According to the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, Scottish Jews hide their religious beliefs and nationality, to avoid aggression from fellow citizens.
As for the Israelis living in Scotland, they tend to present themselves as Turks or the French, in order to avoid ambiguous situations, writes Algemeiner.
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Israeli Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov will make a three-day visit to Kiev this week.
According to the Israel Ministry of Tourism, the program of S. Misezhnikov’s visit includes a series of meetings with the members of the Ukrainian government and business.
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On Tuesday, December, 1, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will arrive in Athens to attend the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the counries belonging to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In the capital of Greece the head of Israeli diplomacy planned 15 meetings, including the meetings with colleagues from Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Moldova.
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The construction of Israeli settlements on the West Bank, where about 300 thousand people live, will be frozen for 10 months. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told this.
The decision will affect only new buildings. The construction of already started objects (and they are about 3 thousand) will be completed. The “Frost” will not affect the construction of urban infrastructure – synagogues, hospitals and kindergartens. Netanyahu hopes, that “the Palestinian Authority should enter into negotiations once again.”
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On November, 30 – RIA Novosti, Nazar Alyan. German intermediary brought to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli response to the demands, implementation of which the Palestinians have linked with the release from three years’ captivity of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, reported Arabic language TV channel Al-Arabiya on Monday.
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The Lebanese movement Hezbollah has tens of thousands of missiles and the major cities of Israel are in the zone of destruction of the missiles, and even a nuclear reactor is in the south of the country, said on Tuesday the radio station “Kol Israel” referring to the head of the IDF General Staff Gabi Ashkenazi.
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The most recent meeting between the U.S. President and the Prime Minister of Israel was characterized by the unusual cold, – Antonio Ferrari wrote in an article published in the newspaper “Corriere della Sera”.
Summit Obama-Netanyahu took place after the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Israel cessation of settlement construction is not a precondition for resuming negotiations with the Palestinians. But Obama could not prevent further weakening of credibility of the Palestinian Authority and the Arab world, especially after the historic speech in Cairo.
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“Together we signed the Oslo Accords and I am writing to you as a colleague:” Do not give up “- said Peres. Israeli President Shimon Peres appealed publicly to the President Mahmoud Abbas with a call not to leave the post of the head of the Palestinian National Authority.
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The head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Mahmoud Abbas ruled out the possibility of renewal of peace negotiations with Israel without a complete cancellation of settlement activities.
Disagreement of the conflicting parties in the matter of construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank of the Jordan river, is considered to be the main reason for the stagnation of the regional peace process, which forced Abbas to declare his unwillingness to be re-elected to a second term.
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In Tbilisi, believes that “Arkia” trying to time their flights to “Georgisn Airways” the schedule , to deprive their passengers
“Some of the passengers returned the purchased tickets, and some of them accepted the offer of airline travel to Tel Aviv other flights”, – said N. Giorgobiani.
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