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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli Foreign Ministry to lodge a complaint with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) over the reported failure of a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance to treat Jewish terror victims on Friday, Ha’aretz reported Sunday. The Red Crescent ambulance reportedly passed by the...

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MidEast

In response to a report that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad blamed France for the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Secretary of State John Kerry said that “Assad has cut his own deal with Daesh” at a press conference Saturday in Vienna. Daesh is the Arabic...

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MidEast

In the wake of the terror assault in Paris Friday evening, a leading French news website has suggested that the most deadly location, the Bataclan theater, may have been chosen for its known Jewish and Israel connections. More than 100 people were murdered and scores more injured after gunmen threw...

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MidEast

In a massive coordinated assault reminiscent of previous Islamist attacks in London, Madrid and Mumbai, more than 120 people were killed in multiple locations Paris this evening, an assault that Presdient Francois Holland called the worst attack in France since World War II. The attacks took place at at least...

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Europe

The United States Senate unanimously passed a resolution expressing support for Israel and strongly condemning the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Thursday. The resolution, which passed by unanimous consent on Tuesday, condemned in the “harshest terms possible” attacks that have left 11 Israelis dead and...

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Israel

An Israeli father and son were killed after Palestinian gunmen fired on the car their family was traveling in near Hebron, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The mother and another son were injured, and three daughters were not injured but treated for shock. Just before 3 p.m. on Friday,...

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Iran

The Obama administration has curtailed its demands for the immediate removal of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and has allowed Iran to join diplomatic talks on Syria’s civil war, signaling that the Islamic Republic may continue “wielding influence over Syria” and arming terrorist groups unabated, the Associated Press reported on Thursday....

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College campuses across the country have been inundated with anti-Semitism from a new source: Yik Yak, a social media smartphone app that allows people to post anonymous messages. Yik Yak is localized — one must be within 1.5 miles of a particular Yik Yak “feed” in order to post on...

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Israel

Microsoft has announced the buyout of Israeli data protection firm, Secure Islands. “Furthering Microsoft’s investments in security technology, I am pleased to announce today that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Secure Islands, an innovator in advanced information protection solutions,” said Takeshi Numoto, Microsoft corporate VP Cloud and Enterprise...

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Europe

Germany’s ruling party, the Christian Democratic Union, came out strongly against the European Union’s decision to label products coming from territories captured by Israel in 1967, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Thursday. “This decision might not bring advantages in consumer protection,” Jürgen Hardt told JTA on Thursday about new regulations...

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