Israeli security officials on Thursday announced the July bust of a smuggling ring and arrest of at least four Arab-Israelis who had been coordinating with Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon to bring weapons and drugs into Israel via the country’s border with Lebanon with the possible intent of conducting an attack...

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Rabbi Richard Block, president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and one of the leading rabbis of Reform Judaism, last week cancelled his subscription to The New York Times. In an open letter published in Tablet Magazine, Block identified himself as “lifelong Democrat, a political liberal, a Reform rabbi,”...

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Former MK Dr. Einat Wilf argued, in a column that appeared in Israel Hayom Sunday, that it is necessary to call the bluff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and show that it is “a hostile Palestinian organization that perpetuates the dream of the return of Palestinian...

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An article published in Popular Science last week examined why Israel is a world leader in high tech start-ups. The article initially focused on a company called BriefCam, whose product aided authorities in finding the suspects in last year’s Boston Marathon bombing by allowing them to review thousands of videos and...

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In an analysis published on Thursday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Arab affairs analyst Pinchas Inbari wrote that Hamas is positioned to open a new front in its war with Israel—in the north. Inbari cites a Lebanese news site that connected Qatar-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal with the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front, which...

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A 12-second video clip created by a Ferguson, Missouri resident as a private message to a friend is believed to have captured Police Officer Darren Wilson allegedly shooting to death Michael Brown on August 9. Using the Israeli-made Glide video messaging smartphone application, the man started to record his message...

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Amid reports that they engaged Syrian rebels in a gun-battle that lasted for seven hours, dozens of Filipino peacekeepers managed to escape Syria and seek refuge in Israel. Under cover of darkness, 40 Filipino peacekeepers who were surrounded and came under fire by Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights made...

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Top figures from the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday lashed out against Hamas, criticizing the Palestinian terror organization for what now appears to have been a deliberate series of escalatory gambits in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, which ultimately triggered, respectively, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge and Operation Brother’s...

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In an essay published Wednesday in The New Republic, Yossi Klein Halevi celebrates the resilience shown by Israelis during Operation Protective Edge, when nearly all of Israel came under attack by Hamas rockets and mortars, by concluding that the message Israel sent its enemies is, “We’re here to stay.” In...

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Hamas was forced to accept a ceasefire with Israel without securing any of its core demands – an end to import restrictions on the Gaza Strip, salaries for Hamas operatives, the release of captured terrorists, the construction of a sea port, and so on – despite the group having long...

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