Reuters reported on Monday that a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – the U.N.’s atomic watchdog – would be holding talks until Tuesday on among other things “how the U.N. agency would monitor a planned heavy-water reactor near the town of Arak,” which the West has long...

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Outlets and journalists over the weekend and into Monday continued to unpack what the Washington Post bluntly described as the “failure” of Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent Israeli-Palestinian peace push, which had formally expired on April 29 but had functionally been suspended since the declaration of a unity agreement...

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A Sri Lankan national arrested in India is suspected of planning terror attacks against the Israeli consulate in Bangalore (Bengaluru) and the American consulate in Chennai. Both cities are in southern India. The suspect is believed to be an agent of Pakistan’s intelligence service, ISI. Based on Indian media, Ynet...

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An American delegation headed by National Security Adviser Susan Rice is heading to Israel later this week to discuss the upcoming P5+1 negotiations with Iran, scheduled to take place next week in Vienna. Lead American negotiator Wendy Sherman and other high-ranking administration officials will accompany Rice. They will primarily be meeting with Israel’s National Security...

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The U.S. and the United Kingdom reported the first cases of the camel-borne Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus on their respective territories over the last few days, and aim to clamp down before it spreads and possibly kills. There have been 300-400 reported cases thus far, with 100 deaths. America...

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2014 is likely to be the first year in which Israeli trade with Asia will surpass Israeli trade with the United States, with 21% of Israel’s trade projected to be with the East this year, according to Israel’s Economy Ministry. The Times of Israel reports: The change in the destination of...

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Reuters on Tuesday described the emergence and effects of a “golden loophole” in what had been Western efforts to impose sanctions on Iran, with the outlet conveying the contents of a Turkish police report outlining how Turkish channels were used to implement ‘an audacious, multi-billion-dollar scheme involving bribery and suspect food...

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In a recent analysis for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Ambassador Dore Gold writes that often when the profile of Hamas rises, “there is an effort undertaken to repackage Hamas as a moderate organization.” However, Gold argues, that Hamas’s record – in word and deed – shatters those efforts time and...

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One of the reasons that Prime Minister Netanyahu flew out to California earlier this month was to sign a number of agreements with Gov. Jerry Brown. One area of cooperation between the two was for Israel to provide guidance to the Golden State to fight its drought “with water conservation...

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The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is launching a new round of anti-Israel activity, with as many as 5 new resolutions in the works this coming week. In conjunction with the UN’s year of solidarity with the Palestinian people, the Council, which has only one resolution pending this session addressing...

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