Hezbollah operatives fired Kornet anti-tank missiles at an Israeli army patrol along the Israel-Lebanon border on Wednesday, killing two Israeli soldiers, wounding seven, and prompting Israeli retaliatory artillery fire on southern Lebanon. A Spanish peacekeeper of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed in the exchange of...

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After the alleged Israeli attack on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights ten days ago, the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir published an article entitled “More than reaction, less than war“( Arabic link) in which the author explained Hezbollah’s wish to avenge the death of its senior member in southern Syria, but...

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Within 24 hours of the severe earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12, 2010, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a 220-person team of rescuers, disaster-management experts and medical personnel. Many Israeli governmental and non-governmental organizations joined in the difficult work of treating physical and psychological wounds and getting the island...

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Prominent Lebanese politicians have criticized Hezbollah after the Iran-backed terror organization fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli army convoy, killing two soldiers and wounding seven others. Samir Geagea, a leader of the anti-Hezbollah March 14 movement, today charged that”Hezbollah is more and more expanding its regional schemes against the Lebanese state.” The Daily...

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American-based Israeli writer Reuven “Ruby” Namdar won Israel’s Sapir Prize, its most prestigious literary award, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported today. Namdar is the first Israeli expatriate to win the award. Interviewed by Skype from Israel, where he had traveled for the ceremony, Namdar told JTA that he was...

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Two Israeli soldiers were confirmed dead and seven wounded after terrorists in Lebanon fired an anti-tank missile that hit a military vehicle on the border with Israel, the IDF confirmed. Israel responded to the cross-border attack with artillery fire and a warning to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, which claimed responsibility for the...

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Israeli ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer highlighted Israel’s role as refuge for every Jew in a speech delivered Sunday. Dermer noted that possibly as much as 3% of France’s Jewish population could move to Israel in 2015 and asked rhetorically, “Despite all the concerns regarding the future of...

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Israeli startups raised $910 million last week, according to a report yesterday at tech website GeekTime. The deals were highlighted by the first Israeli acquisition by e-commerce giant Amazon. The majority of funding that Israeli startups raised last week were through acquisitions, totaling $770 million. The largest of these deals,...

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A poll released last week revels that a majority of Palestinians believe that Israel is possibly behind the terror attacks in Paris earlier this month. The Times of Israel reports: The survey, which was released last week by the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadida, showed 84.4 percent of Palestinians,...

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman will face the challenge of having an Iranian client, Yemen, bordering on its south, Avi Issacharoff wrote in a profile of the new king on Friday for The Times of Israel. King Salman is not expected to make dramatic changes to Saudi Arabia’s foreign and defense...

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