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Iran

Israel is deeply concerned about the spread of chemical weapons in the Middle East and has instructed Israeli Ambassadors in 15 countries to raise the issue at the highest levels, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 10 news Wednesday. The Israeli Foreign Ministry sent a top secret cable to...

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Israel

A 200-meter-long stretch of shoreline on the Gulf of Eilat adjacent to the port city’s Dolphin Reef recently was turned over to the Eilat municipality by the Eilat Ashkelon Pipe Company (EAPC) for development as an ecological beach with an environmental education center. An old pier at the site, formerly...

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Diplomacy

Speaking Wednesday at a United Nations Security  Council briefing on Syria, the United States Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called Saturday’s incursion by an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace “a wake-up call for all of us.” Haley punctuated her assessment by noting that the incursion suggested that “Iran and...

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Israel

Following the arrests of an Israeli-Arab and a Turkish citizen, the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence agency accused Turkish authorities of turning a “blind eye” to the efforts of Hamas to raise money and arrange terror attacks, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Shin Bet’s investigation found that Cemil Tekeli,...

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Human Rights

Saying that their skins absorb “atomic waves,” a top military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei charged that Western countries use “lizards, chameleons” to spy on Iran’s nuclear program, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. “Several years ago, some individuals came to Iran to collect aid for Palestine… We were...

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Iran

Following retaliatory raids by the Israeli Air Force that struck government and Iranian sites inside Syria on Saturday, Syria’s assistant foreign minister threatened that Israel would face “more surprises” in any future attack against Syria, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Though, according to Israeli assessments the Israeli strikes knocked...

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Israel

The world’s largest beer brewer has bought an Israeli beer startup for a price reportedly in the “tens of millions of dollars,” according to the Israeli business publication Calcalist. In January, Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV acquired Tel Aviv’s Weissbeerger (weissbeerger.com/) for the latter’s beverage consumption analytics application, which Weissbeerger says...

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MidEast

The trial of a Palestinian teen who was seen slapping two Israeli soldiers in a video that went viral while her mother filmed the incident and called for suicide bombings began Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported. Ahed Tamimi, who comes from a family of anti-Israel activists, is standing trial...

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Israel

A member of the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations told a group of students that Palestinians are “very expert at throwing the stones” and that they would not stop teaching their children to do so, Ynet reported Tuesday. In the recording obtained by Ynet,  Abdallah Abushawesh, who is both...

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Global Affairs

In the wake of the incursion of an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace Saturday that led to an Israeli military response against targets in Syria, the United States must “military deterrent toward Iranian expansionism” by targeting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) positions in Syria, an expert on Iran wrote...

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