An Israeli girl remains in serious condition following an attack in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown into her family’s car in the West Bank Thursday evening, hours before a terrorist in Jerusalem stabbed and wounded two Israeli police officers. IDF forces on Friday arrested a dozen Palestinians in connection...

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A Twitter account attributed to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claims to show Iranian soldiers in Lebanon near the border with Israel, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported on Friday. In the tweet, published last week, the faces of the soldiers were obscured, but they had been...

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Thirty-seven Gaza children who had traveled to the Erez border crossing for a trip into Israel were prohibited from entering by the terrorist organization Hamas. The New York Times reports: Israeli officials and organizers of the highly unusual weeklong peace-building visit said that it had been fully coordinated with the...

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Israeli security officers arrested two Palestinians suspected of throwing a firebomb that wounded an 11-year-old Israeli girl and her father. During questioning, both confessed to carrying out the attack, The Jerusalem Post reported. The two, one of them a 16-year-old, were arrested early Friday morning soon after the incident near Nablus...

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Over 200 Jews from Ukraine arrived in Israel this week, fleeing the country’s civil war, The Washington Post reported Thursday, bringing the yearly total up to more than 5,000. The Post focused its report on a family, identified only by their first names, “Yulia, Kostiantyn and their daughter, Valerie.” So...

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An analysis published this week in Haaretz indicates that Hezbollah is using Iranian and Syrian assistance to build up its terror infrastructure in the Golan Heights, a move that is likely to deepen concerns that the Iranian-backed organization is positioning itself for a dramatic escalation at in the region at...

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How does a world of billions feed itself sustainably in the future? AgTech — agriculture technologies — are the key. And Israel is driving much of this innovation, from non-toxic pesticides to high-yield seeds, to sensors that tell farmers when plants are thirsty. Gideon Soesman, 44, is betting on AgTech...

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Emergency response teams provide medical, psychological and social support, as well as distribution of relief goods. IsraAID swung into immediate action upon news of the destruction Typhoon Hagupit (locally called Ruby) caused across the Philippines from December 6 to 9, leaving hundreds of thousands of families homeless. The Israeli-based humanitarian...

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Israel is looking to upgrade its naval capabilities – both its surface and underwater forces – the website DefenseNews reported Tuesday. The Israel Navy is finalizing plans to integrate a fifth Dolphin-class submarine and a new fleet of unmanned surface vessels (USVs) into its operational force structure in the first...

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As Fatah and Hamas fight over control of the rebuilding in Gaza, Israel is showing “flexibility” in allowing in raw materials to enter the Strip, Neri Zilber, a visiting scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, reported in an article published Sunday in Politico. The Gazan population is growing...

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