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Meet Aviv Ezra, Israel in Chicago’s new Consul General – a basketball fan (of the Chicago Bulls, obviously), and a contributor to the deep Israel-USrelationship. (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
Schools in New York state will be required to test their drinking water for lead contamination under a new measure signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. School districts
Some 300 IDF rescue workers are still operating on the scene of the collapsed underground parking lot construction site in the Ramat HaChaiyal area of Tel Aviv. Now in day
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Archeologists from the Jerusalem-based Har Habayis Sifting Project are confident that they have successfully restored a unique architectural element of the Bayis Sheni. Namely, a series
Police late Monday night the eve of 3 Elul, were summoned to a shul in Har Shmuel, near the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, informed an assault was taking place. A
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