Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, is heading to Washington with a delegation of top Israeli nuclear and defense experts in advance of the July 20 deadline in talks with Iran. Israel fears the Americans will back down from demands that Iran comply with multiple United Nations sanctions. The...

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Despite the promise from Palestinian Authority President Mahmnoud Abbas that the new government he created with Hamas would reject violence, some 56 rockets have been fired from Hamas’ Gaza stronghold in the two weeks since three Israeli teens were abducted. The latest barrage on Saturday night led to the destruction...

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Itay Eshet’s 10-year-old said she wanted a Facebook account. Nothing doing, said Dad. But everyone’s using it, the little girl complained. At that point, some parents would have caved in and others would have ignored the whining. Eshet did neither. He agreed that children under 13 – the official minimum...

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In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who was tapped last year by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to head peace talks for Jerusalem, and who during the most recent negotiations with the Palestinians was a key figure in laying the groundwork for Secretary...

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June 26, 2014 marked the first anniversary of when the Market Vectors Israel Exchange Traded Fund (or ETF) started trading on the New York Stock Exchange. According to the NASDAQ website, an ETF is a fund that tracks a stock index. The Market Vector Israel ETF (NYSE: ISRA) is based on BlueStar...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized on Monday the Palestinian Authority’s continued granting of substantial monthly salaries and grants upon the release of incarcerated terrorists. These monthly salaries range from $3,500 to $25,000. The terrorists’ salaries and grants are determined by the number of years that they spent in an Israeli prison for their...

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As a nuclear deal with Iran appears to be drawing closer, Israel is growing more nervous that the international community may settle for a pact that leaves the Islamic Republic with the ability to quickly assemble nuclear weapons. “Also in the past two weeks despite the public’s justifiable attention on...

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The Times of Israel on Monday reported that Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, born Ronald Jay Blumenthal, played Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem, after being asked asked by a fan backstage. Citing a blogger, Darren Garnick, who had been invited backstage with a group of other fans by Thal last week, The Times tells...

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As Israel carries on its search for kidnapped teenagers Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Fraenkel, Israeli doctors of Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) continue to save the lives of Palestinian children at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. Since the beginning of Operation Brother’s Keeper, five Palestinian children have...

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Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, announced the names of the suspects in the abduction of Gilad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel, and Eyal Yifrach two weeks ago. The Times of Israel reports: The two alleged abductors, Amer Abu Aysha and Marwan Kawasme, are both known Hamas members. They have been...

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