Saying that Jews and Christians share a common bond, Pope Francis issued a theological report calling on Catholics to fight anti-Semitism, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. “A Christian can never be an anti-Semite, especially because of the Jewish roots of Christianity,” the document said, quoting Pope Francis. It further...

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If there’s one thing an Israeli cannot bear to be called, it’s freier – Hebrew for “sucker.” And in one area of business suckers are born every minute: booking a flight or hotel room. Two new Tel Aviv startups have taken the freier risk out of travel. FairFly has built...

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Australia plans to open a start-up incubator in Tel Aviv as part of an international initiative to boost its technology sector, Globes reported on Tuesday. Yesterday, Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced an innovation program called Ideas Boom as part of his government’s Global Innovation Strategy. Under the program, Australian start-ups...

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The Israeli Defense Forces rescued and treated over 2,000 victims of the Syrian civil war since 2013, carrying out secret operations to retrieve wounded civilians and militants who are left by the Jewish state’s border nearly every night, Jake Wallis Simons reported in the Daily Mail on Tuesday. Simons, who...

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Five members of an Israeli-Arab family from Nazareth were arrested over suspicions that they support ISIS and were planning to carry out terror attacks in Israel, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday. The cell’s members, all reportedly members of the same family, were arrested in October and November in...

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Four years after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, Fukushima Medical University’s Global Medical Science Center has signed a memorandum of understanding with Israel’s Pluristem Therapeutics to collaborate on further development of the company’s placenta-based cell therapy products to treat acute radiation syndrome (ARS) and morbidities following radiotherapy in cancer patients....

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Hillary Clinton, the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said that she would take America’s relationship with Israel “to the next level” if elected, Reuters reported on Sunday. In a speech at the Saban Forum, an annual gathering mainly focused on Israel’s security issues, the former secretary of state promised to...

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JNS.org – I was telling a friend this week that of all the topics I write about, the global campaign against Israel’s very existence is the one that just won’t go away, no matter how much I might wish otherwise. After all, it’s an issue that’s consumed a good deal...

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Syed Farook, the terrorist who committed the San Bernardino massacre along with his wife, was described by his father as being “obsessed with Israel.” “My son said that he shared [ISIS leader Abu Bakr] Al Baghdadi’s ideology and supported the creation of the Islamic State. He was also obsessed with...

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Shadi al-Menei, the commander of ISIS in the Sinai, is meeting with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip to discuss ways that the terrorist groups can increase cooperation and coordinate attacks, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday, citing Israel’s Channel 2. Al-Menei was one of the founders of the...

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