During his first official visit to Australia this week, Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry of Economy Avi Hasson signed a research-and-development agreement with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. With branches in New Zealand, Fiji, across Asia, the US and Britain, Commonwealth Bank is the first Australian member of a...

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Payam Feili, an openly gay Iranian poet who faced intense persecution in his country over his sexual orientation and political views, arrived in Israel this Sunday to promote the Hebrew translation of his book Three Reasons and attend the premier of a play based on the work, The Times of...

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“I don’t want to be an icon,” says Shachar Rabinovitz. But in the space of a few days this week, the 13-year-old has already started to become a poster girl of sorts. She’s siting on her sofa, shell-shocked at the international media frenzy that has taken place this week. On...

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Israel’s internal security agency announced the arrest of several Jewish suspects due to “concrete suspicions” that they were involved in the July firebombing of a Palestinian home that left a toddler and his parents dead, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The arson attack occurred in July in the West Bank...

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In addition to demonstrating “moral myopia and academic perversity,” boycotts of Israel by academic associations are often in violation of the groups’ very own charters, Eugene Kontorovich and Steven Davidoff Solomon argued in an op-ed (Google link) published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. Kontorovich and Solomon, respectively professors of law...

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On his first visit to Israel, American actor and humanitarian activist Sean Penn declared that the work of his nonprofit J/P Haitian Relief Organization has succeeded largely because of its cooperation with volunteers from IsraAID-The Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid. “The indirect impact of IsraAID is that everything that...

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Greece became the second European nation to declare its refusal to abide by the European Union’s newly issued guidelines on labeling Israeli products manufactured beyond the 1949 armistice lines, i24 news reported Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was made aware of Greece’s decision after receiving a letter from Greek Foreign...

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Paris police launched an Israeli-made Skystar 180 aerostat surveillance balloon over the French capital to help assure the security of about 200 worldwide delegates to the 11-day United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) that began November 30. The Skystar 180 is one of several aerostat models designed and...

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A former Cambridge University academic, Marsha Levine, doubled down on her refusal to help a 13-year-old Israeli girl with her research into horses, explaining that she supports a boycott of the Jewish state and thinks that “Jews have become the Nazis,” The Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported Tuesday. The story initially emerged...

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On Monday, Israel commemorated the 20th century expulsion of ancient Jewish communities from across the Arab and Muslim world, Israel’s i24 news channel reported. The annual commemoration was first held last year, following the passage of a law by the Knesset designating November 30 as the day to memorialize the 850,000 Jews who were...

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