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A Syrian drone was intercepted by a Patriot missile over the Israeli Golan Heights on Thursday evening, the Israeli military said. “The IDF will not allow any breach of Israel’s airspace and will act against any attempt of infiltration,” the military stated. According to the IDF, the drone was under “full [Israeli Air...

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MidEast

A top Hamas official warned Wednesday that if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues pressuring the Gaza-based terrorist group to submit to the PA, “it’s going to explode in his face and in all directions,” news agencies reported. Responding to Abbas’ threatened funding cuts to Gaza, including a plan to stop subsidizing the enclave’s electricity...

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Israel’s National Cyber Defense Authority on Wednesday revealed that it successfully prevented a major cyber attack on 120 private and public institutions last week. The attack targeted academic institutions, research and development and advanced technological institutions in a range of fields, including medicine. Israel’s defense establishment was not a target....

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The International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) representative to Israel and the Palestinian Authority affirmed this week that Israel neither practices apartheid nor carries out extrajudicial killings. In an interview with Ynet, Jacques De Maio dismissed the two controversial charges, noting that “in contrast to the security systems in many countries, including Western...

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Explosions rocked the area near Damascus International Airport early Thursday morning following the arrival of cargo planes from Iran. “Hours before the blasts, which took place at 3:25 A.M., two Iranian 747 cargo planes, an Iranian Ilyushin il-76 and a Syrian Ilyushin il-76 landed in Damascus, according to the flight...

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As fish are an important source of inexpensive protein across the world, Israel’s BioFishency is ramping up its water-treatment installations in the developing world, most recently in Congo and Indonesia. The BioFishency Mini RAS (Recirculating Aquaculture System) makes effective water treatment accessible in land-based operations that use fresh, brackish or...

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Iran

A “fast attack craft” operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came within 1,000 yards of a United States Navy destroyer in the Persian Gulf on Monday, U.S. officials told Fox News. The Iranian vessel approached the USS Mahan with its weapons manned, prompting the U.S. destroyer to alter its course, sound a danger...

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Yesterday, Caterpillar announced much better results than expected and its stock price rose by nearly 8%. I half-jokingly tweeted that a smart investor would look carefully at any company that the anti-Israel idiots want to boycott, because it might make a great investment. So I decided to test my theory....

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A Palestinian terrorist who participated in two bombings in Israel in 1969 pleaded guilty to lying on her immigration form to the United States on Tuesday. Rasmea Odeh agreed to a plea deal last month, under which she will be deported from the U.S. to Jordan but avoid jail time, CNN reported. Odeh...

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Europe

The British government has reiterated its pride in its role in the creation of the State of Israel, in response to a sustained campaign asking the government to apologize for the Balfour Declaration. A statement from the government read, “The Balfour Declaration is an historic statement for which HMG does...

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