In what is described as a “minor revolution,” the results of next week’s Israeli elections may result in the increase of female representation in top political positions, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday. While the number of women serving in the next Knesset isn’t likely to rise, “the number of women holding senior positions...

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A Syrian activist who is visiting Israel said “we saw the Israelis are human beings and not monsters,” Ha’aretz reported yesterday. The activist had been part of a network of health professionals who sought to secretly treat rebels and protect them from the government of President Bashar al-Assad. However, two years...

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An investigation into the Associated Press’s news coverage of last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas found that an AP report published last month analyzing the death toll in Gaza was “botched in just about every imaginable way.” In an article for The New York Observer published Tuesday, journalists Richard Behar and Gary Weiss found that the news organization...

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A public opinion poll (Arabic link) conducted recently found that nearly half of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip believe that Hamas movement is the main party responsible for the endless split between Gaza and the West Bank. The poll was conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre in the...

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A video released Tuesday by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows the killing of an Arab-Israeli recruit, who had left his home to join ISIS, for purportedly being a spy. The Times of Israel reports: In the video, Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam, 20, was seen kneeling in...

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What does an Israeli company developing a real-time crime-reporting system have in common with an Israeli company developing an obesity treatment? Each is paired with a Singaporean entity through the Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (SIIRD). Since 1997, 140 joint Israeli-Singaporean industrial R&D projects have been supported and facilitated through this...

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The terrorist organization Hamas misused international law during Operation Protective Edge last summer “to undermine Israel’s perceived moral standing and international support,” according to a report commissioned by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and released this week. The report (.pdf), which was written by a task force headed by five retired American generals,...

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In an interview with Erin Burnett on CNN yesterday, David Hazony, editor of The Tower, said that the success of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress last week shouldn’t be measured in electoral terms, but rather in diplomatic terms. By this measure, Hazony said, Netanyahu “made his case exceptionally well.” I’m...

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George Deek, Israel’s former Deputy Ambassador to Norway, spoke to the Stanford Political Journal, an undergraduate publication of Stanford University, in an interview published Monday, about the anti-Israel boycott movement and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Deek, an Israel-Arab Christian, characterized the anti-Israel boycott movement “as a continuation of the [Arab-Israeli wars] in...

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The PLO central council voted on Thursday to suspect security cooperation with Israel. The Times of Israel reports: The PLO council decided “to stop security cooperation in all its forms with the occupying power” which it urged to “take over full responsibility for the Palestinian people in the occupied State...

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