en_il-hotdailynews: 2015-05-19 Israel Israel

Pro-Israel campus group applauds Illinois anti-BDS legislation
Jerusalem Post Israel News
The Illinois State House of Representatives passed a piece of legislation on Monday to fight the BDS movement throughout the state. The bipartisan bill passed unanimously. The bill will prohibit all companies participating in the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and ...

Illinois passes historic anti-BDS bill, as Congress mulls similar moves   Washington Post
Bill divesting state money from companies that boycott Israel passes   The State Journal-Register
Illinois passes bill that bans BDS participants from state pension funds   JNS.org
TheTower.org
Crain's Chicago Business (blog)
Jewish United Fund
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Curbing the self-loathing Jewish defamers of Israel
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Most of us are thoroughly exasperated with the obnoxious Jewish deviants who are demonizing Israel with their global campaigns, falsely defaming the IDF as monsters and war criminals…writes Isi Leibler. Isi Leibler. Such reprehensible elements were ...

Definition of anti-Semitism provokes campus debates   Los Angeles Times
Israel-Boycott Debate Spurs Fight Over Definition of 'Anti-Semitism'   Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
Jewish teen, woman lightly wounded in Paris-region anti-Semitic attacks   Jewish Journal
legal Insurrection (blog)
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Opposition MK Calls to Eliminate New Hamas Tunnels
Yeshiva World News
ttu Opposition party MK (Labor) Omer Bar-Lev, a retired commander of the elite IDF Sayeret Matkal unit, on Sunday evening 28 Iyar called on the IDF to address the Hamas tunnel network. In his address to an Israel Bar Association conference in Eilat Bar-Lev ...

Meet the new neighborhood terrorists in Gaza   Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
Letter: Questionable Source   DefenseNews.com
1 Dead as Gaza Terror Tunnel Collapses   The Jewish Press
Arutz Sheva
JP Updates
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Top EU diplomat heads to Mideast to reboot peace talks
The Times of Israel
European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini speaks during the informal Ministerial meeting gathering foreign ministers from the European Union and the southern Mediterranean nations in Barcelona on April 13, 2015. (AFP/LLUIS GENE) ...

EU's Mogherini Wants 'More Active Role' in Middle East   Arutz Sheva
EU diplomat going to Mideast to try to revive peace process   Kansas City Star
Europe seeks role in Middle East peace   Independent Online
Jerusalem Post Israel News
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Haaretz

IDF to disband Druze battalion after more than 40 years' service
Haaretz
The Israel Defense Forces is disbanding the Herev Battalion for Druze soldiers after 41 years, because young Druze want to serve in regular field units rather than be segregated, a senior officer said on Monday. “The young Druze have been clearly and ...

Israeli Druze battalion dissolved: report   The Daily Star
IDF To Integrate Druze Across Ranks   DefenseNews.com
Army to shutter Druze-only 'Battalion of the Sword'   The Times of Israel
Jerusalem Post Israel News
Arutz Sheva
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Israel: Major Investigation Leads to 50 Arrests
Yeshiva World News
misht A major Israel Police investigation has led to 50 arrests, Israel Police Chief Yochanan Danino reported on Monday, 29 Iyar. In his address to an Israel Bar Association conference in Eilat, Danino spoke of the investigation of leading crime associations, ...

Israel Police arrest 50 in organized crime crackdown   Globes
Police reveal major organized crime case, 'one of the biggest ever'   Jerusalem Post Israel News
Police announce 50 arrested in massive organized crime investigation   Ynetnews
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Ethiopian Jews hold protest in Tel Aviv against racism
Yahoo! Maktoob News
About 1,000 Israeli Ethiopian Jews have held a rally in Tel Aviv to protest against institutional racism in Israeli society. Monday night's march passed without incident under the watch of dozens of security officers, a police spokesman said. Demonstrators ...

Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews protest Israeli racism   Press TV
MainJudaismTorah Sociology and Redemptive Aspects of Ethiopian Jewish Aliyah   Arutz Sheva
Tel Aviv anti-racism rally marred by infighting, but not violence   The Times of Israel
JP Updates
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Jewish Journal
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Haaretz

What does Netanyahu want?
Haaretz
The prime minister doesn't seem to have a fervent commitment to anything, and that's no recipe for leading Israel forward to major economic change. By Meirav Arlosoroff | May 19, 2015 | 3:27 AM ...

A series of unfortunate events of a confrontational administration   Ynetnews
Israel's 34th Government: What Lies Ahead?   Breaking Israel News
Galon: Netanyahu Spews Empty, Hollow Words   Arutz Sheva

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Israel holds Jordanian-Canadian national for alleged Hamas links
euronews
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has detained a Palestinian with dual Canadian and Jordanian citizenship suspected of links with the Islamist group Hamas, an Israeli security official told Reuters on Monday. The official, who could not be named, said Ibrahim ...

Jordanian-Canadian Businessman Held for Hamas Ties   Arutz Sheva

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Haaretz

Education Ministry drops controversial new anti-cheating exam rules
Haaretz
The Education Ministry announced on Monday it had reversed its previous decision that required students taking matriculation exams to be isolated in classrooms 45 minutes before tests started in order to prevent cheating. The ministry said it would change ...

Israel Parents' Group Slams New Education Rules   The Jewish Press

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