“The Upper Nazareth was founded to make the Galilee Jewish & we must preserve this role,” Mayor Gapso said responding to pressure to build an Arab school.
By Annie Lubin
In a definitive response to an appeal to create an Arab school in Upper Nazareth, the city’s Mayor rejected the proposal and vowed that no Muslim establishment would be erected on his watch – whether it be a mosque, a Muslim cemetery or an Arab school.
Mayor Shimon Gapso added Wednesday that the proposal, which was submitted on January 7th by the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, represents “a provocative nationalist statement intended to disrupt the status quo” and vowed that he would continue to fight the proposal and any similar ones that may arise in the future. Continue Reading »
The conviction, rendered by the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday, stated that 
“Agriculture knows no borders,” Uri Madar from the agriculture department at Israel’s District Coordination Office 
Netanyahu, who spent much of his childhood in a Philadelphia suburb, cannot be US president, because he was born in Israel. Trump led high profile, unsuccessful efforts to prove that US President Barack Obama was not born in America and even offered to donate money to charity if Obama produced his birth certificate. 
December’s consumer price index rose by a moderate 0.2%, after the previous two months recorded a negative CPI – down 0.5% in November and 0.2% in October. September’s CPI remained unchanged from August.
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