(1)🚨📢 *Personal News:
I've been promoted to correspondent for Israel & the Palestinian Territories for @WSJ.
What does this mean? ↓
Dov Lieber
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Dov Lieber
@DovLieber
South Floridian covering Israel / Palestinian territories for @WSJ
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Joined August 2010
- STATEMENT: Hamas Gaza leader Sinwar: "The time Hamas discussed recognizing Israel is over. Now Hamas will discuss when to wipe out Israel"
- Netanyahu's campaign takes a page out of the Trump playbook with this new ad
- Israel has now decided to allow @RashidaTlaib into Israel in order to visit her 90-year-old grandmother. The congresswoman promised not to promote any boycott of Israel during her visit.BREAKING: Israel decided to officially ban Rashida Tlaib & Ilhan Omar from visiting the country, Israeli deputy foreign minister says. wsj.com/articles/israe…
- Nice story. Israel says Palestinian security forces helped it quickly locate 5 Torah scrolls stolen recently from a synagogue in Jaffa and taken to Hebron.
- Back to back rocket barrages in Tel Aviv now. And Google maps has a new feature here: it shows every bomb shelter. A nice feature as sometimes people don’t know which direction to run and take shelter.
- Tel Aviv city hall puts up rainbow colors in solidarity with vicitms of Orlando shooting
- The popular Palestinian hashtag today: "be_like_Ayyash (كن_مثل_عياش)." Ayyash was the bomb maker for Hamas, responsible for 100s of deaths
- Here is the selfie of two Jerusalem attackers just an hour before they shot at Israeli policeman. Notice awful anti-Semitic comment on side.
- New poll by Maariv finds Israeli electorate has shifted since Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection. Largest party is @yairlapid’s Yesh Atid with 27 seats. Likud would get 26 Opposition 65 seats, coalition parties 55 For past 4 years, most polls showed deadlock or win for Bibi
- Picture from Arab village in northern Israel (kfar Nahf), where a state of emergency has been declared, preparing to evacuate
- A senior Hamas official and Egyptian officials told The Wall Street Journal that the Palestinian group had lost contact with some of the militants holding hostages, and civilians also had participated in taking hostages, making it difficult to determine how many are being held.Israel Asks Egypt to Help Negotiate Release of Israelis, say Egyptian Officials wsj.com/livecoverage/i… via @wsj
- Both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem will host solidarity rallies with victims of Orlando shooting.הערב בגן מאיר ובכיכר ציון בירושלים: עצרות הזדהות עם קורבנות הטבח באורלנדו ומאבק בהומופוביה
- Interesting: Abbas phoned leaders of many Arab states, Turkey and just one EU country to pressure US to stop declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. That EU country was France.
