A Palestinian terrorist with multiple murder convictions has been elected as Hamas’ new political leader in the Gaza Strip, an official for the Islamist group confirmed on Monday. Yehya Sinwar, in his mid 50s, is known as an influential and unpredictable hardliner who rejects any reconciliation with Israel. He helped...

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Qatar’s representative in Gaza said last week that he had “excellent” relations with a number of Israeli officials, and also indicated that the Palestinian Authority was standing in the way of solutions to the power shortages and other problems in the Hamas-run coastal enclave. “I am in contact with senior Israeli...

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The Telos Group is an American nonprofit organization that claims to help advance a “pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian, and pro-peace” agenda. While its “pro/pro/pro” slogan is appealing, Telos’s past and current work reveals a different agenda altogether. In 2014, an exposé by the watchdog organization CAMERA showed that Telos was using its...

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Israel’s Borders Heat Up Towns on Israel’s northern and southern borders came under attack this week. On Monday, three rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel, leading the Israel Defense Forces to strike three Hamas targets in in response, including a naval base. It still isn’t clear who fired the rockets...

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Israel is changing. Usually deployed with a sigh, this observation has risen to the level of an axiom in recent years as a sad requiem for a golden age that ceased to exist decades ago. This axiom was both proven true and turned on its head on the night of...

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The founder of two Israel-oriented exchange-traded funds (ETFs) argued that “cutting-edge” Israeli companies that are “leading the world in some of the most transformative technologies” remain “underowned and underdiscovered,” in an interview Thursday. Steven Schoenfeld, founder of Blue Star Indexes and creator of BIGI and BIGITech stock indexes, told ETF.com that contrary to...

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Robert Kraft, owner of the Super Bowl champions New England Patriots, has announced that he will donate $6 million to build Israel’s first regulation-sized American football stadium. Reports cite that the new stadium will already open later this year. It will service the 1,350 active football players in Israel. “This...

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Air India is in the process of inaugurating a new Mumbai-Tel Aviv route, which is expected to be announced during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Israel, The Times of India reported Thursday. The flight will take a circuitous route to avoid flying over countries that do not have relations...

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Clinical trials of a revolutionary Israeli device have shown that the device cut the need for repeat surgeries by 50 percent for women who undergo lumpectomies, a procedure to remove breast tumors, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. MarginProbe, made by Israel-based Dune Medical Devices, allows a surgeon to examine cancerous tissue removed from...

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An ISIS affiliate based in the Sinai Peninsula has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s rocket attacks against Eilat and threatened to launch more in the future, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Sinai Province, which has an estimated 800 to 1,000 members, said in a statement online, “A military squad fired a number...

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