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Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters disrupted a Shabbat service and reception held by an Israeli LGBTQ organization at a conference for gay activism in Chicago, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Sunday. Guests and organizers at the reception by A Wider Bridge, a group devoted to building closer ties between gay...

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The growing rapprochement between Israel and Sunni Arab states can “actually help us resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with CNN host Fareed Zakaria at the World Economic Forum on Thursday. I see the world as it is, not as I’d like it to be...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Pluristem Therapeutics, a leading developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, the go-ahead to move forward with its innovative treatment approach for hematopoietic disorders. Pluristem was given permission to begin its Phase I trial of PLX-R18 cells to treat incomplete hematopoietic recovery...

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A senior member of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has said that a two-state solution with a Palestinian state in the West Bank with Jerusalem as its capital would just be a “phase” ultimately resulting in a single Palestinian state. “Palestine stretches from the river to the sea,” Tawfiq...

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Isaac Herzog, the leader of the opposition in the Knesset and the head of the center-left Zionist Union, admitted in an interview Wednesday that an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is unrealistic in the near term. “I don’t see a possibility at the moment of implementing the two-state solution,” he told Army Radio. “I want to...

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Slovenia’s largest supermarket chain has resumed selling Israeli produce after briefly capitulating to demands by anti-Israel campaigners, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Two days after the Mercator chain removed Israeli produce from its stores following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which seeks to isolate Israel internationally, the...

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