Israel partially closes off Ramallah after Palestinian policeman shoots on soldiers

Israel partially closes off Ramallah after Palestinian policeman shoots on soldiers

 
 

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 01 February 2016

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Jelena Djurovic: My first visit to Auschwitz

The journalist, Jewish activist and vice-chair of the Jewish community of Montenegro recalls her emotions upon her first trip to the Nazi death camp in January.

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Ronald Lauder to give lecture in Switzerland on Nazi-looted art

WJC President Ronald S. Lauder will speak on the issue of Nazi-looted art at Kunsthaus Zürich, on Tuesday, 2 February 2016, at 7:30 pm CET. There will be a live webcast.

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Spain’s Jews, once expelled, now embraced by Spain – YNet

01 Feb 2016 A law passed last October grants Spanish citizenship to all descendants of Spanish Jews. So what does it mean to the descendants of those Jews to claim Spanish citizenship, 500 years later?  READ MORE »

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Editorial: Justifying terrorism – Jerusalem Post

01 Feb 2016 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has apparently revealed himself as a Palestinian partisan.   READ MORE »

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Twisting inquiry into Buenos Aires bombing takes new turn – New York Times

01 Feb 2016 Argentina’s new government is pledging to finally get to the bottom of a case that cost the country about $3.5 million last year alone, and that took on a life of its own, swallowing up many who touched it.  READ MORE »

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Israel takes measures after yet another Palestinian terror attack

01 Feb 2016 The IDF on Monday partially closed off Ramallah, the main Palestinian city in the West Bank, following a shooting attack near there the previous day.  READ MORE »

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The ongoing Jewish exodus from France, in two charts – Vox

01 Feb 2016 French Jews are leading their country at a rate of about 16 per thousand annually. This is far from a total depletion of the French Jewish community, but it’s still well beyond the rates in the UK, Germany, or the US.  READ MORE »

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Why French Jewish people are moving to London – BBC News

01 Feb 2016 Many French Jews share a concern about the rise of anti-Semitic attacks in their country in recent years.  READ MORE »

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Three Jewish teens charged over graffiti at Jerusalem church – Agence France Presse

01 Feb 2016 Israeli prosecutors pressed charges on Sunday against three Jewish teenagers for allegedly scrawling anti-Christian graffiti on some of Christianity’s holiest sites in Jerusalem.  READ MORE »

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Hamas leader says no support received from Iran in years – Times of Israel

01 Feb 2016 A senior Hamas official said his Gaza-based terror group has not received support from Iran since 2009, in a leaked phone call published in the Arab media on Sunday.   READ MORE »

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Israeli minister interviewed for Saudi website – YNet

01 Feb 2016 Ze’ev Elkin gave a rare interview to a Saudi Arabian media outlet recently, in the wake of the shared threat the two countries face following the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal.  READ MORE »

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Israeli high court adds to prison terms for arsonists of Jewish-Arab school – JTA

01 Feb 2016 Israel’s Supreme Court added to the prison sentences of two brothers who pleaded guilty to an arson attack on a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem.  READ MORE »

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Israel approves prayer space at Western Wall for non-Orthodox Jews – New York Times

01 Feb 2016 After years of rancor over rituals at the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism, the Israeli government on Sunday approved the creation of an upgraded egalitarian prayer space there for non-Orthodox Jews.  READ MORE »

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Canadian Jewish group: PM Trudeau’s omission of Jews in Holocaust day remarks unintended – Jerusalem Post

01 Feb 2016 The Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s omission of Jews in a statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day was not deliberate.  READ MORE »

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Hamas hints at deal to exchange soldiers’ bodies for prisoners – Times of Israel

31 Jan 2016 Terror group official says tunnel in deadly collapse was same passageway used in capture of Oron Shaul during 2014 war.  READ MORE »

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Israeli film ‘Sandstorm’ takes top prize at Sundance – Jerusalem Post

31 Jan 2016 The movie, which is Zexer’s feature-film debut, tells the story of a Beduin woman (Ruba Blal-Asfour) forced to welcome her husband’s second wife, and how she copes with her own rebellious, educated daughter (Lamis Ammar). Haitham Omari, a former cameraman who became a star when he made his acting debut as the militia leader in Yuval Adler’s Bethlehem, plays the father.   READ MORE »