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Five members of an Israeli-Arab family from Nazareth were arrested over suspicions that they support ISIS and were planning to carry out terror attacks in Israel, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday. The cell’s members, all reportedly members of the same family, were arrested in October and November in...

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Bipartisan resolutions supporting state-imposed sanctions against Iran in the wake of the nuclear deal have been introduced in both chambers of Congress, The Examiner reported on Monday. Last week, Sens. Mark Kirk (R – Ill.), Joe Manchin (D – W. Va.), and Marco Rubio (R – Fla.) submitted a resolution...

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Egypt announced the destruction of some 20 recently discovered smuggling tunnels along its border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The Egyptian military, which shared the news on its official Facebook page, claimed that the tunnels were uncovered and destroyed last month. While no further...

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Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was instrumental in engineering the rise of ISIS, and his continued support of the terror group makes him a poor ally in the fight against it, David Blair, the chief foreign correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, argued in an analysis published Monday. Blair noted that in...

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Despite the recent release of an International Atomic Energy Agency report determining that Iran pursued nuclear weapons technology until 2009, the U.S. is urging the IAEA to close its investigation into the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and begin implementing the nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The AP...

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Four years after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, Fukushima Medical University’s Global Medical Science Center has signed a memorandum of understanding with Israel’s Pluristem Therapeutics to collaborate on further development of the company’s placenta-based cell therapy products to treat acute radiation syndrome (ARS) and morbidities following radiotherapy in cancer patients....

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Iran tested a medium-range ballistic missile last month, once again violating United Nations Security Council resolutions that limit its development of missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads, Fox News reported on Monday. Western intelligence says the test was held Nov. 21 near Chabahar, a port city in southeast Iran’s Balochistan...

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An advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the removal of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was a “red line” that Iran would not cross, Reuters reported on Sunday. “Bashar al-Assad is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s red line because he was elected president by the Syrian people,”...

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In addition to her reported remarks about taking the U.S.-Israel relationship “to the next level,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday called for a “strengthened” relationship between the two countries based on their common interest in fighting Iranian aggression. According to a transcript (.pdf) provided by the Brookings...

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The recently released International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran’s illicit nuclear activities raises concerns about the extent of the regime’s covert nuclear research, and suggests that future enforcement of the nuclear deal will be impossible. The IAEA’s investigative report, which was published last week, determined that Iran was conducting...

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