Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Japan this week promoting bilateral ties, drew a parallel between Israel and Japan’s challenges with nuclear proliferation, warning on Thursday that Iran was supplying North Korea with nuclear technology. The online news site Japan Today reports: Netanyahu, who is in Japan this week for talks...

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The Daily Beast on Wednesday published details of a new poll by The Israel Project – which the organization formally published later that morning – finding that “over twice as many Americans agree with Israel’s claim that they are not primarily to blame for the failure of the Middle East...

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This week SpaceIL launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to finance its development of the first Israeli spacecraft to land on the moon. The SpaceIL team is the only Israeli team competing for the Google Lunar X Prize. SpaceIL is one of 33 international, non-governmental teams seeking to be the first to develop a craft...

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The Anti-Defamation League this week released the results of a comprehensive international survey of anti-Semitic attitudes. The Palestinian Authority topped the list of the 10 places on earth with the highest level of anti-Semitism. This result underscores the importance of the Israeli demand that the Palestinian political leadership cease its incitement against Israel. The...

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Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth this weekend assessed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) faces what the outlet described as an “economic meltdown,” days before the two dominant Palestinian factions – Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Fatah, which controls Palestinian portions of the West Bank – announced that they were...

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A poll released this morning by The Israel Project (TIP) shows that voters overwhelmingly hold the Palestinian Authority (PA) responsible for the recent breakdown in peace talks and overwhelmingly agree with the stance – emphasized by both the Israeli government and the State Department – that Jerusalem can’t be expected...

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“Some” are looking to turn Jerusalem into a city of one religion, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said May 12 in a barely-veiled attack on Israel. He made the comment during the opening ceremony of a conference in Ankara on the status of Jerusalem, organized by the United Nation’s Committee on...

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French Jewish immigration to Israel has increased significantly during the first quarter of 2014 and “could touch a record” for the year. The Jewish Agency for Israel reports that 1,407  French Jews left for Israel in the first three months of the year as opposed to just 353 during the same period...

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has seemingly accepted Israel’s offer of help in rescuing some 200 schoolgirls captured in April by members of the Islamist terror organization Boko Haram. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office gave no details of its proposed assistance but Jonathan said Netanyahu offered during a phone conversation to...

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President Barack Obama was honored Wednesday by the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation. Filmmaker Stephen Spielberg, who created the foundation, presented the president with the Ambassador for Humanity award. In his remarks, the president condemned the official anti-Semitism of foreign governments such as Iran. And that includes confronting a rising tide of anti-Semitism around...

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