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Malkah Fleisher

Israeli Communications Minister David Amsalem calls for a “thorough investigation” of the “bungle,” and vows no missionary channel will be allowed to operate “at any time, under any circumstances.”
Israeli premier tells Army Radio he has discussed his sovereignty plan for Judea and Samaria with U.S. President Donald Trump; Hebron Jewish community spokesman: “There’s a big difference between political promises and political action.”
Police initially closed the site to non-Muslims before opening it for short periods later in the day, enabling a record 1,700 Jews to visit.
Confusion around the possibility that the New Right Party passed the minimum threshold to enter the Knesset increased as announcements that the party succeeded were quickly followed by saying it had failed.
The official results of the polls will be published on Thursday evening or Friday morning, but about 90 percent the results are expected to be tallied as early as Wednesday afternoon.
The launch leveled much of the building and caused a fire to ignite, with shrapnel from the attack causing damage in the surrounding vicinity.
Jordan’s Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs, which oversees the Waqf in Jerusalem, called it “aggression against Jerusalem and holy sites for electoral purposes.”
Using social media to make a rare break into the politically charged debate over upcoming Israeli elections, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the American Jewish Committee took political positions on the inclusion of the Otzma Yehudit Party in a technical bloc with the Jewish Home Party.
The Jewish National Fund was left scrambling to apologize to the son of a former Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of approximately 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust, after a memorial grove of trees planted in his honor was flattened to make way for apartment buildings.