President Barack Obama should break with American diplomatic practice and use the United Nations Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state, former president Jimmy Carter wrote Tuesday in The New York Times. Carter noted that United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which was passed in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War...

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The Israeli military bombed a facility belonging to an Islamic State-affiliated group in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Monday, a day after it killed four of the group’s fighters in a retaliatory airstrike. Israel Air Force jets hit a former United Nations structure that had served as...

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Israeli officials have reported that the fires that raged in the country’s central and northern regions last week were largely brought under control, and that they are now focusing on determining the source of the blazes and the damage caused. Yoram Levy, the spokesman for Israel’s fire and rescue services,...

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A German bank that caters to companies involved in social issues is closing the account of an anti-Israel group with alleged terror ties, Benjamin Weinthal reported Saturday for The Jerusalem Post. The Bank für Sozialwirtschaft (Bank for Social Economy) informed Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East that it...

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Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world’s largest generic medicines producer, and Israeli startup Syqe Medical have signed a distribution and cooperation agreement to market medical cannabis for pain management with Syqe’s revolutionary selective-dose pharmaceutical-grade medicinal plants inhaler in Israel. Inhalation is considered the most efficient way of administering medical marijuana...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week hailed the 39th anniversary of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Israel, contrasting it with the intransigence displayed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas “refuses to come to direct negotiations without preconditions, is also continuing to incite his people regarding the idea...

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Huge Wildfires Bring Out Best in Israel’s Friends, Worst in Enemies Wildfires that have threatened large portions of Israel continued to burn but were largely under control by Saturday. The more than 60,000 residents of Haifa, Israel’s third largest city, who had been evacuated from their homes were cleared to return to...

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As 2.4 billion people face severe water shortages in the world, desalination and water-purification technologies are in hot demand – many of them invented in Israel, a global leader in desalination. The most common method of reverse osmosis using membranes is costly, energy-intensive, high-maintenance, and environmentally problematic. It is best...

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As Israel struggled to put out the hundreds wildfires that rampaged across the country on Thursday, many of which were started by terror arsonists, both domestic and foreign support poured in to help battle the blazes and evacuate residents. At the same time, expressions of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate spread across the internet....

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Israeli authorities are investigating the origin of what they believe is a wave of arson attacks across the country as firefighters work to bring several fires under control, including a massive series of blazes in the port city of Haifa, where at least 75,000 people have been evacuated. Israel police...

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