In a speech before supporters yesterday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Hamas for a series of blasts in Gaza last Friday targeting Fatah officials. An explosion also destroyed a stage set up for a ceremony to honor Yasser Arafat on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death. Reuters reports:...

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Hezbollah is working to recruit Christian, Druze, and Sunni youths for a possible future confrontation with Israel, the Lebanese newspaper al-Nahar reported (Arabic link) today. The new enlistment campaign is using the slogan “Our fate is one and we must fight together” in order to attract young fighters. The Shiite terror...

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At least two Israelis – a young woman and an IDF soldier – were killed and two others injured in separate terror attacks on Monday, refocusing attention on recent calls for violence that have come from the top echelons of Palestinian leadership, up to and including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

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Eyal Rosenthal doesn’t expect to make a mint from his new eMotion Stories digital books in English and American Sign Language. The world’s first interactive bilingual e-library for parents of children with hearing impairment was created as a labor of love, though the market is quite limited. Rosenthal, an American...

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For Johannah Jolson — in the words of fellow Brit William Shakespeare — the play’s the thing. In August, the 28-year-old Tel Aviv resident launched the English National Theatre of Israel (ENTI), an endeavor meant to make professional English-language productions available nearly every night of the week in the Holy...

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The Palestinian propaganda machine continues to exploit the growing tensions in Jerusalem and the series of vehicle terror attacks that have shocked the city in recent weeks. In the last example of direct incitement to violence against Jews and Israel, Palestinian activists created an “event” (Arabic link) on Facebook in which they call...

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The Israeli startup VoiceITT, which is developing voice-translation technology for the disabled, recently won the audience favorite award at a startup showcase at the WSJ.D Live global technology conference. VoiceITT’s translation app, Talkitt, translates unintelligible pronunciation from any language into understandable speech. The company says people with ALS, autism, Parkinson’s...

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Amid growing tensions in Jerusalem, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Saturday for the destruction of Israel. In a series of tweets, he attacked Israel and urged the arming of Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank: “This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of #Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to...

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On Thursday, Israel allowed a shipment of produce to pass through the Kerem Shalom crossing and enter the West Bank. It was the first such shipment allowed since the terrorist organization Hamas violently took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007. Reuters reports: A Palestinian official said a truckload of cucumbers...

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Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked to assess “the ethical conduct” of the IDF during Operation Protective during in a discussion at the Carnegie Council for Ethics earlier today. Dempsey called the question a “softball” and proceeded to explain: I actually do think that Israel...

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