World leaders across the globe continue to pay tribute to former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres, who passed away early Wednesday at the age of 93. President Barack Obama described “my friend Shimon” as one of the “few people who we share this world with who change the course of human...

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Shimon Peres symbolized possibility. He embodied the daring idea that the impossible could be made possible. It wasn’t blind faith that led him on this path. It was experience. In his life he witnessed time and again how ideas and dreams, previously deemed insane, became taken-for-granted reality. Primarily among these...

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The Israel Project Mourns the Passing of Shimon Peres The Israel Project (TIP) today deeply mourns the passing of Shimon Peres. The last of Israel’s founding fathers, Peres contributed decisively to Israel’s security in its vulnerable early years, became its leading voice for peace later on, and ultimately served as...

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Israel’s unemployment rate dropped to 4.6% in August, the lowest rate since the country adopted the OECD unemployment calculation formula in 1992, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics announced Thursday. This is Israel’s sixth straight month of steady or falling unemployment levels, with the rate ticking down a tenth of a percent...

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Shimon Peres, the Nobel Prize-winning former Prime Minister and President of Israel, died Wednesday morning local time at the age of 93. He entered the hospital September 13 after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. The last of Israel’s living political leaders who had been involved in the founding of the Jewish state, Peres was...

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Rana Choir, a mixed Jewish-Muslim-Christian women’s chorus from Jaffa, received a 2016 International Hrant Dink Foundation award last week in Istanbul for its role in fostering intercultural dialogue. The foundation grants awards to “people and organizations working for a world free of discrimination, racism and violence, and through their initiatives...

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A Gaza-based terror group unveiled a new rocket that it claims can hit strategic installations in Israel, Channel 2 News reported Monday. The Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella group made up of former members of other terror factions, unveiled a new rocket yesterday in a ceremony in Gaza. The group,...

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Israel has never been in a better diplomatic position because of the new bonds it has forged around the world, a former State Department official wrote in a Reuters op-ed Thursday. Josh Cohen, a former officer with the United States Agency for International Development, observed that Israel “is successfully developing...

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Female U.S. military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have found support and a “common bond” while spending time with their Israeli counterparts though a pioneering recovery program, NBC reported on Sunday. Kamilla Miguel, a veteran who enlisted at the age of 17 and served in Afghanistan, found it difficult to reintegrate into...

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An editorial in a major Saudi Arabian newspaper called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accept Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent invitation to address the Knesset, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. The editors of the English-language Saudi Gazette said that Netanyahu’s overture, made at the United Nations last week, recalled the invitation then-Israeli Prime...

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