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The Fatah movement and Palestinian Authority officials are giving contradictory messages following the murder of five Israelis in a Jerusalem synagogue. While Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, one of his senior advisors and the official Facebook page of Fatah praised the attack, in which two Palestinians shot...

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MidEast

On November 13, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Israeli enterprise security startup Aorato. Financial details of the sale weren’t disclosed, but according to The Wall Street Journal Microsoft paid close to $200 million. “We are making this acquisition to give customers a new level of protection against threats through better...

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Iran

In response to growing tensions, Iran is flexing its muscles and threatening to send “millions” of soldiers into Palestinian territories to fight Israel. Commander of Iran’s Basij force, Mohammad Reza Naqdi, said millions of Iranians are ready to be sent to the Gaza Strip in order to assist the Palestinians...

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MidEast

The Times of Israel reports that Chief Rabbi David Lau of Israel reached out to Muslim religious leaders in the wake of today’s terror attack in a Jerusalem synagogue. Israel’s Chief Rabbi David Lau tells Channel 2 he’s dismayed by the silence of Muslim religious leaders in the wake of today’s...

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MidEast

In the wake of  today’s terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue, Jake Tapper of CNN’s The Lead made a startling observation: More people with American citizenship have been killed by Palestinian terrorists in the last year than have been killed by ISIS. — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 18, 2014 The...

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Secretary of State John Kerry strongly condemned this morning’s terror attack in Jerusalem (video embedded below), calling it “a pure result of incitement.” The Associated Press reports: Kerry, who spoke Tuesday before, noted that Israel had acted to calm the situation by easing age restrictions on Muslim worshippers at the...

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The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday that Iran is seeking “quick relief” from United Nations (UN) sanctions, placing a new stumbling block in the way of a nuclear agreement with the P5+1 nations by the time the current deal runs out on November, 24. The bloc, consisting of the five permanent U.N....

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At least four people were killed and six injured in a terror attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood Tuesday morning. Two terrorists, apparently from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, entered the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue around 7 a.m. during morning prayers and attacked worshipers with a...

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An Israeli team won the PayPal-sponsored 2014 Battlehack competition this past Sunday. The Israeli financial daily Globes reports that programmers Shai Mishali and Pavel Kaminsky won the contest, which was held at PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California: Programmers from 14 cities around the world, including Singapore, Istanbul, Berlin, Miami, and Toronto, competed...

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Israel

Israel defeated Bosnia-Herzegovina 3-0 Sunday night in the UEFA 2016 European Championship qualifying group ‘B’ soccer match, moving into first place in its group. Israel had previously beaten Andorra and Cyprus. The Times of Israel reports: The game was held at the Samy Ofer stadium in Haifa and was attended by Prime...

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