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Every November and March, hundreds of millions of birds of all sizes and types arrive in Israel after migrating thousands of kilometers. Some of the visitors are in need of medical treatment from exhaustion, illness, or injury. A couple of months ago, veterinarians at the Wildlife Hospital at the Ramat...

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The International Space University’s annual graduate-level Space Studies Program (SSP) launched in Israel on Tuesday, marking the first time that the program is being held in the Middle East. The two-month program is taking place at the Technion Institute in Haifa, where guest lectures and panels are expected through September 1. Among those scheduled to lead sessions...

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On the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of the Second Lebanon War, Israeli officials continued to warn that any future conflict with Hezbollah will result in unprecedented damage to the group. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, the IDF Chief of Staff, promised on Sunday that Israel will “decisively defeat” the terrorist organization, echoing...

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American taxpayer funds designated to bolster Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were also spent on resources that were used as part of a political campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during last year’s elections, a bipartisan Senate report revealed Tuesday. The report, issued by the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, found that OneVoice Movement — which received over $300,000 in State...

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MidEast

The family of American war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in Syria four years ago, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Syrian government on Saturday, alleging that she had been assassinated on the orders of the high-ranking regime officials. Colvin, a veteran journalist who had reported on conflicts across the globe, was killed by a...

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Israel adopted a law on Monday that will compel organizations that receive more than half of their funding from foreign governments to disclose their foreign funding status to Israel’s Justice Ministry. The “transparency bill,” as it was called by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, passed its third and final reading in the Knesset...

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Iran

American and Iranian officials confirmed Monday that the Obama administration undertook an $8.6 million purchase of nuclear materials from Iran, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The taxpayer-funded deal sought to prevent Iran from violating the nuclear deal it reached with world powers last summer. “I can confirm reports that the DOE...

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Talks with Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei

Iran engaged in secret efforts last year to procure nuclear-related materials that spanned at least half of Germany’s states and involved attempts to advance the Islamic Republic’s chemical and biological weapons capabilities, according to newly-released German intelligence documents examined by the Jerusalem Post. Iranian operatives targeted German manufacturers whose products could...

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Palestinian Affairs

Hamas has opened three-week-long training camps in Gaza for over 50,000 elementary, middle, and high school students, the Gaza-based terror organization said in a press release Sunday. Hamas official Ismail Radwan explained that the theme of the camps is the “Jerusalem Intifada,” and that the goal is “to raise a generation...

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The families of five Americans recently killed or injured by Palestinian terrorists have filed a lawsuit against Facebook for allowing the terrorist group Hamas to incite violence on its network, the Times of Israel reported Monday. The plaintiffs are seeking $1 billion in punitive damages under the Anti-Terrorism Act, which allows...

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