In the heaviest shelling of Israel from Gaza since the 2014 war with Hamas, terrorists fired more than 28 mortars into Israel, with one landing next to a kindergarten, before the school day started, The New York Times reported Tuesday. This morning, nearly 30 rockets were fired by Palestinian terrorists from...

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Marking its first joint Israeli-American medical specialist mission, Israeli humanitarian aid organization IsraAID arranged for a delegation of American pediatricians to join IsraAID’s ongoing medical program in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. According to IsraAID, Kakuma is one of the world’s oldest and largest refugee camps and is chronically understaffed. Kakuma houses...

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A military air base in western Syria was hit in an airstrike Thursday night, in what a Syrian war-monitoring group says was a suspected Israeli strike on munitions depots belonging to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, The Times of Israel reported. “Six missiles were fired at the Daba’a military airport...

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Researchers from Haifa’s prestigious Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed world-changing technology – from new methods for detecting lung disease to launching the next generation of synchronized nano-satellites. But sometimes, the guys and girls at the cutting edge of science just wanna have fun. And what’s more fun that dropping a raw egg...

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After the deadly Hamas-led riots last week at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, Gazans were asking of Hamas, the terrorist group that rules Gaza, what it had accomplished by ratcheting up the violence. One young man told The New York Times that nothing was accomplished by the violence, adding,...

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A picture of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the hospital, apparently published to quell concerns about his health, shows the leader reading a newspaper with an anti-Israel cartoon, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. While Abbas appears to be reading one side of the paper, there is a cartoon...

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Louisiana on Tuesday became the twenty-fifth U.S. state to enact legislation or executive orders against the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) Movement, The Times-Picayune reported. Gov. John Bel Edwards issued an executive order prohibiting the Louisiana state government from executing contracts with businesses that engage in the boycott of Israel. The order...

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At age 14, “Nathan” was living on the streets of his Israeli working-class town. Academically crippled by ADHD, he eventually attended a therapeutic boarding school and served in the army. His employment future looked bleak until he heard about a Google certification program in digital marketing run by JDC-Tevet, a partnership...

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A University of California program for encouraging overseas studies is being criticized for cancelling an upcoming event celebrating students who have studied in Israel on account of the Hamas-led riots on its border with Israel, the Jewish Journal reported Thursday. According to Jenny, a coordinator of a Kosher caterer that...

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Last month, Model UN members from countries including Belgium, Congo, France, Germany, Madagascar, South Africa, South Korea and the United States — all in Israel this year for studies abroad — joined Israeli Jewish and Arab peers at Ariel University for the first-ever MUN Debate Competition in Israel. “The conference...

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