JTA News Briefs: September 8, 2016
MIDDLE EAST Netanya mayor held in suspected multimillion-dollar bribery scandal JERUSALEM (JTA) — Netanya Mayor Miriam Feirberg is in police custody on suspicion of bribery,…
Israel
Why Tel Aviv is so crazy about dogs
By Andrew Tobin TEL AVIV (JTA) — It’s not every day you see a dog getting a massage. But in this Israeli city, somehow it…
Hamas, natural gas and other good reasons Israel and Turkey should stick together
By Andrew Tobin JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel and Turkey ought to be friends, geopolitically speaking. As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put it in January: “Israel…
A Cautionary Tale: BDS Tears Apart the Green Party
by Steve McDonald (EJNews) – In early August, the Green Party of Canada voted at its national convention to endorse Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) measures against segments…
Poll: Most Israelis, Palestinians oppose current bilateral peace plan
By Andrew Tobin JERUSALEM (JTA) — Most Israelis and Palestinians oppose the kind of peace deal that has been under negotiation in the past, a…