The Foreign Ministers of France and Germany held talks with Israeli leaders Monday to discuss United States President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran. Both German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his French counterpart Yves-Jean Le Drian have...

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With less than two months until the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest kicks off in Lisbon, Israel’s entry to the competition has already captured the attention of music-lovers around the world. “Toy,” sung by Netta Barzilai and co-written by Doron Medalie, is quickly rising to the top of the Eurovision betting...

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Following the passage of five resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council condemning Israel, both the United States and United Kingdom lashed out at the council for its anti-Israel bias, The Jewish Chronicle reported Friday. While the UK did not vote against all of the resolutions, it voted against...

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Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni said on Saturday that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was “unfit” to return to political life due to his conviction for corruption and observed that Israel must be led by “untarnished people.” The Times of Israel reported that Livni made the comments in an interview...

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Max Simonovsky’s two-and-a-half-year-old son was well trained in routine handwashing. But one day when the water in his Rehovot neighborhood was shut off for repairs, the boy reasoned that if water wasn’t available, he therefore had no need to wash his hands after playing outside. The Israeli dad was fascinated...

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A joint symposium by Israel’s Rambam Health Care Campus and Stanford University Medicine was held earlier this week on the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, California, with the aim of exploring best practices and the latest developments in clinical medicine, research and the use of technology in medicine. The symposium will...

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On a state visit to Israel, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev became the first world leader to visit Israel’s national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in Beersheba, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Radev and other Bulgarian officials and businessmen discussed cooperation in the area of cybersecurity with their Israeli counterparts....

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For the first time ever a commercial flight headed to Israel passed over Saudi Arabian airspace, as Air India’s inaugural New Delhi-Tel Aviv flight was tracked over the Gulf Kingdom, Reuters reported Thursday. While Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel and the two nations have no formal diplomatic relations, the...

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Technology mogul and superstar entrepreneur Elon Musk referred to Israel as a “technological power” during his visit to the country this week. Evidence of his travels around Israel has been popping up on Musk’s personal Instagram feed since Tuesday. Between hiking the mountaintop Masada fortress and enjoying Jerusalem’s culinary scene,...

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Israel’s chief of military intelligence in 2007 said in a press briefing hosted by The Israel Project Wednesday that the Israeli Air Force’s destruction of a Syrian reactor shows that when Israel is faced with “a very serious threat” to its existence, “Israel is going to act, and act even...

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