UNRWA, the United Nations agency providing aid to Palestinian refugees, announced Sunday that it had suspended an employee who was accused of being named to a leadership post in the terrorist organization Hamas. Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) charged that Suhail al-Hindi a principal at a UNRWA-run school, was...

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Bibi’s Diplomacy Down Under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warmly received as he visited South Asian allies this week. In Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong noted during their joint meeting on Monday that the two young nations have a long history of friendship: “When we became independent, the IDF helped us...

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Developers of Israel’s Leviathan natural gas field committed on Thursday to investing $3.75 billion in the reservoir, marking a significant blow to efforts to economically attack the Jewish state, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post. The development of the offshore field, which is slated to take three years, is the largest financial investment...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was still airborne on Wednesday morning when Australians opened The Australian over coffee and Tim Tams to read an op-ed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull describing Israel as a “miraculous nation.” The “mateship” between the two leaders was palpable later that day when Netanyahu, the...

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An Israel fighter plane on Thursday shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as it flew from the Gaza Strip to the Mediterranean Sea. The drone was intercepted before it entered Israeli airspace and landed harmlessly in the sea. “The IDF will not allow any violation of [Israel’s] airspace and...

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The Israeli tech company Mobileye will introduce Global RoadBook, its road management data-generation technology, into newly developed BMW models entering the market in 2018. The technology will provide real-time info on traffic density, potential road hazards, weather conditions, on-street parking, and other data. “This agreement to crowdsource real-time data using vehicles...

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Archaeologists have discovered and restored a stone column with Hebrew inscriptions from an 1,800-year-old synagogue in the town of Peki’in in the western Galilee region, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced this week. The column was found as part of the Authority’s work on the ancient synagogue in Peki’in. “The stone was...

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The winning performance at a recent Palestinian youth dancing competition in Nablus called for violence against Israel and featured the lyrics “jihad is needed, pull the trigger,” the watchdog organization Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday. The event took place at the Yafa Cultural Center, which is funded by Germany, Norway, and the European...

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Four new judges were selected by a parliamentary panel on Wednesday to serve on Israel’s 15-member Supreme Court. The most notable selection was George Kara of the Tel Aviv District Court. Kara is a Christian Arab-Israeli who presided over the 2009-10 trial that convicted former Israeli President Moshe Katzav of rape....

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Washington’s envoy to the United Nations met on Wednesday with the parents of a fallen Israeli soldier whose body is being held by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, The Times of Israel reported. Leah and Simha Goldin asked Ambassador Nikki Haley to help pressure Hamas to return the body of their son, Hadar, and that of another Israeli...

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