Hamas fighters can travel underground throughout the entirety of the Gaza Strip using the terror group’s tunnel network, according to a Hamas operative who was captured last month after he crossed illegally into Israel from Gaza. “Hamas has dug an extensive network for moving fighters around the Strip exclusively underground,”...

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Foreign investments in Israel have nearly tripled since the Jewish state was first targeted for boycott by a coalition of Palestinian groups, indicating that efforts to isolate it are failing. Foreign capital flow to Israeli assets hit a record high of $285.12 billion last year, nearly triple of what this figure was in 2005, Bloomberg...

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More than three dozen legislators representing 19 countries joined together on Saturday night to officially congratulate Israel on the occasion of Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the reunification of the city during the 1967 Six-Day War. A letter from the legislators, which was sent to Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein, celebrated the...

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Israel has sent $20,000 worth of disaster relief supplies to Sri Lanka after heavy rains triggered deadly floods across much of the country. The disaster relief supplies include water pumps, water filters, solar lighting kits, LED torches, and 50,000 tablets for water purification. The aid was delivered by the Embassy of Israel...

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“They Did It.” Thus ran the laconic headline of The Economist on June 10, 1967, above a grainy, black-and white photograph of an Israeli tank behind rubble. In six days, Israel had tripled in size by conquering the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Desert and Golan Heights—and the British newspaper...

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Romania’s largest water utility, Raja Constanta, signed cooperation agreements with Jerusalem’s Hagihon water utility and with Israeli water-management company Utilis during a business seminar led by the Israeli commercial attaché’s office in Bucharest on May 30. “About half of Romania’s population is not connected to central drinking water and sewage treatment networks,” said...

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The Israeli-Palestinian peace conference scheduled to begin in France on Friday may be successful if it leads to direct negotiations between the two sides, but will be a failure if it merely encourages the Palestinians to hold out for the “vain hope of an imposed solution,” a former senior Israeli official said Thursday. Eran...

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The Israeli military has stepped up its efforts to locate terror tunnels inside the Gaza Strip in the last week, Walla reported Thursday. Despite claims to the contrary by Hamas, Israeli authorities said they never agreed to stop using bulldozers or other heavy equipment on the Gazan side of the border fence as long as the threat of tunneling persisted. The...

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Italy has sent its largest ever delegation of researchers and academics to meet with their counterparts in Israel this week, defying calls by anti-Israel campaigners to cut ties with the Jewish state. Nearly 100 Italian academics, including representatives of the Italian Conference of Rectors, a group of the leaders of major Italian...

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With concern rising after a string of terror attacks, airport representatives from 40 countries will visit Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport next month to learn about Ben-Gurion’s innovative security procedures. Ben-Gurion is one of the world’s safest airports—no flight departing Israel has ever been hijacked, and there hasn’t been a terrorist attack at Ben-Gurion since 1972. The...

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