Anti-Israel activists have attempted to intimidate South Africa’s Jewish community, “trying to abuse South African history and the South African story for [its] own narrow purposes,” the national director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, told the Algemeiner in an interview published Wednesday. Wendy Kahn also accused anti-Israel activists...

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Last month’s unsuccessful attempt by the Palestinian Authority to suspend Israel from FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, is part of a broader anti-Israel campaign being orchestrated by Qatar, according to a paper published Tuesday by Pinhas Inbari of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Inbari explained that Qatar supports Palestinian Football Association head...

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who was in Israel this week, publicly praised the Israeli cybersecurity startup Illusive Networks, after a venture capital firm he partners with invested $5 million in the startup, Entrepreneur magazine reported Tuesday. Illusive Networks raised $5 million in Series A funding from cybersecurity think tank Team 8, which...

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Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin welcomed a gay youth group and a number of prominent gay personalities to his official residence, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Wearing white emblazoned maroon colored tee-shirts announcing in Hebrew and English across the front “We are everywhere,” a representative group of slightly more than a...

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A new demo village in southern Israel’s Arava Desert showcases cutting-edge Israeli solutions for housing, energy, water and agriculture needs of populations out of reach of national water and energy grids in any part of the world. The village, built in the environmentally forward Kibbutz Ketura ahead of last December’s...

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Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, blasted the emerging nuclear deal with Iran as “wishful thinking” in his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Fox New reported: “It is clear that the nuclear deal is not a permanent fix but merely a placeholder,” he...

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A picture purporting to show an Israeli soldier pointing a gun at a Palestinian youth has been exposed as a fake, The Algemeiner reported Monday. An Israeli named Roi Rahmani found a subsequent selfie featuring both the “soldier” and the “Palestinian youth” while searching online. Rahmani, who posted the photo and its explanation...

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Israel is one of the top five happiest countries in the world, according to a new Better Life Index report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). “Israelis are more satisfied with their lives than the OECD average. When asked to rate their general satisfaction with life on a...

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Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said that armed resistance against Israel is not negotiable, according to a report published on the Saudi-backed website Alresalah on Monday. Armed resistance is not a political issue that may be negotiated, said al-Zahhar in a meeting organized by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in...

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The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) is seeking to improve the safety of the city’s taxi fleet and has started installing Mobileye, the Israeli accident-avoidance system on all of its cabs, David Shamah reported in The Times of Israel today. Last week, the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission...

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