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Israeli trauma experts have landed in Manchester in the wake of the attack on the Ariana Grande concert to treat victims and train medical staff on the ground, Breaking Israel News reported Monday. The terrorist organization Islamic State has officially claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that left 22 people...

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Less than a year into its planned three-year study of the planet Jupiter, NASA’s Juno research spacecraft  already has revealed or confirmed facts that the Juno Science Team – including Yohai Kaspi of Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science – could only guess at previously. “We knew, going in, that Jupiter...

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Israeli Paralympic kayaker Pascale Berkowitz won a silver medal at the International Canoe Federation’s Kayak World Cup in Szeged, Hungary, last weekend. She finished the 200 meters at 56.466 seconds, in second place behind Andrea Nadezda of Russia. “I broke my personal record. I had an amazing competition, and it’s...

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The world “is no longer willing to accept” the Palestinian Authority’s glorification of terrorists, a senior Israeli diplomatic official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. “Until now, people closed their eyes and did nothing,” the official added. “Now the situation has changed, and I think it is a combination of two things....

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Iran

One of the most effective Iraqi Shiite militias has captured a town on the Syria border, drawing Iran’s “Shiite crescent” closer to Israel, Seth Frantzman reported for The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. The Badr Brigade has reached the Iraqi village of Um Jaris, meaning that “forces that are close to Tehran pose...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is “now more militarily powerful than most North Atlantic Treaty Organization members,” a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Hezbollah is now “10 times as strong now as it was in 2006, and its...

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Hundreds of Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisons ended their 40-day-long hunger strike on Saturday. The 834 prisoners still participating in the strike, down from 1,100 when the strike began, resumed eating over the weekend after an agreement was reached over their demand for a second family visit each month. The...

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The Secretary General of the United Nations and the Norwegian government slammed the Palestinian Authority for naming a women’s center built with their support after a notorious terrorist. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said in a statement on Sunday that naming the center after Dalal Mughrabi was “offensive”...

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Diplomacy

Trump Shows No Daylight With Israel President Donald Trump began his historic visit to Israel last week by underscoring the “unbreakable bond” between the United States and the Jewish state. Much of what he did and said during his two-day trip showed that, unlike his predecessor, he does not look to create daylight...

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In June 2013, 250 Israeli smart-transportation visionaries flocked to the inaugural EcoMotion “unconference” to share their crazy fantasies about the future of moving people from one place to another. Only four years later, leaders of the global automotive and transportation industry were among 1,500 participants at the fifth annual EcoMotion...

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