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Delay in Gaza rebuilding could threaten truce: Quartet
The Middle East Quartet of peacemakers on Wednesday joined calls for a quick start to the rebuilding of Gaza before the current truce with Israel ends in renewed violence. Read More »
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Simon Schama tells UK Jewry to stop living in a bubble
LONDON — Simon Schama, one of Britain’s most prominent historians, has called on British Jewry to engage more forcefully with the non-Jewish world as a counter to rising anti-Semitism and hostility...
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Top minister announces surprise resignation from politics
In a speech to a crowd of some 1,000 members of the Likud, Interior Minister and Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar announced Wednesday that he would resign from his cabinet post and “take a break” from politics...
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Pride and politics
It’s been a tough summer for gay activists in Jerusalem. In the midst of war with Hamas, rockets whizzed over Israel’s capital city and riots broke out in its eastern Arab neighborhoods. A 16-year-old...
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Biden admits Shylock remark ‘a poor choice of words’
US Vice President Joe Biden apologized Wednesday for his “Shylock” reference, insisting in a phone call with Anti-Defamation League Director Abe Foxman that the phrase was “a poor choice of words.”...
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UN: Syrian militants kept weapons of Fijian troops
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations says Syrian militants did not return the weapons, uniforms and cars taken from 45 Fijian peacekeepers who were released last week after two weeks of captivity on...
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Iranians back nuclear deal, fear tough demands — poll
As Iran and world powers prepare to resume nuclear talks, a new poll Wednesday revealed most Iranians back a deal but consider unacceptable some of the toughest demands to rein in their atomic...
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Muted expectations on Obama, Rouhani meeting
WASHINGTON (AP) — One year ago, President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani came close to ending the decades-long freeze on face-to-face meetings between their countries’ leaders. Read...
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With US poised to strike, Islamic State abandons bases
Jihadists in a Syrian stronghold near Iraq have abandoned some bases and redeployed their forces and armor from other positions, with the US military poised to strike, activists said Wednesday. Read...
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Sweeteners boost diabetes risk, Israeli study finds
PARIS (AFP) — Promoted as an aid to good health, artificial sweeteners may in fact be boosting diabetes risk, said an Israeli study Wednesday that urged a rethink of their widespread use and...
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Jihadists claim attack that kills six Egypt policemen
A militant group in Egypt has claimed the killing of six policemen in a roadside bomb in the Sinai Peninsula, where security forces frequently clash with jihadists. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (Partisans of...
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Hamas: Ceasefire talks to resume next week
Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk said Wednesday evening that indirect talks between the Palestinians and Israel are to resume within the week. Read More »
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Alan Hoffmann can bring olim, but can Israel?
Jewish Agency director general Alan Hoffmann is right. The agency’s new structure and strategy focus on precisely the sort of experiential engagement with the Jews of the Diaspora that might actually...
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Rivlin visits south, apologizes that rest of Israel sometimes neglects it
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin spoke to farmers and residents on Wednesday morning in the Eshkol Regional Council, a sea of communities that border the Gaza Strip. Read More »
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Herzog urges Abbas not to take unilateral steps
Opposition leader and Labor party head Isaac Herzog urged Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday not to take any unilateral in an attempt to hasten the establishment of a future...
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Israeli Islamic State member: ‘We love to drink blood’
An Arab-Israeli Islamic State fighter nicknamed “the Palestinian slayer” declared that the jihadist group “love[s] to drink blood” in a video uploaded recently that has been making the rounds on the...
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Ex-Jordan MP says Jews use Christian blood to make matzah
A former Jordanian MP accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children to make matzah. Sheikh Abd Al-Mun’im Abu Zant revived the blood libel in an interview with al-Aqsa TV earlier this month,...
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US House approves arms for Syrian rebels
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House voted grudgingly to give the administration authority to train and arm Syrian rebels on Wednesday as President Barack Obama emphasized anew that...
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Iran FM: US ‘obsessed’ with sanctions against Tehran
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday accused the United States of being “obsessed” with sanctions against his country, on the eve of new bilateral talks on a nuclear deal. Read...
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Iran: IS a ‘Frankenstein’ created by other nations
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called the Islamic State group Wednesday a “dangerous phenomenon,” but warned it could not be defeated by airstrikes. Read More »
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