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Hamas minister: We’ll occupy Haifa, Akko

As Israel and the Palestinians attempt to renew direct peace talks launched last week, Hamas continues its declarations of war: The Hamas government’s interior minister in Gaza, Fathi Hamad, said Monday that the Palestinians “will reoccupy Haifa and Akko.”Speaking during a visit to a university in the town of Khan Younis, Hamad addressed the Israeli operation in Gaza, saying that “the Zionist enemy is still ...

Hamas leader says American envoys making contact, but not openly

The United States is sending a succession of envoys to engage with Hamas but lacks the bravery to talk to the Islamist movement openly, its leader, Khaled Meshal, said in an interview with the Guardian. Meshal praised President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia for meeting him in Damascus and the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, for hosting the discussion 10 days ago. ...

‘Hamas considering a draft in Gaza’

Hamas’s top security official in Gaza said Tuesday that he is considering setting up a bigger military force, first of volunteers and eventually of conscripts. Such a step would further tighten Hamas’s control of Gaza and deepen the rift between the Islamist group and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Hamas now has a paid security force of 18,000.Read ...

‘Hallelujah’ winners making aliyah

About a month ago, they took part in the 2011 Hallelujah international song contest for young Jewish adults from all around the world. After taking the first and second places, the two young Jewish men have decided to immigrate to Israel and develop their musical skills in the Holy Land.Adam Kleinberg, 21, of Mexico, who won the first place, is ...

Half the Public Wants to See Holy Temple Rebuilt

Half the Israeli public wants the Holy Temple (Beit HaMikdash) to be rebuilt. This is the main finding of a poll commissioned by the Knesset Television Channel and carried out by the Panels Institute. The poll was taken in advance of this Tuesday’s national day of mourning, known as Tisha B’Av, on which the two Holy Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed, 2,000 and ...

Halakhic infertility: For Some Orthodox Women, Jewish Law Makes Conceiving Tough

Rachel never had much of a problem conceiving children: one, two, three, four, five. But when it came to child No. 6, Rachel (who asked that we identify her by only a pseudonym) and her husband tried and tried. Five years passed, but no child came.“You have a frum issue,” Dr. Richard Grazi told Rachel one day last November, using ...

Hague: We’ll amend universal jurisdiction within a year

British Foreign Secretary William Hague publicly promised on Thursday to make it safe for Israeli leaders and IDF officers to land in London without risking detention based on complaints of war crimes.Fearing such detention as a result of Britain’s universal jurisdiction law, senior Israeli figures, including opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor, have canceled trips to ...

Hacking group vows to ‘kill’ Facebook this November

International communal hacktivist conglomerate Anonymous has issued a warning, vowing to “kill Facebook” in early November of this year.The loosely-affiliated group of hackers that has taken responsibility for attacks on Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and most recently the Syrian Defense Ministry described their reasons for the planned attack in a press release issued via YouTube last month.Read More: @ jpost.comReaders found ...

Hachnossas Orchim To Open Outside Beis HaChaim In Sanz, Poland

Visitors to the Polish town of Sanz (Nowy Sacz) will soon be able to access a new building currently being constructed just outside the Pre-War Beis HaChaim and enjoy refreshments, have a place to sit & rest, daven a tefilloh or even learn, before entering the famous Pre-War Beis HaChaim where the Ohel of the Divrei Chaim Rabbi Chaim Halberstam ...

Gypsies to Join Jews for Holocaust Commemorations

A delegation of Gypsies from Europe will participate in commemorations to be held on Holocaust Memorial Day this year. This will be the first time that an official delegation of the European Romani Union (ERU), which represents members of the Gypsy/Romani community in the EU, will participate in Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations in Israel.Roman Kwiatkowski, Chairman of Poland’s Romanies’ Association, ...

Guns Missing from Netanyahu Team’s Luggage at JFK

Officials at New York’s JFK Airport are investigating how four handguns disappeared from luggage belonging to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu’s security team. The guns were in two suitcases that went missing when the Israeli security officials flew from New York to Washington on American Airlines on Sunday.Read More: @ 1010wins.comYou might also like:Mayor Bloomberg: Terror Threat Against NYC CredibleBarak Meets ...

Guilty on just 1 count, Blago taunts U.S. attorney

After a federal jury convicted him of just one count — lying to the FBI — and deadlocked on 23 other counts, Rod Blagojevich declared his innocence today and defiantly taunted prosecutors.“The government threw everything but the kitchen sink at me, and on every charge but one, they could not prove that I broke any laws except one, a nebulous ...