Israel’s first shipment of F-35 fighter jets from the United States in December will come with a bonus – it will be the only country allowed to modify parts of the plane, Wired reported Tuesday. The United States imposes strict requirements on the military hardware it sells to foreign countries,...

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The Arab-Israeli owner of a Columbus restaurant that was attacked by a machete-wielding terrorist in February said he now feels compelled to fight anti-Semitism and educate others about the Jewish state. “I’m an American Israeli Christian Arab. My being Israeli comes first,” Hany Baransi recently told The Times of Israel. Baransi believes his Israeli identity is why the Nazareth...

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Israeli farmers are renowned for making the desert bloom. They’re also proving that this desolate area is fertile ground for a new crop of agriculturalists and agronomists. Midway between the Dead Sea and Eilat, in the heart of the Arava desert, the Arava International Center for Agricultural Training (AICAT) is...

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Robotic or robot-assisted surgery can give doctors better vision, precision, flexibility and control when performing complex minimally invasive procedures. Someday, surgeons will even use robotic tools to operate through the Internet, bringing modern medical techniques to remote parts of the world. Only a handful of surgical robots are currently approved...

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A young Hamas operative has given Israel’s internal security agency valuable information about the Iran-backed terrorist group’s efforts to build tunnels into Israel after his arrest last month. The teenager provided “extensive information on Hamas activities to dig tunnels that are to be used for Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israeli areas,” the Shin Bet...

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IDF jets struck a convoy on the Syria-Lebanon border carrying weapons to the terror group Hezbollah on Tuesday, Israel’s Channel 2 reported. The attack reportedly took place near what Channel 2 described as a “safe haven” for Hezbollah in Syria. In recent years, Israel has targeted a number of Lebanese arms depots believed to be storing...

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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated on Monday that any continued aggression from terror groups like Hamas, such as the digging of tunnels and firing of mortar shells into Israeli territory, will be responded to with force. “Against this terror stands the IDF and various security agencies who are responding decisively to the...

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An Israeli army officer was seriously injured in a blast at a West Bank checkpoint north of Jerusalem on Tuesday night. The incident took place after the soldier observed a suspicious object left along the road near the Palestinian town of Hizme and stepped out of his vehicle to examine it. According...

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Israel needs to hold on the Golan Heights “for the foreseeable future” to as a buffer against the instability in Syria, and “the wisdom of that has only increased” since Syria descended into an intractable civil war, former presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in wide-ranging talk at the Hudson...

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The movement to boycott Israel is “counterproductive to the pursuit of peace and harmful to Israelis and Palestinians alike,” Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton wrote in an open letter on Monday, one day before her church is set to vote on whether to divest from companies that allegedly profit from Israel’s control of...

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