A poll commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that was released yesterday shows that “fewer than 30% of Palestinians now support a ‘two-state solution’: a West Bank/Gaza Palestinian state in lasting peace with Israel.” According to David Pollock of the Washington Institute, who wrote an analysis of the...

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Israeli basketball fans are whooping it up as recently resigned Maccabi Tel Aviv coach David Blatt signs head coach position with the Cleveland Cavaliers. This is the first time an Israeli will coach an NBA team. After Blatt led Maccabi Tel Aviv to a stunning upset of Real Madrid in...

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Israeli officials on Tuesday doubled down on claims made earlier this week that the Bashar al-Assad regime was responsible for a weekend attack near the Israel-Syria border that killed an Israeli boy. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said it was “clear” that forces loyal to the Assad regime were behind...

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Five rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza Tuesday evening. Two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system before they could explode in populated areas. One of the rockets fell short and exploded in a Palestinian home in Gaza. The blast from that rocket killed...

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It was reported Monday that Israel had charged Ziad Awad and his son Izzedin Hassan Ziad in the Passover eve killing of police commander Baruch Mizrahi. Mizrahi’s pregnant wife Hadas and a son were injured in the attack. The New York Times reports on the arrests: Ziad Awad, now 42, was...

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The third intifada has begun in the West Bank, according to the man who led Hamas’ regime in Gaza until the power-sharing deal brought in a Fatah-Hamas Palestinian government in June. Former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh described the clashes as an “intifada,” or uprising. “We’re not saying the intifada will start;...

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In Why Are Student Leaders and Jewish Bruins Under Attack at UCLA?, which appears in the June 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, UCLA student Tessa Nath gives an in-person account of the ways that anti-Israel activists contributed to a destructive campus atmosphere. She describes how she felt as she waited to speak at a...

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Israeli researchers have found a new tiny molecule that could spell great news for people suffering from depression. According to the World Health Organization, such mood disorders as depression affect some 10% of the world’s population and are associated with a heavy burden of disease. E xisting anti-depressants are not...

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The Times of Israel reported Monday that Israel is actively seeking to dampen escalatory tensions along the Israel-Syria border: A senior military official noted Monday, however, that Israel had no interest in military escalation along its northern borders, as the IDF was focused on an operation in the West Bank...

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Jordan is facing threats on three fronts: from Syria, ISIS in Iraq and potentially from Hamas in the West Bank, former head of the Israel Defense Forces Operations Branch Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv told a news conference of The Israel Project on June 24. The threat to Jordan from ISIS,...

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