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Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s leading public intellectual, returns to the United States in January to promote his new book, The Genius of Judaism, perhaps the fullest expression yet of his commitment to the Jewish faith, Jewish culture, and the continued flourishing of the State of Israel. Newly-returned from the Iraqi city...

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The growing trend of shouting down or otherwise disrupting Israeli and pro-Israel speakers on campuses “constitutes a dire threat to academic freedom,” the former president of the American Association of University Professors wrote in The Washington Post on Wednesday. Cary Nelson, an English professor at the University of Illinois and the former president of the professors’ organization,...

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When her son was diagnosed with autism 13 years ago, Hadijah felt terribly alone. The stigma attached to children with disabilities in her village in central Israel led Hadijah to withdraw into a world of herself and her son. That changed only after she met Amal abu Moch, a social...

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MidEast

Throughout President Barack Obama’s administration, key members of the Democratic Party have rejected efforts to impose the terms of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement through the United Nations Security Council, warning that such unilateral actions would damage attempts to secure Israeli-Palestinian peace within the framework of a two-state solution. Former President Jimmy Carter’s recent proposal to reverse...

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Europe

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political party, the Christian Democratic Union, adopted a resolution on Wednesday that condemned the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, calling the movement anti-Semitic. “The German CDU declares with this motion its disapproval and rejection of every form of BDS activity and condemns these activities as anti-Semitic,”...

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The Shin Bet announced Wednesday that it had arrested a cell of four Palestinians, including three minors, who had perpetrated four shooting attacks in the West Bank. The Israeli secret service said that the arrests had been made in conjunction with the Border Police and IDF and that family members had...

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The citizenship process for foreign same-sex partners of Israelis will soon be the same as that of heterosexual partners, Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday. Mandelblit’s decision came in response to a petition from the Israeli Gay Fathers Association, which complained that same-sex couples were forced to wait seven years...

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Iran

Israel is working hard to keep chemical weapons out of the hands of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman told a Knesset committee Thursday. Israel does not usually acknowledge foreign military actions, but Liberman told European diplomats Wednesday—the same day that the Mazzeh military airport near Damascus was...

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Diplomacy

In the wake of last month’s damaging wildfires in Haifa, the Israeli government announced Thursday that it would partner with Greece and Cyprus—two of the countries who assisted in putting out the fires—to create a regional emergency response force. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement after meeting with...

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An Israeli company announced on Monday that it successfully transplanted lab-grown human bone into eleven patients, The Times of Israel reported. Bonus Biogroup grew the semi-liquid graft by extracting stem cells from the patients’ own fat tissues, which it then cultivated into bone cells. The patients, who suffered from bone loss, had the graft...

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