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“The state of Israel must be given recognition by all; freed from terror; know that it is accepted as part of the future of the Middle East, not its very existence under threat,” former British Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed in his keynote speech at the Labour Conference in 2001....

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Cybersecurity researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed an innovative firewall program that adds a missing layer of security in the communication between Android smartphone components and the phone’s central processing unit (CPU), reported the university in Israel’s southern city of Beersheva. The researchers in BGU’s Department of...

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Iran

The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that his organization is unable to verify that Iran is implementing the nuclear deal because he does not have the means to ensure that Tehran has not engaged in activities that “could contribute to the development of a nuclear explosive device,” in an...

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Israel

The three security guards killed on Tuesday’s terror attack were described by the Los Angeles Times as representing “nearly the full rainbow of Israeli society,” —one was an Israeli-Arab and the other two were Israelis, one of whom was of Ethiopian extraction—were buried later in the day. The funeral of Yousef...

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MidEast

Interpol has voted to admit the Palestinian Authority as a full member in a secret vote of representatives of the international police agency, despite concerns over their attempt to politicize a professional organization, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. “The overwhelming vote in favor of Palestine’s membership is a reflection of...

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MidEast

Gigya, whose customer identity management platform helps companies build digital relationships with some 1.3 billion consumers, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by software giant SAP. The company did not disclose the price tag of the deal, though it has been reported at $350 million. Gigya was founded...

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A group of Oberlin College alumni have released a letter in support of a professor who was recently fired by the University of Maryland. The letter, which was addressed to university president Wallace Loh and Provost Mary Ann Rankin, called the termination of award-winning professor Melissa Landa, who had been...

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Europe

The British Labour Party faces a fresh anti-Semitism controversy after a speaker at a side event at the party’s annual conference called for free speech to extend to Holocaust denial, and activists made a “thinly veiled call to purge Jews” from the party according to one MP, The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday....

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Israel

The reactions to Tuesday morning’s terror attack that left three Israelis dead by the two largest Palestinian political factions raise doubts that reconciliation between them can boost the chances of peace with Israel. On its official Facebook page, the Nablus chapter of Fatah, the main party constituting the Palestinian Authority,...

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Two civilian security officers and a border policeman were shot dead and another Israeli seriously injured after a shooting attack in Har Adar on Tuesday morning. The border police officer has been identified as First Sergeant Solomon Gavriyah, aged 20. The attack occurred outside Har Adar, a settlement close to...

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