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Israel was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Baseball European Championship when the Czech Republic defeated it 4-3.
The United States vows to stop efforts to expel the Jewish state from international soccer.
Asked by JNS why Gulf funding had taken a precipitous drop, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini pointed to “a combination of factors.”
“We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians,” Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith wrote on Sept. 25.
The 1,400-year-old hoard was discovered by a metal detector operator.
Much-needed precipitation follows Israel’s long and dry summer and a drought last winter.
The British pop star “made sure through her people that David Levy wasn’t working on her music any more,” a source told the “Daily Mail.”
The carrier has restarted daily nonstop service between Zurich and Ben-Gurion International Airport.
Anticipating government recognition of “Palestine, 52 municipalities defied the prohibition, which the interior ministry said was for “neutrality.”
The museum’s president and CEO told JNS that he hopes visitors will learn about the Holocaust and its root causes and apply that to understanding the world today.
Tourism Minister Haim Katz makes first official visit by an Israeli Cabinet member to the Muslim country.
Doha has stepped up lobbying ahead of a vote coinciding with Rosh Hashanah that could see the Jewish state expelled from European soccer and the World Cup.