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After calling the establishment of Israel a “human rights crime,” Tamika Mallory, a leader of the Women’s March, who supports Rev. Louis Farrakhan, was disinvited to speak next week at an event hosted by an Australian social service agency, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS)...

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In order to free up money that Iran had in an Omani bank, the Obama administration sought to give Iran access to dollars — something it said it wouldn’t to — in February 2016, shortly after the terms of the nuclear deal were implemented, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Iran...

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Diplomacy

A senior Israeli official said Wednesday there is “widespread agreement” among European leaders – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Theresa May — that Iranian troops must be entirely removed from Syria, The Times of Israel reported. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diplomatic trip...

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Omri Casspi, an Israeli professional basketball player who played for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, has invested an undisclosed sum in Israeli startup DayTwo. DayTwo provides personalized nutrition and dietary recommendations by analyzing the DNA of an individual’s gut microbiomes. Although the application is mainly focused on maintaining normal blood sugar...

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Iran

The files documenting Iran’s nuclear research, which were publicized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of April, show that Iran’s declarations of its past nuclear weapons work to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were “comical,” a senior Israeli intelligence official, who is analyzing the files, told The...

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The friendly soccer match between Argentina’s and Israel’s national soccer teams scheduled in Jerusalem was cancelled, after Argentine players received greater threats than those previously made by ISIS, the Argentine Foreign Minister said during an interview with Radio Mitre, La Agencia Judia de Noticias reported Wednesday (Spanish link). The foreign...

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Iran

The United States warned governments and the private sector on Tuesday not to engage in Iranian efforts to exploit them to fund its nuclear ambitions, global terrorism, destabilizing actions in the Middle East, and human rights abuses at home. Speaking at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank in...

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After talks of an agreement between Russia and Israel that would allow Syrian regime forces to re-take Iranian-held territory in southwestern Syria, Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, argued in an op-ed published in The Algemeiner Tuesday that this arrangement “must be the beginning of the...

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The month of May 2018 was highlighted by remarkable acquisition activity for Israeli companies. The daddy of them all was the acquisition of Haifa-headquartered fragrance and flavor multinational Frutarom by International Flavors & Fragrances of New York in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $7.1 billion. Frutarom hasn’t slowed its own rapid acquisition program...

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Europe

The intelligence agency of the German state of Baden-Württemberg found that Iran is still trying to obtain technology for weapons of mass destruction and to advance its ballistic missile program, Benjamin Weinthal reported Saturday in The Jerusalem Post. The report, which was reviewed by the Post, stated that “Iran continued...

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