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January 17th, 2016 
Awake Goy The Syrian army is preparing for its biggest operation since the beginning of the conflict to recapture the country’s second city of Aleppo.
Aleppo, formerly Syria’s commercial hub, is now divided between government control in the west and militant control in the east.
Daesh and al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, are based in the areas ruled by foreign-backed terrorists.
By recapturing Aleppo, the Syrian army plans to broaden its security zone around the city and and prevent terrorists from receiving supplies and reinforcements from the suburbs.
“This will be the biggest military operation in Syria since the beginning of the war,” the French news agency AFP quoted one Syrian army commander as saying.
He said the army is battling on seven fronts around the city to choke up militant supply lines and surround them on the eastern part of the city.
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Israel is battling an EU proposal that will be tabled next week in a meeting of European foreign ministers, which calls for all European Union countries to restrict its international agreements with Israel to within the 1967 borders, thus excluding the settlements.
Two months after introducing labeling for products imported from Israeli settlements, the EU is planning to further differentiate between the areas on either side of the Green Line.
The EU’s Foreign Affairs Council, which brings together European foreign ministers, is expected to approve on Tuesday a proposal that is liable to levy new sanctions against Israeli settlements and undermine their international legitimacy.
The Israeli and European Union flags in Berlin (Photo: AFP)
In response to an interview in which Education Minister Naftali Bennett seemed to cast aspersions on the loyalty of Israeli diplomats, Foreign Ministry employees decide to stop cooperating with Bennett and announce they will boycott his foreign visits.
Condemnation has come in from across the political spectrum following Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s statements that seemed to cast aspersions on the loyalty of Israel’s Foreign Ministry employees.
At the end of the week Bennett stated that the actions of Alon Liel, former head of the Foreign Ministry, showed that he is a prominent left-wing activist who calls for increasing international pressure on Israel in order to end the occupation in the territories. This, Bennett said, reveals something about the DNA of the Foreign Ministry’s employees.
Bennett’s comments came following revelations that Liel had consulted with left-wing group Breaking the Silence.
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- Houston attorney argues that Texas senator is ineligible to be president
- Lawsuit filed Thursday seeks declaratory judgment on the booming issue
- GOP front-runner Donald Trump has said a declaratory judgment is necessary
- Cruz and Trump are in a virtual tie in polls in Iowa
A Houston attorney has sued Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz over his U.S. citizenship, seeking a declaratory judgment on whether the Texas senator is legally eligible to be elected president.
The lawsuit adds the latest wrinkle to a burgeoning controversy over the Texas senator’s eligibility for the White House – a scandal that has already roiled the waters as recently as in Thursday night’s prime-time national debate.
Nelson Schwartz Sr., who runs a Houston law firm, filed suit earlier Thursday to seek a declaratory judgment on whether Cruz’s Canadian birth to an American woman qualifies him for the nation’s highest office.
+7Donald Trump and Cruz crossing swords during Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate
BOSTON (JTA) — A celebrated Israeli novelist is among the winners of this year’s Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children’s books.
The Association of Jewish Libraries on Thursday announced the selection of Aharon Applefeld, a Holocaust survivor who has written about the genocide extensively.
He won the award for older readers for “Adam and Thomas,” his first book for children, along with illustrator Philippe Dumas and translator Jeffrey M. Green.
Laura Amy Schlitz won a Sydney Taylor award for “The Hired Girl,” a novel for teens that recently won the Scott O’Dell award for historical fiction. The Association of Jewish Libraries described the book as a sensitive story that “tells how fourteen-year-old Catholic Joan Skraggs becomes a hired girl to a Jewish family where she learns and grows in unexpected ways.”
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Syrians starving in Daesh-blockaded Deir Ezzor
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