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Netanyahu: Mail bombs targeting U.S. synagogues proves Islamist terror is rising

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that the discovery of two parcel bombs mailed from Yemen to Chicago-area synagogues indicated a rising wave of Islamist terrorist around the world.“The fact is, it does not matter whether it’s an attack on a synagogue in Chicago, or a train station in Madrid, or London, or Mumbai, or Bali,” he told his ...

Netanyahu: Israel will not allow flotilla to breach Gaza naval blockade

Israel will not allow any ships to breach its blockade of the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his inner cabinet yesterday, during a discussion of the Gaza-bound flotilla expected to set sail tomorrow.Security officials and Foreign Ministry representatives informed the cabinet that Israel has no information indicating that terrorists or anyone affiliated with a terror group is planning ...

Netanyahu: Israel has every right to stop Gaza flotilla

Israel is fully entitled to try to stop an upcoming flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled enclave, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday.“Israel has the full right to operate against efforts to smuggle missiles, rockets and other weapons to Hamas’s terror enclave. Hamas is a ruthless enemy, who maliciously ...

Netanyahu invites extreme right-wing politicians to join coalition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to have some members of the right-wing National Union Party join his coalition and the cabinet.The proposed move comes shortly before the prime minister is expected to deliver a major diplomatic policy speech in the United States in May or even earlier, either to a joint session of Congress or at the convention of ...

Netanyahu: I am committed to peace with Palestinians

After meeting with US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell in Caesarea on Wednesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that he and his government are committed to reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinian leadership.“There are many obstacles on the road to peace,” the prime minister said before meeting with Mitchell. “There are many skeptics. There is one way to prove ...

Netanyahu, Hollande to Visit Ohr HaTorah School in Toulouse

French President Francois Hollande and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will visit the Ozar Hatorah school, in Toulouse, where terrorist Mohammed Merah murdered seven people, including a teacher and three Jewish children.Netanyahu, who arrived in France Wednesday for a two-day visit to the country, will participate in a memorial ceremony at the Jewish Ozar Hatorah school (renamed Ohr Hatorah) where ...

Netanyahu: Hamas responsible for rockets on Eilat; we will retaliate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Israeli television Wednesday that Hamas was responsible for the deadly rocket fire on Israel’s and Jordan’s Red Sea ports on Monday, and that Israel would retaliate. Earlier Wednesday, Egyptian officials also confirmed that the rocket attacks, which had killed a Jordanian taxi driver in Aqaba, had been carried out by the militant Palestinian group operating ...

Netanyahu Entering Jewish History’s Blacklist

MK Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz sent Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu an unforgiving message upon the beginning of “peace talks” in Washington. The two terror attacks this week that left five dead (including an unborn baby in its ninth month of development) and two wounded would not have occurred, he said, were it not for ‘gestures’ made to the Palestinian Authority, and ...

Netanyahu: Abbas must say he accepts ‘the Jewish state’

On the eve of a meeting of Quartet envoys in Brussels to review ways to restart the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic process, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday night that the end to the conflict will begin with the Palestinian leaders uttering six simple words: “I will accept the Jewish state.”Netanyahu, in a speech to the closing session of the Israeli Presidential ...

Nephew Of Murdered Kabbalist Threatened With Death By Known Criminal

Ynet is reporting that a known criminal threatened to kill Rabbi Moshe Turgeman, the nephew of the murdered kabbalist Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, as he was going home from his yeshiva in Netanya Tuesday night.Last month, Abuhatzeira was murdered by a follower, Rabbi Asher Dahan, who was upset that Abuhatzeira’s blessings and advice to him – given in the form of promises ...

Need a Shidduch? Devorah Benjamin Has an Idea!

This past Yud daled Kislev an idea was born: for a nominal fee of $100, Devorah Benjamin of KSCVK will take your name, the name of your child, friend, or relative, and daven at the Ohel for a shidduch. The money will go straight to KSCVK’s fund for Crown Heights Chassanim and Kallos.The program began promptly and has already been ...

Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax Day is a dreaded deadline for millions, but for nearly half of U.S. households it’s simply somebody else’s problem.About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions to eliminate their liability. That’s according to projections by the ...