MidEast

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his Greek and Cypriot counterparts to discuss speeding up construction of a gas pipeline from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. The summit with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades took place in the Greek...

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Two hundred and twenty Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Druze, including male and female religious leaders and community members from each of these faiths, came to the Galilee village of Ilut on June 8 to share a Multi-Faith Ramadan Iftar Dinner for Peace. The dinner has been held annually for more...

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Gaza’s sole power plant shut down on Sunday for lack of funds, leaving the nearly 2 million residents of the Strip with only four hours of electricity per day. The manufactured crisis is just another example of how “Hamas remains the same cynical organization that exploits the distress of Gaza’s...

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A bipartisan bill imposing new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps overwhelmingly passed the Senate by a margin of 98-2 on Thursday. The bill, which passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month by a vote of 18 to 3, imposed “new measures...

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The Gulf state of Qatar, which faces isolation over its support of global terror, also deserves to be ostracized for its abysmal human rights record, the CEO and president of The Israel Project wrote Tuesday in the New York Daily News. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. Aside from its support “for radical...

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Israel’s foreign intelligence agency is creating its own investment firm in order to cash in on the success of Israel’s new startups, Haaretz reported on Wednesday. Mossad will invest its own money in this project, forgoing additional investment from foreign capital and domestic venture capital firms. Unlike a traditional investment...

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