Israel

Binyamin Houri, 17, from the southern working-class city of Netivot, skipped a grade and now works at Dynamic Yield as a programmer while his peers finish high school. Yotam Salomon, 17, from Kiryat Ata in the Haifa district, has been working during school holidays and in his spare time for...

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The Israeli navy thwarted an attempt by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a Gaza-based terror group that is backed by Iran, to carry out a “major” terror attack, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The incident took place last month, when the IDF boarded a fishing boat that had gone beyond the...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrapped a plan to resettle African migrants in Europe, after Germany and Italy announced that they would not be accepting the migrants. On Monday, Netanyahu announced that Israel had reached an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to resettle thousands of migrants, mostly from...

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United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone about “recent developments in the Middle East,” following a violent Hamas-led march at the Gaza border and plans for the U.S. to pull out of Syria. Both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to counter Iran’s aggressive...

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Tuesday signed an anti-Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) bill into law reaffirming the state’s commitment to Israel, the governor’s office announced. Assembly Bill 553 prohibits any state agency or another governmental entity from adopting a rule, ordinance, policy, or procedure that involves the discrimination against...

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The Google Lunar X Prize competition expired on March 31 with no winner. Yet Israel’s team, the nonprofit SpaceIL, is continuing its mission of landing an unmanned module on the moon – with plans to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 via Spaceflight Industries in the fourth quarter of 2018, even...

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