Oshri Bitau is only 10 years old and started piano lessons only six months ago. But he’s already performed a Beethoven composition at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and three classical pieces in an end-of-the-school-year concert at the Municipal Conservatory in his hometown of Nazareth Illit. And no sooner did local...

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The United States government slammed Hamas’ campaign of terror against Israel, after tens of thousands of Israelis spent the night in bomb shelters as rocket barrages that began Wednesday evening continued throughout the night and into Thursday. Following an escalation by Hamas that saw the first rocket from the Iranian-backed...

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Kuwait Airways has paid a “substantial” settlement to an Israeli woman whom it refused service to, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Last November, Mandy Blumenthal went to the Kuwait Airways counter at Heathrow Airport and attempted to purchase a ticket for a London to Bangkok flight. In a video...

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Texas, Oregon, Florida, New Jersey, as well as Canada, Greece, India, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK are among other areas battling massive forest fires, a phenomenon experts expect will only increase due to climate change. It was the massive forest fires in Israel over the past several years...

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Shrapnel from rockets or Iron Dome interceptors struck four sites in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, injuring two, Wednesday evening, in the latest escalation of violence by Hamas — the terrorist group that exercises complete military and political control over the Gaza Strip — The Times of Israel reported....

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British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been caught on tape saying that the BBC “has a bias towards saying that… Israel has a right to exist,” The Times of Israel reported Wednesday, as the party faces fresh allegations of anti-Semitism. Corbyn made the comments in 2011 in an interview with...

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Los Angeles city prosecutor Spencer Hart, who is reviewing the belligerent shutdown of a Students Supporting Israel panel at the University of California-Los Angeles on May 17, 2018, has requested additional investigative materials from the UCLA Police, according to a prosecution source. The request on Case 18-1206 was transmitted to...

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For the second time in two months, an international credit rating agency has raised its assessment of Israel’s economy, as Standard and Poor’s raised Israel’s credit rating to -AA, Ynet reported Saturday. In July, Moody’s raised Israel’s outlook of Israel’s economy from “stable” to “positive.” This means that in the next year...

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Egypt’s Dolphinus Holdings plans to start importing gas from Israel in early 2019, Reuters news agency reported Sunday. “Imports will start in small quantities first and will gradually increase to reach their climax in September 2019,” one source told Reuters. The source gave no details on prices or quantities. In...

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The 70th anniversary celebrations of the State of Israel are joined this year by EL AL Israel Airlines, which was born in tandem with the state in 1948. In honor of its own birthday and to promote the launch of 16 new and advanced aircraft, the company painted one of...

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