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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas once again turned down an offer to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for peace talks, the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds reported on Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly made the offer to Abbas when the two met in Paris last month....

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The one-year anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal came and went in Israel, with barely a mention in the local media—that is, until Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman decided to respond to President Barack Obama’s assertion during a press conference in early August that the Israeli “military and security community” fully...

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A leader of the Israeli disaster relief organization IsraAID will be presented with the annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award next month in recognition of the group’s work aiding people affected by natural disasters and other emergencies around the world. IsraAID chief operation officer Navonel Glick will be one of six under-30 recipients of the award...

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Eight Palestinians were injured in the collapse of a terror tunnel, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. This is the fourth reported tunnel collapse this month. Palestinian media reported that the tunnel collapsed in the Shuja’yya neighborhood of Gaza City, which borders Israel. None of the eight were seriously injured, a Health Ministry spokesman said. It is...

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ISIS-affiliated fighters in Egypt’s Sinai Desert are digging up Nazi munitions that were buried in the sand during World War II and using them as material for bombs and other weapons, Newsweek reported Wednesday. An estimated 17 million land mines are buried in northwest Egypt near the site of the 1942 Battle of El Alamein. Though Egypt has been...

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Europe

A series of legal victories has given hope to pro-Israel activists in Spain, long a bastion of the anti-Israel BDS campaign, that public and governmental support is shifting towards their side, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Tuesday. An Anti-Defamation League survey last year found that Spain had one the highest levels of anti-Semitism...

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As the United States Armed Forces begins to incorporate transgender soldiers into its ranks, the Pentagon is looking to Israel for how to handle the process, Time reported Tuesday. It will take about a year for the Defense Department’s new policies to be implemented, Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said. In the meantime, Israel...

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Iran

Iran has improved its cyberwarfare capabilities and made significant progress in developing more advanced ballistic missiles in the year since the nuclear deal was reached, the U.S. Defense Department has determined. Iran has “a substantial inventory of missiles capable of reaching targets throughout the region, including U.S. military bases and...

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Peruvian Production Minister Bruno Giuffra has his eye on the Israeli startup ecosystem and wants to duplicate it in his home country, according to local South American reports. Giuffra reportedly told Israeli Ambassador Ehud Eitam that he is seeking to work with Israeli startups and veteran firms to improve his country’s...

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Diplomacy

“Israel receives more international legitimacy today than it has since independence,” Israel’s chief envoy to the Arab world, a Druze deputy minister in the governing coalition, said in a profile published Monday in Tablet. Ayoob Kara, a Druze member of the Likud and Israel’s Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation, added that “our relations with our neighbors are...

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