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Alon Day was having a very good day. The 26-year-old race car driver entered Israeli motorsport history last weekend when he clinched the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series championship in Zolder, Belgium. Day is in the midst of a sensational racing season. He won four races in total this year. The Whelen...

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During a speech commemorating the Jewish year at Paris’s Buffault Synagogue on Monday, France’s prime minister called the ongoing anti-Semitism in France “a symptom of a democratic crisis.” Édouard Philippe said that he would implement a new plan to fight anti-Semitism by means of “prevention, through education and culture” in the coming years and...

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Israel’s intelligence agencies have stepped up cooperation with their foreign counterparts leading to the prevention of dozens of terror attacks around the world. Following the coordinated terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November 2015, the intelligence branch of Israel’s General Staff made a decision to concentrate more on...

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“The state of Israel must be given recognition by all; freed from terror; know that it is accepted as part of the future of the Middle East, not its very existence under threat,” former British Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed in his keynote speech at the Labour Conference in 2001....

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The British Labour Party faces a fresh anti-Semitism controversy after a speaker at a side event at the party’s annual conference called for free speech to extend to Holocaust denial, and activists made a “thinly veiled call to purge Jews” from the party according to one MP, The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday....

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A major counter-terrorism investigation is underway in Britain after a bucket bomb was detonated during rush hour on Friday on a packed London underground train at Parsons Green tube station. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the attack, as authorities raised the terror threat level from severe to critical, meaning that another...

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