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An alternative hearing date will be set no later than the end of March, the court said. The judges’ panel will be expanded to five.
Those promoting the cessation of U.S. military aid recommend replacing that aid with binational corporations or cooperative programs that would develop new defense products, open new markets and generate potentially huge dividends for both countries.
Senior Knesset members have proposed a bill to remove the offense from Israel’s penal code, describing it as a catch-all used to prosecute public officials.
The Islamic regime has cracked down before and held on. Is this time different? Is this the protest that breaks the Islamic Republic’s back? Observers JNS spoke with have never been more hopeful.
“Antisemitism must be confronted and defeated wherever it appears,” Rep. Mike Johnson said.
The family of former President Hassan Rouhani and the speaker of Iran’s parliament are among those said to be seeking French visas.
“We’re going to hit them hard. We’re ready to do it,” the U.S. president told Sean Hannity of “Fox News.”
The death toll for the past 12 days reached 42 people, five of them minors, and eight security personnel.
Under Viktor Orbán, Hungary has become Israel’s staunchest ally on a continent where many Jews fear to walk the streets wearing outward signs of their religion.
“It really is like hell,” said Rosh HaAyin Mayor Raz Sagi at the first-ever conference on the phenomenon of illegal waste burning in Judea and Samaria.
The recent establishment of Jerusalem’s embassy in Talinn reflects an ongoing process of strengthening relations.
When Estonia’s Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kot first proposed a new synagogue, members asked why it was needed. They pointed out the aging population and wondered who would fill it.