In her speech on Thursday honoring the hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration that called for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,” British Prime Minister Theresa May said that she would “absolutely not” apologize for the document as Palestinians were demanding. Rather, she said, “we are proud...

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Prime Minister Theresa May said that Britain is “proud of our pioneering role in the creation of the state of Israel” at a special dinner in London to commemorate the centenary of the Balfour Declaration. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, attended the dinner on Thursday evening. In her speech,...

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Michel Aoun, who was chosen as president of Lebanon and threatened Israel in his inauguration speech last year, said that if there was another war between Israel and Lebanon, Israel “would not win such a war,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “All the Lebanese are prepared to fight against Israel,”...

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Israeli flavor firm Frutarom announced that it has agreed to acquire the remaining shares of Israeli ingredients and food company Enzymotec. In August, Frutarom purchased 19 percent of Enzymotec’s shares for $42 million. It is paying about $168 million for the rest. Enzymotec will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Frutarom and will...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin sees Iran as a “strategic partner” to Russia which is “not good news for Israel,” a Russian expert told Ben Cohen of The Algemeiner on Wednesday. Discussing the significance of Putin’s trip to Iran and his meetings with top Iranian officials, Anna Borshchevskaya, a fellow at the...

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The Israeli Air Force (IAF) reported to have destroyed a military facility in western Syria Wednesday evening. According to a report on Syrian state television, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) carried out four sorties against the facility outside the town of Al-Qusayr, which is 35 kilometres south of Homs, near...

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Iraq’s parliament in Baghdad voted on Tuesday to criminalize flying the Israeli flag in the country, after accusing Israel and Mossad of orchestrating the Kurdish independence referendum on September 25 to establish, in the words of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a “second Israel” in the Middle East. I24news...

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When they metastasize (leave the primary tumor and spread to other organs), cancer cells must improvise to survive and flourish under harsh conditions such as a shortage of basic nutrients like glucose. One way they do this is by reprogramming their energy-generation system, said Prof. Uri Nir of Bar-Ilan University...

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Israeli leaders have issued solidarity statements following Tuesday’s terrorist attack in New York City in which eight people were killed and many more injured. “To President [Donald] Trump, Governor [Andrew] Cuomo and Mayor [Bill] de Blasio: We stand with our friends in New York and all Americans following yet another...

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Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have vowed to retaliate and rebuild a tunnel into Israel in order to kidnap Israeli citizens after the IDF destroyed a tunnel earlier this week. At least seven Palestinian operatives from Hamas and PIJ were killed and 12 were injured after the IDF uncovered...

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