Belgium is turning to Israel for advice as the country looks to improve the security procedures at Brussels Airport, where 16 people were killed in March after an ISIS-inspired suicide bombing. Belgian authorities are looking at the security measures employed at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel in order to learn...

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A Royal Navy warship arrived Tuesday in the northern Israeli port of Haifa, following joint sea exercises with Israeli counterparts. The HMS Bulwark is part of the Royal Navy’s Joint Expeditionary Force (Maritime) Task Group and has been patrolling the eastern Mediterranean for several months. The visit to Haifa comes just...

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Egyptian-Israeli relations are at their “highest level in history,” regional analysts told the Qatari-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera on Monday, with Cairo and Jerusalem having forged a “full partnership and unbreakable alliance.” The two countries share mutual defense concerns, particularly the extensive coordination between Hamas and Sinai Province, an ISIS affiliate...

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Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols and his wife Deidre were in Jerusalem this week to visit the new Shalva National Children’s Center — the largest center of its kind in the world. Shalva-Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities is renowned for providing state-of-the-art...

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Iran is smuggling weapons to the terrorist group Hezbollah inside commercial flights to Lebanon, the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations has charged in a letter to the UN Security Council. Such actions would violate several Security Council resolutions. Citing reports from Israel’s intelligence agencies, Ambassador Danny Danon wrote that “the Iranian Al-Quds...

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Israel’s unemployment rate dropped to 4.5 percent in October, setting a record for the country’s lowest recorded rate, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced Monday. The drop in the unemployment rate followed a rise to five percent in September. The number of Israelis working full-time—meaning more than 35 hours a week—rose by...

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The restaurant of a popular chef in Portugal was vandalized by anti-Israel activists while he was participating in a culinary festival in Israel, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Saturday. Cantinho do Avillez, José Avillez’s restaurant in Porto, was splattered with red paint Friday night while Avillez was in Tel Aviv. The...

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In a historic first, an Ethiopian-Israeli has been nominated to be chief medical officer for the Israel Defense Forces’ Southern Command, putting him on track to be the first Israeli of Ethiopian heritage to hold the rank of colonel. Lt. Col. Dr. Avraham Yitzhak was nominated by by IDF Chief of...

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The Israeli army is bolstering the country’s northern defenses in anticipation of future attacks from the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, Haaretz reported Sunday. The Israel Defense Forces changed its doctrine towards the terror group following threats by its leader Hassan Nasrallah, who claimed that Hezbollah sought to “enter into Galilee and …go even beyond the...

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Twenty mayors from around the world who are on a visit to Israel have denounced recent resolutions by UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, which denied the Jewish historical connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The 20 mayors are visiting Israel this week as part of the 31st...

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