Israeli officials believe that a future war with Hezbollah, with its advanced Iranian-supplied rocket arsenal, could lead to “thousands of civilian deaths,” a white paper published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies revealed. The paper, authored by Jonathan Schanzer, Tony Badran, and David Daoud, explores the history of Hezbollah’s...

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A retired Saudi general visited Israel this week for a series of meetings, in what is the latest sign of increasing dialogue, public appearances, and quiet cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Anwar Eshki, who previously served in senior positions in the Saudi military and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led...

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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed rejected a call by anti-Israel campaigners to stop local law enforcement officials from training with their Israeli counterparts during a press conference on Monday. “There was a demand that I stop allowing the Atlanta police department to train with the Israeli Police department,” Reed said. “I’m not going...

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Israel’s top diplomat met last week with the president of Chad, the latest African nation—many of them with Muslim majorities—to strengthen its ties with Israel in recent weeks. Israeli Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold met with Chadian president Idriss Déby on July 14 at the presidential palace in Fada, the Israeli Foreign...

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The European Union is looking into the use of Israeli anti-terror technologies to deal with a wave of Islamic State-inspired “lone wolf” terror attacks on the continent, a senior EU official told Reuters on Tuesday. Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union’s counter-terror coordinator, attended the IDF’s second annual Intelligence and Special...

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Over 25,000 people participated in Jerusalem’s 15th annual LGBT pride parade on Thursday, the largest such event to ever take place in the Israeli capital. Participants first gathered in Jerusalem’s Liberty Bell Park at 5:45 PM, then chanted and marched with banners calling for equality along the city’s downtown area, much of which...

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The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas has created a summer tourist destination out of one of its tunnels, which have frequently been used to infiltrate Israel and attack Israelis. A posted by the the pro-Hamas media outlet Afaq shows a group of boys running through a tunnel. “Afaq media enters a tunnel created by the Qassam Brigades during...

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Trade between Israel and Mexico reached $700 million last year, up 300 percent since a free-trade agreement was signed between the two countries in 2000, Israel’s ambassador to Mexico announced Thursday. Ambassador Jonathan Peled told the Mexican newspaper El Universal that the two countries will work to triple the trade in the coming years....

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The head of Israel’s Foreign Ministry asked Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to remove a new monument to a Palestinian who killed 15 people and wounded 77 others in a 1975 terrorist attack in central Jerusalem. In a video message, Dore Gold blasted the PA’s decision to honor Ahmed Jabara, also known as Abu Sukkar,...

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Israel and the West African nation of Guinea announced on Wednesday that they had reestablished diplomatic ties, 49 years after the Muslim-majority country withdrew its recognition following the Six-Day War in 1967. The agreement was signed in Paris between Dore Gold, the director-general of Israel’s foreign ministry, and Khalil Kaba, chief of staff to...

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