The Trump administration in September ordered the closure of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C., citing the refusal of Palestinian leaders to enter into peace talks with Israel. In an interview with J.J. Green of Target USA: the National Security Podcast, Kenneth Bricker, a spokesman for The Israel Project,...

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The IDF announced that it destroyed the fifteenth Hamas-built terror tunnel over the past year, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The tunnel, which extended 200 meters (200 yards) into Israel, was located by using advanced tunnel detection techniques. According to IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis, the just-destroyed tunnel had “different...

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An exciting find was unveiled October 9 by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Israel Museum: a unique stone inscription dating from the Second Temple Period (first century CE), including the full Hebrew spelling of “Jerusalem” as we know it today. The inscription was found last winter near the Jerusalem...

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Ambassador Nikki Haley, who announced Tuesday that she would be leaving her post as United States Ambassador to the United Nations at the end of the year, made her mark by vigorously defending Israel in the often-hostile world body. But Haley didn’t just defend the Jewish state, she also pointed...

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A tenured professor, who refused to write a recommendation for a student who planned to study in Israel, was disciplined by the University of Michigan, and a second incident of an instructor refusing to write a similar letter was reported. The Detroit News reported Tuesday the University of Michigan disciplined...

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In the battle to eradicate mosquitos and the deadly diseases they can carry, introducing sterile non-biting male mosquitos to an infested area has shown great progress, with companies as mighty as Google parent Alphabet jumping into the fray. When it comes to hastening the mosquito-pocalypse in areas overrun by the...

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The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who urged the UN to reform and its members to stop singling out Israel, announced that she would be leaving her post at the end of the year, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Though she described her time representing...

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In a speech to the Beth Am congregation in Los Altos Hills, California, on Friday evening, Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, warned of the rise of far-left anti-Semitism, which he described as “cloaked in the language of progressive idealism and far more nuanced than traditional...

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There are an estimated 6 million wheelchair users in the United States and Europe, some of whom could walk again if insurance carriers would approve the cost of coverage for a device innovated in Israel. Not only would underwriting this coverage allow paraplegics to regain a sense of autonomy and...

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The Vertigo Dance Company of Jerusalem is doing a Latin American performance tour from October 7 through November 5, presenting Noa Wertheim’s “White Noise” in Mexico, Panama, Peru and Colombia. The dance company also was supposed to perform in Nicaragua, but due to anti-government riots going on there, that stop was canceled...

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