Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a bill into law on Tuesday that prohibits state agencies from contracting with businesses or individuals who boycott Israel. The law, which was overwhelmingly passed by the state’s legislature earlier this month, requires any company that seeks to conduct business with the state to assert in its contracts that...

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Israel may bring wounded refugees from the Syrian city of Aleppo to Israeli hospitals for treatment, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday. “We’re prepared to take in wounded women and children, and also men if they are not combatants … bring them to Israel, take care of them in our hospitals, as...

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In Sierra Leone, people are dying of kidney disease due to a lack of available treatment. But as of this month, kidney patients in Freetown can finally access the country’s first dialysis unit – thanks to the Israeli government. Paul Hirschson, Israeli ambassador to Senegal and non-resident ambassador to Guinea-Bissau,...

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Private initiatives by ordinary Israelis continue to gather much needed clothing and medical aid for the Syrian people. A crowdfunding campaign to bring emergency supplies to embattled Syrians is also ongoing and has already raised over $258,000 in five days. The recent charity drives by Israelis for their Syrian neighbors...

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Two Israeli women of Ethiopian descent were sworn in as judges by President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday, marking a first in the country’s history. Esther Tapeta Gardi will serve on the Haifa District’s Traffic Court while Adenko Sabhat-Haimovich will sit on the Magistrates’ Court. The ground-breaking appointments of the two attorneys were announced by the Judicial...

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A 2,000-year-old bronze coin depicting King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Greek tyrant under whose reign the Maccabean Revolt took place, was recently found at the Tower of David in Jerusalem, the museum announced in a statement on Tuesday. The treasure was discovered during routine maintenance work, surprising archaeologists who believed that the historic...

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An Israel-Arab member of Knesset turned himself in for questioning over accusations that he smuggled cellphones and intelligence information to convicted Palestinian terrorists, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Basel Ghattas, an MK from Balad, one of the parties in the Joint (Arab) List faction, presented himself to police in Lod to...

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The Israel Defense Forces shut down “the biggest weapons factory ever discovered in the West Bank” during an overnight raid in Hebron on Sunday, Ynet News reported. Troops recovered 15 gun-making lathes, dozens of homemade Carl Gustav-style rifles, Russian 7.62 sniper rifles, M-16 rifle parts with assembly instructions, and large quantities of ammunition in the...

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The rectors of 20 Latin American universities signed agreements with Israel’s Hebrew University at a groundbreaking conference last week, the latest indication of increased academic cooperation with Israeli institutions, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Sunday. University heads from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay,...

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Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged his organization’s bias against Israel on Friday, saying the “disproportionate” fixation ultimately also hurts the Palestinians. “Over the last decade I have argued that we cannot have a bias against Israel at the UN,” Ban said in an address to the UN Security Council. “Decades...

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