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Iran

The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015, which passed the Senate unanimously last week, would strengthen the United States’ ability to clamp down on the Iranian-backed terrorist group’s illicit financing activities if it’s signed into law, Tyler Stapleton, a deputy director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a...

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Israel

The New England Patriots honored American terror victim Ezra Schwartz with a moment of silence before their Monday Night Football game against the Buffalo Bills yesterday. Schwartz was an 18-year-old student and lifelong Patriots fan from the Boston area who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist last week. “Ladies and...

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Europe

Following controversial remarks by Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens that terror was no longer confined only to “synagogues and Jewish museums,” Belgium’s Chief Rabbi said that Jews have no future in Europe, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Rabbi Avraham Gigi spoke to Israeli radio station 103 FM about the atmosphere...

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Israel

Imagine an artificial skin that heals itself. Imagine a prosthetic limb that has a sense of touch. These incredible advances are a step closer to reality thanks to chemical engineering researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Inspired by the natural healing properties of human skin, Prof. Hossam...

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MidEast

JNS.org – One of the most memorable scenes in the 2010 film “Four Lions,” a dark British comedy about a group of the most incompetent jihadis imaginable, takes place as the aspiring martyrs climb into a van for the long nighttime drive down to London, where their plan is to...

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Europe

The German department store KaDeWe apologized for removing Israeli wines from its shelves after facing a major backlash, the Associated Press reported Sunday. KaDeWe said on its Facebook page that the wines had been temporarily removed so the importer could relabel them in accordance with new European Union rules that require...

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Featured

Sunday’s triumph of Mauricio Macri in Argentina’s presidential runoff election against government candidate Daniel Scioli marks a sea change in Argentine politics. Macri’s victory puts an end to twelve years of “Kirchnerism” in Argentina – a colorful blend of traditional Peronist power politics at home and alliances with repressive regimes...

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Europe

Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens remarked that terrorism in Europe was no longer limited to Jews and law enforcement officials, but now affects targets of a different profile, including the general public, The Guardian reported on Sunday. Geens, the justice minister, said that the Paris attacks had shown that the...

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Human Rights

A spokesman for the Iranian judiciary has announced that Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was arrested by Iranian authorities in July 2014, was sentenced to prison, Reuters reported Sunday. No details were given regarding the length of his prison term. Rezaian’s lawyer, Leila Ahsan, confirmed that her client was...

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Israel

An Israeli woman was stabbed to death and a man was injured during three separate terror attacks on Sunday, The Times of Israel reported. The woman, 21-year-old Hadar Buchris of Safed, was stabbed in the afternoon while waiting for a bus at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank....

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