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On the first day of a pilot program pairing Israeli and Palestinian farmers interested in joint agricultural ventures, each population sat warily on opposite sides of the room. Though all had agreed to be part of the trailblazing training program held at the Galilee International Management Institute (GIMI) on Kibbutz Mizra, significant...

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A report released by an activist who exposes anti-Semitism shows that Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn belonged to an anti-Semitic Facebook group for over a year prior to his election to lead the Labour Party in 2015, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The activist and researcher, David Collier, showed...

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Turkey is turning into a new Pakistan, “a perpetually failing state whose military leadership has tolerated and advanced a vision of political Islam deeply hostile to U.S. and Western interests”, Eli Lake warned in a column published by Bloomberg on Friday. After the Trump administration warned in January that American...

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In his meeting with President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask the president to impose sanctions on Iran for testing missiles with ranges greater than 180 miles (300 kilometers), Axios reported Sunday. Israel’s concern is that the United States will give into European fixes of the nuclear deal,...

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French authorities arrested four Arab teenagers, who are suspected of beating a 14-year-old Jewish boy with a stick and taking away his kippah outside a synagogue in Montmagny, north of Paris. JTA reported that the suspects were detained Wednesday night, after they had attacked their victim around 8 p.m. outside...

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For the second time in 30 days, PayPal, the global payment service, has shut the account of a group of French anti-Israel boycotters, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Weinthal confirmed that PayPal had shut the account of the pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group, Jewish French Union...

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