Palestinians in the Gaza Strip increasingly fear that the ongoing construction of Hamas tunnels in residential areas means that their lives will be in danger if a future war breaks out between the terrorist group and Israel, The New York Times reported. One woman living by Gaza’s border with Israel said she believes a hidden tunnel entry...
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An umbrella group representing journalists in Israel and the Palestinian territories slammed Hamas for its “thuggish behavior” towards reporters on Thursday night. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) said a photographer for SIPA Press, Heidi Levine, was detained for over three hours by Hamas earlier on Thursday before being permitted to leave the Gaza Strip....
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The 2016 International Women’s Forum (IWF) World Cornerstone Conference convened in Tel Aviv to address pressing global challenges, and its participants hoped to find solutions by emulating the Israeli experience. “Israelis have a long history of making the impossible not just possible, but a reality,” said IWF President Teresa Weintraub....
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Iran’s continued arming of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah means a large-scale conflict with Israel remains “a genuine possibility,” former State Department official Aaron David Miller wrote in an analysis for CNN on Thursday. Miller, now a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, prefaced...
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced on Thursday that an international conference to discuss possible parameters for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be held on June 3 in Paris. A previously planned conference for May 30 was scrapped when Secretary of State John Kerry said that...
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The United Methodist Church voted to withdraw from an anti-Israel coalition just days after rejecting four divestment resolutions targeting the state. The Methodists approved a petition to withdraw from the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation by a vote of 478-318. The petition described the group a “one-sided political coalition,”...
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A French banking giant has shut down an account belonging to the country’s anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. “BDS France used illegal ways to open its account and Crédit Mutuel closed it,” said Jean Patrick Grumberg, an Israeli journalist who has followed the...
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When Coldplay releases a new music video, the music world takes note. And the British band’s latest release for new single “Up&Up” is a mesmerizing montage of creative composites that has music fans and reviewers alike already calling for a Grammy Award. The video, released on May 16, is directed...
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The Israeli military has successfully tested its new “Iron Dome of the sea” anti-rocket defense system, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The Tamir-Adir system, which is mounted on ships, is designed to shoot down short-range rockets like the kind Hamas fires from the Gaza Strip. In tests two weeks...
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One of Israel’s leading hotel chains is preparing to open its first overseas facility in Bengaluru, India, the Economic Times reported Wednesday. “The construction of the 230-rooms hotel is underway and we hope to inaugurate it in about 10-12 months,” said Raffi Sadeh, the CEO of Dan Hotels. “Bengaluru offers us...
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