Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on all nations to move their embassies to Jerusalem, “the eternal capital of the Israeli people”, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Speaking at a Likud party event ahead of President Donald Trump’s scheduled visit to Israel later this month, Netanyahu said that Jerusalem is the...

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The Secretary General of Hezbollah has claimed that a future confrontation between the Lebanon-based terror group and Israel could take place within Israeli territory. Hassan Nasrallah said, “Israel has been threatening for ten years to open a front against Hezbollah, but it hasn’t done anything. Israel is afraid of any...

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Incoming tourism to Israel tallied up impressive numbers in April 2017, with 349,000 tourist entries recorded — a 38 percent increase over April 2016. In the first four months of this year, 1.09 million tourist entries were recorded – a 28 percent increase on the same period last year. “When there...

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A Galilee-based organization, founded by a former Israeli air force pilot brings Israeli Jewish and Arab youth together by teaching them technical skill, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The organization called Moona, was founded by Asaf Brimer, who retired from the air force in 2008. Brimer’s vision is to...

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Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected charges that it described as “baseless slander,” made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that it was Judaizing Jerusalem in a “racist and discriminatory” way, in a statement released Tuesday. Erdogan had vowed that his government would work with the Palestinian Authority to end...

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Hamas will engage in “resistance” in order “to liberate the rest of Palestine and the territories of 1948” with “no negotiations,” a co-founder of the terrorist group Hamas asserted, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Mahmoud al-Zahar, still a top official of Hamas, made his comments at a press conference...

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May is National Cancer Research Month in the United States. But cancer doesn’t care who you are or where you live, so every research breakthrough is vital to the global community of cancer patients and their families. And Israel is renowned for its many studies and scientific breakthroughs that have...

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The council of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the world’s governing body of soccer, has deferred, for now, taking action on a Palestinian resolution that would penalize Israel for having teams in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Tuesday. Since 2015, the Palestinians have been pressuring FIFA to take...

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The Archbishop of Canterbury met the President of Israel yesterday as part of his 12-day visit to the region. The meeting between President Reuven Rivlin and The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby was also attended by Anglican Archbishop of Jerusalem, The Most Reverend Suheil Dawani, and the UK...

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Palestinian leaders are responsible for a lack of effective leadership and culture of corruption resulting in an endless cycle of violence and suffering, a leading Palestinian human rights activist has warned. Bassem Eid, the founder and former director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, wrote Monday in an op-ed...

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