The Israeli Defense Ministry and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have successfully completed a test to ensure that both countries’ missile defense systems can work in sync, the Defense Ministry revealed on Wednesday. The five-day-long test, which was the first of its kind, assessed the connectivity between American systems and Israel’s “David’s...

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The Palestinian Authority’s objections to the latest report issued by the Quartet—the foursome comprising the UN, EU, United States and Russia that tries to mediate peace talks—should serve as a wake-up call for the international community about the petulance of Palestinian diplomacy and the strong undercurrent of rejectionism that grounds it. The...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently held a secret meeting with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the first-ever high-level contact between the two countries, The Times of Israel reported. An opposition-linked Somali website first reported two weeks ago that Mohamud and three other Somali officials met with Netanyahu and other Israelis in Tel Aviv. A senior Somali official confirmed to The Times...

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The brutal killing last week of American-Israeli teenager Hallel Yaffa Ariel has yet again raised the issue of how the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists encourage the murder of Israelis, Eli Lake wrote for Bloomberg View on Friday. Lake noted that although the recent joint report on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by the...

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A new law preventing the state of Illinois from doing business with entities that boycott Israel has just exposed a major failure of the BDS campaign, Northwestern University Law School professor Eugene Kontorovich explained in Tablet on Thursday. The announcement by global security firm G4S a few months ago that it was selling its...

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On July 4, 1976 – 40 years ago today – Israeli commandos carried out a daring raid to rescue over 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages held by Palestinian and German terrorists at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. A week earlier, two terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of...

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Activists who target Israel with boycotts do so because they have a “vision of a world without Israel,” renowned Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi wrote in an op-ed Wednesday in The Los Angeles Times. Klein Halevi, a National Jewish Book Award winner for his nonfiction book Like Dreamers, denounced the anti-Israel boycott campaign (commonly known as...

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Israel will reduce its scheduled payments to the Palestinian Authority by the amount that the PA admits spending on paying stipends to convicted terrorists and their families, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday. Israel believes that encouragement of terrorism by the Pal. leadership, in form of incitement and payments constitutes incentive for murder. —...

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An Israeli father was killed, a mother critically injured, and their two children wounded after terrorists opened fire at the family while they were traveling on Israel’s Route 60 near Hebron on Friday. The man has been identified as 48-year-old Miki Mark, a father of 10 and head of a West Bank yeshiva, The Times of Israel reported. He was...

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Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer star Eran Zahavi, the Israeli Premier League record holder for goals scored in a season, announced Wednesday that he will join the Chinese club Guangzhou R&F on a $12.5 million contract over the next two and a half years. Maccabi is to receive $8 million for Zahavi, reportedly the most...

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