Echoing remarks he made earlier this year to a journalist, Pope Francis declared that denying Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitic, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Friday. The pope’s comments were made during a private meeting with Jewish leaders at the Vatican earlier this week. “To attack Jews is anti-Semitism,...

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An American citizen was stabbed and injured in Jerusalem by a Palestinian assailant on Friday afternoon, while a second individual was wounded by stray gunfire from security forces who were trying to subdue the attacker, Haaretz reported on Friday. The 23-year-old attacker, an East Jerusalem resident, stabbed the man, 22,...

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Oscar-winners Helen Mirren and Aaron Sorkin both expressed their strong support for Israel while attending the Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles as special honorees, the Jewish Journal reported Thursday. Mirren, speaking of her love for Israel, shared her experience working on a Kibbutz and sleeping on the beach in...

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In a move to expand its air campaign, Russia carried out airstrikes in Syria’s southern province of Daraa Wednesday night, reportedly striking villages only 15 kilometers from the Israeli Golan Heights, according to reports. It’s the closest that Russian aircraft have been to the Israeli border. According to The Jerusalem...

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Israel’s agricultural technologies continue to attract new interest from around the world. Most recently, 24 experts from 10 Latin American countries took part in a water resources management course run by CINADCO – the Center for International Agricultural Development Cooperation. The international group visited the Kishon River Authority to hear...

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Micah Lakin Avni, the son of Richard Lakin, an American-Israeli teacher and peace activist who died earlier this week due to injuries sustained in a Palestinian terror attack two weeks ago, said that his father was the victim of “incitement and hate,” The New York Times reported Thursday. My father...

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A Hamas official went on the terrorist organization’s TV station to inform Palestinians that Allah had created man “to plunge their knives in the chests and bellies of the enemies,” The Times of Israel reported today. In an address broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV on October 19, former Gaza interior minister Fathi...

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The Israeli startups AseptoRay and Chakratec took top honors in last month’s Israeli finals in the 2015 Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition, the world’s largest green technology competition. They will represent Israel in the international round to be held during Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 16-22, in Silicon Valley. Encompassing 24...

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Over 100 German soldiers arrived in Israel earlier this month to participate in the largest joint military exercise ever held between the two countries, Ha’aretz reported on Wednesday. The Israeli and German armies have conducted joint exercises in urban combat in recent weeks — the largest joint training ever between...

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Jordan is sharply criticizing the Palestinian Authority’s rejection of an initiative to install security cameras on the Temple Mount, veteran Palestinian affairs reporter Khaled Abu Toameh wrote Tuesday in The Jerusalem Post. The proposal was first introduced by Jordan’s King Abdullah II and accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

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