Despite a reconciliation agreement with Fatah, the main Palestinian faction, Hamas, the terror group that controls Gaza, still refuses to disarm and has threatened to send its arms into the West Bank to build a terrorist infrastructure there, the Associated Press reported Monday. As part of the reconciliation agreement between...

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I recently met a couple who told me that their Jewish daughter attends Duke University, which they believe to be a great school for Jewish students. I would be pleased to share their enthusiasm. But in certain pockets of that institution, a serious, faculty-driven, anti-Israel bias exists, often expressed publicly...

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The United States and Israel are fighting the publication of a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) blacklist naming an estimated 150 companies—both Israeli and global—for doing business in the West Bank, which the UN considers to be “occupied territory,” the Associated Press reported Sunday. The UNHRC, whose standard for membership...

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Israel has said that it would “lend a hand” to Egypt to fight terrorists and leaders from across the political spectrum have sent condolences to Egypt after 305 people were killed in an attack by a group likely affiliated with the terrorist organization Islamic State on a Sufi mosque in...

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When Universal Music contacted Haifa’s Broken Fingaz Crew to say that U2 wanted the renowned Israeli street-art group to create an animation lyric video for the band’s new song, “American Soul,” Broken Fingaz didn’t hesitate – even though the crew had only a week to get it done. “We weren’t sure if...

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Jewish peoplehood is under attack by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and other forms anti-Israel activism and in response, the Jewish community “must build a communications infrastructure,” to address those threats, Josh Block, CEO and president of The Israel Project wrote Tuesday in an op-ed published in the Jewish Journal. Historically, American Jews have risen...

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Three Syrian rebels wounded last week in an alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad received medical treatment in Israel, Seth Frantzman reported in The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. The Syrian casualties were transferred to Ziv Medical Center in Safed, according to multiple sources in...

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Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak just got one small step closer to reality thanks to Israeli scientists, who have made an invisibility cloak breakthrough for real. It’s still only on the nano level, but such a cloaking chip could be used on stealth aircraft, local optical camouflage or electromagnetic wave scattering....

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The commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, General Joseph Aoun, has called upon his soldiers “to be fully prepared on the southern border to confront the Israeli enemy’s threats and violations,” The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The general also warned that Israel has “hostile intentions against Lebanon, its people,...

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Unprecedented footage has emerged of the Israeli army opening the border gates to Syria for a group of mothers and their children seeking medical assistance in the Jewish state, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. The IDF allowed an Israeli TV crew to film the event, which was broadcast by...

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