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Two broken ribs would send most of us to an easy chair, wincing in pain. Extreme biker Noga Korem from Israel isn’t like most of us. Speaking to ISRAEL21c from Chile just before the Enduro World Series (EWS) first race of the season in March, she acknowledged that the bones...

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Diplomacy

The Czech Republic’s president announced that his nation will begin a three-step process to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. President Miloš Zeman announced that beginning with the appointment of an honorary counsel in Jerusalem, the Czech Republic will begin moving its...

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Diplomacy

As the presidents of the United States and France met and discussed the nuclear deal with Iran, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany were developing a plan that would keep the controversial deal in place without meeting the demands of President Donald Trump to fix the deal’s flaws,  Reuters reported...

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Iran

United States intelligence agencies are alarmed by a series of cargo flights from Iran to Syria that they believe could be transporting weapons systems that could threaten Israel, CNN reported Wednesday. While CNN noted that flights between Iran and Syria are not uncommon, the flights concerning U.S. intelligence occurred in...

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Iran

On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver gave a passionate defense of the nuclear deal with Iran. The Israel Project identified Oliver’s main arguments in favor of the JCPOA and explained the shortcomings in his analysis. The Israel Project maintains that the major flaws of the agreement must be fixed:...

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Diplomacy

Beijing’s ZhongGuanCun Science Park (Z-Park) will open a liaison office in its “twin city” of Tel Aviv, Beijing Vice Mayor Yin Hejun announced during an April 8 meeting of Beijing officials and Z-Park executives with Tel Aviv Deputy Mayor Doron Sapir. The new Israeli liaison office will serve as an...

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Iran

There’s a famous quote attributed to Henry Wotton that “An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” If one takes this aphorism to heart, it is not limited to ambassadors, but to anyone in a nation’s foreign policy establishment. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad...

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Europe

Some 300 well-known French celebrities are urging national action to counter a “new anti-Semitism” that they blame on rising Islamic extremism in France, the Associated Press reported Sunday. “Antisemitism is not a Jewish affair, it is everyone’s,” begins the letter. France, the authors charged, has “become a theater of murderous antisemitism.”...

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Iran

The international office of the Baha’i Faith community, a religious minority denomination persecuted across the Middle East, has warned of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel’s “genocidal intent” against their people in Yemen. On March 23rd, 2018, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthis, in a televised speech “vehemently vilified and denounced...

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Israel

United Hatzalah of Israel is sending a delegation of emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to Johannesburg, South Africa, to train their counterparts in providing effective psychotrauma care in times of crisis and catastrophe. The training will combine the World Health Organization’s protocols in psychological first aid, together with the Israeli adaptation of psychological...

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