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The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas has created a summer tourist destination out of one of its tunnels, which have frequently been used to infiltrate Israel and attack Israelis. A posted by the the pro-Hamas media outlet Afaq shows a group of boys running through a tunnel. “Afaq media enters a tunnel created by the Qassam Brigades during...

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Iran

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned three senior members of al-Qaeda on Wednesday, two of whom are based in Iran. The Treasury accused the individuals of moving “money and operatives from South Asia and across the Middle East.” One of the men, Yisra Muhammad Ibrahim Bayumi, has operated out of Iran since...

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Diplomacy

Trade between Israel and Mexico reached $700 million last year, up 300 percent since a free-trade agreement was signed between the two countries in 2000, Israel’s ambassador to Mexico announced Thursday. Ambassador Jonathan Peled told the Mexican newspaper El Universal that the two countries will work to triple the trade in the coming years....

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MidEast

A Muslim mob attacked the families of two Coptic Christian priests in southern Egypt, killing one man and wounding three others, officials said Monday. Fam Khalaf, 27, was stabbed to death as the armed mob descended on the Christian families in the town of Tahna al-Gabal late Sunday. The father...

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Europe

ISIS supporters have praised the terrorist who used his truck to kill 84 people in Nice, France last week, hailing the Palestinians for developing the car ramming method. “Killing by ramming using civilian cars and trucks is an idea born from the Maqdisi [Palestinian] mind, which has an innovative nature of...

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Israel

The head of Israel’s Foreign Ministry asked Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to remove a new monument to a Palestinian who killed 15 people and wounded 77 others in a 1975 terrorist attack in central Jerusalem. In a video message, Dore Gold blasted the PA’s decision to honor Ahmed Jabara, also known as Abu Sukkar,...

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Diplomacy

Israel and the West African nation of Guinea announced on Wednesday that they had reestablished diplomatic ties, 49 years after the Muslim-majority country withdrew its recognition following the Six-Day War in 1967. The agreement was signed in Paris between Dore Gold, the director-general of Israel’s foreign ministry, and Khalil Kaba, chief of staff to...

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Europe

Israel’s experience in fighting terrorism can help Europe face its own threats, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor wrote in an op-ed (Google link) published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. Starting last September, Prosor wrote, Israel began facing “a new generation of terrorists radicalized on social media [that] has launched...

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Iran

The revelation earlier this week of a secret document of the Iran nuclear deal shows that the P5+1 group of global powers have legitimized Iran’s uranium enrichment program, a leading nuclear proliferation expert said Tueseday. Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control and Regional Security Program at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National...

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The general director of UNESCO acknowledged the centuries-old links between Jews and Christians to Jerusalem on Friday, days after her organization postponed a vote on a controversial resolution that prioritizes the city’s Islamic history. “The heritage of Jerusalem is indivisible, and each of its communities have a right to the explicit recognition of their history and...

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