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Iran

Earlier this week, Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali’s accused Israel of contributing to or causing Iran’s drought by stealing its clouds and snow. “Over the past four years, the highlands from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean have been studied. The findings are that areas above 2,200 meters were full of snow but...

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Iran

The IDF targeted a Syrian army position following the landing of an errant mortar shell in a demilitarized section of the Golan Heights, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. The shell was apparently fired during fighting between the Syrian army and rebel forces in the area. A statement from the IDF...

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Europe

The British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has been rocked by yet another anti-Semitism scandal, after the party failed to sign up in full to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Labour’s code, which was approved this week by...

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Diplomacy

A military delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) visited Israel recently to learn about the operations of the F-35 stealth fighter, i24News reported Wednesday. According to unspecified sources, a United States delegation was also present at the time the UAE delegation was there to learn more about Lockheed Martin-made...

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Emergency mobile communications technology developed by Israeli company Maxtech Networks is being used by rescue teams working to save 12 teenagers and their 25-year-old coach who have been trapped for nearly two weeks in a flooded cave in Thailand. The teenagers, a boys’ soccer team, went missing on June 23 after a soccer...

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Europe

Two Iranian nationals, recently arrested by France and Germany, will be extradited to Belgium in connection to a terror plot that targeted an Iranian opposition rally outside of Paris, Reuters reported Wednesday. The rally, which took place Saturday, was held by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an...

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Europe

Fifteen Israeli start-up companies briefed some 200 UK-based corporations, investors, and family businesses on their technologies at an event in London held by the chamber of commerce UK Israel Business (UKIB), The Times of Israel reported Thursday. A vast variety of sectors were represented by companies which research in the...

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Diplomacy

The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) praised Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for implied threats the president made against international oil supplies, CNN reported on Wednesday. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC-QF, who runs Iran’s foreign military operations, said, addressing Rouhani, “Your valuable statement that said there will be...

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Israel

For over a decade, the NGO camouflaged behind the misnomer Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) was just a fringe anti-Israel agitprop group that barely registered beyond the University of California, Berkeley, where it was hatched in 1996.  But in recent years its profile has grown along with its infamy. With...

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Israel

“Salam Aleikum” began the letter that hundreds of Syrian refugees found attached to tents they received last week via the Israel Defense Forces’ Operation Good Neighbor. The letter was hastily written in English by Gal Lusky, who has been supplying humanitarian aid to Syrian victims of the civil war since 2011...

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