The campaign led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others against state laws combatting boycotts of Israel is marked by “misinformation and bad legal analysis,” George Mason University Law School Prof. David Bernstein wrote at the Reason website Sunday. In the first of two posts on the topic, Bernstein...

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The Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, which exercises complete political and military control over Lebanon, appears to have threatened to attack Israeli passenger flights and popular tourist destinations in the Jewish State in a video circulated on social media, JNS reported Thursday. The video marked the anniversary of the death of...

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The Kingdom of Bahrain will “eventually” establish diplomatic ties with the Jewish State, the country’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said Thursday in an exclusive interview with The Times of Israel. Asked on the sidelines of the Middle East conference in Warsaw, Khalifa responded affirmatively when questioned if...

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry’s Persian account won a Twitter contest sponsored by a satirical Iranian account, Calcalist reported Wednesday. The Iranian account, @tanasoli, which has 115,000 followers, sponsored a contest looking for followers to nominate “the most absurd or foolish” statements made by the regime over the past 40 years. The...

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The Islamist terrorist group Hamas, which exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, may initiate an all-out confrontation with Israel in the near future to coax the international community into sending aid to the poverty-stricken enclave, an Israeli security report said on Wednesday. The Times of Israel...

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Venezuela’s interim leader, Juan Guaido, said he’s working to restore ties with Israel a decade after the country severed relations with the Jewish State in solidarity with the Palestinians, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In an exclusive interview with Israel Hayom newspaper, Guaido said: “I am very happy to report that the...

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El Al Israel Airlines said on Tuesday that it was continuing to expand into North America and will be launching once weekly nonstop flights between Tel Aviv and Orlando as of July 2019, Globes reported. The airline made the announcement during the IMTM International Tourism Exhibition, is taking place this...

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Getting serious about getting into shape? You could invest in a gym membership or a basement full of workout equipment, but it’s hard to stay with the program unless you have sufficient time, access, motivation and feedback. Two ambitious young Israelis set out to solve that problem with a product...

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Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin paid a brief visit to Cyprus and hailed the alliance between the two nations, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. Rivlin, the third Israeli president to visit the island nation — previously Ezer Weizman visited in 1998 and Shimon Peres in 2011 — was received by President...

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Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.) offered an apology after the House Democratic leadership rebuked her for tweeting that Jews pay politicians to support Israel, The New York Times reported Monday. In a tweet earlier this week about possible action that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R – Calif.)...

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