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Israeli Environmental Experts Visit Galapagos Islands Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment invites Israeli experts to assist in island preservation

Israeli Environmental Experts Visit Galapagos Islands Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment invites Israeli experts to assist in island preservation

By Anav Silverman  Tazpit News Agency A Ben Gurion University delegation from the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) recently toured the Galapagos Islands in April. The delegation, led by Professor Ariel Novoplansky, signed a cooperation agreement with the Directorate of the National Park to promote the conservation of the endangered biological diversity of the islands. The Israeli delegation had been invited by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment and the Directorate of the Galapagos National Park. During their visit, the group participated in work meetings

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Did the EU just back Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount?

Did the EU just back Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount?

Ryan Jones Israel might have just scored European Union support for finally allowing Jews the right to pray atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest site in the world for Jews and many Christians. Whether or not it was her intent, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on Friday issued a call for religious freedom in Jerusalem that by definition must also include Jewish access to the Temple Mount.

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The Wedding Season

The Wedding Season

by Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum Renewing your nuptial vows this Shavuot. When our daughter got married, I knew her wedding would be a special experience for many of our friends who had never seen an Orthodox Jewish wedding before, but I hadn’t realized just how special it would be. Bob told me beforehand that he had heard from others about the separate dancing for the men and the women, and I had described to him how people attend Orthodox weddings not merely to enjoy themselves, but to create joy for the bride and groom too. But nothing really prepared him for…

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Knesset speaker: Temple Mount solution ‘by Next Year’

Knesset speaker: Temple Mount solution ‘by Next Year’

MK Edelstein says preventing MKs from visiting the Temple Mount is a “very grave” matter. By Gil Ronen Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein stated Wednesday that the present state of affairs, in which MKs are prevented from visiting the Temple Mount, is a “very grave” matter, which he hopes will be solved in a year’s time. In a Facebook post devoted to Jerusalem Day, Edelstein wrote: “In the last few weeks, the rights of prayer at the Kotel, the Remainder of our Temple, as well as the right of Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount and pray there, have…

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‘In Honor of Jerusalem Day 2013′ – Jerusalem Takes Off

‘In Honor of Jerusalem Day 2013′ – Jerusalem Takes Off

  By Aryeh Savir Tazpit News Agency Photo credit: Aryeh Savir/ Tazpit News Agency Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held the weekly government meeting at Mount Herzl on Sunday in honor of Jerusalem Day which is to be celebrated on Wednesday (May 8). Israel will celebrate the 46th anniversary of the unification of its capital. Netanyahu stated during the special session that the liberation of Jerusalem was a part of Theodor Herzl’s vision for the Jewish State, adding that Jerusalem provides “A connection to our glorious and sublime history, and also gives us a window to the future, which won’t be…

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Tablets for Living

Tablets for Living

by Rabbi Noson Weisz Comparing the two tablets: one containing obligations toward God, the other obligations toward people. The Torah contains 613 commandments. But on Mount Sinai — the only occasion in history when the entire Jewish people had a face-to-face meeting with God — God chose to emphasize 10.

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Elkin calls out Google for recognizing ‘Palestine’

Elkin calls out Google for recognizing ‘Palestine’

Deputy FM calls on Google to reconsider its decision to use the name “Palestine” instead of “Palestinian Territories”. Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin Flash 90 Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin on Sunday sent a strongly worded letter to Google CEO Larry Page, in which he called on the internet giant to reconsider its decision to place the name “Palestine” on its search engine instead of “Palestinian Territories”, in recognition of the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral bid at the United Nations.

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Bedouin Squatters to get land, cash as Settlement law approved

Bedouin Squatters to get land, cash as Settlement law approved

The Ministerial Law Committee on Monday authorized for legislation a law that would regulate Bedouin settlement in the Negev By David Lev Bedouin settlement Israel news photo: Flash 90 The Ministerial Law Committee on Monday authorized for legislation a law that would regulate Bedouin settlement in the Negev. The law will legalize dozens of currently illegal towns and settlements established by Bedouin, while clearing dozens of others, requiring the removal of residents of those settlements.

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Mysterious ‘Gabriel Stone’ unveiled in Jerusalem

Mysterious ‘Gabriel Stone’ unveiled in Jerusalem

Does the so-called “Gabriel Stone” really claim a messiah’s resurrection before Jesus’ time? A scholar said so in 2008. By Daniel Estrin of Associated Press JERUSALEM — An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that features the archangel Gabriel is at the center of a new exhibit in Jerusalem, even as scholars continue to argue about what it means. The so-called Gabriel Stone, a 3-foot-tall tablet said to have been found 13 years ago on the banks of the Dead Sea, features 87 lines of an unknown prophetic text dated as early as the first century BC,…

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Netanyahu: Conflict is over Israel’s existence, not land

Netanyahu: Conflict is over Israel’s existence, not land

Israel-PA conflict is over Israel’s very existence, PM says. PM Binyamin Netanyahu Israel news photo: Flash 90 PM Binyamin Netanyahu The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is not over land, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, speaking in a meeting with senior officials in the Foreign Ministry. The conflict, he said, is over Israel’s very existence. In proof, he pointed to the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, which included the forced removal of thousands of Jewish residents of the area.

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