At least five people were injured today in Jerusalem when a car plowed into a group of pedestrians in an apparent terror attack. The Times of Israel reported: A Palestinian man in a private vehicle hit the five, who included a bicycle rider and a pedestrian, as they stood on...

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President Barack Obama “should not dismiss the concerns” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised yesterday in his speech to Congress, Ambassador Dennis Ross, who served for two years as a special assistant to President Obama, asserted today in a column published today in USA Today. The administration needs to explain why the deal...

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President Barack Obama must address the “legitimate questions” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought up in his Congressional speech yesteray, a staff editorial in The Washington Post argued today. The editorial’s argument was based on the Netanyahu’s explanation of the two major concessions that the United States has given to Iran, as...

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President Barack Obama should listen to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the dangers of Iran, Faisal Abbas, editor-in-chief of the Al-Arabiya news network, argued in an opinion piece published earlier today ahead of Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress. Abbas, it should be clear, is no fan...

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In an op-ed published Saturday in The New York Times, Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog wrote that “on the Iranian nuclear threat, Israelis are one.” More generally Herzog argued: But a nuclear Iran would endanger not only Israel. If it goes nuclear, the Middle East will go nuclear, putting world...

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America’s Middle Eastern allies are concerned that they “haven’t had their say” in the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, David Hazony, editor of The Tower, told Luke Russert this morning in an interview (embedded below) on The Briefing on MSNBC. Hazony’s argument is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t just be representing Israel...

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Iran is stepping up its offensive against rebels in southern Syria, exacerbating “the tensions on Israel’s northern border,” Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center, and Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published yesterday. The Iran/Hezbollah/Assad troika has long threatened to develop the...

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Only 11% of Americans view Iran favorably, according to the results of a Gallup poll released today. As the United States and several other nations continue to negotiate what would be a landmark agreement to limit Iran’s production of nuclear weapons, more than eight in 10 Americans view Iran unfavorably...

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Israel and Jordan signed a historic water-sharing agreement on the Jordan side of the Dead Sea today, The Jerusalem Post reported. According to Thursday’s agreement, Jordan and Israel will share the potable water produced by a future desalination plant in Aqaba, from which salty brines will be piped to the...

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Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Israel Wednesday to inaugurate Apple’s new R&D Center in Herzliya and meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, The Times of Israel reported. “It is a great privilege to host you and your team here in Israel,” Rivlin told Cook. “Even for me, as one who...

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