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2014. december 20 18:03

‘IS executes 100 foreign fighters’; Israel strikes Gaza; Xmas Menorahs in Italian town; Ben Carson loves Israel; ‘FC Barcelona to cut ties with Qatar’

 
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IS said to execute 100 foreign fighters who wanted to quit
Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. (photo credit: AP/File)
Activist says he verified the killings in the Syrian city of Raqqa
 
By AFP
 
 
Hamas threatens retaliation following Israeli airstrikes
 
Terror group warns of ‘dangerous escalation,’ ‘grave violation of ceasefire’ after IAF jets hit Gaza targets in response to rocket fired into Israel
 
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
 
Palestinian members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, march during a rally to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement’s creation, at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 12, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP/ SAID KHATIB)
 
 
An Israel Air Force F-16 warplane. (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)
 
Israeli aircraft strike Gaza targets after rocket attack
 
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
 
Palestinian women bake bread as they prepare lunch amid the rubble of their destroyed home in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, September 21, 2014 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
 
PA: Arab states have yet to transfer funds pledged for Gaza
 
By JUSTIN JALIL
 
Hamas's former Gaza prime minister and leader, Ismail Haniyeh (right), shakes hands with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah at Haniyeh's house in Gaza City, October 9, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Said Khatib)
 
Hamdallah urges Hamas to transfer Gaza authority to PA
 
By JUSTIN JALIL and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
 
 
Cosenza, Italy's Via Arabia is decorated with menoras for the holidays. (Mario Tosti)
 
Italian town’s Arab Street decked with menorahs for Xmas
 
Legend has it the Second Temple’s golden menorah was lost by Visigoth invaders in Cosenza in 410 CE
 
By ROSSELLA TERCATIN
 
 
Anna Berg
 
We are breaking up with you. For good
 
ANNA BERG It’s not us, Europe, it’s you
 
 
Josh Hasten
 
When never again isn’t just a slogan 
 
JOSH HASTEN He took what seems to be the most prudent action he could take for his personal protection: He got a gun
 
 
Gerald M. Steinberg
 
The EU’s Hamas fiasco exposes broken system
 
GERALD M. STEINBERG The ‘technical glitch’ that took Hamas off a list of terror groups was more rule than exception
 
 
Troops with their Hannukah care packages. (Photo credit: Ava Hamburger/courtesy )
 
Hanukkah love in US armed forces
 
Jewish military personnel deployed around the globe receive care packages for holidays from organization called Kosher Troops
 
 
Workers remove the poster for "The Interview" from a billboard in Hollywood, California, December 18, 2014 a day after Sony announced it had no choice but to cancel the movie's Christmas release and pull it from theaters due to a credible threat. (Photo credit: AFP/ VERONIQUE DUPON)
 
Cyber attack could cost Sony half a billion dollars
 
Studio losing millions in revenue after canceling release of ‘The Interview,’ to spend a fortune on recovery costs 
 
 
Gaith al-Omari, fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former director of the American Task Force on Palestine, speaking at Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 2013. (screen shot: YouTube)
 
DC think tank hires ex-Palestinian negotiator
 
Influential Washington institution names former director of American Task Force on Palestine as fellow 
 
 
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house is seen on the University of Virginia campus on December 6, 2014 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Jay Paul/Getty Images/ via JTA)
 
Jewish groups take point on combating campus assault
 
Hillel and Jewish fraternities were already teaching against sexual violence well before explosive Rolling Stone story
 
 
Anti-Arab graffiti found at Eilat sports center on December 19, 2014. (Photo credit: Israel Police)
 
Anti-Arab graffiti found in Eilat sports center
 
‘Death to Arabs’ and ‘Lehava,’ the name of the extremist anti-assimilation group, spray painted on wall; police launch probe
 
 
Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, an Israeli citizen found guilty of illegally selling kidneys. (screen capture: YouTube)
 
Israeli kidney broker released from US prison
 
Levy Izhak Rosenbaum finishes 2.5 year stint in New Jersey facility after getting caught in 2009 FBI sting
 
 
A screen grab of a pile of suitcases belonging to people interred in Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp. The suitcases are featured in an exhibit at the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum in Poland.
 
Auschwitz suitcases get high-tech storage
 
EU-subsidized repository to preserve belongings of thousands interred at Nazi death camp
 
 
Tampa-area Jewish agency head dead in murder-suicide
 
Rochelle Tatrai, president, CEO of Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services, and partner found shot dead
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Ben Carson visits Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on December 18, 2014. Carson, 63, a retired African-American neurosurgeon best known for his groundbreaking work in separating conjoined twins, has not yet declared his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, saying that he is "strongly considering" a bid. (photo credit: AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
 
Awed by Israel, 2016 Republican hopeful Ben Carson pledges support
 
US would ‘have Israel’s back’ if he was president, says early conservative favorite, knocking Obama and calling Netanyahu ‘a great leader’
 
By JOSEF FEDERMAN
 
 
Barcelona soccer team ‘set to cut ties with terror-financing Qatar’
 
Israeli TV report says club has received $200 million from gulf state in recent years, but won’t extend sponsorship deal
 
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Barcelona FC players Lionel Messi (left) and Neymar da Silva Juntos, pictured at a Spanish friendly match (photo credit: AP/Manu Fernandez)
 
 
Kerry said to warn UN vote on Palestine would strengthen Israeli right
 
Peres, Livni told US secretary such a move before March elections would benefit Netanyahu, Bennett, according to Foreign Policy
 
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
PM Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on December 15, 2014 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO / Flash90)
 
 
 
Israel slams UN request it pay Lebanon for oil spill
 
Non-binding resolution awards Beirut $850 million for ‘environmental disaster’ caused during 2006 war sparked by Hezbollah
 
By AP and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Israeli envoy to the UN Ron Prosor speaks out On November 11, 2014 against the UN Security Council's silence on a spate of terror attacks against Israelis in late October and November. (Photo credit: Courtesy of the Israeli Mission to the UN)
 
 
 
British actor Michael Caine is shown with Mandy Rice-Davies at the discotheque she ran in Tel Aviv, Nov. 1968. (photo credit: AP Photo)
 
Mandy Rice-Davies, key figure in 1963 British sex scandal, dies aged 70
 
Former model and showgirl, who later converted to Judaism and married an Israeli man, lost a ‘battle with cancer’
 
By AP
 
 
Menorah honoring terror victims erected in Sydney
 
Chabad sets up 32-foot menorah following deadly siege of Australian cafe
 
By JTA
Screenshot of the 32-foot menorah set up in Martin Place in Sydney, Australia, December 2014. (Photo credit: Chabad.org/screen capture)
 
 
 
For Cuban Jews, US rapprochement with Castro a cause for concern
 
Older generation of emigres object to warming ties between Washington, Havana, but younger Cuban Jews in US eager to visit
 
By URIEL HEILMAN
People stand outside the Little Havana restaurant Versailles, as they absorb the news that Alan Gross was released from a Cuban prison and that U.S. President Barack Obama wants to change the United States Cuba policy, Dec. 17, 2014 in Miami. (photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
 
 
IAEA: Iran honoring nuclear deal with P5+1
 
In confidential report, UN watchdog says Tehran meeting commitments, not enriching uranium above 5% concentration
 
By AFP and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Yukiya Amano of Japan, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) awaits the board of governors meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, Monday, June 2, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)
 
 
Killing top IS leaders not enough to cripple group, say experts
 
Iraqi PM says there can be no lasting victory against extremists without undertaking internal reforms
 
By AFP and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
This undated file image posted on a militant website on January 4, 2014, which is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now called the Islamic State group, left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq's Anbar Province. (Photo credit: AP via militant website, File)
 
 
Ancient Capernaum, on the shores of Lake Kinneret (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
 
A Galilee Christmas tour, in the footsteps of Jesus
 
The New Testament comes alive along the shores of Lake Kinneret
 
By AVIVA and SHMUEL BAR-AM
 
 
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