Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Breaking News Tony Blair Says Arab States Will Normalize Relations With Israel as Part of Peace Deal
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunni Muslim countries are ready to normalize ties with Israel should Israel negotiate a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative. The Arab Peace Initiative, first proposed in 2002 and reaffirmed in recent years, calls for full…
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Breaking News Temple Mount Firebrand Yehuda Glick Finds Himself in Knesset After Israel Shakeup
(JTA)— A year and a half ago he was a fringe Temple Mount activist expected to die, the victim of a point-blank assassination attempt. This week he will enter the Knesset, the ruling Likud party’s replacement legislator for outgoing Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. Yehuda Glick’s journey — from the United States to Israel, from government…
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Breaking News Donald Trump Insists No Plans for Israel Trip
(JTA) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said a trip abroad would not be prudent “at the moment” because it would not sway voters. Trump’s comments, made Sunday to the Wall Street Journal, come amid reports that the Republican Jewish Coalition is planning an Israel trip for the real estate mogul. Earlier this month,…
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Breaking News Amsterdam Will Pay Back Jewish Community $11M for ‘Holocaust Tax’
(JTA) — The city of Amsterdam will give its Jewish community $11 million as compensation for taxes imposed on Holocaust survivors who returned home to the city following World War II. Upon their return, according to an in The Telegraph Monday, the survivors were made to pay a tax because their homes were left empty during the Holocaust. They…
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Breaking News Worried About Economy, Israelis Want Better Scandinavia-Style Social Safety Net
(JTA) — On one hand, most Israelis say their financial situation is good and getting better. On the other hand, they’re worried they won’t be able to provide for their children. On one hand, they want significantly more government spending in a wide range of public services. On the other hand, they say they pay…
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Opinion What Avigdor Lieberman Can Learn From the Last Non-General To Be Israel’s Defense Chief
(JTA) – He was an outspoken politician with little military experience, appointed by a rival and promising to bring a new approach. Current and former officials at the Defense Ministry called his appointment an “enigma,” fretting that “it will take some time until he understands how things work” and that “he’ll have to undergo basic…
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Breaking News Netanyahu Said to Recruit Hard-Liner Lieberman, Forgoing Labor Union
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The unity government was about to form: Likud and Labor, right and left, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Isaac Herzog. Then, according to media reports, Netanyahu swung to the right and instead embraced an old partner: Avigdor Lieberman, head of the hard-line nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party. Lieberman, formerly…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Denies Reports Mahmoud Abbas Offered Direct Talks 3 Times
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas offered to begin secret, direct talks with Netanyahu three times. Gershon Baskin, who has acted as a conduit between the Netanyahu government and Palestinian leadership, Monday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas offered three times to…
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