Nevada on Friday became the 20th state to adopt legislation prohibiting state entities from contracting with companies that boycott Israel. A day after Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill 26 into law, the Kansas state senate passed similar legislation by a three to one margin. Christians United for Israel, which...

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Next Year in Jerusalem? President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a waiver delaying for six months any plan to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. While the Jerusalem Embassy Act requiring the relocation was overwhelmingly passed by both houses of Congress in 1995, all three of Trump’s predecessors have availed themselves of a...

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Israel’s Finance Minister met the Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister in Ramallah on Wednesday to discuss how to advance economic cooperation. Moshe Kahlon met Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to discuss ways to implement the economic development plans in the West Bank that were approved by the Israeli security cabinet ahead...

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Israel’s ambassador was elected on Wednesday to serve as vice president of the United Nations’ General Assembly, a year after being elected to head a permanent committee at the UN for the first time. Ambassador Danny Danon will serve as vice president of the General Assembly when the UN convenes its next session...

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Lebanese authorities banned the critically-acclaimed movie “Wonder Woman” on Wednesday, hours before it was set to premier in Beirut, on account of its Israeli star Gal Gadot. Grand Cinema, a chain that had planned to screen the movie in theaters across the country, cancelled the opening and began removing promotional material following the...

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One of the most effective Iraqi Shiite militias has captured a town on the Syria border, drawing Iran’s “Shiite crescent” closer to Israel, Seth Frantzman reported for The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. The Badr Brigade has reached the Iraqi village of Um Jaris, meaning that “forces that are close to Tehran pose...

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The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is “now more militarily powerful than most North Atlantic Treaty Organization members,” a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Hezbollah is now “10 times as strong now as it was in 2006, and its...

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Trump Shows No Daylight With Israel President Donald Trump began his historic visit to Israel last week by underscoring the “unbreakable bond” between the United States and the Jewish state. Much of what he did and said during his two-day trip showed that, unlike his predecessor, he does not look to create daylight...

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In June 2013, 250 Israeli smart-transportation visionaries flocked to the inaugural EcoMotion “unconference” to share their crazy fantasies about the future of moving people from one place to another. Only four years later, leaders of the global automotive and transportation industry were among 1,500 participants at the fifth annual EcoMotion...

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Israel was just announced as the host of the World Lacrosse Championship in July 2018, to take place at Netanya Stadium. The sport’s premier competition is expected to draw athletes from 50 countries and more than 5,000 fans from all over the world. Israel’s national lacrosse team took second place...

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