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Diplomacy

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said that the United States and France were coordinating a United Nations Security Council resolution that would put a time limit on the establishment of a Palestinian state. Hamdallah, who is the prime minister of the Fatah-Hamas Palestinian unity government, made the claim in an interview...

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The international credit card company Visa will open a research and development center in Herzliya, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Visa will be extending its new European collaboration hub, called Visa Euro Collab, to Israel. The goal of the Collabs is to boost startups’ chances for success by leveraging Visa’s...

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Iran

Iranian-backed militias that are designated as terror organizations by the U.S. government are increasingly taking charge of the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq in the wake of the fall of the city of Ramadi, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Iraq’s two main allies...

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Israel

In a speech yesterday at Givat Haviva, The Center for a Shared Society, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called for all citizens to forge “a shared Israeli identity,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “[I]t is important to say that the vision of living together, so needed in Israeli society, is one that...

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Europe

A Lebanese-Canadian man with ties to the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah was arrested while in possession of an estimated two tons worth of a compound that can be used for explosives, Agence France-Presse reported today. The Phileleftheros newspaper said the 26-year-old man, who was remanded in custody on Thursday, belonged...

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Israel

The Israeli drug company Oramed Pharmaceuticals has taken another step closer to the world’s first insulin pill when it announced this week that it has submitted the study protocol for the company’s Phase IIb trial of ORMD-0801 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ORMD-0801 is the company’s proprietary flagship product,...

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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dubbed the aborted Palestinian bid to suspend Israel from FIFA—the governing body of international soccer—a “unilateral step, that “push[es] peace further away instead of bringing it closer.” The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) abruptly withdrew its bid to suspend Israel from FIFA today, The Jerusalem Post reported....

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Diplomacy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference that he supported the “general idea” of the Arab Peace Initiative (API) The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The Arab Peace Initiative, originally proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, has many problematic aspects to it, the prime minister said, such as its...

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Human Rights

An Amnesty International report concluded that most of the fatalities in the ongoing conflict in Yemen have resulted from Houthi anti-aircraft fire, The Guardian reported today. The Houthis are backed by Iran. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have caused the majority of civilian casualties in the nation’s capital Sana’a by...

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Diplomacy

Pope Francis called the refusal to recognize the State of Israel anti-Semitic, The Times of Israel reported today. The Pope also clarified that, contrary to media reports, he had not called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “an angel of peace.” In comments made to veteran Portuguese-Israeli journalist Henrique Cymerman Thursday, Francis...

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