Rony Malka, director of law enforcement for the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA), received a 2016 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award at the 17th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Monday in Johannesburg. He...

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Six residents of the village of Ghajar on the Golan Heights were accused on Thursday of planning a terror attack in Israel with help from the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. Diab Kahamuz, the alleged ringleader, was caught after he apparently forgot where he hid the explosives he received from Hezbollah. The explosives were found...

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More than 8,300 needy Vietnamese citizens received humanitarian and medical aid in the remote Kon Tum province from the Israeli Embassy in Hanoi and the Family Medical Practice (FMP), a chain of clinics in Vietnam founded and headed by an Israeli physician, during a week-long mission last month. “It’s a drop in...

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A terror group with ties to ISIS fired a rocket that struck a street in Sderot on Wednesday, causing minor damage. Ahfad al-Sahaba-Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis took credit for the rocket attack. The group released a statement in what The Times of Israel described as “poorly-translated Hebrew”: “Oh you cowardly Jews: You...

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An Israeli official announced last week that China and Israel will soon begin negotiations on establishing a free trade zone, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Amit Lang, the director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry, announced at the second annual China-Israel Investment Conference that negotiations will begin in the coming days to remove...

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Representatives of more than 70 nations, including President Barack Obama, attended the funeral of Shimon Peres, Israel’s ninth president and one of its founding fathers, in Jerusalem on Friday. Peres died Wednesday morning at the age of 93 after suffering a stroke two weeks earlier. The presence of so many foreign dignitaries at the...

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Samsung Electronics has opened a new Global Innovation Center (GIC) in Tel Aviv this week, underscoring the South Korean company’s growing interest in Israeli innovation. Samsung GlC was launched in 2013 as an early-stage technology investment program. The tech giant already has GIC offices in New York, San Francisco, Seoul, and Silicon Valley....

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Honeybees across the world are in a sticky situation. Their numbers are dwindling dramatically due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) for reasons that are not fully understood. Yet the honeybee population in Israel is holding steady. That’s great news at this time of year, when sweet Jewish New Year dishes...

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Iraqi Kurds held a memorial service for former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday, hours after the veteran statesman passed away at the age of 93, according to various Kurdish news sources. Kurds in the Duhok region, which is north of Mosul in Iraq, reportedly held a half hour service in honor...

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Recent Palestinian-led efforts to boot Israel out of FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, “contradict longstanding FIFA practice and create a double standard for Israel,” a leading legal expert wrote in The Washington Post Monday. Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor at Northwestern University and head of the Kohelet Policy Forum’s international...

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