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Ban Ki-moon concerned over armed Hizbullah in Lebanon

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report released Wednesday that he is concerned about Hizbullah in Lebanon having weapons and he believes the group should lay down its arms.Ban said that both local and foreign militias, that are not subject to government control, are active in Lebanon. The UN chief added that only political action within Lebanon could disarm Hizbullah and ...

Bain Hazmanim Tragedy In Israel: Yeshiva Bochur Drowns In Nachal Yehudia

Just as the Pesach Bain Hazmanim comes to an end, a group of Israeli Yeshiva Bochrim took a trip to Nachal Yehudia, in the Golan heights. Unfortunately, the trip ended in tragedy, with the tragic Petira of Menachem Tzvi Edni (23). According to published reports, he went into the water to swim a little, and cool off, but R”L drowned.Search ...

Bail for Man Accused of Slashing Muslim Cabbie

A man who slashed the neck of a Muslim New York City cabbie is getting out of jail on $500,000 bail, which his family is putting up, the New York Post reported Tuesday.Michael Enright, who is accused of slashing cabdriver Ahmed Sharif, had to turn in his passport, cannot leave the state and must wear a GPS-enabled ankle bracelet. He ...

Bahai temple in Haifa reopens after $6 million renovation

Followers of the Bahai faith unveiled their newly renovated holy site on the coast of Israel on Tuesday, drawing attention to one of the Holy Land’s lesser-known religions.The renovation of the Shrine of the Bab, a UN-designated World Heritage site, lasted two-and-a-half-years and cost $6 million dollars, according to the Bahai leadership.The structure has been refitted and strengthened to withstand ...

Baghdad to cull a million stray dogs as rogue canine population soars

More than a million stray dogs roaming Baghdad are facing destruction. The initiative has so far led to 42,000 strays being killed in only two months. Teams of riflemen and vets are trying to thin out a rogue canine population that has reached at least 1,250,000. Numbers grew hugely after the fall of Saddam because of the lawless state of ...

Baby boy survives for nearly two days after abortion

The 22-week infant died one day later in intensive care at a hospital in the mother’s home town of Rossano in southern Italy.The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled.Read More: @ Telegraph.co.ukYou might also like:Israel’s First Rocket-Proof Children’s HospitalApple’s iPad helps Israeli hospital treat patientsCongresswoman Giffords on ...

B-G Airport: 2 pro-Palestinian activists denied entry

Two pro-Palestinian American activists were denied entry to Israel after they landed at Ben Gurion Airport from Athens overnight Thursday as part of the “air flotilla.”The two told border officials that they had originally planned to take part in the Gaza sea flotilla, but due to delays, they opted to join the “air flotilla.”As a result, authorities refused to grant ...

Azerbaijani President, Israeli Dignitaries, Inaugurate New Jewish School

A moderate Muslim country and neighbor to Iran, Baku, Azerbaijan will now be home to a new campus in the OhrClick to EnlargeAvner school system in the Former Soviet Union.Some 200 people, including Azerbaijani President Ilhem Aliyev, Israel’s Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, President of the American Jewish Congress Jack Rosen and President of the CIS Federation of Jewish Communities Lev Leviev ...

Azerbaijani has No Anti-Semitism

Azerbaijan has a “zero anti-Semitism rate,” boasted Elshad Iskandarov, the chairman of the Muslim nation’s State Committee for Religious Organizations, during a speech in Kiev on Tuesday.According to the US State Department’s 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights, released last Friday, “there were no credible reports of anti-Semitic acts against the country’s Jewish community.”Between 15,000 and 20,000 Jews live in ...

Avrum David Friesel, an ex-New Square village clerk, gets 27 months in prison

A former New Square village clerk was sentenced this morning to 27 months in prison and was ordered to pay $11.6 million in restitution for his role in stealing tens of millions of dollars from federal assistance programs and then hiding outside of the country for more than a decade. Prior to the sentencing by U.S. District Court Judge Barbara ...

Aviva Shalit: We need action, not empathy

President Shomon Peres visited the Shalit family protest tent Monday, on the eve of the Passover holiday and the marking of 1,758 days to the capture of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.“We don’t need empathy and identification, but rather the help of action,” Aviva told the president, who said he felt he was “on their side”.The president sat down for a ...

Aviv Giladi is named CEO of Hollywood behemoth Icon UK

Israeli producer Aviv Giladi has been named CEO of one of Hollywood’s largest production and international distribution firms, Icon UK.The company was originally part of Mel Gibson’s Icon production company, but was sold to a British businessman while retaining the Icon name. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Icon UK is expected to direct its resources toward films budgeted at $15 ...