Shakespeare’s Globe, the theater company founded on the spot where William Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed, announced Tuesday that it would be performing Hamlet at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv on March 30. The performance will be part of the theater’s ambitious two-year-long project to stage a production of Hamlet...

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A recently published Pew Research poll of religion in Israel has come under growing criticism for a controversial question that has generated headlines. According to the poll, 48 percent of Israeli Jews agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel.” But Shmuel Rosner of The Jewish Journal...

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A day after Iran announced that it tested a number of ballistic missiles across the country, in defiance of a United Nations Security Council ban, the Islamic Republic launched two more missiles marked with the threat “Israel must be wiped off the Earth” in Hebrew, CNN reported on Wednesday. The missiles, which are capable of...

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A delegation of IDF veterans has volunteered to spend two weeks teaching disadvantaged children and repairing orphanages in northern Ethiopia to honor the memory of a fallen comrade. The 25 Israelis will set out in April to volunteer in the city of Gondar under the aegis of the humanitarian group...

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Who were Elihana bat Gael and Sa’aryahu ben Shabenyahu? Two seals bearing those names were uncovered in the remains of a building from the First Temple period (c. 1000-586 BCE) in excavations carried out in a former parking lot outside Jerusalem’s City of David. “Finding seals that bear names from the time of the...

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At least one person was killed and 13 others injured in a series of terror attacks across Israel on Tuesday. One person was killed and 10 others were wounded in Jaffa when a knife-wielding man, reported to be a 22-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Qalqilya, started stabbing pedestrians. He also...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah warned that fighting during a future war with Israel “will reach the Galilee,” Israel Hayom reported on Sunday, citing Foreign Policy. “In the next war, Hezbollah won’t stay on the borders, and the Israeli settlements in the north will not be protected from this,” said a...

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Leaders of Israeli towns on the border of the Gaza Strip wrote an open letter inviting Vice President Joe Biden, who is beginning a two-day trip to Israel Tuesday, to visit their communities. The heads of the Sha’ar Hanegev, Eshkol, Hof Ashkelon and Sdot Negev regional councils pointed out that their proximity to Gaza,...

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Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is donating a water purification vehicle to drought-stricken Papua New Guinea, an independent island nation north of Australia in which about 85 percent of the six million citizens lack access to electricity and tap water. The Foreign Ministry has teamed up with the Caesarea-based G.A.L. Water...

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First, the London Underground was littered with anti-Israel guerilla advertising. Then, David Cameron proclaimed in the House of Commons that he was “shocked” by the “encirclement of East Jerusalem” by Israeli settlements. Now, it looks as if Israel is to be passed over by Shakespeare’s Globe theatre company on its...

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