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Diplomacy

The United States ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said on Thursday that he expects the Golan Heights to remain under Israeli control “forever,” The Times of Israel reported, signalling a possible shift in policy in line with Israel’s claims over the strategic mountainous plateau. Israel captured the territory from Syria...

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Iran

Israel unveiled an 11 kilometer (7.5 miles) , 9 meter (29.5 feet) high wall that it has erected along its border with Lebanon as part of its efforts to prevent terrorist infiltrations by the Iranian-backed terrorist group, Hezbollah, from the north, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. A senior military...

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Europe

In the wake of the Labour Party’s reluctant acceptance of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, a group advocating boycotts of Israel defaced six London bus stops with signs calling Israel a “racist endeavor,” — violating one of the provisions of the IHRA definition — The Times...

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Israel

A new “Antisemitism Tracker” was launched by a watchdog group on Wednesday, which monitors and combats anti-Jewish activity on American college campuses, in the hope to assist the public in navigating incidents that have taken place nationwide since 2015, The Algemeiner reported. The AMCHA Initiative’s new search engine offers users...

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Ten episodes of gritty Israeli teenage drama TV series “Euphoria” are being created for an English-speaking audience by HBO. The series will be produced by Canadian rapper Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham) and his manager and DJ, Adel Nur, whose stage name is Future the Prince. In a way, Drake is...

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Iran

The IDF said that it struck more than 200 Iranian military targets in Syria over the past year and a half, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The army also fired over 800 missiles and mortar shells in its effort to prevent Iran from establishing a military presence in Syria. The IDF’s...

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Two Israeli researchers have launched an initiative that has transformed the way we understand the meaning of extinction and created a collaborative platform for Arabs and Israelis to explore. In fact, scientists throughout the Middle East, including in Jerusalem, Riyadh and Marrakesh, are looking to J-Date to solve global challenges....

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Europe

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledged to protect “Palestinian rights” as the party reluctantly adopted the full definition of anti-Semitism drawn up by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The National Executive Committee (NEC), the party’s highest-ranking body, however, also adopted a parallel statement clarifying that...

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Hamas’s Gaza-based leader said that the violent riots at Israel’s border, known as the Great March of Return, that began in late March were orchestrated to shift attention away from the failure of the main Palestinians political factions to arrive at a power-sharing agreement, Ynet reported Tuesday. “After the reconciliation efforts (between Hamas...

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If you’re an Israeli entrepreneur and you’re facing a life-threatening disease with no cure, what do you do? For Avi Yaron, the choice was clear: he’d invent one. Now, 20 years after he was diagnosed with what his doctors told him was an inoperable brain tumor, Visionsense, the company Yaron founded...

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