United Airlines announced on Thursday that it would celebrate the 20th anniversary of its business in Israel by inaugurating a non-stop route between Washington, D.C., and Tel Aviv next year, making it the first-ever American airline to serve Israel from the D.C. area, Globes reported. The carrier will offer direct...

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Thousands participated in the 17th annual LGBTQ pride event in Jerusalem on Thursday under heavy police protection. Some organizers put the number of marchers as high as 35,000 — which would make it the largest pride parade in Jerusalem ever. Participants waved rainbow flags and Israeli flags with rainbow motifs...

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An opening ceremony on July 30 at Sultan’s Pool in Jerusalem welcomed 750 boys and 750 girls from 29 countries competing in the International Children’s Games. A recognized organization of the International Olympic Committee, the Switzerland-based ICG has held the summer event in 500 different cities in 110 countries since 1968....

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Addressing a graduating class of naval officers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that if Iran attempts to close a crucial shipping lane, Israel would be part of an international coalition to ensure that the waterway remains open for international shipping, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Netanyahu’s remarks come a...

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Druze volunteer medic Ryan Amasha, 27, regularly visits an elderly man in his village of Usfiya, in Israel’s Carmel region. He checks the 80-year-old’s vital signs once a week, takes him out for coffee, and checks in by phone several times a week. Amasha’s connection with the elder was fostered...

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Russia’s envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev, said on Wednesday that Iranian forces in Syria had retreated 85 kilometers from the border with Israel following efforts by the Jewish State to increase pressure on the Kremlin, Reuters reported. However, an Israeli official deemed the pullback insufficient. “The Iranians withdrew and the...

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he will be visiting Colombia next week to attend the inauguration of the country’s newly elect president Ivan Duque, The Times of Israel reported. Several presidents from Latin America are expected to attend Duque’s inauguration and Netanyahu is expected to have...

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The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has invested $2 million in the cybersecurity research center at Ben-Gurion University (BGU), RBC and BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of BGU, announced. Funding for the partnership between the financial institution and the university will support the development of adversarial artificial intelligence (AI), including...

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Israel is subjected to an unprecedented discrimination campaign in the international sports industry, Joshua S. Block, President and CEO of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed for The Algemeiner on Friday. Block was referring to the case of seven-year-old Liel Levitan from Haifa, who recently won the European Chess...

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New-generation lung cancer drugs can be very effective, but within about a year the patients tend to develop resistance to the therapy. Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science led a study using a new combination of existing drugs to help crush potential resistance to the treatment in mice. Their...

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