Seven firefighting teams, hundreds of locals help put out blaze at al-Jazzar Mosque, one of oldest, biggest mosques in Israel An electrical fault was the cause of a large fire at a mosque in Acre on Sunday, Israel’s rescue and emergency services said. The blaze at the al-Jazzar Mosque in the northern town’s old city […]
(JNS.org) The International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem and Israel’s Foreign Ministry held a seminar on the 1994 Rwanda genocide, whose anniversary took place earlier this week. Several Rwandan genocide survivors were part of delegations attending the seminar. In 1994 members of Rwanda’s majority ethnic Hutu government killed an estimated 500,000–1,000,000 ethnic Tutsi Rwandans […]
Speaking after ‘very constructive’ Kerry, Abbas meeting in Paris, Palestinian negotiator says international supervision needed for restarting peace talks Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat drew parallels Saturday between the recent spate of terror attacks claimed by the Islamic State in Europe and Israeli actions in the West Bank. “Those who murder children in Europe in […]
In a related development, US Secretary of State John Kerry met in Paris on Saturday with his French counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault, Palestinian issue was among the topics discussed. By Herb Keinon Israel hit back over the weekend at criticism from the US, EU and UN over plans to build housing units in the southern Jerusalem […]
Al Mayadeen is showing a three-part series on the kidnapping and killing of the two Israeli soldiers that led to the Second Lebanon War ten years ago; Hezbollah operatives are shown training for the abduction. By Roi Kais Four years after the Lebanese television channel Al Mayadeen, which is close to Hezbollah, published the dramatic […]
Guitarist throws a little ‘Exodus’ and ‘Hava Nagila’ into his show, says his drummer wife found ‘vibration’ in Jerusalem more powerful than the oceans In a rare conversational break during his concert in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, Carlos Santana urged tens of thousands of Israelis to pray for peace and an end to violence. […]
“If enough of us raise our voices” then “we could push FIFA to hold the Israeli Football Association accountable,” the petition stated. By Tova Lazaroff An international petition with almost 150,000 signatures has demanded that FIFA force the Israel Football Association to eliminate six of its clubs that are based in West Bank settlements. The […]
Swastikas, a pig, and insults were spray-painted on a memorial to the six Israelis who died in a helicopter training exercise in Romania in 2010; the vandals are unknown; police are investigating. By Itamar Eichner Unknown vandals have defaced a memorial in Romania to the six members of the Israeli Air Force who died in a […]
Search of vehicle with Israeli plates yields weapons cache; four arrested at Hawara carrying large knives A Palestinian man was arrested at a checkpoint on Route 5 in the northern West Bank late Saturday after guards found knives, axes and bullets in his vehicle. The man was driving an Israeli-registered vehicle with Israeli plates. Guards […]
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Several weeks ago, dozens of teenagers from the Israeli community of Avnei Hefetz in Samaria decided to dedicate a portion of their summer vacation to hold a summer camp for children with disabilities. When they realized they lacked adequate funds for the project, they decided to raise money via Headstart, an Israeli […]
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