Day: June 9, 2023

Former British PM Boris Johnson quits Parliament

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Friday he would quitting as a lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament, The Associated Press reported. Johnson quit after receiving the results of an investigation by lawmakers over misleading statements he made to Parliament about “partygate.” In a statement, he accused opponents

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PA chairman to visit China after its offer to mediate talks with Israel

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas will make a state visit to China next week, Beijing said Friday, after China expressed readiness to help facilitate Israeli-Palestinian Arab peace talks, AFP reported. “At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, president of the state of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas will pay a state visit to China from June

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Special Counsel Jack Smith: US laws apply to everyone

Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday gave a statement after the indictment against former US President Donald Trump in the classified documents probe was unsealed. In his remarks, Smith urged Americans to read the indictment to understand the “gravity of the crimes”, and also stated that US laws “apply to everyone”. “Good afternoon. Today, an

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US to Iran: You will pay a heavy price if 90% uranium enrichment continues

US and Iranian officials held indirect talks in Oman last month with Omani officials shuttling between their separate rooms to deliver messages, three sources briefed on the issue told Axios” Barak Ravid on Friday. The “proximity talks,” which haven’t been previously reported, represent the first known indirect engagement between the US and Iran in this

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US intelligence: Iran helping Russia build a drone factory east of Moscow

Iran is providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant east of Moscow as the Kremlin looks to lock in a steady supply of weaponry for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, according to a US intelligence finding released by the White House on Friday and quoted by The Associated Press. National Security Council

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MK Efrat Rayten to run for Labor Party leadership

MK Efrat Rayten (Labor) announced on Friday that she would be running for the leadership of the party in the next primaries. Rayten made the announcement in an interview on the Channel 12 program Ofira & Berkovic. “I have no doubt that I will put myself up as a candidate in the next elections for

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Indictment against Trump in classified documents probe unsealed

The indictment against former US President Donald Trump in the classified documents probe was unsealed on Friday. Trump faces 37 counts in the case, and stands accused of taking secret documents on nuclear and weapons programs. This marks the first time a former president has faced federal charges. Walt Nauta, an aide to Trump, was

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The Jews’ lesson for the West

(JNS) What has the Holocaust got to do with the culture wars that are currently tearing the West apart? Much more than many might think. Here”s an illustration. Significant reverberations continue from last month”s National Conservatism conference in London. The conference was the brainchild of Israeli-American philosopher and political theorist Yoram Hazony. He believes that

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The Israeli left threatens murder and incites civil war

(JNS) On Sunday, retired Brig. Gen. Nehemiah Dagan, one of the heads of the left”s anti-government campaign, published a post on his Facebook that included an explicit call for civil war and physical destruction of the Kohelet Forum&mdasha think tank in Jerusalem that Dagan and his associates have singled out for harassment and assault. Dagan”s

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Netanyahu to Sky News: “For God’s sake, it’s our ancestral homeland!”

Prime Minister Netanyahu gave an interview to the British network Sky News and later tweeted about one exchange in particular with the interviewer. “Prime Minister Netanyahu gave an interview to the British network Sky News this week, during which the interviewer brought up the subject of the new housing units the government has approved in

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EU to co-finance new section of Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU Commission, today announced that the EU would be co-financing a new section of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum detailing the life of European Jewry before the Holocaust. “The history of the Jewish people is the history of Europe,” she commented. “Nearly 10 million Jews lived in Europe

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Shlach: Offering wine and flour

Bringing an offering in the Temple requires more than just a bull, goat, or sheep. In Num. 15:1-16, the Torah commands that korbanot be accompanied by wine libations, called nesachim, and flour offerings, called menachot. What was the purpose of these additional offerings of wine and flour?  The answer to this question may be

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Chief Rabbi of Ukraine escapes artillery during aid misssion

The collapse of the Khakhova dam in Ukraine’s southern region has set off a mass environmental and humanitarian incident as large amounts of water were released down the Dnieper River. Several hundred individuals have been evacuated from the area thus far Rabbi Moshe Azman, Ukraine’s chief Rabbi, began to check the situation in the Jewish

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A mother’s view: The future of Israel is very, very bright!

וַיַּ֧הַס כָּלֵ֛ב אֶת־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר עָלֹ֤ה נַעֲלֶה֙ וְיָרַ֣שְׁנוּ אֹתָ֔הּ כִּֽי־יָכ֥וֹל נוּכַ֖ל לָֽהּ׃ Caleb hushed the people before Moses and said, “Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it.” (Parashat Shlach, Bamidbar 13:30) Almost 1000 energetic, motivated youth filled the halls at the Fifth

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Special conference for families of missing persons in Tel Aviv

On Thursday night, the Biladayhem nonprofit to support the families of missing persons, together with the family members of dozens of missing persons who have not yet been located, held a conference in Tel Aviv. The conference was addressed by Ariel Saad, head of the Missing Persons Unit of the Israel Police, and various experts

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Talking Parsha – Shelach: How’s this connected to the Mergalim??

Embark on a captivating journey as we delve into the depths of Parashat Shelach in this week’s thought-provoking video. Famously known for the story of the “Sin of the Meraglim” (Sin of the Spies) but intriguingly, the Torah transitions from this monumental event to introduce the commandment of the Nesachim&mdashwine and oil offerings accompanying sacrifices.

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Lebanese soldier aims RPG at IDF tank

Rioters from Lebanon threw stones at IDF forces near the village of Kafr Shuba on Friday afternoon. The soldiers responded with riot dispersal methods. The Lebanese citizens crossed the international border, vandalized a fence that the IDF had erected, and threw stones. A Lebanese soldier was filmed aiming an RPG at an IDF tank. Yesterday,

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13 arrested for shootings in Arab towns

Police carried out a wave of arrests and searches throughout the country last night, during which 18 people were arrested. 11 of them are suspected of being involved in the massacre near Nazareth in which five people were murdered yesterday. Two of them are suspected of shooting a 3-year-old girl and her uncle in Kafr

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12,000-year-old flutes that imitate bird calls discovered in Israel

A new paper by Dr. Laurent Davin, a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Centre de Recherche Fran&ccedilais &agrave J&eacuterusalem (CRJF), and Dr. Jos&eacute-Miguel Tejero, (the University of Vienna and the University of Barcelona, Spain), published in the prestigious journal Nature Scientific Report, uncovers that rare prehistorical objects found in the

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Hadash MK to Jew whose friend was murdered: May it happen to you

Left-wing activists demonstrated yesterday (Thursday) in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in protest of the eviction of an Arab family so that the Jewish family which purchased the property could move in. During the demonstration, a number of extreme left-wing activists waved PLO flags and fought with police. Three demonstrators were

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Netanyahu: Israel won’t be bound by other countries agreements with Iran

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the British news broadcaster Sky News in an interview that was broadcast Friday morning. Netanyahu was first asked about the judicial reform issue and the negotiations over the issue which are being conducted at the President’s Residence. “It seems to me that we have a situation where there is

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Sovereignty Convention: ‘Sovereignty in Jordan Valley is a matter of time’

On Thursday, June 8, about 1,000 youth attended the 5th annual Youth Sovereignty Movement convention in Jerusalem. The focus of the event centered around the demand for the application of sovereignty in the Jordan Valley first, followed by the application of sovereignty throughout Judea and Samaria. The convention was attended by Knesset members, rabbis, and

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