Category: 3. Middle East

A new draft law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews, whose support is crucial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, has sparked uproar in Israel, with the opposition denouncing it as a special privilege for “draft-dodgers”.

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By Joshua McElwee

ISTANBUL, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Pope Leo visited Istanbul’s famed Blue Mosque on Saturday, removing his shoes in a sign of respect but not appearing to pray in his first visit as leader of the Catholic Church to a Muslim place of…

JTA — Earlier this week, several pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups in North Carolina touted the state pension fund’s sale of $6.7 million in Israeli government bonds as a “victory.”

But despite the groups’ claims, the North…

JTA — A Palestinian restaurant in New York City has named its new location “Hinds Hall” after the moniker anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University gave to a campus building they occupied last spring.

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Deep in a rugged valley of southern Lebanon, a cave complex offers a small picture of the subterranean infrastructure Hezbollah relied on near the Israeli border, along with the difficult task the country’s army faces as it seeks to…

With a pot of glue, a blade and a keen eye, Manal al-Saadani repairs tattered banknotes — a necessity in the Gaza Strip, where the cash in circulation is wearing out.

For every revived note she gives back to a customer, they give her a few coins…

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said Friday that all documents signed by autopen under Joe Biden were “terminated,” in a legally uncertain move as the US president escalated a favorite attack line against his predecessor.

Trump…