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Iran

The IDF recovered fragments of a Syrian surface-to-air missile that landed in the Golan Heights following reports of Israeli airstrikes in southern Syria, The Times of Israel reported Friday. According to the IDF the remains of the missile landed in an open field and were being taken for further analysis...

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Iran

Satellite images obtained over the summer confirm charges made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in September that Iran had a secret nuclear warehouse in Tehran, a team of weapons inspectors wrote in a paper published Thursday. The paper — authored by David Albright, Olli Heinonen, Frank Pabian, and Andrea...

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Diplomacy

In an op-ed published in The Hill on Friday, Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, wrote that “Israel’s standing in the world appears to be at a high point,” as a result of “a string of extraordinary diplomatic breakthroughs.” Block referenced a series of recent groundbreaking...

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CNN announced that it was ending its association with commentator Marc Lamont Hill following a speech at the United Nations in which he called for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” a phrase often used by the terrorist group Hamas, the New York Post reported Thursday. Hill had...

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MidEast

Standing on a plastic bottle-littered beach, a group of earnest young people led by Sarah Catherine Hook holds plastic water bottles and sings a silly song about harmony with the environment. Onto this scene strides Game of Thrones’ Thor “The Mountain” Bjornsson carrying a singing sea turtle — voiced by...

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MidEast

The United States special representative for Iran warned Thursday that “the lethality and reach” of the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program is growing as “Tehran is intent…to deepen its presence throughout the region,” The Algemeiner reported. Brian Hook made the comments at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., in front...

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A group of American Jews has filed a lawsuit against Airbnb, the online vacation marketplace, for its recent decision to stop listing Jewish properties in the West Bank, Reuters reported Wednesday. The plaintiffs include Israeli-Americans who own or rent property affected by Airbnb’s new policy filed the suit in federal...

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Diplomacy

The leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia are reportedly working together to convince Arab states to initiate a fresh start with Israel and develop economic relations with the Jewish State in accordance with the yet-to-be released peace plan of the Trump administration, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. According to a...

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Featured

The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it has launched a pilot program to place female combat soldiers on navy warships, just months after the Armored Corps completed its own successful trial of having women serve in tanks, The Times of Israel reported. “In the framework of the November 2018...

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Here’s a secret about self-driving cars: They won’t be entirely autonomous for quite some time. The near future belongs to semi-autonomous vehicles, which do most of the driving but pass over control to a human behind the wheel at certain points. But how will the car know if the driver...

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