An Israeli flag has been added to the line of flags fluttering outside the CERN Globe of Science and Innovation in Geneva, following Israel’s official welcoming as the 21st member state of the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Israel is the first new member of the organization since 1999. Israel has been an observer at CERN since 1991.
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Second only to Silicon Valley in startup magnitude, Tel Aviv recently welcomed CEOs of 12 European, Asian and South American startups to experience the entrepreneurial ecosystem for themselves.
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A reporter wears a Kippah through Malmö, Sweden where “a recent report reveals that half of Sweden’s Jews hide their faith”
“After a while ,” Reilly explained, “I began to forget I was wearing the kippah until a burly man walked aggressively in my direction and mouthed ‘f*cking Jew’ to his friend. It was a reminder that making your Jewish identity in Malmö obvious carries its own risk. Frankly, it was a relief to take it off.”
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday held a series of interviews with European media outlets with the aim of convincing EU countries not to lift Iran sanctions.
From his office in Jerusalem, Netanyahu spoke to leading media outlets including France’s Le Monde, the British Financial Times, Germany’s ARD, French television channelTV24 and Britain’s Sky News.
“No deal is better than a bad deal, and a bad deal would be a partial agreement which lifts sanctions off Iran and leaves them with the ability to enrich uranium or to continue work on their heavy water plutonium, which is what is needed to produce nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu told The Financial Times.
“Don’t give up now, finish the job, let it take effect,” Netanyahu said. “Don’t give up now, and don’t say later that I didn’t warn you.”
Powerful words, but will they resonate?
“The Senate should not aid and abet a European appeasement policy by softening our sanctions while the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism races toward a nuclear weapons capability,” (http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/republican-senator-delaying-iran-sanctions-is-appeasement)
Senator Kirk is right, and the signal being sent by the Senate is extremely regrettable. ZOA has been very clear that sanctions are not the ultimate solution to the problem of Iran. They have been effective at penalizing the Mullahs’ regime, but virtually all experts agree that Iran has already decided to move forward with their nuclear ambitions even in the face of sanctions. The only thing that might stop the nuclear program is a credible threat of force. The force itself would be a significant blow to the regime, but possibly even more significant to the unpopular clique running Iran is the reaction of the people of Iran to a significant attack. According to the regime itself, they might be risking their entire revolution once bombs begin to fall on their nuclear facilities.
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Speaking to the United Nations General Assemblyon Tuesday, Rouhani said that nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction “have no place in Iran’s security and defense doctrine, and contradict our fundamental religious and ethical convictions.”
Iran has been hit with painful American, European Union and UN sanctions for refusing to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
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US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington was interested in more than words from the Iranians.
“We hope that the new Iranian government will show and not just say they are prepared to engage substantively, and tomorrow is an early test of that proposition,” she said.
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The Polish lawyer representing the European Jewish Association (EJA), says a Polish ban of kosher ritual slaughter is illegal and should be overturned immediately.
Roman Giertuch, who is also a former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, says the ban was adopted in violation of a European law that requires formal notification of the EU Commission for a legislation that contravenes EU regulations.
Giertych said the Polish law was made on January 1 - before the EU gave member states the right to rule on ritual slaughter independently.
“The notification was sent by the (Polish) Minister of Agriculture before January 1st," the European Jewish Press (EJP) quoted Giertych as saying.
The hope within the European Jewish Association is that this new legal opinion could lead to the immediate return to kosher slaughter in Poland without need for further discussion in the Polish Parliament.
