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Qatar’s representative in Gaza said last week that he had “excellent” relations with a number of Israeli officials, and also indicated that the Palestinian Authority was standing in the way of solutions to the power shortages and other problems in the Hamas-run coastal enclave. “I am in contact with senior Israeli...

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The Telos Group is an American nonprofit organization that claims to help advance a “pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian, and pro-peace” agenda. While its “pro/pro/pro” slogan is appealing, Telos’s past and current work reveals a different agenda altogether. In 2014, an exposé by the watchdog organization CAMERA showed that Telos was using its...

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Israel’s Borders Heat Up Towns on Israel’s northern and southern borders came under attack this week. On Monday, three rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel, leading the Israel Defense Forces to strike three Hamas targets in in response, including a naval base. It still isn’t clear who fired the rockets...

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Israel is changing. Usually deployed with a sigh, this observation has risen to the level of an axiom in recent years as a sad requiem for a golden age that ceased to exist decades ago. This axiom was both proven true and turned on its head on the night of...

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The founder of two Israel-oriented exchange-traded funds (ETFs) argued that “cutting-edge” Israeli companies that are “leading the world in some of the most transformative technologies” remain “underowned and underdiscovered,” in an interview Thursday. Steven Schoenfeld, founder of Blue Star Indexes and creator of BIGI and BIGITech stock indexes, told ETF.com that contrary to...

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Robert Kraft, owner of the Super Bowl champions New England Patriots, has announced that he will donate $6 million to build Israel’s first regulation-sized American football stadium. Reports cite that the new stadium will already open later this year. It will service the 1,350 active football players in Israel. “This...

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