Hamas released a Hebrew-language animated music video on Tuesday night titled “Zionists, You Will Perish in Gaza,” which threatens to destroy Israel. The video features a barrage of rockets raining down on the Jewish state, Hamas militants blowing themselves up near Israeli soldiers, and Jews being shot in the head. The Jewish...

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Motorsports fans in Israel are getting excited about reports of the country’s first full-size auto racing track coming down the road in several months in the southern city of Arad. While there is a 1.5-kilometer Formula 3 racetrack in the north, and an annual Formula 1 race has gone through...

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Iron Dome batteries intercepted at least three rockets headed towards Eilat from the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, the Israel Defense Forces announced Wednesday. At least one other rocket was not intercepted and landed in a vacant field, the IDF said. No injuries were reported as a result of the rockets,...

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Hamas confirmed on Wednesday that it has rejected an Israeli offer to help improve the economic situation in the Gaza Strip in exchange for releasing three Israeli hostages and the bodies of two soldiers it is holding, Avi Issacharoff reported in The Times of Israel. Senior Hamas officials acknowledged that Israel...

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President Donald Trump should sign a new free trade agreement with Israel and extend the Visa Waiver Program to cover Israelis, the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama wrote on Tuesday. Daniel Shapiro, who co-authored the analysis with his senior advisor Scott Lasensky, credited Obama with making progress on...

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Turkish Tourism Minister Nabi Avci arrived in Israel on Tuesday as part of the first high-level visit since last year’s reconciliation agreement between Jerusalem and Ankara. Avci joined representatives from 57 other countries, including 15 foreign ministers, at the International Mediterranean Tourism Market 2017 expo in Tel Aviv. “The bilateral relations...

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New figures released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday showed that Israel devoted more of its GDP to research and development than any other country in 2015. R&D spending, % GDP: China spending almost = OECD avg, while Israel narrowly reclaims “top spot” See https://t.co/p2Wpc1c5q4 (PDF)...

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The Israel Defense Forces is preparing for a possible Hezbollah incursion using marines and other naval commandos in the country’s north, Ynet reported Monday. A group of commandos could try to infiltrate north of Nahariya while protected by mortar and anti-tank fire from Lebanon, the IDF believes. It also believes that Hezbollah will attempt to...

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The reported death of a Hamas rocket engineer in a work accident on Monday is the latest indication that the Palestinian terrorist group is readying for another round of violence against Israel, Palestinian affairs correspondent Yoni Ben Menachem wrote in an analysis for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Mohammad Walid al-Koka, a...

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The Israel Defense Forces hit three Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday afternoon, hours after a rocket fired from Gaza struck an open field just over the Israel-Gaza border. No injuries or damages were reported due to the Palestinian strike, which landed south of the Israeli city of Ashkelon. IDF...

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