After years of delays, construction work resumed several months ago on the 800-room, 47-floor Sarona Hotel in Tel Aviv. The high-rise will have 40,000 square meters of hotel space, 2,000 square meters of commercial space, up to…
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YU Maccabees head to NCAA DIII men’s basketball tournament for first time since 2022
It’s another March Madness run for the Yeshiva University Maccabees, which clinched the Skyline Conference championship on Sunday night to head to the national men’s basketball tournament.
The 81-78 win against the…
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Former antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt says she turned down Columbia job
Deborah Lipstadt, who was the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism under President Joe Biden, revealed in an essay published Sunday that she had turned down a position at Columbia University because of the…
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Haifa terror attack: Assailant gets off bus and stabs repeatedly
A terrorist from Shfar’am carried out a stabbing attack in Haifa, killing a resident of Kafr Kanna on a bus near the entrance to the city’s central station. After exiting the bus, he stabbed another person, with chilling recordings from the scene…
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"The Wall and Settlements": 1,705 attacks carried out by the army and settlers last month
Minister Mu’ayyad Shaaban, head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance …
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Forecasts jump in profit in 2025 for Israel’s Bank Hapoalim
Hapoalim, one of Israel’s two largest banks, said on Monday it expects annual profit to rise by up to 25% this year and is pushing for regulators to allow it to raise dividend payouts as it reported an increase in earnings in 2024 after…
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What is Oscar-winning Israeli-Palestinian film No Other Land about?
Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land was a collaboration between Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers.
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GOP lawmakers commit to big spending cuts, putting Medicaid under a spotlight – but trimming the low-income health insurance program would be hard
Efforts by Republicans in Congress to make steep spending cuts have stirred widespread concerns that the federal government may trim expenditures on Medicaid even though President Donald Trump has previously indicated that he’s unwilling…
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WATCH: How did the Jewish Temple Mount Become a Muslim Site?
How did the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in the world for Jews, come to be known as a holy site for Muslims?
“Nothing makes a place holier than competition with…
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Neanderthal inner ears reveal clues to their population decline
A study published in Nature Communications describes evolutionary changes in Neanderthal morphology through the analysis of their inner ear structures, known as the bony labyrinth. The research, led by paleontologists Alessandro Urciuoli…
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