Three top administration officials are headed to the Middle East to consult with Israel, the Palestinians and other Arab states in efforts to restart negotiations with no preconditions, a U.S. official announced Friday. Presidential adviser Jared Kushner, who is also President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason...

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Hezbollah General-Secretary Hassan Nasrallah has warned that Hezbollah is 100 times more powerful now, compared to its position at the end of the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Nasrallah delivered the speech to Hezbollah officials from a hidden bunker to the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon to mark the...

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Australia’s Aristocrat Leisure has acquired Israeli mobile- and browser-based games publisher Plarium Global for $500 million in cash, it was announced Thursday. Plarium’s product line includes the top-grossing “Vikings: War of Clans.” The company has more than 250 million registered users across 150 countries. Founded in 2009 in Herzliya, Plarium...

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At the Herzliya Conference in June, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed his support for the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, and added: But to work, we must break with some of the ‘theology’ of peacemaking which has become hallowed doctrine over the past 25 years. Blair, who also served as...

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A Democratic Party activist argued that the bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott Act currently being considered by the United States Senate, “should hardly be controversial” because it “simply extends existing U.S. law” against foreign boycotts of Israel, in an analysis published Thursday in the Huffington Post. Steven Sheffey, a blogger for the National Jewish...

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Bloomberg reported Thursday that natural gas could be shipped from Israel to Egypt, via Jordan, in a deal being negotiated between Egyptian energy giant Dolphinius Holdings, Israel’s Delek, and US company Noble Energy. Alla Arafa, co-founder of Dolpinius Holdings, told Bloomberg, “There is great potential for the Mediterranean to be a...

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This July was a month full of depressing news regarding diplomacy among Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. And yet, far from the headlines, cooperation across these populations was thriving at the Galilee International Management Institute (GIMI) in Nahalal, a city in northern Israel. During July alone, GIMI gave a...

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While saying that she marched for many of the stated goals of January’s Women’s March, a former Clinton adviser wrote that “I did not march to show support for hateful, divisive language” that has since been used in the march’s name, in an op-ed published Wednesday in the Washington Jewish...

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry has received thousands of messages from Iraq in support of Israel in the wake of the Temple Mount crisis triggered by a terrorist attack, with Iraqis saying they “recognize the State of Israel” and reject Palestinian terrorism. Reactions include criticism of “the hypocrisy of the Arab peoples,”...

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The IDF has revealed the extent of the new concrete barrier currently being built around the Gaza Strip. The 3 billion shekel ($836 million) concrete barrier aims to eliminate the existing tunnel threat posed by Hamas, as well as any future tunnels that reach into Israel. It will include sensors...

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