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The city of Buenos Aires honored Dr. Alejandro Roisentul, the Argentinian-born chairman of the Israeli Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, for his humanitarian work with Syrians wounded in the civil war raging across Israel’s northern border. Roisentul, head of the maxillofacial surgery unit at Ziv Medical Center in Safed...

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Iran

In order to understand Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) needs full access to Iran’s Parchin military installation, two experts on nuclear weapons wrote in a report published Monday. David Albright, a former weapons inspector and current president of the Institute for Science and International Security, Olli Heinonen, former IAEA...

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Iran

Hezbollah and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) are fighting side by side against ISIS in northeastern Lebanon, further demonstrating the control the Iranian-backed terror group exerts over its host country. Though some public statements denied that the two forces were coordinating their efforts, Reuters reported that one commander representing the...

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Europe

Barcelona’s Chief Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen has urged Jews to move to Israel following the terrorist attacks in Spain on Thursday, calling the country a “hub of Islamist terror for all of Europe” and “a lost place,” The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. Fourteen people have been confirmed killed in two coordinated attacks, when a man drove...

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MidEast

Israel remains concerned about Iranian influence in southern Syria, despite high level discussions between United States and Israeli security officials in Washington last week. The Israeli delegation that visited Washington last week included Yossi Cohen, head of the Israeli external intelligence agency Mossad, and the head of IDF Military Intelligence....

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Israel

Israel will be the fifth country to host the final rounds of the world’s biggest student-run cybersecurity competition, Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), on November 16 and 17 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva. CSAW was founded 14 years ago by the New York University Tandon School of...

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Iran

After threatening to back out of the 2015 nuclear deal “within hours” if faced with new American sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani added that if Tehran restarted its nuclear program, it would be “far more advanced” than it was before nuclear negotiations began in 2013. The New York Times asserted on Tuesday that with a more advanced...

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MidEast

Spanish authorities continue their investigation into the car-ramming terrorist attack that killed 14 people in Barcelona on Thursday and two related events, a gas explosion in a house in Alcanar and a car attack in Cambrils, as the nation’s prime minister characterized the attack, claimed by ISIS, as “jihadist terrorism.” Based...

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MidEast

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of State released its annual report on religious freedom in the world, which shows persistent levels of deep-rooted anti-Semitism in the Middle East, including in two neighboring Arab countries Israel has peace treaties with. The main sources of persecution vary among countries with Iran spearheading...

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MidEast

A Palestinian terrorist who was convicted in a 1969 bombing that left two Hebrew University students dead was stripped of her citizenship at a court hearing Thursday and will be deported. In April, Rasmeah Odeh admitted to lying about her past terrorist activity on her citizenship application as part of an...

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