Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, a Kenyan-born Israeli citizen, won a hard-fought 10,000-meter race in Berlin taking home Israel’s first ever track gold in a men’s or women’s event at the European Athletics Championships, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Salpeter finished in 31 minutes, 43.29 seconds – nine seconds ahead of...

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The prestigious Shanghai Ranking of world universities on Tuesday listed two Israeli academic institutions – The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – among the world’s top 100 universities, marking an impressive rise since last year. The two universities are ranked 77th and 95th on the...

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Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Wednesday called on residents of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to maintain the relative quiet along the border with Israel that has been in place this week, The Times of Israel reported. Liberman made the comments hours after Israel reopened the main cargo crossing into...

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Mexican media company Televisa has purchased two more original Israeli TV programs – “Yellow Peppers” and “Mythological Ex” — from Keshet International, the global content and media producer and distributor that’s part of Tel Aviv-based Keshet Media Group. “Yellow Peppers,” an award-winning series about a family’s journey with autism, was remade...

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Four incendiary terror-kites landed in southern Israel on Tuesday, as Israeli defense officials mulled over easing restrictions on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, after days of calm following an uptick in violence last week. The Times of Israel reported that, according to local government sources, four arson balloons with incendiary devices...

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In the wake of renewed revelations that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn had laid a wreath at the grave of a terrorist involved in the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, the “totality of evidence” shows that Corbyn is an anti-Semite, Julie Lenarz, a senior fellow at The...

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The widow of one of the Israeli athletes murdered in the 1972 Munich massacre have condemned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s “act of maliciousness, cruelty and stupidity” in laying wreaths at the graves of terrorists responsible for the attack. In an interview with The Israel Project on Tuesday, Ankie Spitzer, the...

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Shlomi Lazmy, a blind Israeli veteran, won first place in the International Blind Sports Federation’s 2018 Tenpin Bowling World Championships for the blind held in Prague on August 6. This is the second year in a row that Lazmy, 61, won the title. Last year’s championships were held in Japan. In the...

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Despite a ceasefire announced by Hamas on Thursday, several thousands of Gazans took part in Hamas-orchestrated riots along the Israeli-Gaza border on Friday, hurling rocks, burning tires, and sending incendiary terror-kites into Israel, The Times of Israel reported. The army said around 5,000 people had amassed at the border, and...

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United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said in a statement that the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, must stop the bias agenda against Israel at the UN Human Rights Council, The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday. “The UN has failed...

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