Australian rocker Nick Cave has spoken about his admiration for Israel and his decision to perform in the country as a stance against the anti-Semitic Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. Speaking at a press conference ahead of his Sunday and Monday night sold-out...

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Imagine an environmental taxi, reserved just for you, that you drive yourself, and for about half the price. This is the concept behind Car2Go, a cooperative and environmentally driven initiative that promises to make personal car ownership, and all the hassle that goes along with it, a thing of the...

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In the wake of its controversial decision to host a panel discussion on anti-Semitism that includes Linda Sarsour and Rebecca Vilkomerson, the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), the New School chose to defend its choice of panelists, saying that engaging in “debate” is critical to its role as...

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Israel’s State Attorney found that a spokesman for Breaking the Silence (BtS), an NGO that alleges abuses by Israel soldiers, lied when he claimed that he had beaten a Palestinian suspect, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Dean Issacharoff, spokesman for BtS had spoken of an incident where he beat...

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During Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s trade mission to Israel recently, the state’s Water Council signed two agreements to increase collaboration and establish new partnerships between Wisconsin and Israel. An agreement with the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev seeks to establish the first National Science...

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The international campus organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which promotes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, views that “eliminating the Jewish nation-state is the only way to achieve ‘justice’” a new report released by a Jerusalem based think tank concluded. The roughly 50 page report titled...

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In a ground-breaking interview with a Saudi newspaper, the IDF’s chief-of-staff Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said that both Israel and Saudi Arabia were in agreement that Iran was the greatest threat to the Middle East and that the Islamic Republic was seeking control the region by creating two Shiite crescents, Haaretz reported...

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Researchers on the quest to solve the puzzle of what causes deafness got one small step closer with the announcement that scientists at Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science have mapped a certain type of RNA (a molecule essential to the coding and expression of genes) that...

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An Israeli offer to send aid following a deadly earthquake, which is estimated to have killed more than 500 people, on the Iran-Iraq border has been rejected by Iran, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The offer was made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he spoke by videoconference...

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Children with special needs are often sidelined in life, and especially in sports. The Israeli nonprofit Mifalot: Sport for Education, Development and Peace trains football (soccer) coaches in Israel—and in developing countries, too—how this very popular sport can be a tool to enhance social inclusion and other values. Mifalot’s “Game of Life” program...

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