In an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Monday, David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, disputed the idea that the only alternative of the deal being negotiated with Iran was a war. The relevant segment of the interview is embedded below. When Mitchell asked...

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Members of the Israel-based Zaka rescue organization will fly to France to assist in the recovery efforts of those killed in last week’s plane crash, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported today: The eight volunteers from the ZAKA International Rescue Unit are scheduled to leave early Monday morning to assist in the search...

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Placing trust in Iran to abide by the nuclear deal being negotiated would be “short-sighted and wrong,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project writes in an op-ed that was published yesterday in The New Jersey Star Ledger. The Israel Project published The Tower. Citing Ayatollah Ali...

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Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa … Arad? If this southern Israeli city doesn’t come to mind when you think about touring Israel, Anna Sandler is working hard to put it there. Sandler is the tourist coordinator for this 52-year-old city bordering the Negev and Judean deserts. Its proximity to the Dead...

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The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and BlueStar Indexes issued a new stock index, a “Start-up Nation Index,” called TA -BIGITech, that will track Israeli tech stocks, regardless of which stock exchange they are listed on, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. “As you know, there aren’t that many Israeli tech stocks on...

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A range of media outlets blasted the Obama administration on Thursday and Friday over the White House’s Middle East policy in the broadest sense, arguing that the increasingly chaotic region is in a downward spiral due, in part, to missteps by President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team. The various conflicts engulfing...

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Emergency relief teams from the Israeli relief agency IsraAID are bringing additional food, water, and other aid to starving citizens of the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, after it was ravaged by a category 5 cyclone earlier this month. The archipelago, which has a population of nearly 300,000 scattered over 65...

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In his column on Wednesday, Thomas Friedman, the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, retreated from his previously articulated position that Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. In this, he mirrored a similar shift made by President Barack Obama. On Wednesday, Friedman wrote: The Obama team’s best argument for...

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While accepting the Humanitarian Award at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual dinner last night, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein called on Jews to fight back against anti-Semitism “and kick these guys in the ass,” The Hollywood Reporter reported. Weinstein, 63, then went off-script to speak about his father, who was a...

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Chronic congestive heart failure (CHF) is the primary cause of hospitalization in people over the age of 65, affecting about 26 million people globally. The related cost in the United States alone is estimated at up to $40 billion. About half that amount stems from hospital readmissions — 25 percent...

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