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Iran will “produce any weapons that we need,” Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said at the nation’s Army Day parade, Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday. Rouhani added that Iran “will not wait for your remarks or agreement” to obtain the weapons it says it needs. The United States and its allies have...

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Europe

A victim of an anti-Semitic attack in Germany said he’s an Arab-Israeli, who wore a skullcap as an “experiment” to prove wrong a friend who said that wearing Jewish religious symbols in public was unsafe in Germany. The Times of Israel reported that, in a twist to the story, the...

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Israel

Three hundred drones, made and operated by chip-making giant Intel, entertained the crowd at Mt. Herzl Wednesday night with a light show celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary of its independence, Haaretz reported. The 300 drones, called “Shooting Stars” by Intel, used in the display are lightweight, just 330 grams, and can...

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Inspectors discovered explosives hidden in a truck, possibly intended for a large-scale terror attack during Israel’s Independence Day, at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. In addition to merchandise intended for Israeli settlements, inspectors found explosives in the roof of the truck according...

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When students and volunteers began their work on Israel’s first interactive hiking path, a 70-kilometer (43-mile) historic stretch of land dubbed the Sanhedrin Trail, they didn’t expect to find physical pieces of the country’s history. During preparations for the trail, set to open in honor of Israel’s 70th Independence Day celebrations,...

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The upcoming Lebanese elections scheduled for next month could lead to the formation of a “Hezbollah government,” a political scientist told Agence France-Presse in a report published Wednesday. The elections would be the first since 2009 and would be held according to Lebanon’s new election law passed last year. The 128 members...

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Europe

In a powerful speech during a debate about anti-Semitism in the British parliament on Tuesday, Labour MP John Mann said “Any Jewish person has the right to say…’I am a Zionist’ and I have no right to deny them that and those that do are racists.” Mann observed that the...

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The European Union’s Parliament passed legislation to bar EU aid from being used to fund anti-Israel hate education in Palestinian schools, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control introduced legislation in March to ensure that all initiatives supported by EU funds “reflect common values such as...

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Israeli blind golfer Zohar Sharon, 65, won the ISPS Handa 2018 US Blind Golf Open held April 5-8 at the Haven Golf Course in Green Valley, Arizona. Sharon, who is also hearing impaired as a result of an injury in the 1970s, has won the International Blind Golf Association’s world...

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Following last week’s airstrike that targeted Iranian forces based at the Tiyas or T-4 airbase in Syria, two Iranian officials have threatened Israel. On Monday, according to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated Tasnim News,  Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that Israel would receive “required responses sooner or later,” and that Israel “cannot take...

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