Posted on: December 15th, 2013

Iran knows nothing about the whereabouts of Robert Levinson, the former Jewish FBI agent who was last seen on an Iranian island in 2007. The American government said at the time he was on a private trip, but it has since been revealed he was working for the CIA. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif […]

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

The Cabinet on Sunday appointed a committee to evaluate the possibility of purchasing a plane for the flights of the Prime Minister and President instead of the current procedure of using chartered planes. The panel will also come up a recommendation on whether a new office-residence should be built for the Prime Minister, whose official […]

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

A rocket was launched at Ashkelon from Gaza at 8:19 pm. It appears that the rocket fell short and landed within the Gaza strip. On Saturday, Israel transported fuel into Gaza to help alleviate the humanitarian disaster that Hamas created. Jewish Press News Briefs

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

The app has helped streamline communication between parents, teachers and administration at MDS.

Posted on: December 15th, 2013

The head of the Greek Orthodox Levant Party Rodrigue Khoury announced on Sunday “the beginning of an organized campaign” against Turkey."

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

Torrential rains and the “snowstorm of the century” last week have left Jerusalem with 51 percent of its annual amount of precipitation, according to observations by the Israeli Meteorological Service, and the winter has barely begun. Be’er Sheva, where many areas still are flooded, now has accumulated 63 percent of is annual rainfall and more […]

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

Syrian President Bassar al-Assad’s Air Force dropped “barrel bombs” of explosives on Aleppo Sunday, killing 14 children and eight others, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A school was hit by the bombs, the Observatory said, and another activist group reported that there were several helicopter attacks. The city, Syria’s second largest, […]

Posted on: December 15th, 2013

On Saturday, Tunisia’s 21 political parties picked the minister of industry, Mehdi Jomaa, 50, as the next prime minister, who will replace the Islamist-led government with a team of technocrats, AP reported. Jomaa now has three weeks to cobble together his government, whose main task will be to prepare presidential and legislative elections next year. […]

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

Gaza-based terrorists are training to fight alongside Islamists against the Assad regime, the BBC reported Sunday, quoting recent Internet videos showing fighters training to storm buildings with Islamic music in the background. One terrorist said on a video that he is going to fight a “holy war” in Syria because “there is no fighting with […]

Posted on: December 15th, 2013

A statement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejecting a boycott of Israel has infuriated Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) leaders. “No, we do not support the boycott of Israel,” Abbas told South African reporters last week, The Star reported. “But we ask everyone to boycott the products of the settlements. Because the settlements are […]

Posted on: December 15th, 2013

Jerusalem still is digging out of the “snowstorm of the century,” and the main highway from Tel Aviv was closed temporarily Sunday evening to allow workers to move freely to restore electricity to hundreds of families without electricity for more than two days. Schools will be closed in the capital on Monday. The road to […]

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

A populist leader of a protest group told the La Repubblica newspaper Friday that Italy is “slave to the bankers, like the Rothschilds” and that “It is curious that five or six of the richest people in the world are Jews, but this is something I need to investigate.” The claims by Andrea Zunino, spokesman […]

Posted on: December 15th, 2013

The “snow siege” of Jerusalem is a God’s direct response to the recent jailing of yeshiva students who refused to accept draft orders to report for duty in the IDF, claimed Kabbalistic Rabbi Yaakov Addas Sunday. “There is a general principle that when there is an evil decree, such as a tsunami, everyone must do […]

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has rehashed his willingness to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu according to Lebanese news source, one month after he took up the Prime Minister’s challenge to speak in the Knesset – but without a condition that he declare that Israel is a Jewish state. Al-Mayadeen, a Lebanese channel close […]

Posted on: December 15th, 2013

Finance Minister and Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid has come out against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s request for buying a plane for him and the president and for new offices and official residence. “At the moral level, we are of the view that in these days of belt tightening and tax raises, when the […]

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has announced that she intends to appeal the committee decision in the high court.

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

Conservative commentator Norman Podhoretz wrote in The Wall Street Journal late last week that Israel should attack Iran now to prevent it from gaining access to a nuclear weapon. Israel can “put at least a temporary halt, and conceivably even a permanent one, to the relentless Iranian quest for the bomb” he wrote. “The Obama […]

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

"Failed" and "Survivors" have been vending shmootz to their readers, both Jewish and gentile.

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

NASA satellite photo from this morning.

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Posted on: December 15th, 2013

In an effort to help reopen the roads in and around Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Works sent 100 tons of Dead Sea salt to Jerusalem yesterday, to spread on the roads, according to a report in The Marker. No word yet on whether they included a complementary package of Dead Sea mud, or Ahava skin […]