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Hana Levi Julian
An American official reportedly replied brusquely, „What business is it of yours? It’s not in your territory — it’s part of the West Bank.”

Hana Levi Julian
Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem would „shatter the Palestinian fantasy that Jerusalem isn’t the capital of Israel.”

Hana Levi Julian
The new U.S. Ambassador is expected to begin his new job less than a week before the arrival of President Donald Trump in Jerusalem.

Ari Fuld
JewishPress.com blogger Ari Fuld was banned from Facebook for pointing out that radical Islamic terrorists kill Jews.

Jewish Press Staff
Israel is still waiting to hear the condemnation of the terror attack from Jordan.

Hana Levi Julian
Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives have joined the FDNY investigation.

David Israel
The synagogue’s upper floors had been condemned since the 1990s, and in 2007 the building was closed altogether.

TPS / Tazpit News Agency
The manager of the excavation says the stone is a “rare and very special discovery” since only about ten similar slabs from this period have been found.

JNi.Media
The Jewish population of Djerba consisted mainly of kohanim (priests), and some claim that they are the only bona fide kohanim we have today.

Isi Leibler
Lauder stressed that Abbas is a moderate committed to peace. Implicit in his narrative is that the Israeli government, especially Netanyahu, had been insufficiently flexible in previous negotiations

Jewish Press News Briefs
Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party does not enjoy support from the PA’s population, and they would be quickly replaced by the Islamists and other terror groups if given the chance.

JNi.Media
Bring your own food and water, and download a movie on your iPad or laptop ahead of the flight.

Isi Leibler
Lauder stressed that Abbas is a moderate committed to peace. Implicit in his narrative is that the Israeli government, especially Netanyahu, had been insufficiently flexible in previous negotiations

Mudar Zahran
The problem with Jordan is the fact that radicalization in Jordan is manufactured, incited, aided, and promoted by the regime itself.

Stephen M. Flatow
Advocates of the Palestinian cause like to pretend that all Palestinian terrorism these days is the work of “extremists” from Hamas, not “moderates” affiliated with Abbas. Like their leader Abbas, they lie

Gatestone Institute
Israel is thus the only country on the planet to benefit from the doubtful privilege of being scrutinized on the least of its actions, through an agenda decided by its enemies.

Michael Freund
It is bad enough that the police prohibit Jews from praying on the Temple Mount, but what gives them the authority to extend that dubious ban to include praying near it?

Asher Schwartz