Israel has withdrawn from the world windsurfing championships in Oman this month after failing to agree with the Gulf Arab state on security arrangements for its athletes, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. An official with Israel’s Shin Bet security service said the trip to the Oct 17-24 regatta was canceled after Oman declined to…
An 18-year-old Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli near a contested shrine in Jerusalem on Wednesday and was then shot and wounded by the injured man, Israeli police said, the third knife attack in the city in less than a week. Police said the attacker struck in an alleyway near the Western Wall, a Jewish prayer…
Under the cover of night, a 6-foot-tall (180-cm) granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments was removed from the Oklahoma Capitol grounds after judges said its placement on government land violated state law, officials said on Tuesday. The monument, which had drawn strong support from the Republican leadership of the socially conservative state, has been…
The presidential campaign of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders has apologized for ejecting members of a pro-Palestinian student group from a rally in Boston. Members of the Boston Students for Justice in Palestine appeared Saturday night at a large Boston rally for Sanders at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. They stood in the overflow area,…
A worker at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx was found dead in a hospital bathroom after being missing for five days. Anthony Iuso, 44, a cleaner at the historically Jewish hospital that recently took over Yeshiva University’s medical school didn’t return home from work on October 1. Family members told the New York Post…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site of the deadly attack on an Israeli couple and ordered the deployment of security cameras on all West Bank roads. Netanyahu, accompanied by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, on Tuesday toured the site near the West Bank settlement of Itamar…
Facebook will launch an Israeli-made satellite to bring Internet access to sub-Saharan Africa. The AMOS-6 satellite is being built by Israel Aerospace Industries and will be operated by the Israeli company Spacecom, in partnership with Eutelsat Communications of France. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the partnership with Eutelsat to launch the satellite on his Facebook…
The entrances to Jerusalem’s walled Old City are sealed off by Israeli police and the streets of East Jerusalem are littered with barricades, burning trash and the detritus of battles between stone-throwing Palestinians and Israeli forces. The scenes after 10 days of violence in which four Israelis and three Palestinians have been killed and 170…
Stephan Templ, an Austrian Jewish historian who wrote a book critical of Vienna’s post-Holocaust handling of Jewish property, began serving a one-year prison term for restitution fraud. Templ, 55, reported on Monday to Vienna’s Simmering jail accompanied by a handful of friends and supporters, including his lawyer, the human rights attorney Robert Amsterdam, who is…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he did not want the current violence in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank to escalate into a military confrontation with Israel. “We tell them (the Israelis) that we do not want either military or security escalation,” Abbas said at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization….
At 92 years of age and with over nine million books sold, British children’s writer and illustrator Judith Kerr could be enjoying a restful retirement, but no. The author of bestselling picture book “The Tiger Who Came To Tea” and of “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit,” an account of her childhood as a Jewish refugee…
