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Israeli delegate blasts WHO for ‘naming and shaming’ Israel

(CNSNews.com) – An Israeli delegate lashed out this week at the World Health Organization for politicizing its annual assembly by singling out his country – the only one on earth condemned at the meeting for violating health rights. Confronting what he called "the ritual of naming and shaming Israel,"

Faith

Sanders: ‘U.S. and rest of world have got to work together to help Palestinian people’

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he's not "anti-Israel," but he believes Israel has responded disproportionately to Palestinian provocations; he says the U.S. "is going to to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity," and be more "even-handed&

terrorism

Netanyahu to Biden: Israel’s ties with Arab states ‘solid base’ for peace, stability

In a joint press conference with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's failure to condemn Tuesday's Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel. Speaking of the largest of the attacks, in which 29-year-old

Palestine

Palestinian attacks kill American tourist, wound 12 Israelis

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian attackers unleashed a series of shooting and stabbing assaults on Israelis on Tuesday, including a stabbing spree in the ancient Mediterranean port city of Jaffa that killed an American tourist near where Vice President Joe Biden was meeting with Israel's former president, police said. The

women

Let women light Hanukkah candles at Western Wall, Israeli official says

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Women must be allowed to light Hanukkah candles and say a prayer at the official candle-lighting ceremony at the Western Wall when the Jewish festival of Hanukkah begins on Sunday (Dec. 6), Israel's deputy attorney general said this week. Every year, eight official lighting ceremonies — one