Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the president of Kazakhstan for his friendship while visiting the Muslim-majority country on Wednesday, and enlisted his help with securing Israel a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Speaking at a joint press conference at President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s residence in Akorda, Netanyahu said that relations between the two nations serve...

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The ISIS-affiliate terrorist group in Egypt has announced that its liaison to Hamas in the neighboring Gaza Strip has been killed. ISIS’s Sinai Province released a statement confirming the death of Hashem Abdel Aileh Kishtah, although it did not specify how he had died. It is thought that Kishtah, who...

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Amazon’s founder and chief executive secretly visited Israel as the online retailer moved forward with plans to expand its presence there, Haaretz reported Tuesday, citing Israeli media. While in Israel, Jeff Bezos was said to have met with management and employees of Annapurna Labs, based in Yokneam in northern Israel, which Amazon acquired for $360 million in...

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The growing ties between Israel and the Shiite-majority country of Azerbaijan are a praiseworthy example of “Muslims and Jews working together to secure a better future for both of us,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to the Central Asian nation on Tuesday. Netanyahu and Azerbaijani President Ilham...

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Tiny “barcodes” made of synthetic DNA can help determine the suitability of specific anticancer drugs to a specific patient before treatment even begins, according to an Israeli study recently published in Nature Communications. The new diagnostic technology was developed by Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers, led by Assistant Prof. Avi...

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Turkey’s new ambassador to Israel officially presented his credentials to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday, in a culmination of the two countries’ diplomatic reconciliation after a five-year freeze. “This is a new beginning in our bilateral relations and in our joint efforts, in this region in which we have close...

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Israel’s emergency medical service this week hosted doctors, nurses, paramedics and EMTs from around the globe at a conference focusing on mass medical emergencies. “This is not the first time we have held this type of conference and we continue to recognize the importance of spreading our knowledge in responding...

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Two F-35 stealth fighter jets arrived in Israel on Monday, the first of 52 that it has agreed to purchase in the coming years. The planes arrived at the Nevatim Air Force Base in the Negev Desert after a stopover in Italy and a six-hour rain delay. Among the dignitaries...

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The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas celebrated its 29th anniversary last week by parading its heavily-armed fighters next to dozens of children with machine guns, The Sun reported Sunday. “The Gaza-based extremist group proudly showed off ‘the future of Hamas’ – in a worrying echo of ISIS’s ‘cubs of the caliphate,'” the British...

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An Israeli air raid on a depot controlled by the Syrian regime two weeks ago hit a supply of chemical weapons being transferred to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, a spokesperson for a Syrian opposition group said Sunday. Fahed al-Masri of the National Salvation Front told Israel’s Army Radio that...

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