Bloomberg News reported on the ongoing tension in and around Jerusalem marked by two terror attacks yesterday involving cars driving into pedestrians. Palestinian rage has erupted after Israel temporarily closed the Temple Mount, a sacred site to both Jews and Muslims, in response to Arab youths throwing stones at visitors. …...

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Since the beginning of 2014, at least four terror attacks have been carried out in Israel using motor vehicles as a weapon. The attacks left four people dead and 30 wounded, many of them seriously. Two of these attacks took place yesterday, when two Palestinian drivers drove their cars into groups...

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Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday warned that rockets in the Iran-backed terror group’s arsenal were capable of hitting any place in the Jewish state—specifically that Jerusalem “will not find a single piece of land” that rockets could not hit—and that Israel would be forced to close its ports in...

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Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday that sales of Israel bonds surged during Operation Protective Edge this summer. Bloomberg credited the heightened interest in the bonds in part to an advertising campaign masterminded by the CEO of the Israel Development Corporation, Israel Tapoohi, who used the image of Moshe Dayan to...

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Israeli-made inflatable isolation tents have been installed in the west African nation of Guinea, in an attempt to combat the deadly Ebola virus. The sterile tents are being made in Or Akiva by SYS Technologies. “SYS Technologies goal is to develop, produce and distribute breakthrough products in the field of...

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Hours after a Palestinian killed one pedestrian and injured 14 more in Jerusalem, a second vehicle deliberately targeted three Israel soldiers in the West Bank area of Gush Etzion today. The Times of Israel reports that three soldiers were injured, one seriously, in the attack: A Palestinian vehicle hit the...

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At a press conference in Paris with Jordanian foreign minister Nasser Judeh, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned today’s terror attack in Jerusalem. I condemn today’s terrorist act of somebody driving in another car into innocent people standing on the roadside. That is not just a terrorist act and an...

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One person was killed and at least 13 wounded in the latest terror attack in Jerusalem today, when a man drove a pick-up truck into a crowd of people on Shimon Hatzadik Street, Haaretz reported. The Times of Israel reported that Hamas is claiming responsibility for the attack. The driver was Ibrahim al-Akari, from Shuafat, an...

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In a televised speech yesterday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that “there is no place extending on the land of occupied Palestine that the resistance’s rockets cannot reach.” The Times of Israel reports that Nasrallah made specific threats: Hezbollah’s secretary-general also pledged that the Shiite organization’s rockets would force Israel...

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The Times of Israel reported Monday that the sister of Hamas spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouk is being treated at an Israeli hospital. The hospitalization of the sister of Abu Marzouk is the latest case of a relative of a member of the terror group being treated in Israel despite a...

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