Israeli rule over the Golan Heights should be considered “lawful and just” and should be supported by the United States and the international community, Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, argued in an analysis Friday for Real Clear Politics. Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six-Day War....

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Israelis living near the border with Gaza are growing increasingly concerned about terror tunnels being rebuilt by the Iran-backed terror group Hamas, and have reported hearing the sounds of new tunnels being dug, The Telegraph reported Monday. Residents of Israeli towns like Netiv Ha’asara, who live close enough to Gaza to see Palestinians on the other...

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A Syrian refugee now living in Turkey has created a website to acknowledge the help that Israel, and Jews worldwide, have been providing to displaced residents of his native country. 39-year-old Aboud Dandachi, who worked in high-tech before the war, created a website called Thank you Am Israel, which links...

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Alzheimer’s disease affects some 35 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 115 million by 2050, yet it is not currently possible to detect the disease before it has caused loss of memory and function. Even then, the tests available are invasive and/or expensive. The quest to develop a...

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An off-duty Israeli soldier was killed and another man seriously wounded after being stabbed by two Palestinians in a supermarket north of Jerusalem, the Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, was evacuated from the West Bank market where he was attacked and hospitalized in critical condition...

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Meeting with a group of mothers and their families from Israeli communities near the Gaza border, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power heard about the reality of daily life under the threat of rocket attacks from the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday....

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Israel’s hard-won expertise in the realm of cyber-security can provide unique insights and valuable lessons for the United States, Yahoo Tech columnist Rob Pegoraro concluded in a report published Tuesday. “If only the Israeli approach were something we could pack in a box and put on a plane to the States,” wrote Pegoraro after returning...

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One of this year’s most talked-about gowns at the Grammy Awards on Monday night was an Inbal Dror-designed wedding dress worn by Beyoncé. Beyoncé made a grand entrance “wearing a high-necked white lace Inbal Dror gown with tulle insets at the collar and cuffs, plus two twin slits inset with the same...

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JNS.org – Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, this week sounded an unusually strong—and therefore welcome—warning about the continuing bias against Israel in the corridors of the world body. On a visit to Israel, Power spoke publicly about the experience of ZAKA, an Israeli humanitarian aid...

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For the first time, Egyptian textbooks will cover the 1979 Camp David peace agreement with Israel. A reporter for Israel’s Army Radio saw a new ninth-grade textbook on Egyptian modern history, reporting that it covered the Camp David Accords, which officially ended the state of war between Israel and its southern neighbor, in an unbiased manner....

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