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Texas, Oregon, Florida, New Jersey, as well as Canada, Greece, India, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK are among other areas battling massive forest fires, a phenomenon experts expect will only increase due to climate change. It was the massive forest fires in Israel over the past several years...

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Shrapnel from rockets or Iron Dome interceptors struck four sites in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, injuring two, Wednesday evening, in the latest escalation of violence by Hamas — the terrorist group that exercises complete military and political control over the Gaza Strip — The Times of Israel reported....

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Europe

A newly released report by the European Union details Hezbollah’s international web of terror sponsoring and reveals how Lebanese nationals worked with organized crime organizations to finance Hezbollah’s terrorist activities, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2018 wrote, “In...

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Europe

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been caught on tape saying that the BBC “has a bias towards saying that… Israel has a right to exist,” The Times of Israel reported Wednesday, as the party faces fresh allegations of anti-Semitism. Corbyn made the comments in 2011 in an interview with...

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Global Affairs

Projects to improve energy and water efficiency, cellular networks and affordable surgical devices are the first Israel-India initiatives receiving grants from a joint technology innovation fund between Israel and India. The governing board of the Israel-India Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund (I4F), announced the four grant recipients of the...

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Iran

A senior Syrian weapons engineer killed over the weekend when a bomb in his car exploded was killed in a targeted assassination by Israel’s security agency Mossad, The New York Times reported Tuesday, reinforcing accusations from Syria. Aziz Azbar, a leading Syrian chemical weapons and rocket scientist, was killed along...

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MidEast

Two Israeli teams topped the European Universities Debating Championship in Serbia, in which a total of 187 teams from 30 countries within and surrounding Europe were competing against each other, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The tournament, hosted in Novi Sad, took place from July 31 through Saturday. The Israeli...

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Los Angeles city prosecutor Spencer Hart, who is reviewing the belligerent shutdown of a Students Supporting Israel panel at the University of California-Los Angeles on May 17, 2018, has requested additional investigative materials from the UCLA Police, according to a prosecution source. The request on Case 18-1206 was transmitted to...

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MidEast

The United States on Monday re-imposed sanctions on Iran, three months after the Trump administration announced the country’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. President Donald Trump signed an executive order, which targets financial transactions that involve U.S. dollars, Iran’s automotive sector, the purchase of commercial...

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MidEast

OurCrowd Labs/02, a Jerusalem-based seed-stage incubator focused on deep-tech innovation, signed dual memorandums of understanding with South Korean venture capital firms DTNI and Yozma Group Korea. Facilitated by the Korea-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation, the agreements aim to strengthen bilateral strategic collaboration and investments, as well as promote partnerships between companies...

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