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Liberman: We are ‘closer than ever’ to deal with Palestinians

Netzach YisraelJune 8, 2017News

Times of Israel

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Thursday that Israel was “closer than ever” to an agreement with the Palestinians and that the opportunity for full relations with Arab states would sway the Netanyahu government to accept a deal.

“We are far closer to an agreement than ever before,” Liberman told Channel 2 on Thursday. “I hope we will be able to realize this option.”

Netzach YisraelJune 8, 2017News

Ynetnews

Falash Mura olim arriving in Israel

Some 70 Ethiopian immigrants arrived in Israel on Tuesday as part of a joint operation between the Jewish Agency and the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. Their arrival was made possible due to a government decision passed on November 2015, which agreed to bring over 9,000 members of the Falash Mura community from Ethiopia, but activists criticized the slow pace at which the decision has been implemented.

Dozens of excited family members gathered at Ben-Gurion Airport to meet their relatives, whom they had not seen for many years. Among them was Malaso Bardokai, who waited quietly to greet his daughter, whom he had not seen in a decade. “We have been waiting for this for so long, and now the family is finally reuniting,” he said.

Netzach YisraelJune 7, 2017News

Times of Israel

United States permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley

The US ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday threatened that the US could withdraw from the body’s Human Rights Council, unless it reforms, including by removing its built-in procedural mechanism to bash Israel.

Nikki Haley said the Council’s “relentless, pathological campaign” against a state with a strong human rights record “makes a mockery not of Israel, but of the Council itself.”

Netzach YisraelJune 2, 2017News

Reuters

US Embassy in Tel Aviv

President Donald Trump signed a temporary order on Thursday to keep the U.S. embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv instead of relocating it to Jerusalem, despite his campaign pledge to go ahead with the controversial move.

After months of fierce debate within his administration, Trump chose to continue his predecessors’ policy of signing a six-month waiver overriding a 1995 law requiring that the embassy be transferred to Jerusalem, an action that would have complicated his efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Netzach YisraelMay 28, 2017News

Times of Israel

Palestinians hold posters showing Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre in which 38 Israelis were killed, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 16, 2008

Norway’s foreign minister on Friday condemned the Palestinian Authority for naming a women’s center in the West Bank, funded in part by the Scandinavian country, after a female terrorist.

“The glorification of terrorist attacks is completely unacceptable, and I deplore this decision in the strongest possible terms. Norway will not allow itself to be associated with institutions that take the names of terrorists in this way. We will not accept the use of Norwegian aid funding for such purposes,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende said in a statement.

Netzach YisraelMay 28, 2017May 28, 2017News

Times of Israel

Palestinians inaugurate a square to commemorate Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist who killed dozens of Israeli civilians in a 1978 bus hijacking in Israel

The United Nations on Sunday said that it had withdrawn support for a Palestinian women’s center that was named for a notorious terrorist, saying the move was “offensive” and glorified terrorism.

“The United Nations disassociated itself from the Center once it learned the offensive name chosen for it and will take measures to ensure that such incidents do not take place in the future,” said a statement from Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Netzach YisraelMay 26, 2017May 26, 2017News

Haaretz

A Christian Broadcasting Network docudrama, which claims to “prove the prophecy of the return of the Jews to their homeland,” has become a box office hit, making over $1.6 million on its first day.

The CBN Documentaries docudrama “In Our Hands: The Battle for Jerusalem,” recounting Israel’s Six Day War and its conquest of East Jerusalem, debuted in the United States on Tuesday to sold-out audiences.
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Netzach YisraelMay 24, 2017News

Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday thanked the Czech parliament for passing two pro-Israel resolutions that recognize the Jewish people’s ancient ties to Jerusalem.

Netanyahu praised the Czech Chamber of Deputies for its call on Tuesday to the nation’s government to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to stop paying membership fees to UNESCO until the organization stops its anti-Israel bias.

Netzach YisraelMay 23, 2017News

Times of Israel

Surely nobody but Donald J. Trump could get a warm laugh from an audience of Israeli notables within seconds of highlighting the Iranian regime’s desire to destroy our country. That’s what happened deep into the main speech of the president’s 28-hour Israel visit, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon.

“Iran’s leaders routinely call for Israel’s destruction,” he said bleakly and bitterly, reading from the teleprompters. Then he departed from his prepared text, and added: “Not with Donald J Trump, believe me.”

The remark was met with cheers and a standing ovation. Netanyahu, on his feet, pumped a fist.

Netzach YisraelMay 22, 2017News

Times of Israel

US President Donald Trump visits the Western Wall

Fifty years after Israel captured the Western Wall, US President Donald Trump on Monday became the first sitting American leader to visit the holy site, in a historic visit that saw him accompanied by his Jewish relatives in Jerusalem’s ancient Old City.

Entering the Old City’s warren of alleyways on Monday — on lockdown by police for his visit — Trump and his wife Melania met the heads of various Christian denominations and began their tour at one of the holiest sites in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, believed by Christians to be the site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and resurrection.

Liberman: We are ‘closer than ever’ to deal with Palestinians

Israel brings over 70 new olim from Ethiopia

US to quit UN Human Rights Council if it won’t reform, Haley indicates

Trump delays moving U.S. embassy to Jerusalem despite campaign pledge

Norway demands PA return funds for women’s center named after terrorist

UN chief pulls support for Palestinian women’s center named after terrorist

Christian Docudrama About Six-Day War Becomes U.S. Box Office Hit

Netanyahu thanks Czechs for pro-Israel resolutions

Simply by saying he loves it and stands with it, Trump wins over endlessly criticized Israel

Trump makes history as first serving US president to visit Western Wall