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If confirmed, Barbara Leaf will join the NSC’s Middle East and North Africa portfolio.
“This is a historic day for Samaria and the entire State of Israel,” says Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan.
Foreign-policy professionals seemed to view the breakthrough, which was brokered by the United States and Kuwait, with a natural skepticism, as the country has long been a regional maverick.
Unverified claims by Abd Al-Aziz Khazraj Al-Ansarai are viewed more than 300,000 times on YouTube, and picked up on Israeli television and other regional news outlets.
A new joint project focuses on people-to-people encounters with activists and professionals representing academia, art, literature, politics, education, activism and the hospitality industry.
P.A. Grand Mufti Muhammad Ahmad Hussein’s remarks were broadcast on official P.A. television.
Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef met with Emirati officials to discuss growing ties between the two peoples, as well as invest Rabbi Levi Duchman with official duties on the ground.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef met with Emirati officials, inaugurated a new Jewish school in Dubai and took part in a ceremony with the rabbi of the local Jewish community.
A senior adviser to the leader of a large Muslim-majority country with no diplomatic ties to Israel heads a delegation that meets with Israeli counterparts in Tel Aviv.
“Who would have believed that peace would come to our home in such a glorious way? It is a Hanukkah miracle,” says Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
Russian foreign minister: ‘Our goal is the establishment of a Palestinian state’
In meeting with his UAE counterpart, Sergey Lavrov insists that the Palestinian issue cannot be put on a back burner and forgotten.
“I am moved that my daughter will be experiencing a true Hanukkah here,” says a Talmud Torah parent. “For her to be able to grow up in the desert with such Jewish pride is a modern-day miracle.”
