Thousands of people gathered in Frankfurt over the weekend to protest anti-Semitism and demonstrate in favor of Israel, the Kurds and the Yazidi, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Tuesday. The demonstration is to be followed up “on September 14 by a national rally in Berlin coordinated by the Central Council...

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An Israeli security official said Wednesday that “[n]one of the Palestinians summarily executed in Gaza on charges of collaboration during Operation Protective Edge were Israeli sources or assets.” The Times of Israel reports: “Not even one of the 27 was a source,” he said, adding that, during the duration of...

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Palestinian negotiators in the United States were slated to speak with Secretary of State John Kerry today about resuming negotiations with Israel and removing Israeli presence from the West Bank and east Jerusalem within three years. Veteran negotiator Saeb Erekat and intelligence chief Majid Faraj represented Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the parley....

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In a statement released yesterday, the controversial activist group J-Street called on the United States to label Israeli presence in the West Bank as illegal. Israel’s decision earlier this week to declare lands within the Etzion Bloc, which was settled by Jews until they were expelled by Jordanian forces in...

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Asia is the future for Israeli startups, say the organizers behind the new and first-of-its-kind Asian startup accelerator in Israel. StartupEast, in partnership with IDC’s Zell entrepreneurship program, are hosting a group of Korean entrepreneurs in a three-week course in Tel Aviv. StartupEast dubs itself as the only accelerator in...

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On Wednesday, Israel signed an agreement with Jordan to supply the Hashemite kingdom with $15 billion of natural gas from the Tamar natural gas field over 15 years. According to The Times of Israel, the deal “is the largest collaboration with Jordan to date.” [Energy and Water Minister Silvan] Shalom hailed...

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The Jerusalem Post late Tuesday reported on remarks made by a bipartisan group of American lawmakers visiting Israel – anchored on the Republican side by Rep. Ed Royce (CA) and on the Democratic side by Rep. Eliot Engel (NY) – that the outlet took as reaffirming the ties between Jerusalem...

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A poll released today by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) reveals that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians believe that Hamas defeated Israel in Operation Protective Edge, resulting in a surge of popularity. PSR observes that, “as we saw in previous instances during and immediately after Israeli wars with...

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Nicholas Saidel, the associate director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR) argues today at the Israeli website Mida that Israel can weaken Iran by allying itself with various ethnic minorities currently suffering persecution in Iran. Observing that “Hamas’ power, to a large extent, relies...

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A first-time mother from Syria is happily cradling her newborn at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed (Tsfat), after giving birth to a healthy 2.6 kg girl at the Israeli medical facility on Tuesday (August 26, 2014). This is the seventh birth of a Syrian baby at the northern medical center. “We have...

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