The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added an Israeli site, the caves at Beit Guvrin-Maresha, to its World Heritage list on Sunday. The Jerusalem Post reports: Alongside many other sites around the world, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) elected to inscribe Beit Guvrin-Maresha...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday (video embedded below). The primary focus of his interview with host David Gregory was the current turmoil in Iraq. MTP: Netanyahu on Iraq: "Both sides are enemies of the US. You don't strengthen one – you weaken both"...

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Israeli high school students made history last night with the successful launch of the Duchifat 1 nano-satellite, which they developed and built as part of an educational project. The secondary school students at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Center, with help from the Israeli Space Agency in the...

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Reactions continue to mount against the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) General Assembly, which voted Friday to support a motion supporting divestment from three companies doing business with Israel. Critics included leaders of the Reform Jewish movement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and pastors within the church. The narrow vote was a nominal...

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Dozens of people protested as the Iran-Argentina World Cup soccer match kicked off in Belo Horizonte, Brazil yesterday. Twenty years after the worst terror attack in Argentina’s history left 85 dead at the Buenos Aires Jewish Center, Israel maintains Iran was behind the bombing. Six Iranians were identified as collaborating...

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A mortar or anti-tank missile fired from Syria killed an Israeli teenager and seriously wounded his father south of the Kuneitra crossing on the Golan Heights. The boy, identified as Mohammed Karkara, was apparently accompanying his father to work with a civilian crew doing maintenance work on the border fence....

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Suspicions that Hamas was behind last week’s kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers deepened Thursday, with an Israeli security official naming Saleh al-Arouri, the founder of Hamas’s armed wing in the West Bank, as  a key figure behind the abductions: The official claimed al-Arouri, who used to live in a village...

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Reuters reported today that a tanker carrying oil from Kurdistan is anchored in the Israeli port city of Ashkelon and is prepared to dock Saturday. Officials said Israel was keen to build good ties with the Kurds, hoping to expand its limited diplomatic network in the Middle East and broaden options...

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The American rock band The Pixies performed in Tel Aviv Tuesday night. The Times of Israel reported that though the band didn’t greet the audience with pleasantries, they demonstrated an enthusiasm for performing in Israel. For their first time in Tel Aviv, there was something close and intimate about the...

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On Thursday, Times of Israel reporter Avi Issacharoff quoted an unnamed Israeli security official blaming Saleh al-Arouri, a Hamas operative now living in Turkey, for orchestrating the kidnappings last week of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach. Issacharoff reports: According to the unnamed official, Saleh al-Arouri — a former...

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