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Iran

A federal district judge ordered airplane manufacturer, Boeing, to make terms of its $16 billion contract with Iran available to the family of an Israeli terror victim, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The family of Noam Leibovitch, a 7-year-old girl who was killed when Iran-backed terrorists from Palestinian Islamic...

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This week, five former cycling champions from Italy, including two Giro d’Italia two-time winners, are riding in Israel’s north, south and center. The cyclists — Maurizio Frondiest, Paolo Savoldelli, Andrea Tafi, Alessandro Ballan and Gilberto Simoni — are guests of Israel’s Tourism Ministry and are accompanied by a delegation of...

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Diplomacy

Following an invitation from Brazilian Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes, who arrived in Israel this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has conditionally accepted an invitation to visit Brazil in June, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. According to Israel’s Ambassador to Brasilia Yossi Shelley, Netanyahu accepted the invitation on condition that the two...

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Diplomacy

The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, praised Honduras for backing the U.S. decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “As the US ambassador to the UN, I want to thank the president and the people of Honduras for supporting our decision...

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Iran

Iran announced that it would be hosting what it calls an international “Hourglass Festival” in April to celebrate the destruction of Israel within 25 years, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News reported Tuesday. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a foreign policy adviser to Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, announced the conference saying that is a symbol of the...

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Scientists at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, Israel, have reported a breakthrough of successfully detecting prostate cancer cells with high sensitivity using Micromedic Technologies’ CellDetect noninvasive diagnostic test, developed at Kaplan over the past two years. The news comes less than a week after British actor and comedian Stephen Fry revealed he...

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Human Rights

Protesters gathered outside as Iran’s Justice Minister Alireza Avaei, who is under a European Union travel ban for human rights violations, spoke before the United Nations Human Rights Council, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Avaei, who, like his predecessor, Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi, played a role in thousands of summary executions...

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Global Affairs

North Korea has been shipping supplies to Syria that could be used to produce chemical weapons, a United Nations expert panel has found. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that North Korea had sent acid-resistant tiles, valves and thermometers to Syria. The information was revealed in a leaked report...

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Iran

Fox News reported Wednesday that Iran is building a new military base, eight miles northwest of Damascus The new base is similar to one established by the Iranians near the town of al-Kiswah, 9 miles (15 kilometers) southwest of Damascus, which was reportedly hit by Israeli airstrikes last December. Defense Minister Avigdor...

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How can a desktop-sized computer outperform today’s massive supercomputers? If it’s run according to the principles of quantum physics. A new internationally funded project headed by an Israeli physicist from Bar-Ilan University’s Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials may provide just the quantum leap required. Bar-Ilan’s Beena Kalisky, whose lab...

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