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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a delegation of chairpersons of foreign affairs committees of Latin American nations on Wednesday and revealed that he will be traveling to Guatemala this November, The Algemeiner reported. The prime minister will be meeting there with Latin American leaders. During Wednesday’s meeting, Netanyahu...

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Sarah Idan, Miss Iraq for 2017, was enthusiastically greeted by Israelis as she toured Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Idan rose to fame last year when she posted a selfie of her and Miss Israel, Adar Gandelsman, whom she befriended. That picture went viral during...

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MidEast

Addressing an international conference on terror, Shin Bet Director Nadav Argaman said that his agency has prevented 250 terror attacks in 2018, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Argaman said that among the prevented terror attacks were significant ones including suicide bombings, kidnappings, and shootings. Argaman credited his agency’s success in...

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An Israel Bond event hosted by Berkshire Hathaway Chairman, President & CEO Warren Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska last week raised over $80 million in Israel bonds investments and intentions to invest, The Jerusalem Post reported. “I’ve lived through Israel’s entire 70-year history and I believe it is one of the...

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“The Band’s Visit,” a musical about an Egyptian police band’s accidental visit to an Israeli desert town, took 10 awards home from the 72nd Tony Awards for live Broadway theater, held on June 10 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The play was named best musical and...

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Diplomacy

An Israeli team specializing in treating victims of burns and respiratory diseases has been using an enzyme-based gel to treat patients suffering from burns resulting from the eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The gel was developed in Israel. Israel’s Foreign Ministry revealed that the team was using an enzyme that...

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Diplomacy

Israel’s security is in the “national interest” of Austria, the country’s chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Monday in a speech to delegates in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported. Sidestepping standard procedure, Kurz had visited the Western Wall on Sunday, the first time in recent memory a leader of a...

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Iran

A powerful Iranian general said that Hezbollah, which with its allies controls 74 seats in parliament after last month’s vote, has turned Lebanon into a “Resistance state,” Iran’s semi-official Mehr News reported Tuesday. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)- Qods Force, said, “Hezbollah for the...

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At COMPUTEX Taipei 2018 this week, Intel announced the launch this fall of two new-generation processors developed in Israel: the Whiskey Lake for laptops and Amber Lake for 2-in-1 computers. These processors will enable a double-digit performance improvement and support 1Gbps surfing. They’ll be integrated into 140 models of computers,...

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The IDF destroyed an underwater Hamas attack tunnel earlier this month, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. Israel struck at numerous Hamas targets on June 3 associated with Hamas’s elite naval forces. At the time the IDF said that it had struck “a military compound belonging to the naval force...

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