Israeli tanks fired on a number of Hamas targets inside the Gaza Strip, following a series of explosions caused by improvised explosive devices (IED) at Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled enclave, The Times of  Israel reported Thursday. “IDF troops retaliated by firing from a tank at positions belonging to the...

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On the first day of a pilot program pairing Israeli and Palestinian farmers interested in joint agricultural ventures, each population sat warily on opposite sides of the room. Though all had agreed to be part of the trailblazing training program held at the Galilee International Management Institute (GIMI) on Kibbutz Mizra, significant...

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As part of the ongoing Juniper Cobra 2018 exercises between the IDF and the United States military, IDF paratroopers have been training their counterparts in the U.S. Marines in the “lost art” of fighting in tunnels, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Over the past ten days, Israeli and U.S....

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Elbit Systems Ltd., Israel’s largest non-government-owned defense firm, announced on Wednesday that it was awarded a $65 million contract by an Asian-Pacific country to provide a comprehensive Search and Rescue (SAR) solution. The project will be performed over a three-year period. The company did not name the country. The Times...

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A White House official told reporters that the Trump administration was committed to helping residents of Gaza with or without help from the Palestinian Authority, which boycotted an international summit held at the White House this week geared toward helping the coastal enclave, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “Our...

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Americans are “as strongly pro-Israel” as anytime in the thirty years Gallup has polling American attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the polling agency assessed in a news alert released on Wednesday. The 64% of Americans who sympathize more with Israel matches the high previously recorded in 1991 and 2013. Gallup:...

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Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) was awarded a Shield of Appreciation by the Ecuadorian Red Cross at a ceremony celebrating 14 years of existence of the Higher Technological Institute of the Ecuadorian Red Cross (ISTCRE). Israeli Ambassador in Quito Edwin Yabo and MDA accepted the awards of appreciation for MDA’s ongoing support...

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Due to “poor policy choices” in the Middle East, “Iran is winning,” meaning that the United States needs a “clear and coherent strategy to push back” a leading foreign policy voice in the United States Senate wrote Monday in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. Describing his recent trip to...

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Israel is not at the center of the bloodshed in the Middle East; instead, the Islamic Republic of Iran connects many of the region’s “trouble spots,” TIP CEO and President, Joshua S. Block, argued in an op-ed published in The Jerusalem Post on Monday. “Of all the policy myths that...

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Following a devastating earthquake that struck Papua New Guinea’s highlands region on February 26, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) delivered 40 generators to affected communities. The 7.5-magnitude earthquake left around 100 people dead and more than 150,000 people in desperate need of emergency...

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