Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, called the recently released United Nations Human Rights Council report on last year’s Operation Protective Edge “dangerous” in an op-ed published today in The New York Times. One area of Kemp’s critique focused on the commission members’ ignorance of...

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Anti-Israel bias has been a pervasive feature of the United Nations Human Rights Council since its inception nine years ago, according to a report issued yesterday by the watchdog group UN Watch. In the nine years of its existence, the UN Human Rights Council has condemned Israel more times than the rest...

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its preliminary report on Israel’s economy on Wednesday, noting that the country’s economy is “performing well” and that the economic outlook is positive. IMF division chief Bas Bakker presented the findings to Israeli Minister of Finance Moshe Kahlon and the Bank of Israel governor Karnit Flug. The findings...

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The report by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the 2014 Gaza conflict, released earlier this week, is substantiated in large part by the allegations of political advocacy NGOs (non-governmental organizations). One such group, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), was cited 16 times. PHR-I is an Israeli organization that has a...

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Leading international cyber experts, policymakers, researchers, security officials, and diplomats are in Tel Aviv this week for the Fifth Annual International Cybersecurity Conference. The meeting is part of the National Cyber Week 2015 yearly event. Israel is known as a center of excellence for cybersecurity thanks to its defence expertise...

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In his pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama could be “headed down the wrong path,” possibly allowing Iran “to further threaten Middle Eastern stability, jeopardize American interests, or destroy our strongest ally,” Congresswoman Kristi Noem wrote Sunday in an op-ed published in the Black Hills Pioneer....

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Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said that there is “no daylight” between his position on the emerging nuclear deal with Iran and the position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with The Telegraph published today. If the US Administration hoped that Mr Herzog might dilute Israel’s visceral suspicion of...

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Israel and the World Bank signed their second agreement last week that will focus on sharing water expertise and industry best practices with developing countries. The Israeli Ministry of Economy committed $500,000 to the World Bank Group’s Water Global Practice as part of the deal. “We are proud to join...

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The UN Human Rights Council, many of whose state members are world champions in violating the moral principles the Council is obligated to protect, issued its Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on the 2014 Gaza War today. The eighth such attempt since 2002 to single out Israel as guilty of war...

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The new United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report on the Gaza war says: 27. International law does not require the continuous presence of troops of the occupying forces in all areas of a territory, in order for it to be considered as being occupied. In the Naletelic case, the ICTY...

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