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Report on Human Rights Practices
for 2023 - Israel

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Report on Human Rights Practices for 2001 Jordan

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a constitutional monarchy ruled by King Abdullah II bin Hussein since the death of his father, King Hussein bin Talal, in February 1999. The Constitution concentrates a high degree of executive and legislative authority in the King, who determines domestic and foreign policy. In the King's absence, a regent, whose authority is outlined in the Constitution, assumes many of the King's responsibilities. The Prime Minister and other members of the Cabinet are appointed by the King and manage the daily affairs of government... read article

Medicine & Law

Issues regarding medicine and Jewish law... read article

Religious Freedom in the Middle East 2020

International Religious Freedom reports for the Middle East for 2020... read article

Jews in the Spanish Civil War

A discussion about Jews who fought in the Spanish civil war and a list of those who did... read article

First Lebanon War: The Kahan Commission of Inquiry

On February 8, 1983, the Kahan Commission of Inquiry released its "Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut" and determined that the massacre at Sabra and Shatilla was carried out by a Phalangist unit acting on its own. While no Israelis were directly responsible for the events which occurred in the camps, Israel did know of the Phalangist's entry into the camps... read article

Report on Human Rights Practices for 2001 Egypt

According to its Constitution, Egypt is a social democracy in which Islam is the state religion. The National Democratic Party (NDP), which has governed since its establishment in 1978, has used its entrenched position to dominate national politics and maintains an overriding majority in the popularly elected People's Assembly and the partially elected Shura (Consultative) Council. President Hosni Mubarak was reelected unopposed to a fourth 6-year term in a national referendum in September 1999... read article

Report on Human Rights Practices for 2001 Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran1 was established in 1979 after a populist revolution toppled the Pahlavi monarchy. The Constitution, ratified after the revolution by popular referendum, established a theocratic republic and declared as its purpose the establishment of institutions and a society based on Islamic principles and norms. The Government is dominated by Shi'a Muslim clergy. The Head of State, Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i, is the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution and has direct control over the armed forces, the internal security forces, and the judiciary... read article

Report on Human Rights Practices for 2001 Yemen

The Republic of Yemen, comprising the former (northern) Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and (southern) People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), was proclaimed in 1990. Following a brief but bloody civil war in mid-1994, the country was reunified under the Sana'a-based government. President Ali Abdullah Saleh is the leader of the General People's Congress (GPC), which dominates the Government. He was elected by the legislature to a 5-year term in 1994, and was elected to another 5-year term in the country's first nationwide direct presidential election in September 1999, winning 96.3 percent of the vote... read article

The Book of Iyov (Job): Full Text

1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. 1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east... read article

Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006 - Egypt

The Arab Republic of Egypt, with a population of approximately 79 million, has been governed by the National Democratic Party (NDP) since the party's establishment in 1978. The NDP, which continued to dominate national politics by maintaining an overriding majority in the popularly elected People's Assembly and the partially elected Shura (Consultative) Council, derives its governing authority from the 1971 constitution and subsequent amendments. Executive authority resides with the president of the republic and the cabinet... read article

Report on Human Rights Practices for 2021 - Israel

The 2021 State Department Report on Human Rights in Israel... read article

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2002 - Occupied Territories

Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem during the 1967 War. Following the Madrid peace conference in 1992, Israel and the Palestinians entered into negotiations and in 1993, signed the Oslo Accords which established a framework for negotiating transitional and final status arrangements. Pursuant to the May 1994 Gaza-Jericho Agreement and the September 1995 Interim Agreement, Israel transferred most responsibilities for civil government in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank to the newly created Palestinian Authority (PA)... read article

Report on Human Rights Practices for 2000--Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran* was established in 1979 after a populist revolution toppled the Pahlavi monarchy.  The Constitution ratified after the revolution by popular referendum established a theocratic republic and declared as its purpose the establishment of institutions and a society based on Islamic principles and norms.  The Government is dominated by Shi'a Muslim clergy.  The Head of State, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution and has direct control of the armed forces, internal security forces, and the judiciary... read article

Report on Human Rights Practices for 2022 - Israel

The 2022 State Department report on human rights in Israel... read article

World War II: Jewish Personnel at Bletchley Park

A description of the Jews who were involved in working at Bletchley Park where the British broke the codes of Axis forces... read article

George H.W. Bush Administration:
News Conferences & Interviews on the Middle East/Israel

Excerpts from press conferences and interviews with George H.W. Bush's views on the Middle East... read article

Report on Human Rights Practices for 2000--Jordan

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a constitutional monarchy ruled by King Abdullah II bin Hussein since the death of his father, King Hussein bin Talal, in February 1999.  The Constitution concentrates a high degree of executive and legislative authority in the King, who determines domestic and foreign policy.  In the King's absence, a regent, whose authority is outlined in the Constitution, assumes many of these responsibilities.  The Prime Minister and other members of the Cabinet are appointed by the King and manage the daily affairs of government... read article

Report on Human Rights Practices for 2000--Iraq

Political power in Iraq lies exclusively in a repressive one-party apparatus dominated by Saddam Hussein and members of his extended family.  The provisional Constitution of 1968 stipulates that the Arab Ba'th Socialist Party governs Iraq through the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), which exercises both executive and legislative authority.  President Saddam Hussein, who is also Prime Minister, Chairman of the RCC, and Secretary General of the Regional Command of the Ba'th Party, wields decisive power.  Saddam Hussein and his regime continued to refer to an October 1995 nondemocratic "referendum" on his presidency, in which he received 99... read article

Human Rights Report (2011) - Iran

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