Category: Israel

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Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot Clashes break out between protesters in police in Beirut streets Following three days of protest marches and riots in Beirut, Tripoli and several other cities in Lebanon, Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian party Lebanese Forces—the Phalange militia formed in the 1976 Lebanese Civil War and collaborated with Israel during the […]

Photo Credit: Wiki commons I knew the Kol Nidre crowd at the Beverly Hills Hotel was probably expecting me to talk about big issues. Since I deal with such issues all week long, I could have spoken about the alarming rise in anti-Semitism, the complicated relationship with Israel, the challenge of Jewish continuity, the need […]

Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir / Flash 90 Highway approaching Eilat. The Arava Valley along the Jordanian border stretches 180 km from Eilat in the south to the tip of the Dead Sea in the north. Israeli security forces arrested seven suspects on Saturday after they crossed into Israeli territory from Jordan. “”This morning, IDF forces […]

Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot Lebanese protesters Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Beirut and elsewhere around Lebanon this weekend, demanding the resignation of the government after a plan was announced to tax use of the Whatsapp messaging app. Protests were seen in the northern city of Tripoli, the southern city of […]

[embedded content] After 55 years as a member of the UK Labour Party, Liverpool Riverside MP Dame Louise Ellman has resigned from the party. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Ellman, 73, tendered her resignation this past Wednesday in a letter, writing that […]

Photo Credit: Hana Levi Julian / JewishPress.com Israeli jewelry designer Michal Negrin also produces many other types of gifts Famed Israeli jewelry and fashion designer Michal Negrin is closing her worldwide business due to “financial difficulties,” the Hebrew-language 0404 military website reported Saturday night. Negrin notified the company’s 120 employees that she had to “give […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Rafael Trophy system on US Abrams M2 battle tank (JNS) In recent days, Israeli defense corporation Rafael made a dramatic announcement, stating that it delivered on time the first batch of Trophy Active Protection System to the US Army. Trophy, a system that was first deployed by the Israel Defense Forces in […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Baby Zohar Zisner Doctors in the city of Kazan in Russia on Friday pronounced the death of Zohar Zisner, a year-old Israeli baby who died of cardiac arrest in her sleep during an Aeroflot flight from the Phuket resort island in Thailand to Moscow, where she and her family were scheduled to make […]

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