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For the second time in 30 days, PayPal, the global payment service, has shut the account of a group of French anti-Israel boycotters, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Weinthal confirmed that PayPal had shut the account of the pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group, Jewish French Union...

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Diplomacy

Despite “overwhelming evidence” presented in recent weeks by a United Nations panel of experts demonstrating that Iran has not prevented the transfer of arms to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Russia’s veto “protected the terrorist-sponsoring regime in Iran,” Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations said in a...

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Iran

What’s happening in Ghouta is a war crime. A blood orgy orchestrated by Bashar al-Assad, a modern-day Caligula figure, and his criminal patrons in Iran and Russia. More than 500 men, women and children have been killed since last week in the eastern enclave, where activists over the weekend reported...

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MidEast

Israel’s Shin Bet security service and police announced on Monday that three Israeli-Arab residents of Um al-Fahm were arrested earlier in the year, after their plans to carry out a terrorist attack in the Old City of Jerusalem were uncovered. The three suspects, thought to be supporters of ISIS, intended to...

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Israel

Some of the best projects are born out of a desire for change – at least that was the case with Iota, an Israel-based textile company empowering unemployed women through the art of crochet. Each one of the company’s rugs, pillows and home accessories is hand-crocheted by Bedouin women from their...

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Diplomacy

Two top Iranian officials pushed back against comments recently made by American National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster urging the world to stop funding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which he said played “a central role” in Iran’s becoming the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism, accusing the United States...

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Featured

In an interview about his growing portfolio of Israeli businesses, American billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that he views Israel now as being similar to the United States “after its birth,” praised Israel’s “determination, motivation, intelligence and initiative,” and declared, “I’m a big believer in Israel’s economy,” according to an article...

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Diplomacy

The United States State Department has announced that it will officially move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in May, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on 22 February that Ambassador David Friedman and a small group of staff will work in an...

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Iran

Iran and the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad will continue attacks on Damascus suburbs held by “terrorists” the Iranian military chief of staff said on Sunday, Reuters reported. “We will adhere to the ceasefire resolution, Syria will also adhere. Parts of the suburbs of Damascus, which are held by the...

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Israel

Call him the milkman of the world. Since 1990, civil engineer Ronen Feigenbaum has used Israeli technology and knowhow to set up dairy farms in China, England, India, Mexico, Namibia, Nigeria, Philippines, Romania, South Africa, Vietnam and now Papua New Guinea. “Israeli dairy farms are the best in the world....

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