The government has decided to allocate NIS 50 million in subsidies for medication for Holocaust survivors, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced at this week’s Cabinet meeting on Sunday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Approximately 80,000 survivors of the camps and ghettos will receive discounts of up to 90% on...
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Finance Committee Chairman MK Moshe Gafni lashed out against the decision to send condolences to Poland immediately following the plane tragedy, rather than waiting for Shabbat to end. “There was no need to hastily issue a message of condolences in a way that disparages Israel, since it was sent in...
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Behind Raul Yisrael Teitelbaum hangs a dark oil-on-canvas painting by the 80-year-old Holocaust survivor, an effort to depict one of his horrific experiences at the camp. The dark oil-on-canvas painting shows a gaunt young man, clad in torn blue rags, sitting on a stone in a muddy courtyard in...
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Turkey has named a new ambassador to Israel to replace envoy Ahmet Oguz Celikkol, who was recalled after a humiliating public debacle in Jerusalem earlier this year. According to a report aired by private television network NTV on Sunday, Celikkol, who held...
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced on Tuesday that the IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen Gabi Ashkenazi, will end his four-year term in February 2011. The date is in accordance with the government’s decision, in February 2007, to make his position...
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An IDF Naval boat rescued an Israeli yacht that was stranded at sea after its engine stopped early Monday morning. The IDF Naval boat received a distress signal from the yacht sailing from Cyprus to Israel. On board the yacht was a family of eight, including quintuplets. Based on an...
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Following a trial distribution the IDF Home Front Command began distributing gas masks around the country this week through the Israel Postal Authority. The handout will be via direct mail or distribution stations that will open in stages throughout the country. This is the first time a...
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The Anti-Defamation League, which had cautiously welcomed Jimmy Carter’s apology for pain he caused the Jewish community with his stridently anti-Israel views, is now calling that apology into question following a speech in which the ADL says he reverted to his former ...
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A street in Ramallah has been named after arch-terrorist Yehiye Ayash, Channel 10 reported Wednesday night. Known as "the Engineer," Ayash was responsible for the murder of hundreds of Jews. In the 1990s he joined the Hamas, specializing in the production of improvised explosive devices. "This is an outrageous glorification of...
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A prominent Saudi cleric stirred controversy after announcing he intended to visit Jerusalem, while Israel replied by suggesting he apply for a visa from Jordan, according to a report on the Al Arabiya News Channel. Riyadh-based Sheikh Mohamed al-Areefi announced on the satellite channel Iqraa that the next episode of...
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"Jerusalem is the apple of the eye of each and every Muslim... and we cannot at all accept any Israeli violation in Jerusalem or in Muslim sites," said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his speech at the opening of the Arab League summit in the Libyan town...
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