The Israeli government has authorized the delivery of humanitarian aid into war-torn Syria through the nations’ shared border, an American-Israeli activist who spearheaded the initiative told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. Jerusalem agreed to transfer medical, educational, and food aid to its northern neighbor, Moti Kahan said. While Israel activists have sought to help...

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A Palestinian terrorist who shot an Israeli rabbi to death was killed after engaging in a firefight with Israeli security forces in the West Bank overnight Tuesday. Mohammed Jabarah al-Fakih, who killed Rabbi Miki Mark and injured his wife and two of his children on July 1, refused calls to surrender...

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A bipartisan group of senators has signed a public letter urging the Senate Armed Services Committee to include an additional $320 million for Israeli missile defense systems in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets the Pentagon’s annual budget. Nineteen Republicans and 17 Democrats, led by Sens. Mark...

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Israel’s rhythmic gymnastics team won the gold medal in the ribbons event at the International Federation of Gymnastics World Cup Final in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday, narrowly topping the Russian team by just 0.15 points. The win, coming just two weeks before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, is...

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Rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin will hold Israel’s blue-and-white flag aloft at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, to be held August 5 to 21. The Olympic delegation that will be led into the stadium by Rivkin is Israel’s largest one since the country’s first...

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Anti-Semitic incidents on U.S. university campuses increased by 45 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to the same period last year, according to a study (.pdf) released by a watchdog group on Tuesday. The study, carried out by the AMCHA Initiative, focused on more than 100 American campuses with large...

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The international community must use diplomatic and economic efforts to confront Hezbollah before it instigates another conflict with Israel, one that is likely to be much worse than the 2006 Lebanon War, a retired Israeli general said Monday. “Nowadays, with effective diplomatic and economic means, you can reach a point...

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It’s the stuff of science fiction: technology that can print a human organ. But the first step towards turning big-screen fantasy into everyday reality has been taken by an Israeli 3D printing company, Nano Dimension. Through a collaboration with another Israeli company, biotechnology firm Accellta of Haifa, Nano Dimension has been...

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Israel has defeated the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed at a Knesset hearing on Monday. Under questioning from opposition Knesset members, Netanyahu defended his government’s handling of foreign relations despite serving as his own foreign minister since his reelection in March 2015. Netanyahu presented a color-coded...

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Hezbollah has embedded its rocket arsenal in villages across Lebanon, ensuring that any Israeli strike on the Iran-backed terrorist group’s military assets will lead to mass civilian casualties, a former Treasury official said on Monday. Hezbollah has “turned the Shiite villages … into essentially missile silos,” Jonathan Schanzer, now the vice...

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