The oldest known complete manuscript of the Ten Commandments will be on display for two weeks in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday. The 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scroll, from a collection of the world’s most ancient biblical manuscripts discovered near the Dead Sea east of Jerusalem, has...

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Sunni Gulf states are seeking security assurances and weapons from the United States in return for their support of any future deal made with Iran over its nuclear program, increasing instability in a region that is already combustible. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported that key Gulf states,...

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Steven Cook, an expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, published a blog post today questioning the criticism Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, leveled at Israel for sending aid to earthquake-stricken Nepal. Roth had tweeted last week, “Easier to address a far-away humanitarian disaster than the nearby one...

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An article (Persian link) published in the influential Persian-language Iranian website Alef claimed that Jews are “human history’s most bloodthirsty people.” The article provided “evidence” based on “historical events” drawn from some of the most infamous blood libels in Europe, which were previously used to justify the mass killings of...

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With its water and agricultural technology, Israel has the “the kind of model we are striving to achieve,” Davendra Fadnavis, chief minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra, told The Times of Israel in an interview Thursday. India, said Fadnavis, had several major agricultural challenges that Israel was helping the...

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After a young Israeli-Arab man from northern Israel used social media to convince other Israeli-Arabs to volunteer for the IDF, he was surprised when his efforts were rewarded with messages of support for Israel from all over the Arab world, Shlomi Eldar reported Wednesday for Al-Monitor. M. is an Israeli Arab Muslim who...

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British Prime Minister David Cameron said in an interview with The Jewish Chronicle published today that he understands and supports Israel’s needs to protect its citizens, stating that Israel had a right to defend itself against Hamas during Operation Protective Edge last year. “What I’ve seen is the attacks that take place...

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An increasingly deployed comparison, made by anti-Israel activists, between Israel and the racist Jim Crow era of the United States is “an insult to Jews… [and] an insult to the African-Americans who struggled to be a part of the American dream,” veteran civil rights attorney Andrew Goldman wrote in an...

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Israeli high-tech companies raised nearly $1 billion during the first quarter of 2015, according to the most recent report by IVC Research Center, the Israeli tech website Geektime reported Monday. According to a recently published report from IVC Research Center, Israel’s leading research group on the country’s high tech companies and...

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The IDF is opening the largest field hospital of its kind in Israeli history in Nepal today, The Times of Israel reported: After a series of delays, the Israel Defense Forces field hospital in Kathmandu will start treating thousands of those injured in the weekend’s devastating earthquake Wednesday morning, kicking...

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