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The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), an international organization devoted to fighting anti-Semitism, called on the German government on Tuesday to stop funding Palestinian sports agencies as long as they continue their “blatant sanctification of Jew-killers,” The Times of Israel reported. The statement came in response to a deal signed last week between the head...

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Israel is changing. Usually deployed with a sigh, this observation has risen to the level of an axiom in recent years as a sad requiem for a golden age that ceased to exist decades ago. This axiom was both proven true and turned on its head on the night of...

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Iran

Iran test-fired another surface-to-air missile on Wednesday, in defiance of warnings and a new round of sanctions from the Trump administration last week, a U.S. official told Fox News. The short-range Mersad missile was fired from a launchpad east of Tehran and impacted 35 miles away, the official added. “Recent Iranian actions, including a...

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Israel

The founder of two Israel-oriented exchange-traded funds (ETFs) argued that “cutting-edge” Israeli companies that are “leading the world in some of the most transformative technologies” remain “underowned and underdiscovered,” in an interview Thursday. Steven Schoenfeld, founder of Blue Star Indexes and creator of BIGI and BIGITech stock indexes, told ETF.com that contrary to...

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Robert Kraft, owner of the Super Bowl champions New England Patriots, has announced that he will donate $6 million to build Israel’s first regulation-sized American football stadium. Reports cite that the new stadium will already open later this year. It will service the 1,350 active football players in Israel. “This...

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Israel

Air India is in the process of inaugurating a new Mumbai-Tel Aviv route, which is expected to be announced during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Israel, The Times of India reported Thursday. The flight will take a circuitous route to avoid flying over countries that do not have relations...

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Clinical trials of a revolutionary Israeli device have shown that the device cut the need for repeat surgeries by 50 percent for women who undergo lumpectomies, a procedure to remove breast tumors, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. MarginProbe, made by Israel-based Dune Medical Devices, allows a surgeon to examine cancerous tissue removed from...

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Israel

At least five people were wounded when a Palestinian man opened fire at a bus and stabbed another man at the marketplace in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva on Thursday afternoon. The assailant began his attack a little before 5:00 p.m. near the busy Petah Tikva market, where people...

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An ISIS affiliate based in the Sinai Peninsula has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s rocket attacks against Eilat and threatened to launch more in the future, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Sinai Province, which has an estimated 800 to 1,000 members, said in a statement online, “A military squad fired a number...

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Human Rights

Palestinian Authority Attorney General Ahmad Barak announced on Monday that he was banning the distribution of a new novel on the grounds that it contained “indecent texts and terms that threaten morality and public decency, which could affect the population, in particular minors.” The book, Crime in Ramallah by Abbad Yahya, reportedly contains explicit...

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