Paralympic swimmer Inbal Pezaro won a bronze medal for Israel on Thursday at the Rio Paralympic Games, finishing third in the women’s 200-meter individual swimming medley. Norway’s Sarah Louise Rung won the gold, and Spain’s Teresa Parales won silver. It was the third medal for Team Israel at Rio. Marksman...

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A Hamas militant issued a thinly-veiled threat against Americans after the State Department officially designated a Hamas leader as being an international terrorist, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. The State Department’s designated Fathi Hammad as an international terrorist on Friday, saying that he used his position as a former interior minister “to coordinate...

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Asked if he was one of the Israeli defense officials who President Barack Obama claimed considered the nuclear deal with Iran a success, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Thursday that he didn’t know any security officials who felt that way. After a wide-ranging presentation at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that partially...

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For both supporters and detractors of the State of Israel, no single conference of the past fifteen years has had a more enduring impact on the evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict than the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa. The event,...

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Palestinians must seek normalization with Israel in order to achieve independence, a Palestinian professor who has been ostracized in his community for arranging trips to Auschwitz said in an interview on Tuesday. Mohammed S. Dajani was targeted by the Palestinian anti-normalization movement for his efforts to achieve mutual understanding—he was denounced as a “traitor”...

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Iran is determined to open up a terrorist front against Israel by strengthening Hezbollah’s fortifications on the Golan Heights, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned on Thursday. “The dozens or so attacks perpetrated from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights against us, it was Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forces...

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The Israeli app Waze took the world by storm, making it easier for drivers across the world to bypass traffic and reach their destination quickly. Now there’s Sidekix, an Israeli navigation app geared to people walking in cities. The iOS app shows walkers the best on-foot routes and orients the map as...

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After Germany’s largest teachers’ union strongly denounced the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign as anti-Semitic, a branch of the union trashed copies of its September publication because it contained an article advocating in favor of anti-Israel boycotts, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jewish Chronicle on Monday. The Education and Science Workers’ Union (GEW) branch, located in the...

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In a ceremony Wednesday in Washington, the national security advisors of Israel and the United States officially affirmed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that secures the next decade of U.S. military aid to Israel. The deal, $38 billion over 10 years, is the largest package of defense aid in the...

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A 2,000-year-old scale weight belonging to the family of the Jewish high priest has been discovered by an archaeologist in Jerusalem, Ynet reported Tuesday. The artifact was located underneath the Tiferet Israel synagogue, which was built in the 18th century and destroyed by Jordan in 1948. Excavations under the synagogue have led to...

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