Iran’s sponsorship of terrorist groups and activities has “only increased” in the year since Tehran reached a nuclear deal with world powers, Matthew Levitt, director of the Washington Institute’s counterterrorism and intelligence program, wrote in a policy analysis published Friday. Citing promises by U.S. officials to curb Iranian aggression irrespective...

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The brutal killing last week of American-Israeli teenager Hallel Yaffa Ariel has yet again raised the issue of how the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists encourage the murder of Israelis, Eli Lake wrote for Bloomberg View on Friday. Lake noted that although the recent joint report on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by the...

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On July 4, 1976 – 40 years ago today – Israeli commandos carried out a daring raid to rescue over 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages held by Palestinian and German terrorists at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. A week earlier, two terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of...

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Israel will reduce its scheduled payments to the Palestinian Authority by the amount that the PA admits spending on paying stipends to convicted terrorists and their families, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday. Israel believes that encouragement of terrorism by the Pal. leadership, in form of incitement and payments constitutes incentive for murder. —...

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An Israeli father was killed, a mother critically injured, and their two children wounded after terrorists opened fire at the family while they were traveling on Israel’s Route 60 near Hebron on Friday. The man has been identified as 48-year-old Miki Mark, a father of 10 and head of a West Bank yeshiva, The Times of Israel reported. He was...

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Outlets affiliated with the Palestinian Authority and its dominant Fatah party have granted the honorary title of “shahid,” or martyr, to a Palestinian who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl early Thursday morning. Muhammad Nasser Tarayrah broke into the West Bank community of Kiryat Arba and stabbed Hallel Yaffa Ariel to death as she slept...

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A Palestinian man broke into an Israeli home in the West Bank and stabbed a 13-year-old girl to death in her bed as she slept early Thursday morning. Hallel Yaffa Ariel was killed by a Palestinian assailant who jumped the security fence around the settlement of Kiryat Arba, according to initial reports....

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The rising levels of anti-Semitism in France, due to both historical factors and modern Arab immigration, means that French Jews have no future there, Jewish Agency for Israel chairman Natan Sharansky said Monday in Paris. “There is no future for the Jews in France because of the Arabs, and because of...

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Three suicide bombers opened fire before detonating themselves in Istanbul’s main international airport on Tuesday, killing 41 people and injuring over 230 others. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said there were indications that the Islamic State was involved, yet there has been no official claim of responsibility for the assault. Security camera footage showed a police officer shooting one of the...

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Hezbollah’s leader said on Friday that the Lebanese terrorist organization will not be harmed by U.S. sanctions since it is funded and armed directly by Iran, Agence France-Presse reported. “We are open about the fact that Hezbollah’s budget, its income, its expenses, everything it eats and drinks, its weapons and rockets, are from the Islamic...

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