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Israel

An arson balloon landed in the major southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva for the first time on Monday evening, raising fears that the range of terror devices employed by Palestinian terrorists, which have caused numerous fires in Israeli border communities, is increasing. Police believe the balloon was launched from...

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MidEast

Syrian regime forces regained control of the whole border area with Israel in the Golan Heights for the first time in seven years on Monday, sealing its military victory in the strategic southern territories, after ISIS-linked militants gave up their last pocket of territory in the area, The Jerusalem Post...

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Diplomacy

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he will be visiting Colombia next week to attend the inauguration of the country’s newly elect president Ivan Duque, The Times of Israel reported. Several presidents from Latin America are expected to attend Duque’s inauguration and Netanyahu is expected to have...

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Israel

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has invested $2 million in the cybersecurity research center at Ben-Gurion University (BGU), RBC and BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of BGU, announced. Funding for the partnership between the financial institution and the university will support the development of adversarial artificial intelligence (AI), including...

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Iran

In just four months the value of Iran’s currency, the rial, has dropped by half — now it takes 102,000 rial to buy a dollar — Agence France-Presse reported Monday. In March, the rial’s value had dropped to the point that it cost 50,000 rial to buy a dollar. The latest reported...

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Israel

Israel is subjected to an unprecedented discrimination campaign in the international sports industry, Joshua S. Block, President and CEO of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed for The Algemeiner on Friday. Block was referring to the case of seven-year-old Liel Levitan from Haifa, who recently won the European Chess...

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MidEast

The Islamic Republic of Iran is using German companies to disguise their illicit support for Shiite militia forces in the fight against the internationally recognized government of Yemen, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Friday. Based on interviews with U.S. Treasury Department officials, Time Magazine revealed last week...

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Europe

In early July, Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi was arrested and charged with acting as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder following his alleged involvement in a failed bomb plot targeting a gathering of Iranian opposition groups in Paris. This thwarted terror attack, the latest in a long Iranian...

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Israel

New-generation lung cancer drugs can be very effective, but within about a year the patients tend to develop resistance to the therapy. Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science led a study using a new combination of existing drugs to help crush potential resistance to the treatment in mice. Their...

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Diplomacy

When the United States, Canada, and European Union wanted someone to rescue members of the Syrian Civil Defense organization, also known as the White Helmets, from southwestern Syria as the Assad regime and its allies were closing in last week, who did they call? They called Israel. And Israel came...

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