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Italy has barred Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine terror group and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions advocate, from entering the country due to an invalid visa, Benjamin Weinthal reported Wednesday for The Jerusalem Post. Khaled, according to the Italian paper, La Stampa, did not...

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A week after Hezbollah terrorists operating on behalf of Iran blew up the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, the terror group sent a suicide bomber to bring down a small commuter flight in Panama, carrying mostly Jewish passengers. The FBI believes it now knows the real name of the...

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Israel

On the 70th anniversary of the ratification of the United Nations Partition Plan, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has launched a new website called “Settlements and Solutions” that seeks to use civilian satellite imagery to provide a better understanding of West Bank demography in unprecedented detail that shows that...

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For a few hours each week, more than 2,000 fourth- to ninth-graders from 31 Jerusalem schools transform into PICO Kids. Mentored by 80-plus university students and local entrepreneurs, PICO Kids might build mini rockets, produce maps of their own DNA, create TED-style talks, do lab experiments, and learn programming, 3D printing...

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Diplomacy

While on a state visit to Kenya, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and announced Tuesday that Israel would open an embassy in that East African nation. Netanyahu also announced that Israel was considering establishing direct flights to Rwanda after meeting with Kagame, The Times...

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Iran

After returning to Lebanon following his resignation earlier this month, later rescinded, in Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that Hezbollah was a regional problem and that his nation “cannot do anything about it.” Hariri made the comments in an interview with Al-Rajol, a Saudi magazine, the Daily Star reported Sunday. The Lebanese prime...

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Diplomacy

United States Vice President Mike Pence attended an event in New York on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of UN General Assembly Resolution 181 that recommended partitioning Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and Arab state. The event was organized by the World Jewish Congress and the Israeli mission to...

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German public broadcaster WDR has cancelled plans to air concerts next year by British ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters over accusations of anti-Semitism, Ben Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. Malca Goldstein-Wolf launched a petition campaign — “No support for the antisemite Roger Walters with public funds of...

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The Israel-based I Clown You Project brought two Dream Doctor medical clowns, David Barashi and Rotem Goldenberg, from Israel to Los Angeles earlier this month for a weeklong series of events, lectures, hospital visits, workshops and seminars. The project aims to grow awareness in the United States around the profession of professional...

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Iran

Israel passed a message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad through an intermediary that it would take military action in Syria if Iran is allowed to establish a permanent military presence in Syria. Ehud Yaari, Middle East analyst for Hadashot News (formerly Channel 2), reported the story and revealed Iranian plans...

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