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Campus chapters of J Street, an organization that calls itself “pro-Israel, pro-peace,” have worked with the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, an investigative report by Noah Pollak, published Monday in the Washington Free Beacon, showed. Though Catie Stewart, deputy director of J Street U, boasted recently that J Street “does not...

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The Israeli security service Shin Bet foiled a “number of significant terror attacks,” including a plan to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Shin Bet arrested Muhammad Jamal Rashdeh who is a 30-year-old Israeli-Arab man and two suspected accomplices. The security...

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Israel is sending emergency aid money to Guatemala after a devastating volcanic eruption that killed at least 25, injured hundreds, and left cities in the region covered in ash. In a statement today, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced that it was sending $10,000 to Guatemala through its embassy there, for emergency...

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The main United States umbrella organization promoting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has financial ties to Middle East terrorist organizations, an investigative article published Friday in Tablet magazine charged. The article written by Armin Rosen and Liel Leibovitz showed that the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a...

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At a press conference following a 90-minute meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germany “will exert our influence in such a way that Iran is pushed out of this region,” The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Though the two leaders still differ on the...

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Fires started by Hamas-led rioters flying kite carrying fire bombs have consumed nearly 17,500 dunams — 7 square miles — of land and caused an estimated $1.4 million worth of damage to fields and forests in southern Israel, The Times of Israel reported Monday. For several weeks rioters have been attaching...

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