Despite not having diplomatic relations, Israel’s air force is participating in joint exercises this week with the air forces of Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates at a U.S. Air Force base in Nevada. It is highly unusual for countries that don’t officially recognize each other to work together in...

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Baby Yehia has enormous chocolate-brown eyes. His family, Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, nicknamed their huggable little boy “Yaya.” They almost lost Yaya because he was born with multiple severe heart defects that doctors in India and Pakistan could not repair – or at least not for a price the...

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An increasing number of Israeli Arabs are joining their country’s national service program, pursuing better professional opportunities while forging closer ties with Israeli society, The Times of Israel reported on Monday. Israel’s national service program is an alternative to army service, and allows participants — typically observant Zionist Jewish women who opt out of army service for...

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Gov. Chris Christie signed into law on Tuesday a bipartisan bill prohibiting New Jersey’s pension fund from investing in companies that boycott Israel. The legislation passed the state’s Senate unanimously in May and its General Assembly by a wide margin of 70-3 in July, The Jerusalem Post reported. New Jersey currently does $1.3 billion worth of trade...

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Two West Bank terror cells created by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah have been broken up by Israeli security over the past few months, the Shin Bet revealed Tuesday. Members were recruited via Facebook and other social media by members of Hezbollah’s foreign operations unit operating out of both Lebanon...

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A cache of confidential documents from the Open Society Foundations (OSF), released after the George Soros-funded philanthropic network was apparently hacked, provides extensive details of the hedge fund mogul’s secretive efforts to spend millions of dollars annually to create an “echo chamber” of “organizations highly critical of the Jewish state,” Tablet Magazine’s Liel Leibovitz reported this...

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Nearly everyone knows about ReWalk, the revolutionary robotic exoskeleton invented in Israel that allows paraplegics to stand, walk, and even navigate steps and run marathons. Ironically, ReWalk inventor Amit Goffer cannot use his own device because he is a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down following an accident in 1997. But...

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Egyptian judoka Islam el-Shahaby was reprimanded and sent home from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after he refused to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent at the end of their match, Reuters reported on Monday. El-Shahaby, who was sent back by Egypt’s national team, was also criticized by the International Olympic Committee for his failure to...

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The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas announced that one of its operatives was electrocuted to death while working on a tunnel in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Israel Army Radio reported. The news comes as residents of Gaza who seek to rebuild their homes face difficulty in securing the necessary electricity and other resources, which...

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An Israeli father and son have developed an app that could help you achieve healthier skin without spending a fortune on acne treatment products and doctor appointments. MDacne was the idea of dermatologist Dr. Yoram Harth, who specializes in treating pimples. Together with his son Oded, a graduate of the IDF’s...

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