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Israeli Pilgrims Permitted to Enter Tunisia

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The government of Tunisia decided for the first time to allow tourists from Israel to use their Israeli passports on an annual pilgrimage during the upcoming Lag BaOmer holy day to the Ghriba Synagogue on the island of Djerba. In the past, they required a special document issued by the Tunisian embassy. Since Tunisia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, the move has drawn opposition from lawmakers who see this as de facto recognition of the Jewish state.

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Holocaust Whistleblower Jan Karski Honored

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Jan Karski, a Polish resistance fighter who unsuccessfully appealed to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and later urged President Franklin Roosevelt to bomb the train tracks leading to the Auschwitz death camp, was honored last week by Georgetown University on April 24, the 100th anniversary of his birth. Karski, who died in 2000 at the age of 86, risked his life to bring his horrifying eye witness report of Jewish destruction to the Allies.

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Egyptian Presidential Candidates Vie for Top Ranking in Israel Hatred

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Although Israel and Egypt enjoy a peace agreement, recent statements made by representatives of both of the country’s contenders for the presidency might leave some people wondering. In a televised debate earlier this month on Lebanese TV, both candidates vied to demonstrate the most hostility toward Israel, Egypt’s supposed peace partner. Mahmoud Badr, the campaign manager for frontrunner Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt’s former army chief, pledged support for anyone who fights against Israel.

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70th Anniversary of the Destruction of Hungarian Jewry

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This year marks a heart-breaking anniversary for Hungary: it is the 70th anniversary of the mass deportations, massacres, and death marches of 1944. By the beginning of March 1944, Adolf Hitler had set his sights on the destruction of the last body of Jewry still in existence within his evil empire. In April 1944, the Nazis and their corroborators began rounding up Hungarian Jews and the first deportations began on April 29, 1944. The first transport arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 2, 1944 and the last transport arrived on July 11, 1944.

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Jews Told to Register in the Ukraine

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Last week on the eve of Passover, Ukrainian Jews in the city of Donetsk were alarmed by leaflets distributed outside synagogues telling them to register with the government or risk expulsion and the forfeiture of their property. "The last time in history that someone wrote a text like that was in 1939 in the Nazi time,” the Chief Rabbi of Donetsk Pinchas Vishedski said. The notice explained that the registration was necessary because of Jewish support of the “nationalist junta of [Stepan] Bandera in Kiev” (a politician who fought for Ukraine independence in the 1940s) and their hostility “to the Orthodox Donetsk republic and its citizens.” (HaAretz)

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Israeli Scientists Work to Cure Cancer

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Israel continues to make advances in medicine that benefit people around the world. Recently, an Israeli researcher at the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine, who lost her mother to a brain tumor, discovered a genetically linked protein that is associated with the brain cancer glioblastoma, the most widespread form of brain cancer. As well, Professor Dan Peer of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Cell Research and Immunology, has proposed using a new nanoscale drug-delivery system to target specific cells in the fight against ovarian cancer, the number one cause of death for American women with cancer of the reproductive system.

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Palestinians Denounce Students’ Visit to Auschwitz

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Palestinian Professor Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi, the library director and a professor of American studies at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, recently took what is thought to be the first group of Palestinian students to Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in Poland. “It helped emphasize the human story of the Holocaust, to study the meaning of the historical narrative as related to our conflict, to heighten empathy, awareness, and sensitivity,” said the professor who was once a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) guerrilla.

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Divine Presence of God Felt During Priestly Blessings at the Wailing Wall

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Early this morning, tens of thousands of Jewish people from here in Israel and around the world descended through the alley ways of the Old City of Jerusalem, walked down the ancient stairs and through tight security, before entering the open area which was quickly filling up before the Holiest place in Judaism – the Western (Wailing Wall). For the past couple of days the Cohanim (Jewish Priests) have been preparing themselves to enter into a state of holiness to give the special blessings to the people of Israel this morning. They were purified in the mikvah (water immersion pool) and then conducted other blessings of washing. This morning wearing their tallit (prayer shawls), they presided for God over the people in the Holiest Place accessible to the Jewish People today – the Western Wall.

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Iran Could ‘Break Out’ by June

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According to Washington, Iran could make nuclear bombs by June of this year, if it wanted to. "I think it's public knowledge today that we're operating with a time period for a so-called 'break-out' of about two months," United States Secretary of State John Kerry told the US Senate this past Tuesday. Kerry made the comments the day before Iran and the P5+1—Britain, France, China, Russia, Germany and the United States—concluded a two-day round of talks in Vienna.

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Israeli Technology Helps the Blind to See

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Israeli technological advances are continuing to fulfill Bible prophecy that Israel will be a blessing to the world. One of the most recent is a smart camera called OrCam that provides new ways for the world’s 285 million visually impaired and 39 million blind to understand the visual world. OrCam helps the visually impaired with an unobtrusive eyeglass attachment that reads text and identifies objects (street lights, bus numbers) by simply pointing a finger at them.

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