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Reports are trickling out of the Middle East that Israeli Air Force jets Friday morning conducted a pin-point strike on a target in southern Lebanon, less than a day after four rockets were fired at Israel out of the Hezbollah-dominated region. A statement by the Israeli Defense Forces described the...

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Four Grad rockets were fired from southern Lebanon at Israel this morning, triggering renewed concerns that regional instability was spilling over into Israel. One of the rockets was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome system. The Lebanese military quickly restricted access to the launch site, which is inside an area heavily...

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Israel’s internal security organization the Shin Bet – roughly the equivalent of America’s FBI – has set up a new unit to confront the growing threat that jihadi groups in Egypt’s increasingly anarchic Sinai Peninsula may attack Israel. Intelligence and military analysts have increasing emphasized the scope of the threat....

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Earlier this year veteran Israeli journalist and Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz evaluated advances in Israeli water technology and concluded that it had functionally eliminated a water crisis that had been plauging the country: But for Israel, for the foreseeable future… the water crisis is over…. an insistent...

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Senior Hezbollah member Nabil Qaouk bragged today that the Iran-backed terror group is capable of saturation bombing Israeli population centers, bragging that Israeli cities were being targeted with tens of thousands of missiles. Last week a car bomb ripped through the Dahiyeh district in southern Beirut. The area is a...

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Paraguay will reopen its embassy in Israel in the coming weeks, after keeping it shuttered for almost a decade due to budgetary reasons. The country’s newly elected President Horacio Cartes informed Israeli officials of the decision on Wednesday. Elkin’s office quoted Cartes as saying that he was interested in strengthening...

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