Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “internalized” his warning that Iran must not be allowed to fill any vacuum left by the Islamic State in Syria. “One of the things that we are fighting against together is radical Islamic terrorism,” Netanyahu said before meeting with the...

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The lower house of Switzerland’s legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that would force the government to stop funding organizations that promote boycotts of Israel, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. The measure, which was introduced at the National Council by Christian Imark, a deputy from the conservative Swiss People’s...

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Showing great defense, turning three double plays, and making two outfield assists, Team Israel held on to beat Team Netherlands 4 – 2 and go undefeated in the first round of the World Baseball Classic in Seoul, shocking the baseball world. Though both teams advanced to the second round on...

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An Israeli attorney filed a petition on Monday to charge former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh with war crimes at the International Criminal Court, accusing him of overseeing the use of human shields during the 2014 Gaza war. Calev Michael Myers filed the petition on behalf of the Israel-Li (Israel to Me) organization,...

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The New York Power Authority (NYPA), the state’s largest public power organization, and the Israeli company mPrest, which creates monitoring software, announced that they will jointly deploy a groundbreaking predictive analytics application, which will enhance the reliability and cost-effectiveness of NYPA’s critical assets network. mPrest’s Asset Health Management application monitors the...

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Israel has an “absolute right” to live in security and free from terrorism, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Wednesday in remarks before a meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Johnson reaffirmed that Prime Minister Theresa May and the rest of the British government are “rock-like supporters...

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Automotive industry executives who are looking at the future of automobiles “should look beyond the traditional industry hubs in Detroit, Frankfurt, and Tokyo to a place that might appear to be an unlikely location: Israel,” a think tank expert wrote in Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. Avi Jorisch, a senior fellow at the...

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Top Arab Israeli politicians have given their backing to a nationwide volunteer program for recent Arab Israeli high school graduates — an age when most Jewish and Druze Israeli youth are drafted into the Israeli military. The leader of the Arab Joint List faction, MK Ayman Odeh, and fellow Joint List lawmakers Masud...

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Team Israel’s improbable run in the World Baseball Classic will extend to Tokyo next week after the Netherlands’ walk-off 6-5 victory over Chinese Taipei clinched Israel’s place in the next round. https://twitter.com/Josh_Zeid14/status/839022592698671105 Chinese Taipei and host South Korea are both 0-2, meaning that the undefeated Israeli and Dutch teams have...

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Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered yet another fantastic find from the past: a 2,000-year-old road dating to the Roman period. The preserved road, stretching up to six meters (20 feet) wide and continuing for a distance of approximately 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles), was revealed during an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation...

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