Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the “Israel lobby” for American hostility towards Tehran, Reuters reported Wednesday. Friendlier relations between the Islamic Republic and the United States are possible, but “the key to that is in Washington’s hands, not Tehran’s,” Rouhani said at a press conference in Rome. The Iranian leader, who is...

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Nick Sugimoto, senior program director of the Honda Silicon Valley Lab, makes no bones about it. By 2020, he says, Japanese automotive manufacturer Honda will offer smart cars that have 50 percent fewer collisions. A decade later, Honda’s safety features will take into account not just other vehicles, but also...

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Israeli opposition politician and Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid said that the nuclear deal with Iran will fund the next war that the Islamic Republic’s proxies will wage against Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. “Secretary of State [John] Kerry said himself last week that some of the sanctions...

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Ongoing incitement from Palestinian schools, media, and political and religious leaders under the watch of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “positively guarantees” the continuation of anti-Israel violence and terrorism, David Horovitz, founding editor of The Times of Israel, wrote on Tuesday. Horovitz acknowledged that although security cooperation between Israel and...

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“A” is a physically disabled Druze youth who had failed 11 subjects by the end of junior high school. He lacked both motivation and self-esteem, and his teachers and parents had all but given up on him. Thanks to an innovative educational program implemented in A’s high school, he graduated...

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The 15-year-old Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli mother of six was incited to violence by Palestinian television programs, the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, said Sunday. Incitement by Palestinian officials and media has frequently been blamed for the rise in violence against Jews in the last six months....

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said that he regrets the timing of critical remarks he made about Israel last week, Ha’aretz reported Monday. In an interview with Army Radio, Shapiro acknowledged that “the timing [of his comments] wasn’t ideal,” though he noted that they “began with a condemnation of the...

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The Swiss government is facing increased criticism over an alleged agreement it secretly made with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1970 to offer the group diplomatic support in exchange for an end to terrorist attacks on its territory, the BBC reported on Friday. The deal, detailed in an upcoming book...

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Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters disrupted a Shabbat service and reception held by an Israeli LGBTQ organization at a conference for gay activism in Chicago, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Sunday. Guests and organizers at the reception by A Wider Bridge, a group devoted to building closer ties between gay...

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The growing rapprochement between Israel and Sunni Arab states can “actually help us resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with CNN host Fareed Zakaria at the World Economic Forum on Thursday. I see the world as it is, not as I’d like it to be...

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