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“We’re still waiting for the results. But one thing is clear, the State of Israel is at a historic turning point. We are facing immense opportunities, and immense challenges, including the existential threat from Iran,” said Netanyahu.
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Senior Blue and White Party member Zvi Hauser to JNS: "There are 200,000 projectiles in the North; war almost erupted in Gaza, there is a 50-billion-shekel deficit. There's no choice but a unity government."
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U.S. military leaders presented U.S. President Donald Trump with a range of options against the regime.
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With exit polls showing Likud, and Blue and White, facing no clear path to a governing majority, many see Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman as a potential “kingmaker”—key to avoiding a third election.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The FBI is alleging that a Jewish day school rabbi tricked a 14-year-old boy into sending him sexually explicit photos of himself.
An electric milk-dispensing system for coffee use delivers accurately measured milk, reducing waste and increasing efficiency.
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Two Pentagon officials told NPR that U.S. intelligence saw this as “circumstantial evidence” that Iran launched the attack from its soil.
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(JTA) — Less than a year after he immigrated to Israel from Russia, Dima Eygenson has already voted twice in his adopted country.
“It’s like putting a monument to killers on the top of the graves of their victims,” said director general of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky.
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Overall, the biggest theme of the exit polls is that neither the right-wing/religious bloc nor the center-left bloc have enough seats to form a governing coalition at 61 without the support of former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party.
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Sports and Culture Minister Miri Regev referenced 2009 as an example of how the political picture can change drastically.
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Because Saudi Arabia’s air-defenses have been pointed south to protect against missile attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, they were futile against the drones and missiles raining in from the north.
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Party leaders hit beaches and shopping centers in central Israel, urging potential voters to head to the ballot box amid early concerns over low voter turnout.
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Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz casts his ballot at a voting station in Rosh HaAyin, during the Knesset Elections, on September 17, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90
The three main broadcasters showed their Likud and Blue and White parties in a virtual dead heat -- just like in April.
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(JTA) — The former executive director of the Iowa Hillel was arrested and charged with abusing a young boy at the Hillel House in Iowa City.
(JTA) — High school students in suburban Denver participated in a Snapchat post that referred to killing Jews.
Rabbi Jonathan Skolnick also worked at the Yeshivah of Flatbush, an Orthodox day school in Brooklyn, from 2012 to 2018.
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(JTA) — The Rhode Island ICE detention center where a guard drove into a row of Jewish protesters apologized for holding a recent board meeting less than an hour before Shabbat.
(JTA) — Cokie Roberts, a pioneering journalist who with her husband wrote an interfaith Haggadah and published a book about their interfaith marriage, has died.
Israel experts warned that the Sept. 17 elections could be exposed to numerous cyber attacks, as well as attempts to sway voters.
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The vice president warned, “If Iran conducted this latest attack to pressure President Trump to back off, they failed. America is ready to defend our interests.”
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — The woman approached with trepidation, fidgeting and glancing nervously over her shoulder as she sat down in a coffee shop here.
"On U.S. campuses across the country, harassment motivated by classical anti-Semitism actually decreased, and significantly so. At the same time, however, the number of Israel-related acts of harassment increased significantly,” wrote the report’s researchers.
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President of a New Jersey City Council uses term ‘Jew her down.’ Her colleagues come to her defense.
(JTA) — The president of the City Council in Trenton, New Jersey, allegedly used the term “Jew her down” during a closed-door meeting to describe the settlement at a lower rate of a personal injury lawsuit.
(JTA) — A New Jersey teenager is accused of deliberately swerving his car – twice – at two Jewish men while the passengers yelled insults about their religion.
(JTA) — A same-sex couple from Maryland is suing the U.S. State Department for refusing to grant birthright citizenship to their infant daughter.
(JTA) — Thirty-six activists from a Jewish group arrested during a demonstration in front of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey accepted a plea deal that keeps them out of prison.
(JTA) — The homeless man charged with setting fire to a historic synagogue in northern Minnesota was sheltering in an alcove between the building and its sukkah.
In response to a Likud Party petition, committee head Justice Hanan Melcer rules that an NGO initiative to bus 15,000 Arab voters to polling stations is illegal.
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(JTA) — Israeli actress Gal Gadot called on her Israeli Instagram followers to “Get out and vote.”
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called on all Israeli citizens to exercise their right to vote.
Having learned the painful lesson in April that every vote counts, the parties are planning everything from social media blitzes to fleets of buses to bring supporters to the polls.
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Central Elections Committee posts 3,000 camera-equipped observers at voting stations, with instructions to notify police if anyone is found filming illegally.
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Voting stations throughout the country opened their doors at 7 a.m. to 6,394,030 eligible voters. Most stations will close at 10 p.m.
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It occurred a week after Israel hit posts of Iranian-backed militias and an arms depot in eastern Syria, near the Iraq border.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — An administrator at a prestigious Modern Orthodox Jewish middle school in New York City was arrested for production of child pornography.
His announcement drew the expected condemnations from the left; on the right, some criticized the Israeli prime minister for waiting until now to implement this move.
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Simon Coveney, Ireland’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, opposes the legislation, fearing it would reduce regional Irish influence.
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(JTA) — Three of the founding and most prominent board members of the Women’s March stepped down from their positions, the organization announced Monday.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz casts his ballot at a voting station in Rosh HaAyin, during the Knesset Elections, on September 17, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90
NEW YORK (JTA) — The FBI is alleging that a Jewish day school rabbi tricked a 14-year-old boy into sending him sexually explicit photos of himself.
(JTA) — Less than a year after he immigrated to Israel from Russia, Dima Eygenson has already voted twice in his adopted country.
The three main broadcasters showed their Likud and Blue and White parties in a virtual dead heat -- just like in April.
The post Netanyahu and Gantz too close to call, exit polls in Israel show appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
(JTA) — The former executive director of the Iowa Hillel was arrested and charged with abusing a young boy at the Hillel House in Iowa City.
(JTA) — High school students in suburban Denver participated in a Snapchat post that referred to killing Jews.
(JTA) — The Rhode Island ICE detention center where a guard drove into a row of Jewish protesters apologized for holding a recent board meeting less than an hour before Shabbat.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
“We’re still waiting for the results. But one thing is clear, the State of Israel is at a historic turning point. We are facing immense opportunities, and immense challenges, including the existential threat from Iran,” said Netanyahu.
The post Netanyahu calls for ‘strong Zionist government’ in post-election speech appeared first on JNS.org.
Senior Blue and White Party member Zvi Hauser to JNS: "There are 200,000 projectiles in the North; war almost erupted in Gaza, there is a 50-billion-shekel deficit. There's no choice but a unity government."
The post In post-election speech, Gantz declares end to incitement and division, yes to unity appeared first on JNS.org.
U.S. military leaders presented U.S. President Donald Trump with a range of options against the regime.
The post Report: Trump weighs retaliatory action against Iran after Saudi oil-facility attack appeared first on JNS.org.
With exit polls showing Likud, and Blue and White, facing no clear path to a governing majority, many see Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman as a potential “kingmaker”—key to avoiding a third election.
The post Lieberman urges unity government after his party receives boost in exit polls appeared first on JNS.org.
An electric milk-dispensing system for coffee use delivers accurately measured milk, reducing waste and increasing efficiency.
The post Starbucks Germany partners with Israeli startup Milkit for high-tech in 140 locations appeared first on JNS.org.
Two Pentagon officials told NPR that U.S. intelligence saw this as “circumstantial evidence” that Iran launched the attack from its soil.
The post Report: US satellites detected Iran priming drones, missiles ahead of Saudi strike appeared first on JNS.org.
“It’s like putting a monument to killers on the top of the graves of their victims,” said director general of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky.
The post Canadian officials face criticism for honoring Ukrainian Nazi collaborators appeared first on JNS.org.
