A “top-ranking overseas operative of Hamas” was arrested last week, according to a report Friday in the Times of Israel. The operative gave Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, details about how Hamas operates inside of Israel. According the report, Mahmoud Toameh “gave the security agency a wealth of details” on...

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Israeli border police on Friday apprehended a man they believed was on his way to a suicide attack. The police, near the Tapuach Junction in Samaria, noticed a man, believed to be in his twenties wearing a heavy coat in 95 degree heat. Israel Hayom reports that initially the suspect refused to stop:...

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A hacking campaign targeting American and Israeli has been exposed by a cybersecurity company on Thursday. The Washington Post reports that iSight Partners uncovered the scheme. Since at least 2011, the hackers have targeted current and former senior military officials, including a four-star admiral; current and former foreign policy officials who...

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At least seven Israelis were injured yesterday in a series of attacks around Jerusalem during celebrations of Jerusalem Day, the forty-seventh anniversary of the city’s liberation from Jordanian occupation. The Times of Israel reported that an Egged bus was stoned as it traveled on Salah a-Din street in a largely...

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On Tuesday, a federal judge refused to dismiss a suit brought by a pro-Israel group against the IRS.  In her ruling, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson demanded that the agency stop “attempting to thwart this action’s advancement,”  and ordered the IRS to respond to the complaint within thirty days. The Philadelphia-based group,...

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On Wednesday Ethiopian Jews commemorated the estimated 4,000 of their number who died on their way to Israel. The commemoration took place on Mt. Herzl. The Jerusalem Post reports: The annual ceremony, the “Memorial Day for Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel,” is observed annually to commemorate the...

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In the May 2014 issue of  The Tower Magazine, Ben Cohen examined The Deep UN: Inside the Secret Infrastructure of Hate. While, as Cohen previously noted, the United Nations pursues some worthy goals, it nonetheless possesses “a network of extremely well-funded UN structures and offices” that “continue operating as the engine of the...

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A Turkish court acceded to the request of prosecutors and issued arrest warrants May 26 in the names of four leading Israelis for their alleged role in the 2010 Mavi Marmara episode. The demand for the arrests flies in the face of media reports and comments from Turkish leaders that...

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In Israel for this week’s MIXiii Israel Innovation Conference, Vikas Jain, CEO of Indian smartphone maker Micromax, said Thursday that he saw partnering with his company as a more lucrative path for Israeli app developers than a buyout. The Times of Israel reported: “We have a base of hundreds of millions of...

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A day after Pope Francis touched the Palestinian side of Israel’s security fence, with his aides calling for all walls to be torn down, the pontiff paid a visit to the Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem. Francis deviated from his whirlwind itinerary to visit a...

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