United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said Iranian-backed militias that are fighting alongside the Iraqi army should “go home” in an attempt to curb the Islamic Republic’s growing influence in Iraq, CNN reported Monday. “Those militias need to go home,” Tillerson stated during a press conference with Saudi Arabia’s...

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Three gold medals, two silver and three bronze medals were brought home to Israel by young Paralympic hopefuls on Israel’s first team to compete in the European Para Youth Games held in Liguria, Italy, October 9-15. Some 600 teenage athletes from 24 European countries participated in the Paralympic-style competitions in 11 sports:...

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The praise offered by both Israel and Saudi Arabia to President Donald Trump for his speech on October 13 outlining a new United States policy towards Iran, Agence France-Presse reported Friday, is the latest outward sign that “shared concerns over Iran are indeed nudging” Israel and much of the Arab world closer together....

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Israel struck military targets in Quneitra, Syria, after the Israeli Golan came under fire on Wednesday. Missile alert sirens sounded in Israel as spillover fire from Syria’s civil war landed in an uninhabited area of the Northern Golan Heights. A statement by the IDF Spokesperson’s Office yesterday said, “The IDF...

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Last week, Herzliya and Waltham, Massachusetts-based Infinidat announced it had closed a $95 million Series C financing round, led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing with participation from existing investor TPG Growth. Infinidat specializes in perabytes — a million gigabytes. Perabytes may not be coming to a PC near you...

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In a statement released on Thursday, Jason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, explicitly stated that Hamas must abide by the Quartet principles as part of any Palestinian unity government. “The United States reiterates the importance of adherence to the Quartet principles: any Palestinian government must unambiguously...

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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and South Korea’s Hankuk Carbon have announced the launch of a joint venture to produce unmanned drones, capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The announcement of the joint venture, which will be called Korea Aviation Technologies(KAT), was made at the...

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Iran’s military chief of staff said on Wednesday that Israeli attacks on Syria are “not acceptable,” in a visit to Damascus. General Mohammad Bagheri, who was in Damascus to discuss further military cooperation with the Assad regime, said “It is not acceptable for the Zionist regime to violate Syria any...

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Stella Handler, the CEO of Israeli telecommunication company, Bezeq, slammed on Monday a United Nations blacklist of Israeli companies as “anti-Israel propaganda”  in a Facebook post, Haaretz reported. Handler was criticizing a letter Bezeq had received from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that said that her company was subject...

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Israel’s security cabinet announced on Tuesday that Israel will not deal with joint Fatah-Hamas Palestinian government unless Hamas gives up terror and accepts Israel’s right to exist. Israel’s demands are that Hamas, now a partner in the Palestinian government, accept the internationally endorsed Quartet principles for Israeli-Palestinian peace including a...

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