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Terrorism

A music video recently released by a Gaza band glorifies terrorist attacks on Jews, warning them to flee before Palestinians “burn down” Tel Aviv. The al-Wa’ed Band for Islamic Art, which is affiliated with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, produced the animated clip and posted it on its YouTube channel last month....

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Israel’s internal security agency announced Thursday that it had broken up a 20-member Hamas cell that was planning to carry out suicide bombings and shooting attacks in Jerusalem, Haifa, and other major cities. The West Bank-based cell, which was located in Nablus, was in a state of “high readiness to...

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Palestinians, pushing their claims for statehood, have regularly denied the Jewish historical connections to Israel. In fact, the 20th article of the Palestinian National Charter states, “Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history.” Following this counterfactual ideology, the United Nations’...

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Iran

Iran and Russia share a military base in Syria in order to coordinate their defense of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, a top Iranian security official revealed Tuesday. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was quoted by Iranian media as claiming that there is “a shared base in Syria where Iran,...

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The European aviation giant Airbus announced Thursday that it has concluded an $18 billion deal to sell 100 planes to Iran’s national airline, which has used its fleet to transport troops and weapons to Syria. Airbus, which is the second biggest airplane manufacturer in the world after Boeing, will begin delivering the...

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After years of carrying 26-pound batteries on their backs to power blood-warming equipment for injured soldiers, two Israel Defense Forces paramedics independently vowed to invent a better solution. They happened to meet eight years ago and began collaborating on a way to efficiently warm blood and IV fluids, according to Ariel Katz,...

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Israeli tech companies have raised over $4.6 billion in 2016, breaking last year’s record of $4.43 billion, the Israeli financial website Globes reported Tuesday. According to the Israeli High-Tech and Venture Capital Database, tech firms attracted $4 billion in financing during the first three quarters of 2016, an increase of 27 percent...

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Diplomacy

The United Nations Security Council has postponed a vote on an anti-Israel resolution that was set to take place on Thursday afternoon, The Times of Israel reported. Egypt, which introduced the resolution, requested the delay following “high level” contacts with Israel. No alternate date and time for the vote has been announced, with one...

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The New York Times has a feature called “The Stone” which is supposed to be “a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless.” Its latest installment bashes Zionism. Philosophically, of course. Omri Boehm, an assistant professor of philosophy at the New School for Social...

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Israel’s Yoav Omer on Monday won gold in the boys’ RS:X race of the Youth Sailing World Championships, held in Auckland, New Zealand. Omer secured a huge lead in the RS:X world title race in the first days of the contest, ultimately winning nine of the 13 races sailed. The Israeli...

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