Sami Ofer, one of the two patriarchs running an Israeli shipping firm embroiled in an Iran scandal, has died. Ofer died in Israel Thursday at 89 after a long struggle with an undisclosed illness, Israeli media reported.
The U.S. government is considering to offer Turkey a deal in which Ankara would stop a second Gaza flotilla that is due to depart later this month in exchange for the opportunity to host an Israeli-Palestinian peace summit in Ankara, the Turkish newspaper Today\’s Zaman reported Friday.
Gender violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other conflict zones around the world is a subject of continual research and education through witness testimonials, podcasts and information presented by the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. But this year the museum took a look back, delving into a topic from history that, surprisingly, is entirely new pivotal research about the rape of Jewish women during the Holocaust, described in a new book by two female scholars.
The White House website posted a defense of President Obama\’s Israel record, and several prominent Jewish Democrats penned Op-Eds defending his policies. \”President Obama: Advancing Israel\’s Security and Supporting Peace,\” which appeared online on Friday, addressed the controversy over the president\’s call in a May 19 Middle East policy speech for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to based on 1967 lines, with mutually agreed swaps.\n
Palestinian organizers in Lebanon who had planned a march to the border with Israel later this week say they have canceled it.
Syrian security forces shot dead at least 34 demonstrators in Hama on Friday, an activist said, in one of the bloodiest incidents in their crackdown on an 11-week-old revolt against President Bashar Assad\’s rule.
Jewish and Catholic parents in Quebec have gone to court to challenge a government ban on religious instruction in government-subsidized day care programs. In a legal challenge filed Tuesday, the parents say that the province\’s policy violates their rights to freedom of religion guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.
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