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The Palestine Liberation Organization is naming a new youth camp after a terrorist who led one of the deadliest terrorist attacks on Israeli soil, Palestinian Media Watch reported Sunday. The PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports will launch the “Brothers of Dalal” youth camp next month, named for Dalal Mughrabi,...

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Iran

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report on Iranian compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal suggests “that Iran is not fully complying with the [agreement], or is at least pushing the envelope of compliance in a detrimental direction,” the influential Institute for Science and International Security charged in a report (.pdf)...

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Iran

At a memorial service marking 25 years since the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Islamic Republic is responsible for more than 80 percent of the security threats facing Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Netanyahu pointed out that Iran orchestrated the 1992 attack...

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Europe

A soccer player in the English Football League is proudly displaying his faith with a unique haircut. In an apparent reaction to a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom, Tomer Hemed, a striker with Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., posted a photo of himself last week with...

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Israel

Team Israel stunned the host South Korean team to open the 2017 World Baseball Classic with a 2-1 victory in 10 innings Monday evening. Definitely the most stressful game I've ever been a part of. But it was worth it. #teamisrael — Ty Kelly (@tykelly11) March 6, 2017 With a...

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Israel

Fortune magazine last week released a list of “50 Companies Leading the AI Revolution,” and the prestigious list includes three hot Israeli companies in the artificial intelligence sector: Logz.io, Voyager Labs, and Zebra Medical Vision. Fortune’s infographic includes only six countries and features an equal number of notable AI companies...

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Diplomacy

For those of us who spent much of 2016, based upon then-candidate Donald Trump’s own bombastic declarations, worrying about the thrust of the foreign policy of a future Trump administration, President Trump’s address to Congress Feb. 28 provided welcome relief. As ever, precise details were scarce and important shifts of...

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Elections For Me, But Not for Thee The Palestinian Authority announced on Tuesday that scheduled municipal elections in May would only take place in the West Bank, thus excluding the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said that “the West Bank government’s decision… amounts to reinforcing the split” between the terror...

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Israel

An Israeli rock star and his Iranian counterpart performed together in Tel Aviv on Thursday, sharing a message of unity with some 6,000 spectators. Israel’s Aviv Geffen and Iran’s Shahin Najaf sang two songs to the cheering crowd, alternating between Hebrew and Farsi, NBC News reported. The audience at the Tel Aviv...

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A St. Louis man was arrested on Friday for making threats against at least eight Jewish Community Centers across the United States. Juan Thompson is accused of calling in bomb threats to multiple JCCs and the headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League. According to authorities, Thompson made the calls as part...

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