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Israeli gymnasts competing to fly flag in Doha

Oct 25, 2018 Go comment!

The Israeli gymnastics team was out in full force at 48th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships that began at Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday. There are five males and two females in the team headed by new Israeli sensation Artem Dolgopyat. The others are Alexander Shatilov, Ilan Korchak, Andrey Medvedev, and Michael Sorokine, while the women are Ofir Netzer and Meitar Lavy.
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‘Hero’ mom asks for help after Beersheba home destroyed by Gaza rocket

Oct 18, 2018 Go comment!

The Beersheba family whose home was destroyed by a direct hit from a Gazan rocket early on Wednesday has issued a public plea for help to get back on their feet.
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Netanyahu evading snap Israeli elections

Oct 18, 2018 Go comment!

On Monday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Knesset (Israeli parliament) for 40 minutes after its summer recess. He spoke about a lot of things - mostly his government’s diplomatic, security, and economic accomplishments - but ignored the elephant in the room.
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Rapper Drake has his own brand of Jewishness

Oct 18, 2018 Go comment!

Drake has held the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for most of this year. The Canadian rapper and singer during his career has set or matched records owned by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Whitney Houston, and Paul McCartney.
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Israeli gymnasts fly through world competitions

Oct 18, 2018 Go comment!

Israeli artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat, 21, is a strong contender for gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 as he takes the gymnastics world by storm.
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Russian tightrope between Israel and Iran in Syria

Oct 11, 2018 Go comment!

If there is something surprising about the downing of a Russian military aircraft a little over three weeks ago in Syria, it is that it didn’t happen sooner.
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Five times Nikki Haley delighted the pro-Israel community

Oct 11, 2018 Go comment!

When Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that she would be stepping down as United States ambassador to the United Nations by the end of this year, the Israeli and pro-Israel laments poured out swiftly.
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Thirteen years after the Gaza evacuation, what has changed?

Sep 20, 2018 Go comment!

It nearly tore Israeli society apart, while for me, it remains one of the most distressing stories I’ve ever reported. This week, thirteen years ago, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four northern West Bank settlements.
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Former UK Chief Rabbi labels Jeremy Corbyn a ‘dangerous anti-Semite’

Sep 20, 2018 2 Comments

Britain’s former Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, branded Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn a dangerous anti-Semite in an interview published on Tuesday.
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The humanitarian cost of throttling funds for refugees

Sep 06, 2018 1 Comment

A few years ago, while visiting a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, I asked a 17-year-old boy where he came from. I was taken aback by his reply. Although he’d never set foot out of Lebanon, he told me he came from Haifa. I asked him again, and again he insisted, “my home is in Haifa”. He’d never seen Haifa, nor that home.
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Ben Kingsley kept photo of Elie Wiesel close while portraying Adolf Eichmann

Sep 06, 2018 Go comment!

Ask Ben Kingsley about why he was keen to portray Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in the new film Operation Finale, and he describes a traumatic childhood incident in which he first learned about the Holocaust.
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Time for Netanyahu to stop fence sitting on the Wall

Aug 30, 2018 Go comment!

After years of political wrangling and negotiations, a plan to expand an area at the Western Wall that would allow for men and women to pray together was announced this week by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
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West Bank settlements’ house prices go through the roof

Aug 30, 2018 Go comment!

Growing up in a Jerusalem apartment, Aaron Lipkin used to marvel at the two-storey houses that he would see on weekend drives with his parents.
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Israeli equestrian pulls out of world championships over Yom Kippur conflict

Aug 30, 2018 1 Comment

An Israeli equestrian has withdrawn from next month’s world championships because the competition will take place on Yom Kippur.
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FIFA suspends and fines Palestinian soccer boss for threats against Messi

Aug 30, 2018 Go comment!

The FIFA soccer federation has suspended the head of the Palestinian soccer body for threats made against Argentinian star Lionel Messi.
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The danger Corbyn raises for British Jews

Aug 23, 2018 Go comment!

Britain may soon elect a racist and an anti-Semite as its prime minister. According to opinion polls, Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the Labour Party – long considered a natural home for British Jews – stands a good chance of being the next British head of state.
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Ugandan Jews to Israel, part-funded by government that rejects them

Aug 23, 2018 Go comment!

Uganda’s Jewish Abayudaya community reached a significant milestone on Tuesday morning, when its first-ever Taglit-Birthright group touched down at Ben Gurion Airport.
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Israel mourns late UN chief

Aug 23, 2018 Go comment!

Israel joined countries around the world in an outpouring of condolences on Saturday, following the death of former United Nations (UN) Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan.
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Israeli gymnast bags second gold after breaking world record

Aug 23, 2018 Go comment!

Israeli gymnastics superstar Linoy Ashram on Sunday won a second gold medal and a bronze at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Minsk, after breaking the world record in the clubs-handling round a day earlier on the way to winning the all-round phase of the competition.
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Kingmaker Ronald Lauder turns on former protégé Netanyahu

Aug 16, 2018 Go comment!

It’s gotta hurt when the guy who used to fund your political career writes two op-eds criticising you in The New York Times.
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