A three-person emergency response team is being deployed today by Japan IsraAID Support Program (JISP), the Japanese branch of IsraAID: Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid, to the Okayama prefecture in western Japan where the heaviest rainfall in decades has caused flooding, landslides and loss of life. More than 95 fatalities...

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If declassified, a 2012 report on Palestinian refugees could force the Palestinian government to “govern, not merely stir up antagonism with Israel,” making peace in the Middle East more likely, two experts with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Wall Street Journal....

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Upon entering the new natural history museum in Tel Aviv, visitors are greeted by a vivid re-enactment of the great avian migrations from Africa to Europe through northern Israel’s Hula Valley, complete with stuffed hawks, pelicans and vultures circling around the ceiling of the building’s entrance. The 100,000-square-foot Noah’s Ark-shaped...

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The IDF targeted a Syrian army position following the landing of an errant mortar shell in a demilitarized section of the Golan Heights, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. The shell was apparently fired during fighting between the Syrian army and rebel forces in the area. A statement from the IDF...

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A military delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) visited Israel recently to learn about the operations of the F-35 stealth fighter, i24News reported Wednesday. According to unspecified sources, a United States delegation was also present at the time the UAE delegation was there to learn more about Lockheed Martin-made...

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Emergency mobile communications technology developed by Israeli company Maxtech Networks is being used by rescue teams working to save 12 teenagers and their 25-year-old coach who have been trapped for nearly two weeks in a flooded cave in Thailand. The teenagers, a boys’ soccer team, went missing on June 23 after a soccer...

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Fifteen Israeli start-up companies briefed some 200 UK-based corporations, investors, and family businesses on their technologies at an event in London held by the chamber of commerce UK Israel Business (UKIB), The Times of Israel reported Thursday. A vast variety of sectors were represented by companies which research in the...

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“Salam Aleikum” began the letter that hundreds of Syrian refugees found attached to tents they received last week via the Israel Defense Forces’ Operation Good Neighbor. The letter was hastily written in English by Gal Lusky, who has been supplying humanitarian aid to Syrian victims of the civil war since 2011...

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The Knesset overwhelmingly passed into law on Monday a bill that allows Israel to deduct the payments the Palestinian Authority makes to Palestinian terrorists and their families from the taxes Israel collects and passes on to the PA, The Times of Israel reported. The bill, which passed 87-15, aims at...

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An Iranian general on Monday accused Israel of manipulating the weather to prevent rain over the Islamic Republic, alleging his country was the victim of cloud “theft,” Newsweek reported. “The changing climate in Iran is suspect,” Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, said during an...

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