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Michel Aoun, who was chosen as president of Lebanon and threatened Israel in his inauguration speech last year, said that if there was another war between Israel and Lebanon, Israel “would not win such a war,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “All the Lebanese are prepared to fight against Israel,”...

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Israeli flavor firm Frutarom announced that it has agreed to acquire the remaining shares of Israeli ingredients and food company Enzymotec. In August, Frutarom purchased 19 percent of Enzymotec’s shares for $42 million. It is paying about $168 million for the rest. Enzymotec will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Frutarom and will...

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The deputy chief of Hamas met on Tuesday with Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon to discuss the “importance of a coming together between the two resistance movements” to fight Israel. Saleh al-Arouri, who last month was appointed deputy head of the Gaza-based terror group, and who...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin sees Iran as a “strategic partner” to Russia which is “not good news for Israel,” a Russian expert told Ben Cohen of The Algemeiner on Wednesday. Discussing the significance of Putin’s trip to Iran and his meetings with top Iranian officials, Anna Borshchevskaya, a fellow at the...

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The Israeli Air Force (IAF) reported to have destroyed a military facility in western Syria Wednesday evening. According to a report on Syrian state television, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) carried out four sorties against the facility outside the town of Al-Qusayr, which is 35 kilometres south of Homs, near...

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Iraq’s parliament in Baghdad voted on Tuesday to criminalize flying the Israeli flag in the country, after accusing Israel and Mossad of orchestrating the Kurdish independence referendum on September 25 to establish, in the words of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a “second Israel” in the Middle East. I24news...

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