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Wonder Woman is the best superhero movie of all time, according to influential United States online review site, Rotten Tomatoes. The film, which stars Israeli actor Gal Gadot, has moved to top position on Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the 50 best superhero movies of all time. Directed by Patty Jenkins,...

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The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) police commander questioned how the PA could provide security to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, when the terrorist organization has “all these rockets and guns,” the Associated Press reported Wednesday, calling the issue the “most significant sticking point” of Palestinian reconciliation talks. Speaking about the reconciliation talks...

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“Whenever I go to Israel, people always say don’t go there, don’t go there. ‘F–k off, I go where I want!” legendary rocker Boy George told the audience as he and his band Culture Club performed in Tel Aviv, The Algemeiner reported Wednesday. After more than 30 years, Boy George and...

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Speaking about Saturday’s resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani blasted Saudi Arabia for what he called its “unprecedented” meddling in Lebanese politics, charging that it had forced Hariri to step down, Iran’s semi-official PressTV news reported Wednesday. In remarks directed at Saudi Arabia at a...

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Human Rights

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), recently designated in its entirety as a terrorist organization by the United States Treasury Department, has arrested at least 30 dual nationals over the past two years, twice as many as earlier reported. According to accounts of lawyers, diplomats and relatives, most individuals are being...

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Did a gas and electric company in New Zealand just buy Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system to protect its infrastructure? Not quite. But New Zealand-based energy and communications infrastructure provider Vector did make a $10 million investment in the Israeli company that developed the Iron Dome. And some of...

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Iran

Saad Hariri’s resignation as prime minister of Lebanon and his denunciation of Iran and its client, Hezbollah, for coming “to control the seams of the state and has the final and decisive say in the affairs of Lebanon and the Lebanese,” was an acknowledgment that “Lebanon is an Iranian satrapy run by...

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Europe

“We believe that anti-Zionism with its antisemitic characteristics, has no place in a civil society,” three distinguished British authors wrote in a letter to the editor published Monday in The Times of London decrying that the “themes and language” of anti-Zionism “have become widespread in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.” Spurred by discussions of...

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MidEast

Israel is sending emergency aid to plague-stricken Madagascar, as the Indian Ocean island state faces its worst “Black Death” outbreak in 50 years, The Algemeiner reported Tuesday. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs along with Magen David Adom (Israel’s national emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service) in South...

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After telling Romania’s Ioana Isac, the 3 millionth visitor to Israel this year, and her companion that their designated tour guide wasn’t available and a substitute would show them David’s Tower Museum in Jerusalem, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin introduced the couple to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, surprising both. The couple,...

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