2015-03-01 Israel More Top Stories

The Star Online   

Netanyahu Congress Speech Targets Obama Iran Deal, Israel Voters   
Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addresses Congress on Tuesday he will call for a halt to President Barack Obama's emerging nuclear deal with Iran, a step viewed by some as a bold act of principle and others as crude ...

2015-03-01 Israel Health

Beacon Review   

'Concern' above bugs in store rooster   
Beacon Review
Concerns are growing about antibiotic resistance of bacteria carried by poultry, according to a new report. 'Concern' above bugs in store rooster. Concerns are escalating about antibiotic resistance of food items-poisoning microorganisms carried by poultry, ...

2015-03-01 Israel Entertainment

Toledo Blade   

Community of faith: One, two, three, four … Purim!   
The Missoulian
Har Shalom Purim party is Friday March 6, at 3035 S. Russell St., beginning at 5:30 p.m. with candle lighting, Klezmer music by Chutzpah!, dancing, singing, Purim story reading, costume parade, Atidaynu kids presentation, face-painting and potluck. Purim is ...

2015-03-01 Israel Sci/Tech

Wall St. Cheat Sheet   

Apple's Tim Cook on Privacy: 'A Basic Human Right'   
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
Privacy — or the lack of it — is one of the biggest hot-button issues in the tech industry today. Ever since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden first exposed the extent of the agency's electronic surveillance programs in 2013, tech companies such as Apple ...

2015-03-01 Israel Business

i24news   

Iraqi Kurdish oil tanker docks in Israel   
i24news
An Iraqi Kurdish oil tanker, blocked for months from unloading its cargo has delivered its goods to Israel, according to ship-tracking data which showed the tanker heading towards the Israeli port of Ashkelon fully-laden. The United Kalvrvta tanker, which had ...

2015-03-01 Israel World

NDTV   

Death Threats and Late Night Dinner Before Russia's Boris Nemtsov was Shot ...   
NDTV
Moscow: It was near closing time on Friday at the upscale Bosco restaurant that looks out onto the illuminated red-brick walls of Moscow's Kremlin. Boris Nemtsov and his young, dark-haired girlfriend were finishing dinner. A political reformer who had fallen ...

2015-03-01 Israel Middle East

CBC.ca   

Egypt clamp on Hamas   
Gulf Daily News
Cairo: An Egyptian court yesterday branded Hamas a "terrorist" group over its alleged links with jihadists behind deadly attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula. Hamas condemned what it called "a great disgrace which soils the reputation of Egypt".
Egypt court brands Hamas terror group   The Nation
Hamas: Egypt a 'Friend of the Israeli Occupation'   Arutz Sheva
Egypt's mediation in Palestinian issues unlikely to be affected by listing Hamas ...   Xinhua
Al Jazeera America   
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Los Angeles Times   

Yemen, a US counter-terrorism partner, teeters on edge of collapse   
Los Angeles Times
The capital remains firmly in the hands of northern-based Shiite Muslim rebels. Sunni Muslim tribesmen to the east are arming in revolt and threatening to sabotage the country's crucial oil and gas infrastructure. In the south, where separatist sentiment is ...

2015-03-01 Israel Israel

The Star Online   

Netanyahu Congress Speech Targets Obama Iran Deal, Israel Voters   
Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addresses Congress on Tuesday he will call for a halt to President Barack Obama's emerging nuclear deal with Iran, a step viewed by some as a bold act of principle and others as crude ...

2015-02-28 Israel More Top Stories

Slate Magazine   

Netanyahu's Speech in Congress Is a Revolting and Dangerous Gamble   
Slate Magazine
Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is coming to the United States. On Tuesday, he'll address a joint session of Congress. Netanyahu wants to rally Americans against President Obama's plan for a nuclear agreement with Iran. He's coming here at ...

2015-02-28 Israel Health

Jerusalem Post Israel News   

Tel Aviv Marathon halted due to heat   
Ynetnews
The Tel Aviv Marathon was halted on Friday at approximately 10:00 am due to unseasonably hot and dry weather conditions that sent two runners to the hospital and injured 75 others. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter. The marathon organizers ...

2015-02-28 Israel Entertainment

Forbes   

Leonard Nimoy And Why Space Needs Real Spocks   
Forbes
Maybe it was those Vulcan ears. But news of Leonard Nimoy's passing automatically triggered memories of the 83 year-old actor's most celebrated role as Mr. Spock — both the Starship Enterprise's first officer and science officer. Try as he might to break free ...

2015-02-28 Israel Sci/Tech

Daily Mail   

Apple boss Tim Cook defends 'basic human right' to privacy and warns email ...   
Daily Mail
Apple boss Tim Cook has warned against plans for online snooping on private emails and information in the name of fighting terrorism. Defending people's 'basic human right' to privacy, the CEO of the world's largest technology company said governments ...

2015-02-28 Israel Business

Haaretz   

Histadrut threatens a Negev-wide strike   
Haaretz
The Dead Sea Works potash fertilizer manufacturing plant belongs to Israel Chemicals. Photo by Bloomberg. Text size. Comments (0). Print Page. Send to friend. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share. related articles. Labor dispute over layoffs at Israel ...

2015-02-28 Israel World

RT (blog)   

Nemtsov was no threat to Russian govt - presidential spokesperson   
RT (blog)
Boris Nemtsov did not pose a threat to the Russian government, according to presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. The murder of the Russian opposition figure has been called a "provocation" by a number of politicians and public figures. Boris Nemtsov ...

2015-02-28 Israel Middle East

Voice of America   

York: Traps in terrorism word games   
Morris Daily Herald
Why has the Obama administration tied itself in knots over what to call Islamic terrorism? Related Links. York: Traps in terrorism word games · York: Scott Walker's bumpy evolution education · York: Public opinion left out of picture in Obama immigration drive ...

2015-02-28 Israel Israel

Slate Magazine   

Netanyahu's Speech in Congress Is a Revolting and Dangerous Gamble   
Slate Magazine
Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is coming to the United States. On Tuesday, he'll address a joint session of Congress. Netanyahu wants to rally Americans against President Obama's plan for a nuclear agreement with Iran. He's coming here at ...

2015-02-27 Israel More Top Stories

Wall Street Journal   

Friction Increasing Between White House, Israel   
Voice of America
WHITE HOUSE—. The war of words is escalating over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to accept an invitation to speak to the U.S. Congress next week. National security adviser Susan Rice's remarks on the subject Tuesday on the ...

2015-02-27 Israel Health

ANINEWS   

Genetic trickery deployed by malaria to escape immune system attack revealed   
Business Standard
A team of scientists has revealed that malaria plays hide-and-seek with human immune system by using long noncoding RNA to switch genes. Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have revealed the genetic trickery that this deadly Plasmodium ...

2015-02-27 Israel Entertainment

DAWN.com   

Aid agencies concerned over Gaza blockade   
DAWN.com
UNITED NATIONS: A joint statement released on Wednesday by 30 aid agencies working in Gaza Strip said Israel continued to impose a blockade of the occupied territory six months after the end of fighting. “Overall, the lack of progress has deepened levels ...

2015-02-27 Israel Sci/Tech

Globes   

Tim Cook inaugurates Apple Israel headquarters   
Globes
Apple Computers CEO Tim Cook arrived in Israel yesterday, and today inaugurated the company's new R&D center in Herzliya Pituah. Cook spoke to the employees for an hour, telling them, "Trust me - there will be an Apple store in Israel." He answered ...

2015-02-27 Israel Business

Haaretz   

Histadrut threatens a Negev-wide strike   
Haaretz
The Dead Sea Works potash fertilizer manufacturing plant belongs to Israel Chemicals. Photo by Bloomberg. Text size. Comments (0). Print Page. Send to friend. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share. related articles. Labor dispute over layoffs at Israel ...

2015-02-27 Israel World

New York Post   

It's the ideology, stupid   
New York Post
We're talking about the sinister masked man who appears in ISIS videos of hostage beheadings — and who beheaded some of the victims himself. This week the man behind the mask was revealed to be a British national, Muhammad Emwazi. Contrary to the ...

2015-02-27 Israel Middle East

ABC Online   

Islamic State militants' destruction of ancient artefacts in Iraq's Mosul museum ...   
ABC Online
A rampage by sledgehammer-wielding Islamic State militants in an Iraqi museum has been compared to "the tearing down of the Colosseum brick by brick". Priceless ancient Assyrian relics and other artefacts are seen being smashed to pieces in a Mosul ...

2015-02-27 Israel Israel

Wall Street Journal   

Friction Increasing Between White House, Israel   
Voice of America
WHITE HOUSE—. The war of words is escalating over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to accept an invitation to speak to the U.S. Congress next week. National security adviser Susan Rice's remarks on the subject Tuesday on the ...

2015-02-26 Israel More Top Stories

TheBlaze.com   

Tension Between Israel, U.S. Intensifies Over Netanyahu Speech   
TheBlaze.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trading barbs, the U.S. and Israel escalated their increasingly public spat Wednesday over Benjamin Netanyahu's GOP-engineered congressional speech next week, with the Israeli prime minister accusing world powers of rolling over ...

2015-02-26 Israel Health

JNS.org   

City Alters Course on Circumcision RitualCity Alters Course on Circumcision Ritual   
Wall Street Journal
Thirty miles north of New York City, public-health officials in Rockland County use DNA testing to identify the source of a herpes simplex virus 1 infection in any infant boy from the area's ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. New York City will roll out its version ...

2015-02-26 Israel Entertainment

Jerusalem Post Israel News (blog)   

On Palestine and Israel   
Jerusalem Post Israel News (blog)
There are many--some of them well placed, and some of them Jews--who feel that on the short list of the most worthy causes is to create a Palestinian state and to downsize Israel, perhaps down to the size of nothing. Against them are several instances that ...

2015-02-26 Israel Sci/Tech

V3.co.uk   

Parallels Gets Even More Cross-Platform with 2X Software Buy   
eWeek
The move will expand Seattle-based Parallels' ability to let customers access and use any applications and files on any device, anywhere, any time. Parallels, which makes software that enables users of Mac laptops to run Windows, and PC users to run OS X, ...

2015-02-26 Israel Business

Jerusalem Post Israel News   

'Weak spot' in Arrow 2 missile defense system now rectified, say officials   
Jerusalem Post Israel News
The Defense Ministry recently repaired a weakness in the Arrow 2 missile defense system that was discovered during a test last September, defense officials said on Tuesday. The need for the repair became apparent after a test against “a future threat that ...

2015-02-26 Israel World

Los Angeles Times   

Apple ordered to pay $533 million in iTunes patent lawsuit   
Los Angeles Times
The bitter patent wars have flared again, and this time, Apple Inc. emerged the loser. The world's most valuable company was ordered by a federal jury to pay $532.9 million to Smartflash, a tiny Texas company that alleged that Apple willfully infringed on its ...

2015-02-26 Israel Middle East

The Daily Star   

Jordan: US Warns of Threat to Malls   
New York Times
The United States Embassy in Jordan on Wednesday warned American citizens to avoid high-end shopping malls in Amman, the capital, because of credible threats of terrorist attacks. The embassy's statement contained no information about the type or ...

2015-02-26 Israel Israel

TheBlaze.com   

Tension Between Israel, U.S. Intensifies Over Netanyahu Speech   
TheBlaze.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trading barbs, the U.S. and Israel escalated their increasingly public spat Wednesday over Benjamin Netanyahu's GOP-engineered congressional speech next week, with the Israeli prime minister accusing world powers of rolling over ...

2015-02-25 Israel More Top Stories

Haaretz   

Likud scrambles to fend off Wednesday's housing report   
Haaretz
The long awaited state comptroller's report on the government's failure to stop the rise of housing prices, which has been looming over the election campaign, is due out today. The Likud leadership convened on Tuesday in the Prime Minister's Residence to ...

2015-02-25 Israel Health

The Star Online   

Want a sharp and youthful mind? Meditate   
The Star Online
Want to maintain mental health? According to a new study, meditation could do just that. Photo: AFP. According to a new study, meditation could keep your brain forever young. Preserving the brain's most important tissue – the neuron-rich grey matter – could ...

2015-02-25 Israel Entertainment

Zee News   

Page: 'Fake it until you make it' worked for Stewart   
Stockton Record
“Did I die?” That's how The Daily Show's host Jon Stewart opened his program on the evening after he announced that he was walking away from it after 16 years. The “weird” coverage of his departure felt like reading his own obituary. Enjoy it, Jon. People ...

2015-02-25 Israel Sci/Tech

Jerusalem Post Israel News   

'Weak spot' in Arrow 2 missile defense system now rectified, say officials   
Jerusalem Post Israel News
The Defense Ministry recently repaired a weakness in the Arrow 2 missile defense system that was discovered during a test last September, defense officials said on Tuesday. The need for the repair became apparent after a test against “a future threat that ...

2015-02-25 Israel Business

Los Angeles Times   

Asia: Stocks mostly higher on Fed comments, Greek reforms   
THE BUSINESS TIMES
[TOKYO] Asian stocks broadly rose Wednesday after US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen damped speculation of a rate hike before summer, and as eurozone finance ministers backed Greek reforms critical to avoiding a disastrous default. The regional ...

2015-02-25 Israel World

Sydney Morning Herald   

Islamic State abducts more than 100 Christians in Syria: reports   
Sydney Morning Herald
Amman: Islamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in north-eastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday. A Syrian Christian group representing several NGOs inside and outside the ...

2015-02-25 Israel Middle East

Sydney Morning Herald   

Islamic State abducts more than 100 Christians in Syria: reports   
Sydney Morning Herald
Amman: Islamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in north-eastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday. A Syrian Christian group representing several NGOs inside and outside the ...

2015-02-25 Israel Israel

NPR (blog)   

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Rebuffs Senate Democrats' Meeting Request   
NPR (blog)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined an invitation to meet with two top Democratic senators. As Reuters reports, Senators Dianne Feinstein, of California, and Dick Durbin, of Illinois, invited Netanyahu for a closed-door meeting during his ...

2015-02-24 Israel More Top Stories

Haaretz   

PLO ordered to pay millions by US jury   
Brisbane Times
The Palestine Liberation Organisation and Palestinian Authority are ordered to pay over $US218 million to 10 families for providing material support to terrorists in Jerusalem attacks over a decade ago. 24/02/15. Bali nine decision due Tuesday (Video ...

2015-02-24 Israel Health

Health24   

NYC, Orthodox Jews in talks over oral suction circumcision   
Ynetnews
Following 17 cases of infant herpes since 2000, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is negotiating with a group of rabbis over how to protect children's health while still preserving religious freedom. Associated Press ...

2015-02-24 Israel Entertainment

The Indian Express   

What's Next for Jon Stewart?   
Huffington Post
In Jon Stewart's relatively low-key announcement that he will be leaving The Daily Show, he didn't say much about his plans: "I don't have any specific plans -- got a lot of ideas; I got a lot of things in my head." As he said this at the end of his Feb. 10 show on ...

2015-02-24 Israel Sci/Tech

Jewish Business News   

Length of men's fingers associated with their behavior towards women   
Healio
Prenatal androgen exposure among men, reflected as the ratio between the length of the index and ring fingers, affects their agreeable and quarrelsome behaviors towards women, according to a study recently published in Personality and Individual ...

2015-02-24 Israel Business

CNNMoney   

Asia tentative, awaits word on US Federal Reserve rate outlook   
Economic Times
SYDNEY: Caution gripped Asian markets on Tuesday as investors fretted over what Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen might say later in the day on the likely lift-off date for US policy tightening. Moves were mostly minor and MSCI's broadest index of ...

2015-02-24 Israel World

Stuff.co.nz   

US jury orders Palestinian groups to pay attack victims $290m   
Stuff.co.nz
Palestine Liberation Organisation's defence lawyer Mark Rochon exits the Manhattan Federal Courthouse following a jury's decision in New York. A US jury has found the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority liable for supporting ...

2015-02-24 Israel Middle East

Mirror.co.uk   

ISIS capital in Syria is 'like a big prison,' activist says   
ErieTVNews
(CNN) -- It's not hard to get into Raqqa. The problem, one prominent activist tells CNN, is getting out. Abu Ibrahim al-Raqqawi's voice is calm and measured as he describes life inside the city ISIS claims as the capital of its so-called caliphate. But the horrors ...

2015-02-24 Israel Israel

Stuff.co.nz   

US jury orders Palestinian groups to pay attack victims $290m   
Stuff.co.nz
Palestine Liberation Organisation's defence lawyer Mark Rochon exits the Manhattan Federal Courthouse following a jury's decision in New York. A US jury has found the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority liable for supporting ...

2015-02-23 Israel More Top Stories

NEWS.com.au   

Tony Abbott's anti-terror laws: Australians to lose citizenship   
NEWS.com.au
EXTRAORDINARY powers to strip citizenship from Australians supporting terrorist groups are set to get cross-party support in Parliament. Prime Minister Tony Abbott's security statement, centred on the threat of the IS “death cult” today carefully avoided ...