A delegation of about 70 Israelis arrived in Paris on Monday for the start of the 11-day United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), where UN member countries will be encouraged to sign a binding agreement to keep global warming below an increase of two degrees Celsius over the...

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In December, the New Israel Fund (NIF), in partnership with Ha’aretz, will hold a “Conference on Peace. On Democracy. On Social Justice” in New York. This gathering, according to NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch, is supposed to provide a platform for “a frank Israeli-American discussion” about issues relating to Israel’s Jewish...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shook hands during a photo session at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris on Monday, marking the first time the leaders met face to face since 2010, The Jerusalem Post reported. Netanyahu also spoke briefly with German Chancellor...

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Israel is experiencing a dramatic increase in citizenship applications from members of the Druze community who live on its side of the Golan Heights, The Times of Israel reported on Saturday. The spike in requests, which grew from two in 2010 to 80 thus far in 2015, is seen as...

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Israel is set to open its first diplomatic-level mission in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Reuters reported on Friday. Israel’s mission will be officially accredited to the newly formed International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), a global organization that encourages governments to adopt various forms of sustainable energy. Israeli...

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The Israeli Ministry of Economy recently inaugurated a new Osaka branch in a sign of strengthening economic relations between Israel and Japan. The office will serve as an executive branch of the Israeli trade mission in Tokyo for meetings and for creating opportunities with local companies in the Kansai region...

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Israel’s Interior Minister Silvan Shalom has issued an entry visa to the exiled and openly gay Iranian poet Payam Feili, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Feili, who was persecuted in Iran for his sexuality as well as his professed admiration for Israel, has been living in Turkey for the past...

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When 130 people were killed and 368 injured in a series of terror attacks in Paris earlier this November, 15 clinicians trained by Israeli experts fanned out to area hospitals to offer psychotrauma interventions as the victims were brought in. These French mental-health professionals from OSE, the largest Jewish welfare...

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Over the next year, BioBee Biological Systems at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu in northern Israel will ship some 600 million specially bred predatory mites to farmers in Colombia as a natural form of pest control. Using the Phytoseiulus persimilis, the most effective natural predator of Tetranychus urticae (red spider mite), will...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that “Israel has every right in the world to defend itself and it has an obligation to defend itself,” while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Thank you. Mr. Prime Minister, Bibi, thank you for welcoming me here. And for...

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