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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Peace Now’s Jerusalem office is vandalized

JTAPublished February 9, 2012

JERUSALEM -- The fence outside the Jerusalem offices of Peace Now were spray painted with threatening graffiti. The words "No leftists, no terror attacks" were painted Thursday on the fence by unknown vandals. The Jerusalem police have opened an investigation...

Delta removes ‘Occupied’ from Palestinian Territories on destination list

JTAPublished February 8, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Delta Airlines removed the phrase "Occupied Palestinian Territories" from its list of Middle East destinations. The destination "Palestinian Territories" remained on Wednesday after the airline reportedly received e-mailed and tweeted complaints....

Jerusalem monastery, Arab-Jewish school attacked

JTAPublished February 7, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Graffiti attacks against non-Jewish targets have continued in Israel, this time at a Jewish-Arab bilingual school and a Christian monastery.  "Death to Arabs" and "Kahane was right" was painted on the Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab...

Fatah, Hamas agree on unity government led by Abbas

JTAPublished February 6, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Major Palestinian parties Fatah and Hamas agreed to form a unified government for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The agreement, signed Monday in Qatar, stipulates that the government will be headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

Anti-Arab graffiti sprayed on West Bank home

JTAPublished February 5, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Invective against Arabs was spray-painted on a home in a West Bank village. "Death to the Arabs" and the names of several Israeli unauthorized outposts demolished or set to be demolished were sprayed on a home in Al-Jeniya. Other graffiti...

Israeli incentive program does not include settlements

JTAPublished February 3, 2012

WASHINGTON -- An Israeli program that offers incentives to move to outlying areas does not include West Bank settlements. The Cabinet on Sunday approved a list of 550 areas in outlying or poor areas to be included in an incentive program to draw residents...

Palestinians throw shoes at U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon

JTAPublished February 2, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Gaza Palestinians threw slippers or shoes and rocks at a car carrying United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon as he crossed from Israel into the Gaza Strip. Thursday's protesters, relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, tried to block...

Ban calls on Israel to make gestures for peace

JTAPublished February 1, 2012

JERUSALEM -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to make some positive moves toward the Palestinians in order to bring them back to the negotiating table. Ban was in Jerusalem Wednesday for meetings with Israeli leaders. He was...

Netanyahu wins Likud chairmanship for fifth time

JTAPublished February 1, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was victorious in the Likud Party chairmanship race, though his only challenger garnered about 24 percent of the vote. Netanyahu won about 75 percent of the vote in Tuesday's polling, about the same percentage...

Israeli film on West Bank justice wins at Sundance

JTAPublished January 29, 2012

JERUSALEM—An Israeli film on the military's legal system in the West Bank was named the best foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. "The Law in These Parts," which took the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary on Jan. 28, features...

Netanyahu, Abbas pessimistic about continued talks

JTAPublished January 29, 2012

JERUSALEM—The possibility of continuing peace talks with the Palestinians is "not particularly good," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. We "hope that the Palestinians will stay in the talks in order to reach, in the end, concrete negotiations...

Bill would allow retroactive legalization of West Bank outposts

JTAPublished January 29, 2012

JERUSALEM—A bill that will allow the retroactive legalization of West Bank outposts will be brought to a vote in the Knesset. The measure, which is scheduled for a vote Wednesday, would allow houses in communities of 20 or more homes to remain on land...

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