Israel connected the Ketura Solar field to its national power grid today, the financial website Globes reported. The field is located in Kibbutz Ketura in Israel’s Aravah valley. The “Ketura Solar” field was connected on Wednesday to the national electric grid. It is one of the largest solar parks in...

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The ultimate goal of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and its leaders is to delegitimize the state of Israel, legislators, legal experts and business leaders agreed in a congressional hearing Tuesday. The hearing was held by the Subcommittee on National Security of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform....

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Three Jews who disappeared after seeking to escape from Iran via Pakistan in 1997 were captured and murdered, Israel’s intelligence agency the Mossad concluded based on newly acquired information, The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday. The three, Nourollah Rabizadeh and brothers Cyrus and Avraham Ghahremani, fled Tehran in February 1997. They...

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During his visit to Israel this week, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi affirmed his support of the Jewish State and condemned the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Ha’aretz reported yesterday. Renzi also encouraged renewed peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The Italian prime minister talked about his...

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The official educational curriculum of the Palestinian Authority (PA) promotes terrorism and hatred of Jews and Israel, a report presented today at an international teachers’ conference stated. The report, prepared by the organization Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), documents that “the PA teaches its children to reject Israel’s right to exist,...

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An Israeli medical team just returned home from Tanzania after performing life-saving cardiac surgery on ten children and treating hundreds more, The Jerusalem Post reported today. An Israeli delegation of 20 doctors, nurses and medical technicians has returned from Tanzania after performing lifesaving heart surgery on more than 10 local...

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Microsoft is reportedly acquiring Israeli cybersecurity startup Adallom for $320 million, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported Monday. According to the reports, Tel Aviv-based Adallom, currently with about 60 employees, will continue to operate in Israel and will expand to become Microsoft’s cyber-security development headquarters in Israel. If...

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Cut off from many of its preferred smuggling routes, the terror organization Hamas had recently been smuggling supplies to rebuild its rocket arsenal and network of terror tunnels through Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing, Avi Issacharoff of The Times of Israel reported today. Excavating tunnels requires — along with working hands...

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In a speech just four days after Iran completed a nuclear deal with the West, the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave a speech before a huge crowd and praised it for calling for the death of Israel and the United States, The Times of Israel reported on Saturday. Iran’s...

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The nuclear agreement with Iran will “wreak havoc” across the Middle East, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States for nearly 25 years, wrote in an op-ed, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Writing for the London-based Arabic news Web site Elaph, Badar suggests that President Obama is knowingly making a bad...

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