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Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce founder and CEO Duvi Honig visited the White House Oct. 16, 2018, where he met top officials to assist in fostering economic growth. Credit: Courtesy.
Anglo-Israel business leaders, job-seekers to meet at conference in Jerusalem
The mission of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce is to build economic bridges for entrepreneurs around the world.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also plans to put forward a measure to name a new neighborhood in the Golan after U.S. president.
A planned visitor center is slated to include a research area and lecture hall in an effort to boost the Mount of Olives area to attract tourists of all ages and religions.
If you’ve never heard an Arab calling out “alter zachen” (“old things”) in Yiddish, then you’ve never experienced pre-Passover preparations in Jerusalem. It’s part of the clean-up mania that grips the city in the run-up to the holiday.
U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to relocate the embassy to its permanent location if he wins re-election in 2020 and could travel to lay the cornerstone during the election campaign.
In an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 TV news, the Israeli premier said he would not dismantle a single Jewish settlement, and that he would annex parts of Judea and Samaria if he is re-elected on April 9.
Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas to Palestinians: “The Al-Aqsa [mosque compound, i.e., including the Temple Mount] is ours ... and they [Jews] have no right to defile it with their filthy feet.”
The International Union of Muslim Clerics (IUMS) proclaimed April 5 as a “Day of Support for Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and Gaza,” and urged Muslim preachers worldwide to devote their Friday sermon on that day to this topic.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stopped short of his campaign promise to relocate his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, instead announcing a trade and innovation office in the city.
The surprise discovery was lauded as empirical evidence of the veracity of Jewish accounts of their history in Jerusalem.
“Today, I have announced the first step, which is to open a trade office in Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel, and this will be an extension of our embassy in Tel Aviv,” said Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in a statement issued by his government.
Titled “The Mount: A Photographic Journey to Temple Mount,” the exhibit incorporates images from the beginning of photography in 1836 all the way through to the virtual reality, or VR, of today.