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Here’s a factoid about the Middle East that may have slipped by you while focusing on Iran’s nuclear program, Syria’s massacres, Egypt’s Islamization and Israel’s response to Mitt Romney’s recent
Syrian President Bashar Assad has transferred a battery of advanced missiles to the al-Masna border crossing, which is the central route used to transfer equipment and weapons to the Hizbullah
The reported brutality in Syria’s biggest city, Aleppo, where forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels continue to face off in bloody clashes, may amount to crimes against
Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash, former head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate, predicted on Friday that an Israeli attack on Iran could take place in the near future. “It could happen within
The government of Russia released a report on Friday denying previous reports that Russian warships were scheduled to dock in Syria. The Russian Ministry of Defense said the reports were
Russia condemned a resolution on Syria which the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted on Friday as “harmful,” complaining that it was tantamount to a show of support for rebels fighting
The National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau’s serious warning against travelling to the Sinai Peninsula was prompted by the release of an Al-Qaeda operative from a prison in Gaza and his
Lynne Lipton as Cool Saydee, the ultimate wannabe. You don’t have to be Jewish to be a Jap.
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr, who will be visiting Israel this week, has a long-standing warm relationship with the Jewish community. Carr boasts a distinguished political career, having served uninterruptedly
United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was in Israel this week to talk with Israeli leaders about Iran’s nuclear program. Now the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot is reporting that
July saw a significant decrease in the number of terrorist attacks, according to figures released by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Thursday. The figures showed that 64 terrorist
Israel took steps this week to boost the Palestinian Authority economy by tying it more tightly to Israel’s own economy. Among other things, Israel will help build pipelines to transfer
Chief negotiators for the EU and Iran agreed on Thursday to hold more talks about Tehran’s nuclear work, Reuters reported, but the European Union gave no sign progress was imminent
There are no reports of any United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) sponsored summer camps in Gaza in 2012 as opposed to previous years, according to the Meir Amit Intelligence
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s two-day visit to Israel, which began on Shabbat and continued through the Tisha B’Av day of mourning, had initially raised some eyebrows regarding the appropriateness
The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria said on Thursday that the country post-Assad will be an Islamic state. Speaking to the Al-Arabiya network, the movement’s deputy leader, Ali Al-Bayanouni, said, “You
The National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau (NSCCTBCTB) issued on Thursday a serious warning against travelling to the Sinai Peninsula, and called on Israelis vacationing in the area to leave immediately.
Israeli swimmer Yakov-Yan Toumarkin, an IDF soldier, finished in seventh place Thursday in the men’s 200-meter backstroke event in the London Olympics, with a time of 1:57.62. On Wednesday he set a new
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once again called for the annihilation of Israel, which he labeled “the axis of unity of the world hegemonic powers.” Speaking in advance of International
A Haifa-based organization has set a goal of providing lone soldiers in the city with a home away from home. The group, People in Blue and White, gives the soldiers
After attracting a great deal of media attention with her very pink campaign, the 22-year-old orthodox Jewish woman running for office in the New York State Senate has told CNN
Hungarian lawmaker from the far-right Jobbik party has resigned from his seat in the European Parliament after he had tried to cover up his Jewish ancestry for as long as
A bipartisan bill that would ensure recognition of the plight of 850,000 Jewish refugees displaced from Arab countries since Israel’s War of Independence in 1948 has been introduced to the
Israel this week will open a new embassy in Albania, a NATO member nation with a Muslim population of 70 percent. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman left Israel on Wednesday to attend
Days after returning from his trip to Israel where he declared Jerusalem to be the undivided capital of the Jewish state, Mitt Romney formed a Jewish American coalition in an
Spanish police have arrested three suspected terrorists, Spanish media reported Wednesday. The three have been linked to the international Al-Qaeda terror organization. Al-Qaeda issued a warning in July saying that
President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter told
A spokesman for the White House seemed to agree with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, when he admitted that Iran has not yet decided to abandon its nuclear program
An Egyptian official said on Wednesday that President Mohammed Morsi had indeed sent a letter to Israeli President Shimon Peres and that it was not appropriate that Morsi’s spokesman denied
Egypt’s prime minister has drawn on bureaucrats and Islamists for the country’s first Muslim Brotherhood-led administration, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Prime Minister-designate Hisham Kandil’s appointment of at least two Brotherhood
