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In the battle to eradicate mosquitos and the deadly diseases they can carry, introducing sterile non-biting male mosquitos to an infested area has shown great progress, with companies as mighty as Google parent Alphabet jumping into the fray. When it comes to hastening the mosquito-pocalypse in areas overrun by the...

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Diplomacy

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who urged the UN to reform and its members to stop singling out Israel, announced that she would be leaving her post at the end of the year, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Though she described her time representing...

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A recently passed bill by the Iranian parliament or Majlis, which was supposed to end the Islamic Republic’s support for terror financing, leaves huge loopholes, allowing the regime to continue funding terror groups such as Hezbollah, two experts assessed in an analysis Monday. Though reporting on the passage of the bill typically...

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Global Affairs

In a speech to the Beth Am congregation in Los Altos Hills, California, on Friday evening, Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, warned of the rise of far-left anti-Semitism, which he described as “cloaked in the language of progressive idealism and far more nuanced than traditional...

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There are an estimated 6 million wheelchair users in the United States and Europe, some of whom could walk again if insurance carriers would approve the cost of coverage for a device innovated in Israel. Not only would underwriting this coverage allow paraplegics to regain a sense of autonomy and...

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Diplomacy

The Vertigo Dance Company of Jerusalem is doing a Latin American performance tour from October 7 through November 5, presenting Noa Wertheim’s “White Noise” in Mexico, Panama, Peru and Colombia. The dance company also was supposed to perform in Nicaragua, but due to anti-government riots going on there, that stop was canceled...

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Global Affairs

The World Jewish Congress submitted a petition containing 22,000 signatures to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), calling on the body to condemn “this environmental warfare” carried out by Hamas and to “take all necessary measures to ensure that these illegal activities will be stopped immediately,” The Jerusalem Post reported Monday....

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MidEast

An unknown vandal spraypainted swastikas on a Jewish Community Center in northern Virginia, The Washington Post reported Sunday. It was the second time that the JCC had been vandalized in 18 months. In 2017, Dylan M. Mahone was arrested and charged with “hate-related offenses,” for vandalizing the JCC, a nearby...

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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he will soon be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, which would be the first meeting between the two leaders since errant Syrian fire downed a Russian military plane last month, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. Netanyahu announced the proposed meeting at the beginning of...

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A Palestinian terrorist killed two Israelis and wounded a third in a terror attack on Sunday at a factory in the West Bank’s Barkan Industrial Park, hailed as an oasis of coexistence for Israelis and Palestinians, The Times of Israel reported. The two victims of the terrorist attack have been...

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