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Israel has sent six tons of food aid to a drought-stricken village in South Sudan, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. The aid, which was coordinated by the Foreign Ministry’s Agency for International Development Cooperation and the Israeli embassy in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, was distributed by Israel’s...

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Diplomacy

In an exclusive report last week, Reuters recounted how the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad foiled chemical weapons inspectors from locating and removing all of its chemical weapons stockpiles as dictated by a 2013 agreement. The Reuters report began with one such incident: In the spring of 2015 a...

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A Jerusalem backgammon tournament that brought hundreds of Jews and Arabs together was hailed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “a beautiful symbol of coexistence.” Tonight hundreds of Arabs, Jews and others come together for the Jerusalem Backgammon Championships. A beautiful symbol of co-existence. — PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM)...

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MidEast

Frankfurt has become the first German city to ban the “anti-Semitic” Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign by passing a historic bill on Friday prohibiting municipal funding and rooms for BDS activities targeting Israel, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. Uwe Becker, the deputy mayor of Frankfurt and initiator behind...

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Israel

The former head of the Israeli Air Force, Major-General Amir Eshel has revealed that Russian aircrafts have entered Israeli airspace “many times” during the Syrian civil war in an exclusive interview with Haaretz newspaper. In an extensive interview with Amos Harel, Eshel spoke at length about the Israeli Air Force’s...

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Are you ready for violet-colored potatoes? How about orange tobacco? Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have figured out how to produce betalain pigments in plants and flowers that don’t normally have them. If you’re thinking, “Who needs violet tomatoes?” you should know that red-violet and yellow betalain pigments...

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Iran

Pictures have emerged of troops headed to Syria to fight in support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in planes marked with the insignia of Iran Air, Iran’s national airline. The pictures, Emanuele Ottolenghi wrote in an op-ed Tuesday in The Hill, present a challenge for President Donald Trump. The images show...

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MidEast

A new toxicology report on the body of Alberto Nisman, the late Argentinian prosecutor, found that ketamine and clonazepam were in his blood at the time his death, Argentinian federal criminal prosecutor Ricardo Saenz announced Monday. Nisman was investigating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos...

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MidEast

A former Al Jazeera English bureau chief in Cairo has spoken out about the Qatari-owned network’s unethical methods, calling it a “weapon against its neighbors” and accusing it of endangering the “lives of journalists because of dealings with Hamas, [and] the Muslim Brotherhood.” Mohamed Fahmy, who previously reported for the...

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Europe

The first of El Al Airlines new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft arrived in Ben Gurion Airport Wednesday, marking the delivery of one element of the largest ever United Kingdom-Israel trade agreement. The Israeli airline agreed to purchase 15 of the Dreamliner aircrafts from Boeing. The deal included a long term...

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