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Israeli Elections: Voter Turnout Expected to Hit 70% as Polls Near Closing Time
Voter turnout for today's election in Israel remains at its highest since the 1999 elections. The Central Elections Committee reported the number to be...
Nechemya Weberman, Convicted of Assaulting Young Girl, Sentenced to 103 Years in Prison
A judge today sentenced a member of the Brooklyn Orthodox community to 103 years in prison for sexually abusing a young girl over the course of three years. Nechemya Weberman, 54, was convicted...
Report: Bulgaria Tells EU Officials it has Evidence Linking Hezbollah to Burgas Terror Attack
Bulgaria has informed European officials there is evidence linking Hezbollah to the deadly Burgas bus bombing that took the lives of 5 Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver in July 2012. According to the London-based Al-Hayat...
Surprising Votes: A Settler Votes for Labor, a Bedouin for Bennett
There are Israeli voters making some surprising and rather unexpected choices for political candidates on election day. Yair Hizni,who grew up in a settler family in Hebron, is casting his vote for Shelly Yachimovich,...
Voters Turnout in Record Numbers On Election Day in Israel (VIDEO)
Voters headed to the polls in Israel Tuesday, and they did so in large numbers....
American Jewish Leaders Meet With Chuck Hagel
JTA - Top Jewish organizational leaders met with Chuck Hagel, President Obama's defense secretary...
Voting Begins in Israel
YNet - Polling stations across Israel are to open at 7 am Tuesday, giving the...
Netanyahu Congratulates Inaugurated Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama has been inaugurated to his second term as the nation's 44th...
Report Shows Media Freedom Historically Bad in Egypt
The Egyptian revolution has not brought freedom of the press. In fact quite the opposite...
Israeli Elections: Voter Turnout Expected to Hit 70% as Polls Near Closing Time
Voter turnout for today's election in Israel remains at its highest since the 1999 elections. The Central Elections Committee reported the number to be at...
Nechemya Weberman, Convicted of Assaulting Young Girl, Sentenced to 103 Years in Prison
A judge today sentenced a member of the Brooklyn Orthodox community to 103 years in prison for sexually abusing a young girl over the...
Report: Bulgaria Tells EU Officials it has Evidence Linking Hezbollah to Burgas Terror Attack
Bulgaria has informed European officials there is evidence linking Hezbollah to the deadly Burgas bus bombing that took the lives of 5 Israelis and their...
Surprising Votes: A Settler Votes for Labor, a Bedouin for Bennett
There are Israeli voters making some surprising and rather unexpected choices for political candidates on election day. Yair Hizni,who grew up in a settler family...
Voters Turnout in Record Numbers On Election Day in Israel (VIDEO)
Voters headed to the polls in Israel Tuesday, and they did so in large numbers. The Central election committee is thus far reporting the highest...
American Jewish Leaders Meet With Chuck Hagel
JTA - Top Jewish organizational leaders met with Chuck Hagel, President Obama's defense secretary nominee, and Vice President Joe Biden. A four-sentence statement Monday issued...
Voting Begins in Israel
YNet - Polling stations across Israel are to open at 7 am Tuesday, giving the country's 5,656,705 eligible voters a chance to determine the...
Netanyahu Congratulates Inaugurated Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama has been inaugurated to his second term as the nation's 44th president. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is hoping for...
Report Shows Media Freedom Historically Bad in Egypt
The Egyptian revolution has not brought freedom of the press. In fact quite the opposite according to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, which...
Bennett to Hurriyet Daily: “We Have to Find Ways to Talk to Turkey and Reduce Tension”
Naftali Bennett, the rising star of right-wing Israeli politics, told the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News over the weekend that Turkey is an important ally and steps...
Abbas: “I Challenge Anyone to Deny the Relationship Between Zionism and Nazism Before World War II”
During an interview to be aired Friday on Al Meyadeen, a Lebanon-based broadcast channel, Mahmoud Abbas has claimed that Zionism and Naziism were complicit prior...
Jewish Immigration to Israel Drops 2% in 2012
Times of Israel/JTA - Jewish immigration to Israel registered a 2 percent drop last year, a trend bucked by new arrivals from Europe and...
French Defense Minister: We Are Aiming for Total Reconquest in Mali
BBC - France's military aim in Mali is its "total reconquest", French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has said. "We will not leave any pockets" of...
PLO Executive Committee Member Expects Hamas, Islamic Jihad to Join With PLO
A member of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Dr. Ahmed Majdalani, told Al-Quds newspaper that he expects Hamas and Islamic Jihad to join...
