The ACLU, one of the premier civil rights advocacy groups in the United States, has allowed anti-Israel ideology to push it to “undermine the antidiscrimination norms it has worked for decades to achieve,” Eugene Kontorovich wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Kontorovich, an expert in international law,...

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Sing out! In the same spirit that only a few weeks ago launched a thousand images documenting Israel’s history for free use, the National Library of Israel, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Sport, and the Digital Finjan project, have announced the release of Shiri, a mobile phone...

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The growing hostility of the progressive community toward the existence of Israel has become “profoundly unsettling” to American Jews, Bret Stephens wrote in a column for The New York Times published Friday. Stephens recalled a number of recent incidents that showed the growing acceptance of the “radical left’s militant hostility...

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Virgin Atlantic has announced it will soon fly between London Heathrow and Ben Gurion airport, Jewish News reported on Sunday. The five-hour route will operate daily using Airbus A330-300 aircraft. Tel Aviv will be connected from Heathrow starting September 25, with tickets going on sale beginning February 25. The airline will...

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Adding to her anti-Israel portfolio, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was slammed on Sunday by members of both parties for suggesting that Jewish money was behind American elected officials’ support for Israel, The Times of Israel reported. Omar, who serves on the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee, was responding on Twitter...

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A new automated system for measuring the effectiveness of “antibiotic cocktails” devised by biology and computer-science researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa has been published in the journal Nature Microbiology. The innovative method could be used to find the most effective antibiotic combinations, and allow for treatments to be individualized....

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Israel charged that Iran has built another factory to produce precision-guided missiles for its terror proxy, Hezbollah, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the secret facility was being built outside of the town of Safita, in northwestern Syria. According to the report, Israel intends to publicize Iran’s attempts...

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Israel’s Ambassador to Germany, Jeremy Issacharoff, on Tuesday called on the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel “to change its voting behaviour” at the United Nations and to push for an end to anti-Israel bias at the international body. Issacharoff was quoted in BILD, the country’s largest circulating paper, saying that...

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The United States Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, blasted the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday for “doing nothing” to advance peace, JNS reported. For months, the Palestinian leadership has boycotted a U.S.-led peace initiative and has refused to engage with the White House’s Middle East team. The PA...

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In the fourth season of the American TV sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” theoretical physicist and all-around nerd Sheldon decides that he no longer wants to physically interact with his friends and colleagues. He cobbles together a telepresence robot with his face on its screen, which navigates around his home...

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