Democratic presidential frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed strong support for Israel in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Forward, promising that if elected, she would invite the Israeli prime minister to Washington during her first month in office. Clinton cited her record on Israel as a senator and Secretary of State, including...

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An Israeli Border Police officer was injured when he was deliberately struck by a Palestinian driver near Hebron, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The man sustained a major head wound and is in critical condition. A Palestinian careened his car into an Israeli Border Police officer north of...

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Isaac Herzog, head of the Israeli opposition party Zionist Union, told Britain’s ambassador to Israel that the European Union’s plan to label products coming from Israeli settlements is “a prize that Europe is bestowing for terror,” The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The EU will decide next week exactly how...

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Two bipartisan resolutions, one condemning incitement by the Palestinian Authority against Israel and the other raising concerns about anti-Semitism in Europe, passed unanimously in the United States House of Representatives this week. The resolution condemning Palestinian incitement was sponsored by Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – Fla.) and Ted Deutch (D –...

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The first ever exchange traded fund that tracks stocks of Israeli technology companies has been launched and will be traded on the NASDAQ, the Israeli finance magazine Globes reported Tuesday. It will track the performance of BIGITech Index, a listing created by the American firm BlueStar Global Investors that tracks 65 Israel high-tech companies traded on stock exchanges in Tel...

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An American official revealed that the Israeli Air Force trained closely with Jordanian fighter pilots during a multinational military exercise hosted by the United States this past summer, Reuters reported Tuesday. The official’s comments were prompted by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon confirmation that Israel participated in the “Red Flag”...

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Yossi Beilin, Israel’s former foreign minister and the architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords, blasted President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry for mishandling the Israeli-Palestinian peace process by failing to adequately engage with Palestinian leaders, The Times of Israel reported. He made his remarks at a briefing...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas indicated that he considered all of Israel to be occupied Palestinian territory while speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, Palestinian Media Watch reported on Monday. In his statement, which is found in the video embedded below, Abbas asked the...

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Ahead of the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama in Washington next week, the United States is set to approve an upgraded military aid package to Israel that will include the V-22 Osprey, an advanced aircraft that Jerusalem had previously requested, The Times of Israel...

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In a speech delivered last week, Mahmoud al-Habbash, an advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Islamic affairs and a Supreme Sharia Judge, called Israel evil and referred to it as “Satan’s project,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported on Sunday. “The conflict here in Palestine between us and the criminal occupation and...

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