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Thousands of Americans living in Israel are likely to get ensnared by a onetime corporate repatriation tax that the US Congress had intended to apply to Apple and Google, not individuals. Tax experts contacted by The Jerusalem Post warned that Israeli Americans who self-incorporated – setting up Israeli corporations to avoid paying taxes on the self-employed such as US Social Security – would be subject to a onetime tax on 30 years of profits accumulated in their Israeli corporations – from January 1, 1986, to December 31, 2017.

Note: The following text is a quote: "Are you guys agents of satan?" This Hate Mailer, like so many others, assumes that I am Jewish (in reality, I do not have that honor). This is because his Koran tells him that the Jews will be the worst enemies of the believers (5:82), and he believes that by telling the truth about jihad and Islamic supremacism, I have become an enemy to the Muslims. Note also that there are several veiled threats in this one. He refers to Ka'b bin Ashraf, who was murdered by Muhammad's men -- on the Muslim...

Some call him the new Moshe Arens, others compare him to Benjamin Netanyahu - either way Michael Oren has become one of Israel's most prominent English speakers since being named the new ambassador to the United States this week. While many in the local Anglo community celebrated their fellow immigrant's success, friends and companions reminisced this week about different aspects of the eclectic scholar-turned-diplomat's personality. Jewish Agency spokesman Michael Jankelowitz met him in the early 1980s, while Oren was working on his Ph.D. at Princeton University. Jankelowitz, who was an emissary for American campus activity at the time, says Oren...