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Global Affairs

Israeli officials have slammed the German Protestant Academy in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg for hosting a conference that features leading German boycott activists, who expressed support for the Islamist terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Saturday. “By merely looking at the list...

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MidEast

Medical equipment giant Medtronic is to acquire Israeli spinal surgery company Mazor Robotics for some $1.64 billion in an all-cash deal, or $1.34 billion net of Medtronic’s existing stake in Mazor, it was announced last Thursday. Medtronic, which held a stake of about 11 percent in Mazor before the deal was unanimously...

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Israel

Israeli experts fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin is exploiting the downing of a Russian aircraft in Syria last week to change the rules of the game in the war-torn country. In an exclusive conference call with The Israel Project on Monday, Ambassador Dennis Ross expressed his concern about the...

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Global Affairs

A Jewish Labour MP was forced to rely on police protection at the party’s annual conference that kicked off yesterday, as a colleague said anti-Semitic Labour members should be send to Auschwitz to learn the consequences of hatred towards Jews, The Times reported Monday. Luciana Berger, the MP for Liverpool,...

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MidEast

A senior figure in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned U.S. and Israeli leaders to expect a “devastating” response from Tehran, accusing them of involvement in Saturday’s attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz, The Times of Israel reported. Four gunmen disguised as soldiers attacked an...

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Israel

Campus police at University of California, Irvine will in the near future refer anti-Israeli event disruptors of a May 3, 2018 pro-Israel event to Orange County prosecutors, according to a UCI spokesperson. Referral will occur, says the spokesperson, as soon as the campus police investigation concludes. If so, UCI will...

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Israel

The number of live kidney transplants performed per year in Israel has nearly tripled since 2010. A new research paper co-authored by Prof. Meni Koslowsky, a psychology professor at Ariel and Bar-Ilan universities, claims that the majority of that growth is coming from the Orthodox Jewish population. Koslowsky and his...

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Diplomacy

“For almost 40 years, the Iranian regime has existed outside the community of law-abiding nations,” United State Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said at the opening of this week’s UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East. “It is difficult to name a conflict in the Middle East...

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Israel

Israel will deduct funds sent to the family of Palestinian terrorist Khalil Jabarin, who murdered dual American-Israeli citizen Ari Fuld on Sunday, from aid earmarked for transfer to the Palestinian Authority, The Algemeiner reported Friday. A survivor of the Sunday attack said that the terrorist appeared to be targeting Americans. Fuld,...

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Diplomacy

WHAT HAPPENED? On Tuesday, a Russian IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft with 15 people onboard was mistakenly shot down by allied Syrian forces that were targeting Israeli jets in the western Syrian province of Latakia. Israel later acknowledged it had attacked a facility in the area, which was used by Iran to...

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