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Israeli PM Netanyahu at Gulf Arab State of Oman

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech Tuesday that the Jewish State is in contact with “half a dozen important Arab and Muslim countries that until recently were hostile to Israel,” The Jerusalem Post reported. Speaking at the state memorial ceremony for former Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Israel’s...

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Pitzer College President Melvin Oliver

Pitzer College President Melvin L. Oliver strongly rejected on Thursday a pro-boycott vote to suspend the school’s study abroad program at the University of Haifa in Israel, and said the school would not enact the decision to protect a “free exchange of ideas.” The private liberal arts college located in...

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One of the most significant barriers to integration of Arab-Israeli women into the job market, as well as greater involvement in the public arena, is transportation. Bus service from Arab villages in the north of Israel is sporadic at best. Catching a ride with a stranger is also a non-starter....

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Amnesty Calls for Boycott of Israel

Amnesty International, an NGO known for its hostility toward Israel, has come under fire after sending a press release to top British firms informing them that operating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem makes them complicit in “Israeli war crimes,” The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. Along with the press...

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Rocket sirens were triggered in Tel Aviv, and residents reported hearing two explosions, as rockets targeted Israel’s second largest city, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The IDF later confirmed that two projectiles had been launched from Gaza, the enclave to Israel’s south that is controlled politically and militarily by the terror...

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Golan Heights

The United States referred to the Golan Heights as an area “under Israeli control,” instead of “occupied territory,” for the first time in its latest annual human rights report, published on Wednesday by the State Department, Axios reported. Israel captured most of the Golan Heights from Syria during the June...

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