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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi met on Monday night in New York ahead of the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu’s office said the 90 minute meeting included a discussion about a range of regional issues and that al-Sissi expressed his desire to support Israeli-Palestinian regional peace...

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Israel

On a house-to-house mission in the Florida Keys, search-and-rescue volunteers from Israel discovered an ailing American military veteran who spent four days without water, electricity or telephone reception in his home as Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc outside. “You are the first people to come down here and offer aid,” the...

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Diplomacy

In his meeting Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump expressed hope that his administration could achieve “peace between Israel and the Palestinians,” even as the Palestinian Authority considers making another unity deal with terrorist group Hamas. Trump said that his administration would give the project of...

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Iran

An Argentinian prosecutor will assess the findings of a group of forensic analysts who discovered more evidence indicating that Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered, The Times of Israel reported. The investigative team, composed of twenty-eight experts ranging from psychology to ballistics concluded that Nisman was drugged and that at least one person...

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Iran

“Without the Resistance, the [Lebanese] army is nothing, and it’s the same with the Resistance,” a member of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, using a euphemism for the group, told NBC News on Saturday. This would be the latest indication of the total political and military control Hezbollah exerts over...

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MidEast

Iran’s Army Commander in Chief, Major General Seyyed Abdolrahim Mousavi, threatened to destroy Israel “at lightning speed” in a series of comments made on the eve of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting with United States President Donald Trump. Trump and Netanyahu are expected to discuss the grave threat posed by Iran during...

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To mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, the first prototype of Genius: 100 Visions of the Future—the world’s first entirely 3D-printed book printed and bound in one piece—was produced on the International Space Station in zero-gravity conditions 400 kilometers above Earth. The project was...

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Diplomacy

On January 12, 2016, sailors from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy captured ten United States Navy personnel who were said to have strayed into Iranian waters. Sen. John McCain (R – Ariz.), a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee and himself a former prisoner of war, issued...

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Israel

A Palestinian man who was accused of helping Israel was taken by his Palestinian Authority jailers to a dentist, who then pulled some of his healthy teeth, the man told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday. Sami, and a second man, Dani, are two of 51 former prisoners who are suing the...

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Israel

Hamas, the terrorist group that controls Gaza, announced that two of its members died in separate tunnel collapses, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. The two dead men were identified as Khalil al-Dimyati, 32, and Yusef Abu Abed, 22 and were killed in “resistance tunnels,” the term Hamas uses for tunnels built as part...

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