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Israel has an “absolute right” to live in security and free from terrorism, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Wednesday in remarks before a meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Johnson reaffirmed that Prime Minister Theresa May and the rest of the British government are “rock-like supporters...

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Automotive industry executives who are looking at the future of automobiles “should look beyond the traditional industry hubs in Detroit, Frankfurt, and Tokyo to a place that might appear to be an unlikely location: Israel,” a think tank expert wrote in Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. Avi Jorisch, a senior fellow at the...

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Top Arab Israeli politicians have given their backing to a nationwide volunteer program for recent Arab Israeli high school graduates — an age when most Jewish and Druze Israeli youth are drafted into the Israeli military. The leader of the Arab Joint List faction, MK Ayman Odeh, and fellow Joint List lawmakers Masud...

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Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman met U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Vice President Mike Pence in Washington on Tuesday. The U.S. Defense Secretary held extensive talks with Lieberman in the Pentagon to discuss the security situation in the Middle East. The Defense Department said that “Lieberman shared his perspective on the challenges...

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Team Israel’s improbable run in the World Baseball Classic will extend to Tokyo next week after the Netherlands’ walk-off 6-5 victory over Chinese Taipei clinched Israel’s place in the next round. https://twitter.com/Josh_Zeid14/status/839022592698671105 Chinese Taipei and host South Korea are both 0-2, meaning that the undefeated Israeli and Dutch teams have...

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Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered yet another fantastic find from the past: a 2,000-year-old road dating to the Roman period. The preserved road, stretching up to six meters (20 feet) wide and continuing for a distance of approximately 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles), was revealed during an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation...

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