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A controversy over foreign funding of NGOs that attack Israel – including a Palestinian group that publishes material glamorizing suicide bombers and promoting anti-Semitic libels – has been rekindled by a wide-ranging watchdog group report outlining German funding for such groups. Titled “German Funding for Political Advocacy NGOs Active in...

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Announcements of multi-million and even billion-dollar acquisitions of Israeli startups are becoming something of a routine, with Israel’s tech sector being driven in part by a unique environment conducive to civilian-military innovation in general by an internationally recognized environment that nurtures the development of human capital. The Israeli military’s official...

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A Hamas terror cell was in the advanced stages of a plot to explosives-laden unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at Israel before Palestinian Authority (PA) officials uncovered and broke up the cell, according to PA officials who spoke to The Times of Israel. During intensive activities near Hebron, in which PA...

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After weeks of polling showing that he would trounce his opponent and secure a second term as mayor of Jerusalem, high-tech entrepreneur Nir Barkat on Tuesday did indeed handily defeat Moshe Lion, a former director of the Prime Minister’s bureau. Barkat won by 6 points and garnered an absolute majority,...

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The West amid a spike in terrorism in the West Bank that has seen five attacks leaving three Israelis killed and a young girl shot in front of her parents’ home. The upsurge is in part the result of concentrated efforts by Hamas to rebuild its West Bank terror infrastructure, a campaign reportedly...

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Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida is reporting that the Israeli air force on Tuesday destroyed a shipment of missiles near the Syrian-Lebanese border and bound for the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. If confirmed, the interception would not be the first time that Jerusalem has reportedly acted to enforce its long-declared red line...

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