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i24NEWS
April 25, 2018
Palestinian authorities said a female died after being swept away near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, while Israeli police said the male teen died near the town of Yeruham in the desert Negev region. An additional Palestinian teenager was reported missing near the West Bank city of Hebron, whereÃâà...
The Suburban Newspaper
April 25, 2018
Ivan Hu, originally from Shanghai, China, joined the celebration because his city helped Jewish refugees from the Holocaust during World War II. ... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is celebrating “70 years of freedom, 70 years of democracy, 70 years of bettering the world. “Israel'sÃâà...
The Real News Network
April 25, 2018
The City Council in Durham, North Carolina made history this month when it voted unanimously to prohibit police exchanges with Israel. Thousands of police officers from departments throughout the United States traveled to Israel to receive military-style training with Israeli military and police forces, someÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 25, 2018
"This unwarranted and unjust decision represents a double standard in Israel's outrageous sentences passed against Palestinians by Israeli military courts while Israeli occupation forces and illegal and extremist settlers are given free license to act with complete impunity," she said in a statement.
Kansas City Star
April 25, 2018
In a letter to Zeman, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hoped he would jointly open the new embassy in Jerusalem at the end of this year. The Czech foreign ministry didn't immediately confirm the embassy's move, though it did say that the opening of the consulate and the Czech culturalÃâà...
Haaretz
April 25, 2018
Part of the Ayalon Highway in the middle of Tel Aviv was closed by flooding, and a number of roads in the city were blocked by fallen trees. In Rishon Letzion, a ceiling collapsed in a commercial center. No injuries were reported. A main thoroughfare in the city, Jabotinsky Road, was closed to traffic in bothÃâà...
Vox
April 25, 2018
Tehran has threatened to retaliate, and Israel has made clear that it's prepared to keep fighting. The Iranian response — considered now not a question of if, but when — could take many forms, ranging from missiles launched from Iran, Lebanon, or Syria against Israeli cities to cross-border raids from SyriaÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 1, 2018
A boy waves a Palestinian flag at the Israel-Gaza border during clashes with Israeli troops at a tent city protest commemorating Land Day to demand the right to return to their homeland, east of Gaza City on April 1, 2018. Land Day marks the killing of six Arab Israelis during 1976 demonstrations againstÃâà...
From the Grapevine
March 29, 2018
Tel Aviv, previously recognized as "the world's sexiest city" and a global leader in tech startups, is widening its canopy of honors with a new list measuring tree density. According to MIT's state-of-the-art database known as Treepedia, Tel Aviv ranks in the top 20 of global cities flush with foliage. The indexÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 28, 2018
"By imposing this closure, Israel commits a further violation to its obligations as the occupying power under international humanitarian law." Israeli forces have also reinforced security in East Jerusalem's Old City, where Jewish worshippers are expected to come in higher numbers for Passover, which marksÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 28, 2018
It is expected that thousands in the besieged Gaza will gather in tent cities in five locations on the Palestinian side of the border, away from the “no go” zone. The Israeli military enforces a “no go” zone for Palestinians on land in Gaza adjacent to Israel's fenced border. Palestinian protestors on the Gaza sideÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 28, 2018
Israel announced Wednesday it was launching a domestic digital health database that could make it a global medical powerhouse. The move aims to improve public health worldwide but critics warn it risks compromising personal privacy. Eli Groner, director-general of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu'sÃâà...
Newshub
March 28, 2018
The Israeli military has deployed more than 100 sharpshooters on the Gaza border ahead of a planned mass Palestinian demonstration near the frontier, Israel's top general says. Organisers hope thousands in Gaza will answer their call to flock, starting on Friday, to tent cities in five locations along theÃâà...
Haaretz
March 27, 2018
To rectify matters, the city has embarked on an ambitious new project aimed at highlighting Tel Aviv's prominent role in the creation of the modern ... the Tel Aviv headquarters of the Bank of Israel, which serve today as a museum of Israeli currency; the Tel Aviv Founders Monument, near Independence Hall;Ãâà...
Brides.com
March 27, 2018
With its white-hot beaches, cosmopolitan cities packed to the brim with art, shopping, and pulsating nightlife, and sites full of rich historical and religious significance, it's no wonder travelers have caught on to ... Part beach town, part big city, and close to Israel's international airport, it's an obvious first stop.
The Economist
March 22, 2018
... Macedonia's second city, had long been forgotten. No longer. Not only is the site now being restored and a new memorial built, but on March 11th a couple of thousand people, including Macedonian and Israeli ministers, marched through town to pay homage to the Macedonian Jews who were roundedÃâà...
Haaretz
March 22, 2018
Israel's Prison Service, Told to Give Inmates More Room, Suggests Tent Cities and Waiting Lists ... The Prison Service intends to present several solutions, including the erection of a tent city for security prisoners, as well as deploying concrete blocks used for housing in Eshel Prison in Beersheba. A furtherÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
March 22, 2018
Adalah, a legal center for Palestinians in Israel, stated that Yechieli's words and actions “are motivated by racism.” Preventing Palestinian citizens of Israel “from purchasing homes due strictly to their national identity is an illegitimate act,” Adalah added. “In a climate in which the Israeli Knesset continues toÃâà...
Haaretz
March 20, 2018
The Radomsko municipality in Poland has canceled an annual ceremony involving a delegation from its sister city in Israel, Kiryat Bialik, because the Israeli mayor had planned to mention Jews who were murdered by Poles during the Holocaust in his speech. The Kiryat Bialik municipality announced theÃâà...
Haaretz
March 19, 2018
The attack comes two days after two Israeli soldiers were killed in a West Bank car-ramming attack. Hamas commended the attack in a statement, saying it commemorated 100 days since U.S. President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed onÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
March 9, 2018
A tremendous privilege that comes with living in Israel is understanding the politics on a very experiential and personal level. Living in 2018 means a world ..... Abdu, our tour guide, explained that the opinion of many Muslims in the city reflects their desire to maintain Israeli rule. Abdu encouraged his son toÃâà...
Haaretz
March 9, 2018
Segal represents Ateret Cohanim as well as Elad, the group that runs the City of David National Park and also settles Jews in Arab East Jerusalem. He also represents the Regavim nonprofit group that conducts legal battles against illegal Arab construction in Israel and the West Bank. Segal is a key figureÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 9, 2018
"Mohammad loved Palestine, and he could never sit by and do nothing when [Israeli] soldiers entered the city," Abu Nasser said. ... Palestinians maintain that East Jerusalem must become the capital of a future Palestinian state in any future peace agreement with Israel, while Israel considers the whole ofÃâà...
The Tribune
March 9, 2018
A delegation of students from Israel arrived in Chandigarh today and had an interactive programme with the city unit of the BJP and the Bharatiya Janata Yuva ... The delegation was also taken to the library where BJP city president Sanjay tendon explained about how Chandigarh came into existence.
CNN
March 8, 2018
(CNN) In the northern Israel town of Alon HaGalil one recent afternoon, a clinical psychologist and former Israeli special forces member named Yotam ..... Citing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's post-9/11 visibility and candor, Dagan and Cohen make it clear how important it is for leaders to goÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 8, 2018
Parkland may be an upscale suburb, but it's no “shady rest retirement home” where deputies go to finish their careers, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel told a packed crowd at City Hall. Israel aimed to debunk any suggestion that because the city is ranked one of Florida's safest cities, it's where deputies go toÃâà...
Haaretz
March 8, 2018
In the central Israeli town of Kfar Sava, a team meets every few weeks at city hall to discuss a utopian-sounding project to recycle nearly all of the city's garbage. ... “Cities in Israel understand that they too, not just private businesses, can generate revenue and to do that, they also need to be involved withÃâà...
New York Times
March 7, 2018
Raphael Israeli, a professor emeritus at Hebrew University and a former Israeli delegate to the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, says that neither Israel nor Jordan had formal jurisdiction of it. “They simply invaded it,” he said. Today, he said, after 50 years of Israeli possession and no countryÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 6, 2018
Having managed to conquer the west of Jerusalem in 1948, Israel occupied the rest of the city less than two decades later in the 1967 war. ... On Monday, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem's Silwan area protested over new structural damage to homes due to what they say is Israeli digging andÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 6, 2018
ASHDOD, Israel — A open-air market has become an unlikely battleground in a wider struggle that could potentially bring down Israeli Prime Minister ... people observe the Sabbath, but this is my salary,” said Karin Cohen, a mother of three who sells cupcakes and empanadas in the seaside city of Ashdod.
JURIST
March 6, 2018
In 2017, two bills were introduced from the Israeli government coalition's members - the Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel (Amendment No. 2) Bill and ... Following the Israeli occupation of the Holy City in 1967, the Israeli authorities annexed approximately 70 square kilometers of West Bank land to theÃâà...
Xinhua
March 6, 2018
TEL AVIV, March 6 (Xinhua) -- At the GoforIsrael annual business conference held in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, Chinese and Israeli business leaders were thrilled by ... In addition to big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, many medium-sized cities in China are also very strong inÃâà...
The Independent
March 6, 2018
President Donald Trump has said his controversial decision last December to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital was a “wonderful thing” as he .... He also said the US embassy in the country would move from Tel Aviv to the holy city which also serves as the home of the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset.
Haaretz
March 5, 2018
An Israeli City's Bid to Build Secular Neighborhood Fails ... The results of land auctions released over the last two weeks by the Israel Land Authority show that, of 16 tenders for the new neighborhood that were conducted under the government's Machir L'Mishtaken (Buyer's Price) program, only fiveÃâà...
Haaretz
March 4, 2018
An Israeli Border Police officer and two soldiers were lightly wounded in car-rammings in two different incidents in the northern Israeli city of Acre. ... The mayor of Shefa-'Amr, the Arab city in northern Israel that the suspect hails from, told Haaretz that "The family is known as a completely normal family.".
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
They also say that the previous police chief was involved in an exchange training programme with Israel, which drove them to lobby to sever the any links the city has had or will have with the Israeli military as far as its police force. Al Jazeera made several attempts to reach Davis via email and over theÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
BETHLEHEM, March 28, 2018 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Wednesday prevented the municipality of the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, from opening an agricultural road in the area, said a local activist. Ahmad Salah, coordinator of the Anti-Settlement Committee in al-Khader town, said Israeli armyÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
OCHA: Israeli policies in Hebron city turned it into 'ghost town' ... Israel exercises direct control over the 20% of Hebron City, known as H2, which is home to approximately 40,000 Palestinians and a few hundred Israeli settlers living in five settlement compounds, noted the release, maintaining that the livingÃâà...
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