The Arab-Israeli owner of a Columbus restaurant that was attacked by a machete-wielding terrorist in February said he now feels compelled to fight anti-Semitism and educate others about the Jewish state. “I’m an American Israeli Christian Arab. My being Israeli comes first,” Hany Baransi recently told The Times of Israel. Baransi believes his Israeli identity is why the Nazareth...

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A young Hamas operative has given Israel’s internal security agency valuable information about the Iran-backed terrorist group’s efforts to build tunnels into Israel after his arrest last month. The teenager provided “extensive information on Hamas activities to dig tunnels that are to be used for Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israeli areas,” the Shin Bet...

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An Israeli army officer was seriously injured in a blast at a West Bank checkpoint north of Jerusalem on Tuesday night. The incident took place after the soldier observed a suspicious object left along the road near the Palestinian town of Hizme and stepped out of his vehicle to examine it. According...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas did not deny that his government gives payments to jailed terrorists when confronted on the issue by Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende. The exchange was reported by the Norwegian newspaper Dagen last week. Brende reportedly demanded that Abbas stop using foreign aid to pay terrorists and their families. Abbas did not deny the...

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United Hatzalah sent a delegation of EMTs, paramedics, doctors, and logistics personnel to Panama to train their counterparts in providing the proper response for a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI). “We put a lot of emphasis on dealing with a terror attack due to the current worldwide political situation, but we...

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Hamas fired mortars at Israeli troops seeking to uncover terror tunnels built by the Iran-backed terrorist group for the fourth consecutive day on Friday. Israel launched air raids against Hamas positions inside the Gaza Strip in response to the attacks. IDF troops have been operating near the border with Gaza and inside the enclave to find terror...

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The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, confirmed Thursday that it arrested a leading Hamas tunnel expert last month. Mahmoud Atawnah, a member of Hamas’ Izz ad-din al-Qassam Brigades, was arrested after he crossed into Israel armed with two knives. Atawnah later told interrogators that he intended to kill the first Israeli he...

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The Israeli military’s discovery of a another Hamas tunnel extending into Israel, the second one discovered in recent weeks, shows that the Iran-backed terror organization is gearing up for “the next round” of war with Israel, a former IDF general said Thursday. Yossi Kuperwasser, formerly the head of the research division of Israeli military intelligence...

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The Israeli Defense Forces has found a Hamas tunnel extending into Israeli territory for the second time in three weeks, the IDF announced Thursday. The concrete-fortified tunnel is 90 feet below ground and is only a few kilometers away from the tunnel that was discovered in April, the IDF said. That was the first...

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Terror groups opened fire at Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border on Wednesday, the sixth time in two days that Israelis have been targeted by gunfire or mortar rounds. Both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attacks on the soldiers, who were originally engaged in operations aimed at finding...

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