Two Israeli films made the shortlist for Best Short Film at the upcoming 87th Academy Awards (Oscars). Final Oscar nominations in all categories will be announced on January 15, 2015. The 40-minute Aya tells the story of a woman who picks up a complete stranger — a Danish music researcher...

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An overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the recent spate of attacks on Israelis amid heightened tensions over the most sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian opinion poll released on December 9. The poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (Arabic link) also found...

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Israel and Mexico announced a cooperation agreement over the weekend for industrial research and development, The Times of Israel reported today. Under the deal, Israeli and Mexican companies will receive assistance in funding joint projects in several areas of research and development, including water management, desert agriculture, pharmaceutical and medical devices,...

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The election of a new Prime Minister in March will not change Israel’s stance on major foreign policy issues, according to an analysis written for The New York Times by Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, yesterday. The top priority is —...

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Blogger “Elder of Ziyon” published a translated interview with Palestinian human rights activist Bassam Eid yesterday. The interview with Eid was originally conducted in Hebrew by Ishai Friedman and was published on his blog. One of the central subjects of the interview was a supposed Palestinian boycott of Israel and...

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The mass exodus of 380 million sterile flies from Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu to Split, Croatia is meant to help reduce the population of fruit flies in that country’s citrus fruit orchards. The flies underwent a sterilization process at the Bio-Bee lab’s radioactive facilities, located on the kibbutz. The company’s environmentally...

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A day after allegations of Israeli strikes in Syria, speculation concerning the circumstances of the attacks point to an Israeli interception of a missile stockpile en route to Hezbollah terrorists. Syrian television claimed that the Israeli military hit targets near Damascus on December 8. The regime of Bashar al-Assad rushed...

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The Knesset is set to pass the second and third readings of a bill tomorrow to dissolve itself and hold elections on March 17, 2015. This vote comes amid feverish talk of an anti-Netanyahu Left-center bloc being formed by Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog, Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni and possibly...

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In a tweet Friday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared, “we strengthened our brothers’ fists in Gaza; West Bank will be armed.” The quote was from a speech Khamenei delivered (embedded below) on November 25, to the International Congress on Takfirism. In the section of the speech devoted to threatening Israel,...

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Two Israeli professors and an engineer are the winners of a new $10,000 award for their amazing inventions including an injectable form of chemotherapy; a metal ligament prosthesis; and a bendable plastic touch screen display for smartphones. Professor Dan Peer, of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Cell Research and Immunology,...

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