Three Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, when a Palestinian Authority police officer opened fire on a security checkpoint near Ramallah in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The policeman, identified as 26-year-old Muhammad Turkman, opened fire at the Focus checkpoint with an AK-47 rifle before being fatally shot...

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Lebanon’s newest president, a retired general who is firmly allied with the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah, threatened Israel in his inaugural address in Beirut on Monday, The Times of Israel reported. Michel Aoun secured 83 votes in parliament, comfortably exceeding the majority required to win the presidency in the 128-seat chamber....

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UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, has recently angered the Israeli government by passing two resolutions that were reported to have been “denying,” “nullifying,” “ignoring,” “failing to acknowledge,” and “erasing” Jewish ties to the Temple Mount. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked sarcastically whether UNESCO would next “deny…the connection between peanut...

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The Palestinians’ Extreme Negotiators Two Palestinian peace negotiators were in the spotlight this week, but what was on display was not their compromising natures, but rather their extremism. Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat was quoted by the official Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida earlier this month praising terrorists who are imprisoned by Israel. “The prisoners’...

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Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world’s largest generic medicines producer, and the American computing giant IBM announced on Wednesday that they will expand their global e-Health alliance to “[discover] new treatment options and [improve] chronic disease management,” The Times of Israel reported. Both initiatives will be hosted on IBM’s Watson Health Cloud...

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Mohammad Shtayyeh, a former Palestinian negotiator and current advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, presented a deceitful account of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy over the course of the Obama administration in a New York Times op-ed published on Wednesday. The tone of the op-ed, which calls on the United States to support the French initiative “for...

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The mayor-elect of São Paolo, Brazil, South America’s most populous city, has enlisted the Israeli navigation app Waze to assist in managing traffic for the area’s 20 million residents, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday. Joao Doria, a media mogul who was elected earlier this month and will assume office on...

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The World Economic Forum’s 2016-2017 Global Competitiveness Report shows that Israel is the second-best place for innovation in the world, following Switzerland. The annual report assesses the competitiveness landscape of 138 economies. Israel also ranks high on university-industry collaboration in R&D (3rd), company spending on R&D (3rd), quality of scientific...

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Two eight-year-old Palestinian children who were apprehended with knives near Migdal Oz in the West Bank on Wednesday told authorities that they were sent to carry out a terrorist attack, The Times of Israel reported. “A short while ago forces identified and apprehended two Palestinian children under the age of ten near the community...

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If ISIS or other terror groups expand their operations against Western nations, Europe should look to Israel as “a welcome guide in navigating the difficult moral, legal and tactical terrain ahead,” a Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote Thursday in The Telegraph. Lord David Trimble, the Nobel laureate and former First Minister of...

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