The Israel Defense Forces held a large-scale drill near the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, improving preparedness for possible cross-border terrorist attacks from the coastal enclave. The drill, which was led by the military’s Gaza division and included the evacuation of an Israeli school near the Gaza border, tested how the army would respond to terrorist infiltrators...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday harshly criticized the election of a convicted murderer and terrorist to a key committee of Fatah, the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party. Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his role orchestrating murders during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. He...

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In a wide-ranging interview conducted via videoconference for the 2016 Saban Forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised his country’s relationship with the United States, reiterated his continued concerns about Iran’s destabilizing behavior, and expressed frustration that Palestinian leaders have refused to return to the negotiating table. The state of...

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A solar electricity generator and storage batteries are providing constant electricity for the first time to Nkaiti Medical Center in Minjingu, a village of about 7,000 subsistence farmers and cattle ranchers in Tanzania—thanks to the Tel Aviv University chapter of Engineers without Borders. Since Minjingu is not connected to the...

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Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey handed his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday, becoming Jerusalem’s first ambassador in Ankara after six years of frosty relations. Eitan Na’eh and his family were greeted by Erdoğan during a brief ceremony in the presidential palace, shortly after a military band...

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Foreign ministers and other high-level representatives from 13 Western African nations are attending an Israeli agricultural summit that began Monday, the latest sign of improving Israeli-African diplomatic relationships. The conference, which is called “Enhancing Sustainable Agricultural Productivity in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions,” is sponsored by Mashav, Israel’s international development agency, and the...

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Four Palestinian men were found dead in a collapsed smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, local authorities said on Sunday, blaming the Egyptian military for flooding the pathway. The four men “were found dead after the tunnel they were working in was flooded nine days ago...

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Mideast Envoys Think Jimmy Carter’s Peace Proposal is Nuts After publishing an op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday calling on President Barack Obama to recognize Palestinian statehood and support efforts in the United Nations Security Council to set parameters for a peace agreement, former President Jimmy Carter was the...

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George Mitchell, the former Democratic Senate Majority Leader who served as President Obama’s Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, said in an interview Thursday that he disagreed with President Jimmy Carter’s New York Times op-ed published earlier this week, which suggested that Obama impose terms of an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord through...

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Israel and the European Union are in advanced talks over convening a bilateral ministerial forum in 2017 for the first time since 2012, according to a senior EU official. Speaking to the Times of Israel, Nicholas Westcott, the director of the EU External Action Service’s North Africa and Middle East department,...

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