Four tons of a chemical used to manufacture long-range rockets were stopped from being smuggled into Gaza, Israeli security announced Tuesday. Security forces seized the ammonium chloride before Passover at the Nitzana border crossing between Israel and Egypt. The crossing is also used to facilitate the shipment of goods into Gaza. The Shin...

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Despite pledging to donor nations that it would cease paying salaries to jailed terrorists, the Palestinian Authority has continued to so, the watchdog organization Palestinian Media Watch charged in a report last week. After repeated complaints by the United States and European countries that its donations to the Palestinian Authority were being...

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Argentinean pop star Lali Esposito has a huge following in Israel. But the Casi Angeles star, who was in Tel Aviv for an April 24 concert, won even more hearts when she sent a moving video message to a Jerusalem terror victim. Eden Dadon, 15, is presently hospitalized with severe...

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week allowing victims of Iranian terror to collect $2 billion in frozen assets was “hostile and illegal, ” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Rouhani described the decision as an example of American hostility to Iran, saying that “these assets all belong to Iran...

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The political war against the legitimacy of Israel and the Jewish state continues in many forms, including through the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People (CEIRPP). This attack was launched in the General Assembly on November 10, 1975, as part of the same...

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Several members of a Hamas cell behind Monday’s suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus have been arrested, Israeli security services disclosed Thursday. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, said that several cell members from Bethlehem have been arrested following a manhunt that also included the IDF and police. After...

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The Iran-backed terror organization Hamas said Wednesday that the person behind the Monday bombing of a Jerusalem bus, which injured 21 people, was a Hamas operative, seeming to claim credit for the attack without declaring outright responsibility. The terrorist who conducted the bombing, 19-year-old Abad al-Hamid Abu Srour, was publicly identified by Hamas after he died from wounds he sustained in the...

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The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a 2012 law that allows American victims of terrorism to collect damages from $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday. The 6 – 2 decision is a legal victory for 1,300 people who were seeking the funds from Iran’s central bank, also...

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Iranians “to a large extent have themselves to blame” for their economic difficulties because of their country’s corrupt financial system and support for terrorism, The New York Times editorial board wrote on Monday. While Iran has largely complied with the nuclear-related aspects of the deal it reached with global powers last year, leading...

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The man accused of kidnapping and murdering Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir two years ago was convicted Tuesday by the Jerusalem District Court. The court found that Yosef Ben David killed Abu Khdeir for nationalistic motives and was cognizant of what he was doing. A statement from the Justice Ministry explained:...

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