The Israeli government announced Thursday that it was pessimistic about the French multilateral initiative to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and called instead for direct negotiations. “Israel adheres to the position that the best way to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is direct and bilateral negotiations,” the Prime...

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The Iowa state senate passed a bill on Wednesday that bars the state from investing in companies that boycott Israel, sending the bill to the governor’s desk. The bill, which passed by a 38-9 margin, would prohibit the Iowa Board of Regents, the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System and some other...

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Smugglers of drugs and illegal migrants using tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border may want to keep an eye on Israel. The U.S. government, after all, is cosponsoring the tunnel-detection technology now being developed by Israeli engineers. Described by the Hebrew media as the underground equivalent of Iron Dome anti-missile defense...

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Argentinean pop star Lali Esposito has a huge following in Israel. But the Casi Angeles star, who was in Tel Aviv for an April 24 concert, won even more hearts when she sent a moving video message to a Jerusalem terror victim. Eden Dadon, 15, is presently hospitalized with severe...

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The links between Hamas financiers and the leadership of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign have continued to draw scrutiny since they were first exposed during a congressional testimony last week. Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, testified at a joint hearing before two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees last...

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Labour Party MP Naz Shah was suspended from the party Wednesday as the controversy over her two-year-old Facebook comments calling on Israel to be moved to the United States continued to spark outrage. A Labour Party statement said that Shah and party leader Jeremy Corbyn “have mutually agreed that she is...

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There’s something very unusual about Hybrid, the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry’s new accelerator for startups in the Arab sector, recently launched at the Nazareth Business Incubator Center (NBIC). The unusual aspect is that it leverages the expertise and connections of Israeli military veterans. Specifically, Hybrid teams up early-stage...

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The U.S. military has adopted Israel’s so-called “knock-on-the-roof” bombing tactic to minimize civilian casualties when attacking ISIS targets, a Pentagon spokesman disclosed in a briefing Tuesday. This development, combined with the successful testing last week of Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile technology in the U.S., points to the strengthened military cooperation between the two allied countries over...

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A member of the UK’s Labour Party apologized and resigned her position as aide to one of the leaders of the party on Tuesday after it emerged that she had written inflammatory remarks about Israel on her Facebook page. Naz Shah shared a graphic in 2014—the year before she was elected to...

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When the ambulance on which he was volunteering in the 1980s got stuck in Jerusalem traffic and failed to reach a choking child in time, then-teenager Eli Beer envisioned squads of neighborhood-based volunteers who could reach patients quickly by foot or cycle and begin first aid until the ambulance arrives....

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