Israel has started constructing an underground barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip to block the Islamist terrorist group Hamas from tunneling into its territory, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Israel’s Defense Ministry in July approved a budget of NIS 2 billion or $530 million to build the concrete barrier...

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Israeli leaders commemorated the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered words of support during his weekly cabinet meeting. “Today we mark 15 years since the terrorist attacks on 9/11,” he said. “We remember the victims. We embrace their loved ones. We...

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Owners of a popular cabaret club near New York’s Times Square regretfully canceled a scheduled benefit for the Black Lives Matter movement after affiliated organizations published a platform claiming that Israel was committing genocide, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The owners of Feinstein’s/54 Below e-mailed benefit ticket-holders informing them of...

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The decision to disinvite an Israeli filmmaker from an upcoming film festival at Syracuse University reflects a change in tactics of the anti-Israel boycott campaign on campuses to “stealth boycotts,” Miriam Elman, an associate professor of political science at the university, wrote in an op-ed in Haaretz on Wednesday. Ben-Gurion University president...

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Landmines are an international danger, but no country except Afghanistan suffers as much as Colombia, where last year landmines buried across the countryside killed 285 people, including 40 children. Over the past 25 years, more than 11,000 Colombians have been wounded or killed by landmines and other unexploded ordnance. So...

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Hamas spends an annual $100 million on its military infrastructure in order to prepare for its next war against Israel, Avi Issacharoff of The Times of Israel reported on Thursday, citing estimates by Israeli and Palestinian sources. Roughly $40 million is spent on employing around 1,500 diggers to build the Iran-backed terror organization’s network...

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Israeli schools will follow a government committee’s recommendation to commemorate Jewish refugees who were forced to leave Muslim-majority countries every November 30, the country’s Education Ministry said Wednesday. The Biton Commission recommended earlier this year that studies of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews, those who trace their ancestry to Spain and the Middle...

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Scores of successful inventions are shepherded from laboratories to the marketplace by Israel’s renowned system of technology-transfer companies (TTCs), which are part- or wholly-owned by the universities at which the technologies were discovered or improved. Just a few of the companies established via TTCs are Mobileye (Hebrew University), Mazor Robotics (Technion), Phinergy...

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At a time when American politics have become “increasingly polarized,” support for Israel remains “a rare and welcome bastion of bipartisanship,” Josh Block, CEO and president of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed published last week in The Sun Sentinel. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. Block observed that “bills and resolutions...

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The rescinding of an Israeli filmmaker’s invitation to a festival at Syracuse University demonstrates the “chilling effect” that the anti-Israel boycott campaign has had on free speech, Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic on Thursday. Award-winning Israeli documentarian Shimon Dotan had been invited by William L. Blizek, a professor of philosophy and religion at...

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