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Senior representatives from Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) met Iranian officials in Beirut on Monday, where they thanked Iran in separate meetings for supporting the Palestinian cause, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported. Salah al-Arouri, a senior Hamas commander who was recently deported from Qatar,...

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After spending an average of $2.5 billion to develop a single new drug, sometimes pharma companies have to pull it from the market due to a bad outcome that was not detected in clinical studies. That’s what happened in 2000, when a promising Type 2 diabetes drug called troglitazone led...

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The progressive Left is failing to confront hate in their own ranks by embracing activists with a long history of illiberal rhetoric and views, among them Linda Sarsour, who served as one of the four national co-chairs of the Women’s March on Washington. “Will progressives have more spine than conservatives...

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Authorities have released footage showing a Palestinian terrorist stabbing and critically wounding a supermarket employee in the central Israeli city of Yavneh on Wednesday. The unnamed 43-year-old victim is seen fighting off his 19-year-old attacker, Ismail Ibrahim Ismail Abu Aram, despite sustaining stab wounds to the head, neck, and upper body, The...

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Iran is claiming that recent sanctions imposed on its ballistic missile program by the United States violate the 2015 nuclear deal, even though the administration of former President Barack Obama repeatedly stressed that the accord only freed Iran from nuclear-related sanctions, Reuters reported Tuesday. “Iran’s JCPOA supervisory body assessed the new U.S. sanctions...

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Israel launched its first environmental satellite into space in the early hours of Wednesday from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite is named Venus, an acronym for Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro Satellite. It was built by Israel Aerospace Industries as part of a...

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A team of three Australian ENT (ear-nose-throat) specialists and a nurse arrived in Fiji last week to provide free health screenings and surgeries for dozens of children at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva. The humanitarian medical mission was arranged by the Israel Foreign Ministry’s MASHAV Agency for International...

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Iran helped fuel violent clashes over the installation of metal detectors at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem last month by providing food packages to demonstrators, Palestinian sources told Israel Hayom this week. Iran distributed food and drinks along with a flyer depicting the Dome of the Rock and a quote...

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The Palestinian Authority is now spending a sum equal to about half of the foreign budgetary aid that it receives from international donors on payments to Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons, many of whom are convicted terrorists, and so-called “families of martyrs,” a new study has revealed. The PA’s budget...

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Israel on Tuesday marked Tisha b’Av, the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av, by using the occasion to discuss the issue of unity in the country. The 25 hour long fast commemorates the destruction of the first and second Jewish temples, as well as a series of tragedies that have befallen the...

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