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Jordan Parliament Calls for Removal of Israeli Ambassador

Jordanian Prime Minister-Abdullah Ensour

Last week, after Israeli soldiers killed a Jordanian judge at the Allenby Bridge border crossing, Jordan’s parliament threatened to topple the Jordanian government if it did not remove Israeli ambassador and recall Jordan’s ambassador to Israel. Yesterday, Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour escaped a no-confidence vote by Jordan's parliament. He told the parliamentarians that the government “does not see that expelling the Israeli envoy and recalling the Jordanian ambassador serve the path of our martyr’s case." (Times of Israel)

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9 Miniature Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered

Interior of the Shrine of the Book, Dead Sea Scrolls, Israel Museum

Nine miniature phylactery scrolls from the Dead Sea collection that have lain unexamined since the 1950s have recently been discovered at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. In Judaism, phylacteries (tefillin) are worn during the morning prayers. They consist of a pair of leather cases, one worn over the forehead and the other wrapped around the arm and pointing toward the heart.

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Israelis to Pray for Rain at the Western Wall

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau

Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau has called for day of prayer for rain on this week’s upcoming Fast of Esther (Ta’anit Esther). Lau made the announcement during a meeting with the Chairman of the Agricultural Caucus in the Knesset (parliament), MK Zevulun Kalfa, at which time they discussed the drought and the Shemita agricultural Sabbath. “The Master of the World teaches us that the rain is ‘ours’ because it depends on the Jewish people and their prayers,” said Lau. The prayer rally for rain will be held on March 13 at the Western (Wailing) Wall and will end with Mincha (Afternoon Prayer).

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Israeli-Arab Preschoolers to Receive Free Books

Israeli-Arab School

A foundation that distributes free Jewish books to Jewish children in North America and Israel is launching an initiative to provide 45,000 Israeli Arab preschoolers with Arabic children’s books. The goal of the project, called Maktabat al-Fanoos, which is Arabic for Lantern Library, is to instill a love of reading and provide the opportunity for children to enjoy reading together with teachers and parents. Once a month during the school year, 1,750 kindergartens will give Arab-Israeli students four books that they can bring home to read with their parents.

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Jordan’s MPs Vote to Expel Israeli Ambassador

Facing Temple Mount to Pray

Israel has experienced a backlash caused by a Knesset (parliament) debate regarding Israel’s sovereignty at the Temple Mount. In response to the debate, 86 of 150 Jordanian MPs voted to expel Israel’s ambassador to Jordan, Daniel Nevo, and to recall Jordan’s ambassador to Israel. The vote came one day after 47 MPs signed a motion demanding that Jordan’s 1994 peace treaty with Israel be annulled. (Times of Israel)

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Iran Says It’s “Ready for Decisive Battle” with Israel and US

Iranian Soldier-Rocket-Saluting

Iran seemed to flex all its muscles in preparation for talks this week with world powers on the nation’s rogue nuclear program. Iran’s state TV recently aired a documentary that featured a simulated bombing of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben-Gurion Airport, and the Dimona nuclear reactor by Iranian drones in retaliation for an imaginary Israeli (or American) strike on the Islamic Republic. Simulated attacks on American targets in the region, including an aircraft-carrier, were also presented.

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Rabbis Warn Kerry He Is in Danger of Divine Wrath

A group of nationalist rabbis from the Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel warned US Secretary of State John Kerry that if he continues to force peace negotiations on Israel he will be drawing down upon himself the wrath of God. "Your incessant efforts to expropriate integral parts of our Holy Land and hand them over to Abbas’s terrorist gang, amount to a declaration of war against the Creator and Ruler of the universe. For God awarded the entire Land of Israel to our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in order that they bequeath it, as an everlasting inheritance, to their descendants, the Jewish people, until the end of all time," they wrote last week in an open letter.

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Scarlett Johansson Supports SodaStream, Quits Oxfam

Sodastream-carbonated beverages-machine-made in Israel

Pro-Palestinian activists have criticized SodaStream for maintaining a large factory in the disputed territories. Some claim the company is taking advantage of Palestinians who have few other employment options. While some deceptively portray the SodaStream plant as a kind of “slave labor” camp for Palestinians, nothing could be further from the truth. At SodaStream, the workers earn a decent wage (much more than they could earn in the Palestinian Authority) and have benefits and breaks. They can even pray in the small onsite mosque that the company has provided for them without being docked time from their break allowances.

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