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Diplomacy

The United States responded to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calling U.S. Ambassador to Israel a “son of a dog,” and told the Palestinian leader that his people would be better-served if he worked on “improving the lives of the Palestinian people and advancing the cause of peace,” The Times of Israel...

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Europe

Germany has rejected a key United States demand to designate the Lebanon-based Shiite militia Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety as part of talks to rein in the nuclear program in Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported for Fox News on Tuesday. Two sources familiar with the ongoing negotiations between...

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Israel

Israel’s chief of military intelligence in 2007 said in a press briefing hosted by The Israel Project Wednesday that the Israeli Air Force’s destruction of a Syrian reactor shows that when Israel is faced with “a very serious threat” to its existence, “Israel is going to act, and act even...

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Israel

The Israeli firm Orbotech — whose systems help produce virtually every electronic device in the world from computers to phones to connected cars — is being acquired by California’s KLA-Tencor Corporation in a transaction with an equity value of approximately $3.4 billion and an enterprise value of $3.2 billion. This is the...

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Israel

In response to continued attempts by Hamas to plant improvised explosive devices (IEDs) the Gaza border fence with Israel, Israel attacked numerous sites inside the Gaza Strip and destroyed two terror tunnels, one of which had crossed the border into Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. According to the IDF,...

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Human Rights

In a hearing of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the son of a terror victim called the world body and a number of its members states accessories in the murder of his father for their failure to condemn the Palestinian Authority’s “pay to slay” scheme, which rewards terrorists and...

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Iran

A Lebanese Shiite cleric has called for Lebanon to revoke Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s citizenship over his “clear collaboration” and ties to Iran, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Muhammad Ali Al-Husseini, who previously came out strongly against Iran’s influence in Lebanon and has also sought to spread messages of...

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Europe

An Iranian official claims that proposed European sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program would “be making a big mistake” and suggested that they would be violating the nuclear deal, Reuters reported on Saturday. “In case some European countries are following steps to put non-nuclear sanctions against Iran in...

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Israel

On Saturday afternoon March 17, with not a cloud in the sky, Israel set a new record in solar power. At precisely 12:07pm, solar energy was producing 13.4 percent of the total electricity being consumed in the country, the Israel Electric Corporation said. Though new technologies and massive solar projects...

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Israel

Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, announced that one of nine people it had arrested from a ring that smuggled guns from Hamas in Gaza to the West Bank was an employee of the French consulate in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Romain Franck, a French citizen...

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