The head of Israel’s Foreign Ministry asked Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to remove a new monument to a Palestinian who killed 15 people and wounded 77 others in a 1975 terrorist attack in central Jerusalem. In a video message, Dore Gold blasted the PA’s decision to honor Ahmed Jabara, also known as Abu Sukkar,...

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Israel’s experience in fighting terrorism can help Europe face its own threats, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor wrote in an op-ed (Google link) published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. Starting last September, Prosor wrote, Israel began facing “a new generation of terrorists radicalized on social media [that] has launched...

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Iran is broadening its search for aircraft as its proposed deals with Airbus and Boeing continue to face significant obstacles, Reuters reported on Sunday. “Iran is planning to buy some 50 more airplanes of various types soon,” an Iranian official told the news agency. Iranian executives said they attended the U.K.’s Farnborough International Airshow last week and...

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Two suspects linked to the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah will be tried in absentia for a deadly July 2012 suicide bombing that targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, prosecutors revealed on Friday. Meliad Farah and Hassan El Hajj Hassan, both natives of Lebanon, will be tried on charges of terrorism over the...

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An unmanned aerial vehicle crossed into Israeli airspace from Syria on Sunday afternoon, prompting the IDF to fire anti-aircraft missiles at the target before it returned to Syrian airspace. Israel fired two Patriot interceptors and an air-to-air missile at the drone, and scrambled fighter jets in an attempt to down it. “The aircraft was detected prior to entering...

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A major terrorist attack was averted on Sunday morning when Israeli security guards prevented a Palestinian man from boarding Jerusalem’s light rail while carrying several explosives and knives in his backpack. Police said two security personnel stationed by the Jaffa Center Station observed the man — said to be in...

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Israeli leaders expressed sympathy and solidarity with France after a terrorist attack in the city of Nice killed 84 people celebrating Bastille Day, France’s national holiday, on Thursday night. “Israel strongly condemns the terrible terror attack,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “Israelis stand united with the French people. Israel is...

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More than 80 people were killed and scores more injured after a truck rammed into a crowd in Nice, France on Thursday evening. The driver steered his car into a group of people who had just finished watching fireworks to celebrate Bastille Day, France’s national holiday, on the city’s prominent Promenade...

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Hamas has opened three-week-long training camps in Gaza for over 50,000 elementary, middle, and high school students, the Gaza-based terror organization said in a press release Sunday. Hamas official Ismail Radwan explained that the theme of the camps is the “Jerusalem Intifada,” and that the goal is “to raise a generation...

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Lawmakers and experts assembled at a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday expressed outrage over the Palestinian Authority’s policy of financially rewarding terrorist attacks against Israelis. The PA provides paychecks for Palestinian terrorists who are imprisoned in Israel, as well as money for their families and the families of those killed...

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