The passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution last week denouncing Israeli presence beyond the 1949 armistice lines will make Middle East peace “ever more remote,” former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren wrote Wednesday in Newsweek. Oren, currently a member of Knesset and deputy minister for Israeli diplomacy,...
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It won’t be an ordinary anniversary party when Jerusalem-based OurCrowd showcases its startups to an expected 5,000 members of the global tech investment community in February. Launched in early 2013, OurCrowd’s equity crowdfunding platform enables accredited investors to put money into vetted startups, mostly Israeli, in which OurCrowd also has a...
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In a more than hour-long speech Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out six “principles” for what he believed a just and successful two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian question would look like. In doing so, he also pledged that while other countries might support a unilateral move toward Palestinian statehood at...
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Israel’s Shin Bet security agency announced on Tuesday that it had arrested several Arab citizens who were part of a cell plotting to attack Israeli soldiers in the southern Negev region. Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman said that his agency had thwarted more than 400 “significant” attacks on Israelis during...
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In a surprising rebuke, the House of Representatives’ second-leading Democrat publicly and preemptively criticized Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, stating that Kerry’s scheduled speech on Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations should not break with the longstanding U.S. policy that terms for an agreement can only come through bilateral negotiations. The statement by House Minority Whip...
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An Egyptian newspaper has published what it says are transcripts of meetings between senior members of the Obama administration and top officials of the Palestinian Authority, in which the parties planned out the introduction of last week’s anti-Israel United Nations Security Council resolution. According to the transcript, which was first...
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The year 2016 brought three major milestones for CartiHeal, the Israeli biomed company behind the cartilage and bone regeneration device Agili-C: a $15 million investment led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation; European Union CE approval of Agili-C for cartilage regeneration; and now an investigational device exemption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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Israel should take pride in the fact that it guarantees full religious freedom for all its citizens, Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, said Tuesday at a meeting in Jerusalem between Israeli Christian leaders and President Reuven Rivlin. “We take this opportunity of this holiday gatherings to express our gratitude...
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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal warned on Sunday that the Gaza-based terrorist group is continuing to build up its arsenal and develop its tunnel infrastructure in preparation for another war against Israel. “The resistance in Gaza is smuggling weapons and digging tunnels in Gaza to prepare for a confrontation with [Israel], which...
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The Palestinian Authority’s ruling political party posted a picture on its official Facebook page on Saturday depicting an Israel-shaped knife dripping in blood to celebrate the passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel. Did #Fatah thank 14 countries for granting it permission to kill #Israelis? #UNSC2334 https://t.co/FMmIpTeAMy pic.twitter.com/feUTLkrro9...
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