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Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition NLD wins early seats

Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition NLD wins early seats

Yangon, Myanmar – Only a fraction of the results have been announced in Myanmar’s historic parliamentary elections, but jubilant crowds still packed the streets outside the… Read More ›

Climate change could create 100 million poor, over half a billion homeless

Climate change could create 100 million poor, over half a billion homeless

  Rising sea levels from unchecked carbon emissions could drive more than 100 million people into extreme poverty and submerge the homes of over half… Read More ›

Russia could be banned from 2016 Olympics after doping report

Russia could be banned from 2016 Olympics after doping report

Russian track and field athletes could be banned from the 2016 Olympics after an independent report detailed an apparently state-sponsored doping program. Commissioned by the… Read More ›

Obama, Netanyahu said to agree to expanded US military aid

Obama, Netanyahu said to agree to expanded US military aid

US, Israel to form joint task force to handle Iran nuclear-deal monitoring; PM to meet Kerry before leaving DC to discuss steps by Israel, Palestinians… Read More ›

Netanyahu calls meeting with Obama ‘one of best’ they’ve had

Netanyahu calls meeting with Obama ‘one of best’ they’ve had

PM says he was not asked to freeze settlements, only focused on how to move forward; will meet Kerry while in DC; US team heads… Read More ›

Happy birthday to my 100-year-old ‘mamo’

Happy birthday to my 100-year-old ‘mamo’

From Auschwitz to Canada, a son pays tribute to his Holocaust survivor parents, who endured so much over a century of living   TORONTO —… Read More ›

Interior Ministry pushes arnona reduction for solar installations

Interior Ministry pushes arnona reduction for solar installations

PUA reduces tariff paid for surplus solar electricity production.   Moving one step closer to curbing property tax (“arnona”) rates on solar panel installations, Interior Minister… Read More ›

Harvard starting Jewish and Israeli law program

Harvard starting Jewish and Israeli law program

As part of new track, university set to bring in visiting scholars, offer courses, and host annual conference   Harvard Law School is set to… Read More ›

Marc Andreessen: ‘We’re in a long-term tech bust,’ not a bubble

Marc Andreessen: ‘We’re in a long-term tech bust,’ not a bubble

  In Silicon Valley, you can’t escape bubble talk. On one side of the ring, Benchmark investor Bill Gurley, who was an investor during the… Read More ›

Bitcoin is going nuts

Bitcoin is going nuts

  Another day, another monster run for bitcoin traders. Bitcoin was trading around $240 in the beginning of October. Now — after a gain of… Read More ›

Unique campaign urges early detection of breast cancer among haredi women

Unique campaign urges early detection of breast cancer among haredi women

For the very first time, hundreds of street posters aimed at raising awareness to breast cancer will be distributed in Israeli cities with large ultra-Orthodox… Read More ›

Thousands of Holocaust survivors without essential funds due to financial dispute

Thousands of Holocaust survivors without essential funds due to financial dispute

Holocaust survivors have not received their quarterly allowance due to a battle between the Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims’ Assets and the… Read More ›

Distressing details revealed in Henkin murder investigation

Distressing details revealed in Henkin murder investigation

The struggle over a pistol, the murder and the children that witnessed it all: About a month ago, the Hamas members who shot Naama and… Read More ›

Proposed amendment would delay haredi conscription another three years

Proposed amendment would delay haredi conscription another three years

Should enlistment quotas after 2020 not be met, then some economic sanctions would apply to yeshivas, but will be determined by the prime minister, defense… Read More ›

Al-Qaida leader praises stabbing attacks in Israel, offers plan to ‘Liberate Palestine’

Al-Qaida leader praises stabbing attacks in Israel, offers plan to ‘Liberate Palestine’

In a new audio recording, al-Qaida leader says attacks against the US are what is needed to ‘Liberate Palestine.’   Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri released… Read More ›

Israel’s judokas explain circumstances behind lack of flag on uniforms in UAE

Israel’s judokas explain circumstances behind lack of flag on uniforms in UAE

Israel Judo Federation chairman Moshe Ponte claimed he was forced to accept the request made by the organizers due to security concerns.   Israel’s delegation… Read More ›

Israeli envoy to Chile says local Palestinians threaten Jews with violence

Israeli envoy to Chile says local Palestinians threaten Jews with violence

The Federacion Palestina de Chile demanded that Rafi Eldad, Jerusalem’s ambassador to Santiago, be officially shunned by the government.   Israel’s top diplomat in Chile… Read More ›

Jewish activists emboldened in volatile Temple Mount

Jewish activists emboldened in volatile Temple Mount

Once a fringe group, third temple proponents are stepping up activities as Jewish visits to site rapidly multiply   JERUSALEM (AP) — A new Israeli… Read More ›

Palestinian town names street for killer of 2 Israelis

Palestinian town names street for killer of 2 Israelis

Surda-Abu Qash honors Muhannad Halabi, who murdered Nehemia Lavi and Aharon Bennett in October 3 Jerusalem stabbing attack   The West Bank hometown of a… Read More ›

Clash with IDF on Gaza border leave 2 Palestinians hurt

Clash with IDF on Gaza border leave 2 Palestinians hurt

Rioters throw rocks, Molotov cocktails at soldiers near fence, one said moderately injured after Israeli troops return fire   Palestinian rioters on Wednesday threw Molotov… Read More ›