Iran Extends Its Global Reach This week The Tower reported on numerous signs that Iran is strengthening its position across the Middle East and even the world. Monday’s election of Hezbollah ally Michel Aoun as president of Lebanon was hailed by several senior Iranian officials. “The election of Michel Aoun as president shows new...

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The internationally acclaimed Israeli thriller Hatufim has been adapted for Indian television as a limited run series called POW – Bandi Yuddh Ke (Prisoners of War), Reuters reported Thursday. As with the Israeli original, which was also the basis for the hit American show Homeland, the drama will focus on two soldiers who return home...

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Citibank announced Tuesday that it was not sponsoring the upcoming concert tour of Pink Floyd co-founder and Israel-boycott advocate Roger Waters, adding that the bank had “no plans to work with this artist in the future,” the Algemeiner reported. The banking giant issued the denial in a letter responding to a shareholder concerned about...

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A top official of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has called for its inclusion in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), an umbrella group internationally recognized as the representative of the Palestinians, while stressing the Islamist movement’s continued commitment to attacking Israel, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The PLO is dominated by the...

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In an unconventional beauty pageant in Israel on Sunday, fourteen participants posed for pictures with elegant hairdos, waved their hands at adoring crowds, and spoke of their experience in surviving the atrocities of World War II. The event was the fourth such pageant dedicated to celebrating the life and resilience of Holocaust...

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Israeli researchers may have discovered a new way to treat AIDS with a drug that dramatically reduces the HIV viral load of affected patients, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday, citing Israeli media. The new drug, called Gammora, was injected into test tubes containing the blood of ten HIV carriers, and was...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to become the first holder of his office to visit Australia, Singapore, and Kazakhstan during a series of trips over the next three months, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. He is also slated to visit Azerbaijan, which he toured briefly as prime minister...

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A previously overlooked inscription in an ancient mosque near the city of Hebron has shed light on how, up to the mid-20th century, the Muslim world associated Jerusalem’s Temple Mount with the two Jewish sanctuaries that once stood there — a historical reality that has since been erased from the Palestinian narrative in...

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The denial of the historical Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in last week’s “deplorable” UNESCO resolution is the “opposite of constructive and [deserves] only contempt,” The Boston Globe‘s editors asserted on Tuesday. The Arab-sponsored resolution, which the editors called a “blatant historical fabrication,” had “pointedly ignored Judaism’s connection to the Temple Mount,” even...

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Artifacts including tiny shards of clay and bone from the time of Solomon’s Temple were unearthed for the first time on the Temple Mount, Israeli archaeologists revealed on Thursday. The discoveries, which include “olive pits, animal bones and pottery fragments dating to the time of the First Temple, between the 8th...

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