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Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday warned that rockets in the Iran-backed terror group’s arsenal were capable of hitting any place in the Jewish state—specifically that Jerusalem “will not find a single piece of land” that rockets could not hit—and that Israel would be forced to close its ports in...

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The deadline for the P5+1 nations and Iran to reach a deal to keep Iran from ever having nuclear weapons arrives next month, and negotiators are working overtime to reach a deal that would supposedly stop their nuclear program. Yet critics have suggested that the impending deal would do the exact opposite—preserve Iran’s technology and...

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MidEast

The Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday that photos appearing on Iraqi news sites showed that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani was involved in a recent battle to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from the Iraqi city of Jurf al-Sakher. The AP also...

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MidEast

Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday that sales of Israel bonds surged during Operation Protective Edge this summer. Bloomberg credited the heightened interest in the bonds in part to an advertising campaign masterminded by the CEO of the Israel Development Corporation, Israel Tapoohi, who used the image of Moshe Dayan to...

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Israel

Israeli-made inflatable isolation tents have been installed in the west African nation of Guinea, in an attempt to combat the deadly Ebola virus. The sterile tents are being made in Or Akiva by SYS Technologies. “SYS Technologies goal is to develop, produce and distribute breakthrough products in the field of...

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MidEast

Hours after a Palestinian killed one pedestrian and injured 14 more in Jerusalem, a second vehicle deliberately targeted three Israel soldiers in the West Bank area of Gush Etzion today. The Times of Israel reports that three soldiers were injured, one seriously, in the attack: A Palestinian vehicle hit the...

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MidEast

At a press conference in Paris with Jordanian foreign minister Nasser Judeh, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned today’s terror attack in Jerusalem. I condemn today’s terrorist act of somebody driving in another car into innocent people standing on the roadside. That is not just a terrorist act and an...

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Global Affairs

Iran has decided to unite its Shiite militias operating in Syria into one organization that will be a “Parallel Army” to the Syrian army, the al-Hayat newspaper reported on Wednesday. Iran operates Iraqi and Afghan militias in Syria in an attempt to protect the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Siraj...

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Human Rights

Egyptian security reports (Arabic link) revealed that Hamas is spending $140 million a year to dig terror tunnels. According to the reports, no less than 12,000 Palestinians, many of them children, take part in the process of building the tunnels. These tunnels are used to smuggle weapons and materials used...

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One person was killed and at least 13 wounded in the latest terror attack in Jerusalem today, when a man drove a pick-up truck into a crowd of people on Shimon Hatzadik Street, Haaretz reported. The Times of Israel reported that Hamas is claiming responsibility for the attack. The driver was Ibrahim al-Akari, from Shuafat, an...

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