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  • Israel, U.S., Jordan reportedly coordinating attack on Syrian weapons

    oni Hirsch and Israel Hayom, JNS.org|Jun 21, 2013

    While the U.S. administration has officially adopted the position that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons and has declared publicly that it will provide the rebels with military aid, it appears that behind-the-scenes preparations are still being made for a much larger move. Israel, Jordan, and the U.S. are jointly planning an attack aimed at destroying the unconventional weapons stockpiles in Syria, Time magazine reported over last weekend. According to the report, which was based on interviews with senior Israeli military and...

  • Boston Marathon attack victims and suspects treated by Israeli doctors

    oni Hirsch, JNS.org|Apr 26, 2013

    Many of the injured in the Boston Marathon bombings last week were rushed to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Several days later, on Friday, the two suspected bombers, Tamerlan and Dzohkhar Tsarnaev, were admitted, separately, to the hospital’s emergency room after sustaining wounds from their shootout with the police. The older brother, Tamerlan, later succumbed to his wounds. Jewish immigrants founded the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1916. Eighty years later, it merged with t...