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Bodies identified as 2 missing family members in Florida, officials say

Bodies identified as 2 missing family members in Florida, officials say

Two bodies recovered in the search for a missing Florida family have been identified and rescue crews have ended search operations, Coast Guard Capt. Gregory… Read More ›

Brexit: An often rocky marriage ends in sudden divorce

Brexit: An often rocky marriage ends in sudden divorce

London – As marriages go, 43 years is not bad. But ever since Britain and Europe tied the knot in 1973, the relationship has been… Read More ›

After British Brexit, most Scots back independence

After British Brexit, most Scots back independence

Minister says new vote on leaving UK likely in order to keep Scotland from being forced out of European Union   GLASGOW, United Kingdom —… Read More ›

Amid reports of warming ties with Israel, Erdogan hosts Hamas leader

Amid reports of warming ties with Israel, Erdogan hosts Hamas leader

Turkish president, Khaled Mashaal discuss bridging gap between Gaza-based group and PA’s Fatah   As Israel and Ankara reportedly near a deal on normalizing ties,… Read More ›

Diplomacy shifts to Rome for Kerry, Netanyahu pow-wow, Turkey detente

Diplomacy shifts to Rome for Kerry, Netanyahu pow-wow, Turkey detente

Premier to sit down with top American diplomat Sunday in bid to soften Quartet report as officials from Jerusalem and Ankara meet to finalize resumption… Read More ›

Ya’alon strikes back at Bitan

Ya’alon strikes back at Bitan

After saying that something turns the Shin Bet and Mossad chiefs into leftists, Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon sharply criticises Bitan, calls words ‘dangerous’ Former… Read More ›

Dams are drying out the Jordan River

Dams are drying out the Jordan River

Due to new earthen work dams being constructed to give farmers in the north access to water, flow rates in the Jordan River have decreased… Read More ›

The price of reconciliation is Turkish democracy

The price of reconciliation is Turkish democracy

Op-ed: Turkish journalist Tulin Daloglu argues that while Israel and Turkey get closer with an expected reconciliation deal, Turkish democracy is in danger; The reconciliation… Read More ›

Missing IDF soldier’s family: Netanyahu failing a test by signing deal with Turkey

Missing IDF soldier’s family: Netanyahu failing a test by signing deal with Turkey

Goldin and Shaul families come out against deal; Shauls to set up protest tent outside Prime Minister’s Residence.   The family of Lt. Hadar Goldin,… Read More ›

Quartet report likely to recommend renewal of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks

Quartet report likely to recommend renewal of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks

Jerusalem favors that approach, over French-backed international conference.   The long-awaited Quartet report on the Middle East is expected to include a recommendation that Israel… Read More ›

10 years after Second Lebanon War, for a bereaved mother the pain is only worse

10 years after Second Lebanon War, for a bereaved mother the pain is only worse

Despite anguish, Miki Goldwasser, mother of captured and killed reserve soldier Ehud, says the war was a great victory.   A family can live day-to-day… Read More ›

PM heading to Rome to oppose French initiative

PM heading to Rome to oppose French initiative

Netanyahu expected to discuss his thoughts on the French peace initiaitive, to meet with John Kerry and Federica Mogherini and with UN Secretary General Ban… Read More ›

Rwanda looks to Israel as model of how to persevere after genocide

Rwanda looks to Israel as model of how to persevere after genocide

“Israel’s achievements are really spectacular, we want to learn how they achieved this.”   As a country where genocide was committed just over two decades… Read More ›

UK minister compares Brexit opponents to Nazi campaign against Einstein

UK minister compares Brexit opponents to Nazi campaign against Einstein

Justice minister insinuates multiple experts who’ve warned against leaving EU are on government payroll   Britain’s justice minister likened some opponents of the campaign to… Read More ›

New York – Radio Persona Sliwa Unloads On NYPD’s Jewish Liaisons Program (audio)

New York – Radio Persona Sliwa Unloads On NYPD’s Jewish Liaisons Program (audio)

  New York – Guardian Angels founder and popular radio host Curtis Sliwa minced no words on his WABC Drive at Five radio program on… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Were Israel’s Yemenite Children Kidnapped? Question Once Again Shakes Israel

Jerusalem – Were Israel’s Yemenite Children Kidnapped? Question Once Again Shakes Israel

  Jerusalem – A painful chapter in Israel’s history – the mysterious disappearance, or abduction, of hundreds of Yemenite children shortly after the country’s founding… Read More ›

A dangerous ‘confluence of forces’ is threatening the US economy

A dangerous ‘confluence of forces’ is threatening the US economy

  The International Monetary Fund released a preliminary report on Wednesday that predicted that the US economy will grow 2.2% this year, and 2.5% in… Read More ›

HEDGE FUND: ‘There’s too much short-termism in the market’

HEDGE FUND: ‘There’s too much short-termism in the market’

  Harlan Zimmerman thinks that there’s a problem with stock buybacks. Companies in the US have spent billions of dollars to gobble up their own… Read More ›

US stock futures are getting slammed after early Brexit surprises

US stock futures are getting slammed after early Brexit surprises

After early surprises in the UK’s EU referendum, US stock futures have turned negative. Near 9:05 p.m. ET, S&P 500 futures were down by as… Read More ›

What Hitler’s Jewish neighbor saw

What Hitler’s Jewish neighbor saw

London – “I knew only too well, even when I was 8 years old — I knew it was a very bad business for us.”… Read More ›