A Lebanese-Canadian man with ties to the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah was arrested while in possession of an estimated two tons worth of a compound that can be used for explosives, Agence France-Presse reported today. The Phileleftheros newspaper said the 26-year-old man, who was remanded in custody on Thursday, belonged...
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The Israeli drug company Oramed Pharmaceuticals has taken another step closer to the world’s first insulin pill when it announced this week that it has submitted the study protocol for the company’s Phase IIb trial of ORMD-0801 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ORMD-0801 is the company’s proprietary flagship product,...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dubbed the aborted Palestinian bid to suspend Israel from FIFA—the governing body of international soccer—a “unilateral step, that “push[es] peace further away instead of bringing it closer.” The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) abruptly withdrew its bid to suspend Israel from FIFA today, The Jerusalem Post reported....
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference that he supported the “general idea” of the Arab Peace Initiative (API) The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The Arab Peace Initiative, originally proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, has many problematic aspects to it, the prime minister said, such as its...
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An Amnesty International report concluded that most of the fatalities in the ongoing conflict in Yemen have resulted from Houthi anti-aircraft fire, The Guardian reported today. The Houthis are backed by Iran. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have caused the majority of civilian casualties in the nation’s capital Sana’a by...
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Pope Francis called the refusal to recognize the State of Israel anti-Semitic, The Times of Israel reported today. The Pope also clarified that, contrary to media reports, he had not called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “an angel of peace.” In comments made to veteran Portuguese-Israeli journalist Henrique Cymerman Thursday, Francis...
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