The number of hate crimes targeting Jews reported to police in England and Wales in 2018-19 has more than doubled compared to the previous year, interior ministry statistics show.
While the largest proportion of religious hate crime offences targeted Muslim people (3,530 offences), that number has remained steady over the last five years, according to the UK’s Home Office.
Whereas hate crimes against the Jews have more than doubled, representing some 18% of religious hate crime offences targeting Jewish people (1,326 offences) in 2018-19, compared with 672 in the previous year.
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JERUSALEM (VosIzNaies) — A year and a half after the winner and runner-up in the International Bible Quiz competed against each other, they announced Wednesday that they are engaged to be married. In the memorable 2018 final of the contest, the two, Azriel Shilat and Oriyah Cohen, outstripped all of the other contestants and were […]

The French court sentenced five Muslim women to lengthy prison sentences for attempting to blow up the Notre Dame cathedral.
The women, all converts to Islam, plotted to detonate a car bomb outside the cathedral in September 2016.
A Peugeot 607 was parked near Notre Dame in Paris. The car’s license plates had been removed and the lights were flashing. Police called to the scene found fuel tanks, diesel tanks and cigarette butts that were supposed to ignite the fuel tanks and cause the car to explode and damage the famous church.
According to French police investigators, “the attempted attack would have been successful if the women had chosen the right type of fuel.”

Iran’s economy is expected to shrink by 9.5 percent this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said, down from a previous estimate of a six percent contraction, as the country feels the impact of tighter US sanctions.
The IMF forecasts, published on Tuesday in the fund’s World Economic Outlook report, are not far from estimates given last week by the World Bank, which said the Iranian economy by the end of the 2019/20 financial year would be 90 percent smaller than it was just two years ago.
Iran, a large oil producer, saw its oil revenues surge after a 2015 nuclear pact agreed with six major powers that ended a sanctions regime imposed three years earlier over its disputed nuclear program.

In late May, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney organized a meeting that stripped control of the country’s relationship with Ukraine from those who had the most expertise at the National Security Council and the State Department.
Instead, Mulvaney put an unlikely trio in charge of managing the U.S.-Ukraine account amid worrisome signs of a new priority, congressional officials said Tuesday: pressuring the fledgling government in Kiev to deliver material that would be politically valuable to President Donald Trump.

The steering committee that leads the weekly riots on the Israel-Gaza border is inaugurating a children’s park near a border area that has been a focal point for the often violent disturbances, Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported on Sunday.
According to the report, the so-called “Park of Return” is already prepared for use and includes games, entertainment facilities, lawns, gardens, a promenade, shaded areas for picnics, and fountains.
The committee said, “The park is a message of our people’s life and continuity in the face of the occupation, that we are rooted in our land and cling to hope and life.”

Freedom Caucus members Rep. Mark Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan react on ‘Hannity.’
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