The United States and Israel celebrated the one year anniversary of the U.S relocating its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem at a ceremony hosted Tuesday by Jerusalem’s Friends of Zion Museum. In his address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the “indispensable alliance” with the United States and applauded...

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The Israeli and American national academies of science signed a cooperation agreement in Jerusalem on April 7, a move set to further scientific research in both countries. The ceremony was held at President Reuven Rivlin’s Jerusalem residence. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities was represented by its president, Prof....

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Anti-Semitic attacks spiked 13% in 2018 from the previous year, Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry said in a grim assessment in its annual report on Wednesday. The highest number of anti-Semitic incidents in Western countries were reported in the United States, France, Britain,...

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The United States announced Monday the end of waivers that allowed eight countries to import Iranian oil without facing U.S. sanctions as part of an escalating campaign to bring Iran’s crude exports “to zero” and undercut Tehran’s power across the Middle East. The announcement affects China, Japan, Turkey, South Korea,...

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The United States has formally designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) as a foreign terrorist organization, a notice in the U.S. Federal Register confirmed on Monday. In a statement on the website, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: “I hereby designate the aforementioned organization and its aliases...

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In an unprecedented move, the United States designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Quds Force, the extraterritorial branch of the IRGC, as a terrorist organization on Monday. It is the first time that the U.S. has designated another nation’s army as a terrorist group. “The IRGC is the...

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Trump Recognizes Israeli Sovereignty over Golan

In a groundbreaking development, the United States announced Monday that it formally recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. is the first country to sign such a proclamation. Standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump made...

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Military Leadership of Syria, Iran

The Syrian regime and its main backer, Iran, on Monday demanded that the United States withdraw all its troops from the war-torn country as they threatened to crush Washington’s Kurdish allies by force, Reuters reported. “The only card remaining in the hands of the Americans and their allies is the...

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Golan Heights

The United States referred to the Golan Heights as an area “under Israeli control,” instead of “occupied territory,” for the first time in its latest annual human rights report, published on Wednesday by the State Department, Axios reported. Israel captured most of the Golan Heights from Syria during the June...

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Despite the media attention she’s been getting for her controversial remarks about Israel and American Jews, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D – Minn.), and the movement she represents will not “succeed in breaking up the U.S.-Israel alliance,” a prominent historian said in a column published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal....

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