The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a harsh statement on Friday criticizing the United Nations Security Council’s vote in favor of a resolution condemning Israeli activity in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the UN and will not abide by...

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The recent United Nations Security Council resolution that condemns Israeli settlement activity will create “a tailwind for violence and terror,” Yair Lapid, the former Finance Minister who now leads one of Israel’s biggest opposition parties, told reporters Friday. The resolution passed 14-0 with the United States abstaining. U.S. Ambassador to...

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Passing a proposed resolution on Israeli settlements at the United Nations Security Council would “vastly magnify” the obstacles to Israeli-Palestinian peace, a leading legal expert wrote in The Washington Post Thursday. “The proposed resolution denounces any Jewish presence in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank as illegal and demands that Israel immediately choke off...

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Israel’s internal security agency announced Thursday that it had broken up a 20-member Hamas cell that was planning to carry out suicide bombings and shooting attacks in Jerusalem, Haifa, and other major cities. The West Bank-based cell, which was located in Nablus, was in a state of “high readiness to...

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Palestinians, pushing their claims for statehood, have regularly denied the Jewish historical connections to Israel. In fact, the 20th article of the Palestinian National Charter states, “Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history.” Following this counterfactual ideology, the United Nations’...

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After years of carrying 26-pound batteries on their backs to power blood-warming equipment for injured soldiers, two Israel Defense Forces paramedics independently vowed to invent a better solution. They happened to meet eight years ago and began collaborating on a way to efficiently warm blood and IV fluids, according to Ariel Katz,...

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Israeli tech companies have raised over $4.6 billion in 2016, breaking last year’s record of $4.43 billion, the Israeli financial website Globes reported Tuesday. According to the Israeli High-Tech and Venture Capital Database, tech firms attracted $4 billion in financing during the first three quarters of 2016, an increase of 27 percent...

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The United Nations Security Council has postponed a vote on an anti-Israel resolution that was set to take place on Thursday afternoon, The Times of Israel reported. Egypt, which introduced the resolution, requested the delay following “high level” contacts with Israel. No alternate date and time for the vote has been announced, with one...

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The New York Times has a feature called “The Stone” which is supposed to be “a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless.” Its latest installment bashes Zionism. Philosophically, of course. Omri Boehm, an assistant professor of philosophy at the New School for Social...

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Israel’s Yoav Omer on Monday won gold in the boys’ RS:X race of the Youth Sailing World Championships, held in Auckland, New Zealand. Omer secured a huge lead in the RS:X world title race in the first days of the contest, ultimately winning nine of the 13 races sailed. The Israeli...

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