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Iran

The head of Israel’s external intelligence agency, Mossad, has made a rare public appearance and used the opportunity to warn that Iran constitutes one of the main threats facing Israel. Yossi Cohen, who has led the agency since January 2016, confirmed that Iran is operating closer to Israel’s border than...

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), the University of Arizona (UA), and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) have formed a trilateral agreement to cooperate on research, innovation and entrepreneurship. The agreement, which includes knowledge sharing and collaboration between BGU’s Advanced Technologies Park (ATP) in Beersheva, UA Tech Parks Arizona...

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Diplomacy

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) admission that it had not verified Section T of the nuclear deal with Iran shows that “the deal is not fully implemented,” the president of a nonproliferation think tank told Fox News on Sunday. “Amano basically said that the IAEA is not implementing the verification of...

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MidEast

Israeli leaders condemned the deadliest shooting in U.S. history after a gunman opened fire in Las Vegas killing at least 58 people and wounding hundreds more The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanhu expressed his condolences on Twitter, “On this terrible day, the people of Israel stand shoulder to shoulder with the American people...

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Human Rights

Iran has recruited Afghan children to fight in Syria, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch, The New York Times reported Sunday. The report confirmed that at least eight soldiers—some as young as 14—have died fighting in Syria in support of the regime of Bashar al-Assad by Iran. The soldiers were...

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Israel

Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah issued a stark warning to Israel on Sunday in a recorded speech to supporters for the Ashoura holiday. Nasrallah addressed a large rally in the Shiite neighbourhood of Beirut remotely from his bunker via video link. He said that “the current Israeli government, presided over by...

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On September 19, Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and other islands in the Caribbean. The hurricane destroyed much of the island’s key infrastructure, buildings and homes. An emergency response team from Israeli NGO IsraAID, including professionals from its established team in Haiti, arrived in Puerto Rico earlier this week. Based...

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Human Rights

The Palestinian delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council reacted in shock as a speaker accused them of being “the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people” on Tuesday. The speaker, Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a Hamas leader, used the 90 seconds allotted to UN Watch, an NGO that...

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MidEast

Addressing the revelation by Yukiya Amano, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that his organization lacked the “tools” to verify Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear, Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the UN, said that without adequate inspection the deal was just an “empty promise,” Reuters reported on Thursday....

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Europe

Israel’s intelligence agencies have stepped up cooperation with their foreign counterparts leading to the prevention of dozens of terror attacks around the world. Following the coordinated terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November 2015, the intelligence branch of Israel’s General Staff made a decision to concentrate more on...

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