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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is afraid that it could be “destroyed” by American sanctions imposed by the new Trump Administration, ICC officials told the Guardian. The officials stated that US sanctions could “shut the court down entirely.” “The concern is the sanctions will be used to shut the court down, to destroy it rather …

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The Defense Ministry’s Mine Clearance Authority continues to clear out minefields in the Golan Heights and has cleared over 200 mines near Kibbutz Ein Zivan over an area of 50 dunams over the past two weeks. The Mine Clearance Authority works year-round to clear mines and unexploded bombs across the country as part of a …

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Yoni, a successful Israeli contractor, flew to Thailand in December to find builders. In addition to his work recruits, he found Shlomo, a runaway yeshiva student. Shlomo, 29, had been a regular yeshiva student in Israel. While his friends were all beginning their families, he suffered through two broken engagements. At 28, his third bride-to-be …

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Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. 1st Aliya: The year is 2448 and Moshe had unsuccessfully confronted Pharaoh. The situation had gotten worse, not better, …

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Yechezkel 28:25 The theme of the Exodus is the Jew and the Egyptian recognizing G-d’s absolute mastery over all things. The nature of a slave / master relationship is for the slave to be dependent on the master and the master to feel a proprietorship over the slave. At the time of the Exodus, Pharoah …

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