even more confusion and hesitation.
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"Gone are the days when the politicians were guests and the jurists owned the house," say Likud and Habayit Hayehudi MKs.
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The Netanyahu cabinet has been extra careful not to provoke the ire of the retiring emperor on the eve of that portion of his term when he no longer needs to worry about the Jewish vote.
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Justice Na'or's rage was outright Chekhovian.
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MP Eichenberger-Walther is the head of a European association for fighting BDS, and emphasized during her meetings that she is ceaselessly working to improve relations between Switzerland and Israel.
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On Wednesday morning, a large group of non-Orthodox Jews marched carrying Torah scrolls to protest restrictions on non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall.
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The two-state solution does not stand a chance unless the leaders of both sides "are willing and able to make decisions" — and it’s highly unlikely that whomever is chosen to succeed Abbas would be able to make them.
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“When one of its senior managers stands accused of engineering and concealing – for years – a massive diversion of funds to the Hamas terror organization ... this is not the right moment to promote the interests of World Vision."