Two civilian security officers and a border policeman were shot dead and another Israeli seriously injured after a shooting attack in Har Adar on Tuesday morning. The border police officer has been identified as First Sergeant Solomon Gavriyah, aged 20. The attack occurred outside Har Adar, a settlement close to...

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Mexico City was badly damaged in the deadly 7.1 magnitude September 19 earthquake, and although aid poured into the city, the hard-hit villages were left to cope alone until volunteers from Israeli humanitarian aid nonprofit IsraAID suddenly turned up. “IsraAID was the first group to offer help to our village,” said a...

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United States President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, will return to Israel on Monday amid Arabic media reports about a new peace plan. A senior White House official said that Greenblatt and his family planned to visit Israel on a private holiday, adding that Greenblatt would...

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The chairman of the German-Israel parliament group on Thursday attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government for meeting primarily with NGOs critical of Israel, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. Green Party MP Volker Beck said that “The balance of the discussion partners speaks not only for a special passion—the so-called...

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An IDF delegation of 50 soldiers from the Home Front Command is departing for Mexico on Wednesday to aid in the earthquake relief efforts, an army spokesperson said. The Times of Israel reported that the IDF personnel will help evaluate the damage in the disaster zone, after a large earthquake...

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A Hezbollah drone was shot down by an Israeli Air Force Patriot missile Tuesday after it entered the demilitarized zone on the Israel-Syria border. The drone, believed to be used for intelligence gathering, was tracked by the IDF after it took off from an airfield in Damascus and flew to...

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The Spanish space and satellite engineering firm IberEspacio announced this week that it delivered the skeleton of the spacecraft the Israeli SpaceIL team is producing in its race to win Google’s Lunar $20 million XPRIZE for the first group to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon without governmental funding. Israel’s SpaceIL was founded...

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The Democrats scored an important victory against hatred and intolerance earlier this month when State Senator Daniel Biss announced that he had dropped his running mate, Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, in his bid for the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor. A week earlier the Evanston Democrat had selected Ramirez-Rosa to run alongside him in the Democratic primary....

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Israel and the United States inaugurated a American military facility on Israeli soil on Monday, which will serve dozens of soldiers operating a missile defense system, located inside the Israeli Air Force’s Mashabim Air Base. Brig. Gen. Tzvika Haimovitch, the commander of Israel’s aerial defense, said the installment was “nothing...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi met on Monday night in New York ahead of the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu’s office said the 90 minute meeting included a discussion about a range of regional issues and that al-Sissi expressed his desire to support Israeli-Palestinian regional peace...

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