Australia’s former national Labor Party president Warren Mundine said he was “disgusted” by a resolution being considered by the New South Wales (NSW) Labor Party to ban its members from traveling to Israel on trips sponsored by Jewish organizations, calling the move “an illogical, verging on anti-Semitic approach,” The Australian reported...

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Sand Storm (Sufat chol), the first feature by Israeli director Elite Zexer, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, over the weekend. The film—about Bedouin traditions in the face of modernity—was bought and will be distributed by Beta Cinema. The film was heavily...

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An Israeli minister gave an interview to a Saudi online newspaper over the weekend, underscoring the warming ties between Israel and the Arab world in the wake of the Iranian nuclear deal last year. Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption Ze’ev Elkin told a reporter from the Saudi website Elaph that Israel and the...

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A Palestinian girl from Nablus with a rare medical condition underwent lifesaving surgery at Rambam hospital in Haifa last week, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. Jummana, 17, suffered from hypophosphatemia, a dangerous condition caused by low phosphate levels that led to extreme pain in her bones. Her treatment was facilitated by...

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A collection of anti-Israel groups have teamed up to undermine a bill prohibiting the state of Florida from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. Florida House Bill 527, which bars “local governmental entities from entering into contracts with companies” that participate in a boycott of the Jewish state, passed...

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Your preschooler wakes up with an earache and fever. You tell your boss you’ll be late to work, wrangle a pediatrician appointment, bundle up the sick kid, sit in a waiting room full of other sick kids, spend five minutes with the doctor, and leave with a prescription and orders...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades to discuss opportunities to leverage newly discovered gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean Sea with the aim of increasing regional stability and security, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. “Our states share the same values as well as...

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The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas announced that seven of its members died when an attack tunnel they were working on near the Gaza Strip’s eastern border collapsed due to flooding, Reuters reported Thursday. “The Mujahedin martyrs were repairing an old tunnel, from which a number of operations were executed in the [2014] war,” said Izz...

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Sony is acquiring Altair Semiconductor for $212 million, according to Reuters. The reported deal, which is expected to close in early February, says the Japanese electronics giant hopes to take a leading role in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector by buying up the Israeli provider of single-mode 4G LTE...

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As the international community commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a video claiming that “it is not clear” if the Holocaust “is a reality or not.” The Farsi video, titled “Are The Dark Ages Over?”, was posted to Khamenei’s official website. An...

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