A Palestinian terrorist on Wednesday killed a three month old baby and injured at least 8 other Israelis, plowing into them with a car while they were waiting at a light rail station in Jerusalem. Jerusalem Post reporter Ben Hartman conveyed statements from the murdered baby’s grandfather describing the attack in more...

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Dr. Eli Harari, the Israeli founder and retired chairman & CEO of SanDisk Corporation has been selected as one of the 2014 honorees of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the United States’ highest honor recognizing achievement and leadership in advancing the fields of science and technology. President Barack...

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Heavy artillery shells, automatic gunfire and the shouts of Syrian combatants were heard on the Israeli Golan Heights yesterday and today as the civil war raged on just yards across the frontier – clearly visible to Israeli onlookers. The Syrian army launched Operation Earthquake of Quneitra aimed at regaining control of two...

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On Monday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced severe penalties for Arabs who sell land to Jews. The Times of Israel reports: According to the official Palestinian Wafa news agency, Abbas on Monday imposed a sentence of hard labor for life on “anyone diverting, renting or selling land to an...

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A post today by legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich explained the significance of the American Studies Association’s (ASA) reversal of its policy to boycott Israeli academics. If the ASA’s original action was important for popularizing such boycotts (at least in the narrow quarters of area studies), its reversal is equally important for showing them to be...

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Ynet reported today that a team of four Israelis from IsraAID flew to Iraqi Kurdistan to help other NGO’s assisting Yazidi refugees from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The main focus was the Yazidi refugees, who appeared tired and beaten after a long journey. The four Israelis...

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Approaching the Technoda Dorset complex in the Givat Olga neighborhood of Hadera, one is struck by how incongruous the clean pink-brick building looks among the tenements, ill-kept sidewalks and low-scale shops in the surrounding area. But the location of the Center for Education in Science and Technology is no accident....

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The Palestinians will submit a resolution within weeks to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) demanding that Israel be made to withdraw from what Ramallah considers to be its territory – despite explicit American calls for Ramallah to put off the gambit – according to an announcement made earlier this...

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In On Many Campuses, Hate is Spelled is SJP, which was published in the October 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Daniel Mael traces the history of the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and shows how neither justice nor peace are its goals. SJP is an outgrowth...

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The Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv confirmed Sunday that it had recently treated the daughter of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh. The Times of Israel reported: Avi Shushan, a spokesman for Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, said the daughter of Ismail Haniyeh was hospitalized for “a number of days” this month. He...

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