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A 24-year-old woman has been killed, and three others injured, including a soldier, in two separate terror attacks in Israel today. The Times of Israel reported on the attack that took place this afternoon in the West Bank area of Gush Etzion, just south of Jerusalem, when a man got out of his...

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Diplomacy

Despite the nuclear talks taking place in Oman between Iran, the U.S., and the EU, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy has issued a clear warning to the United States to leave the Gulf region. Admiral Ali Fadavi’s statement is just the latest example of Tehran’s verbal belligerence...

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Featured

The Palestinian propaganda machine continues to exploit the growing tensions in Jerusalem and the series of vehicle terror attacks that have shocked the city in recent weeks. In the last example of direct incitement to violence against Jews and Israel, Palestinian activists created an “event” (Arabic link) on Facebook in which they call...

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Israel

The Israeli startup VoiceITT, which is developing voice-translation technology for the disabled, recently won the audience favorite award at a startup showcase at the WSJ.D Live global technology conference. VoiceITT’s translation app, Talkitt, translates unintelligible pronunciation from any language into understandable speech. The company says people with ALS, autism, Parkinson’s...

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The British newspaper The Sunday Times reported today that according to a former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) official, Iran may have thousands more centrifuges than it has declared to the IAEA. The Times quoted the concerns of Olli Heinonen, who worked for the IAEA for 27 years. During his...

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Iran

Amid growing tensions in Jerusalem, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Saturday for the destruction of Israel. In a series of tweets, he attacked Israel and urged the arming of Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank: “This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of #Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to...

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MidEast

Reuters reported on Saturday that the recently released International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear program shows that Iran violated one of the commitments it made in last year’s Joint Plan of Action (JPA) with the P5+1 powers. Reuters cited an analysis of the IAEA report prepared by...

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Global Affairs

Tensions deepened on Thursday between the White House and Congress over the Obama administration’s diplomacy toward Iran, after the Wall Street Journal reported that that President Barack Obama had sent a secret letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei discussing a proposed nuclear deal and suggesting that Washington and Tehran...

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MidEast

In the Daily Beast today, Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla) call attention to Iran’s “horrific” human rights record , which “deserves equal attention” as its nuclear ambitions and support of international terrorism. Using the recent execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari as a starting point, Kirk and Rubio focus on the...

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MidEast

An editorial that appeared Monday in the defense industry magazine Defense News admonished the P5+1 not to “let Iran off the nuclear hook.” The editorial noted that the West is “bending to Iranian demands  to allow limited enrichment and shutter, not scrap, its vast nuclear complex and banks of enriching centrifuges.” This...

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