The fourth week of violent Hamas-led riots at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel was marked by smaller crowds than in previous weeks and attempts to use swastika-marked kites to send molotov cocktails into Israel, The Times of Israel reported Friday. According the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, four Gazans were killed during...

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Forty United Nations ambassadors representing nations in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere, visited Israel to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the modern Jewish State, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The group of ambassadors visited sites across the country, including Masada, the Dead Sea, the border with...

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The latest in a long string of Israeli TV formats picked up by Hollywood studios is “Nevsu,” a primetime series about an Israeli family headed by an Ethiopian father and Ashkenazi mother. For American viewers, the Fox TV network is renaming the show “Culture Clash” as a pilot focusing on a blended...

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Three hundred drones, made and operated by chip-making giant Intel, entertained the crowd at Mt. Herzl Wednesday night with a light show celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary of its independence, Haaretz reported. The 300 drones, called “Shooting Stars” by Intel, used in the display are lightweight, just 330 grams, and can...

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Inspectors discovered explosives hidden in a truck, possibly intended for a large-scale terror attack during Israel’s Independence Day, at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. In addition to merchandise intended for Israeli settlements, inspectors found explosives in the roof of the truck according...

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When students and volunteers began their work on Israel’s first interactive hiking path, a 70-kilometer (43-mile) historic stretch of land dubbed the Sanhedrin Trail, they didn’t expect to find physical pieces of the country’s history. During preparations for the trail, set to open in honor of Israel’s 70th Independence Day celebrations,...

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The European Union’s Parliament passed legislation to bar EU aid from being used to fund anti-Israel hate education in Palestinian schools, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control introduced legislation in March to ensure that all initiatives supported by EU funds “reflect common values such as...

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Israeli blind golfer Zohar Sharon, 65, won the ISPS Handa 2018 US Blind Golf Open held April 5-8 at the Haven Golf Course in Green Valley, Arizona. Sharon, who is also hearing impaired as a result of an injury in the 1970s, has won the International Blind Golf Association’s world...

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Following last week’s airstrike that targeted Iranian forces based at the Tiyas or T-4 airbase in Syria, two Iranian officials have threatened Israel. On Monday, according to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated Tasnim News,  Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that Israel would receive “required responses sooner or later,” and that Israel “cannot take...

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Ahead of Israel’s Independence Day, the military is preparing for a potential direct attack against the Jewish State by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) air force, in response to Israel’s strikes on Iranian military targets in Syria, The Times of Israel reported. On Tuesday morning, the IDF released aerial...

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