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Despite not having diplomatic relations, Israel’s air force is participating in joint exercises this week with the air forces of Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates at a U.S. Air Force base in Nevada. It is highly unusual for countries that don’t officially recognize each other to work together in...

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Russia’s recent use of an Iranian air base to launch airstrikes in Syria “could very well be a violation of” the United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed last year’s nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said at a press briefing on Tuesday. When asked about a...

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Europe

A German university has cancelled a course on “The Social Situation of Young People in Palestine” that for the past decade has falsely presented Israel as a dehumanized society guilty of ethnic cleansing, genocide, torture, and stealing Palestinian organs. For at least a year, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts...

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Global Affairs

As President Barack Obama’s term in office comes to an end, a number of allies are expressing concern that he will publicly pledge that the United States would never be first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict, Josh Rogin of The Washington Post reported Sunday. Japan, South Korea, France,...

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Baby Yehia has enormous chocolate-brown eyes. His family, Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, nicknamed their huggable little boy “Yaya.” They almost lost Yaya because he was born with multiple severe heart defects that doctors in India and Pakistan could not repair – or at least not for a price the...

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An increasing number of Israeli Arabs are joining their country’s national service program, pursuing better professional opportunities while forging closer ties with Israeli society, The Times of Israel reported on Monday. Israel’s national service program is an alternative to army service, and allows participants — typically observant Zionist Jewish women who opt out of army service for...

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Gov. Chris Christie signed into law on Tuesday a bipartisan bill prohibiting New Jersey’s pension fund from investing in companies that boycott Israel. The legislation passed the state’s Senate unanimously in May and its General Assembly by a wide margin of 70-3 in July, The Jerusalem Post reported. New Jersey currently does $1.3 billion worth of trade...

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Iran

The White House’s failure to ensure that the nuclear deal with Iran did not prevent the Islamic Republic from building new nuclear power plants has come under heavy fire from both Democratic and Republican politicians in the past few days. After top Iranian nuclear official Ali Salehi announced last Thursday...

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Two West Bank terror cells created by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah have been broken up by Israeli security over the past few months, the Shin Bet revealed Tuesday. Members were recruited via Facebook and other social media by members of Hezbollah’s foreign operations unit operating out of both Lebanon...

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A cache of confidential documents from the Open Society Foundations (OSF), released after the George Soros-funded philanthropic network was apparently hacked, provides extensive details of the hedge fund mogul’s secretive efforts to spend millions of dollars annually to create an “echo chamber” of “organizations highly critical of the Jewish state,” Tablet Magazine’s Liel Leibovitz reported this...

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