On a state visit to Israel last week for the first time in his nation’s history, the president of the Muslim-majority West African nation of Sierra Leone expressed his gratitude to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin for the Jewish state’s assistance in fighting the Ebola virus. “I must use this...

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The Green Line has returned with a vengeance. Decades of efforts to erase it have come to naught. If United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, Secretary of State John Kerry’s subsequent speech, and Sunday’s Paris peace conference have proven anything, is that the Green Line has struck back. That’s a...

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Israeli security forces arrested 17 terror suspects across the West Bank overnight Sunday, including 13 alleged members of Hamas, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Five of the suspects are wanted for their involvement in “popular terror” and attacks against both Israeli soldiers and civilians. Popular terror typically refers to rock throwing...

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Israeli software is being used by agricultural giant Monsanto and others to identify the plant traits that produce higher-yielding crops, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. NRGene, an Israeli firm that developed the genomic big-data technology, is working with Monsanto and Syngenta, a Swiss seeds and pesticides group, to identify traits that can...

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A regional court in the German city of Wuppertal upheld a lower court’s ruling that a 2014 firebombing of a synagogue was not an anti-Semitic incident, but a way to criticize Israeli policies, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Three German Palestinians were convicted in 2015 of...

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Syria’s army has accused Israel of conducting an overnight strike on a military airport near the capital Damascus, threatening repercussions. Syrian army command claimed that the Mezzeh military airport west of Damascus was struck by rockets fired from near Lake Kinneret in northern Israel just after midnight. A statement by...

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Interest in Israeli children’s snacking habits, particularly peanut butter-flavored Bamba puffs, skyrocketed over the weekend as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. issued a new clinical guideline that calls on parents to feed infants peanut-laden foods in order to prevent peanut allergies in the future. The new Addendum Guidelines...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, the first holder of his office to visit Israel, to Jerusalem on Thursday. I am pleased to be the first Jamaican Prime Minister to visit Israel. There are numerous opportunities for cooperation between us. pic.twitter.com/clQqLEL0F3 — Andrew Holness (@AndrewHolnessJM)...

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A United States district court ruled Tuesday that Iran and Syria must pay $178 million in damages to the family of a three-month-old baby who was killed in an October 2014 terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Chaya Zissel Braun, who held both American and Israeli citizenship, was killed when Abd al-Rahman al-Shaloudi,...

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BrighTap, an Israeli-made smart water meter sensor that monitors water quality and consumption, recently took first place in the 2016 Startup Open competition, run by the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN). BrighTap, a product made by BwareIT, is an Internet-of-things (IOT) meter that can be attached to any standard water tap,...

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