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Iran

Iran is likely behind a major assault on the internet’s infrastructure, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is the main international registry of internet addresses, warned on Friday that the infrastructure undergirding the system of internet domains was subject to “an ongoing...

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Iran

Former (?) Iranian FM Zarif

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has submitted his resignation, Reuters reported Monday. Writing in Persian on his personal Instagram account, Zarif, who was the public face of Iran during the 2015 nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 — which consisted of the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France,...

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Europe

Milne, Corbyn

An explosive investigative report from Britain’s Mail on Sunday has unearthed long-standing ties between a senior aide to the Labour Party’s embattled leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and terrorist organizations committed to the destruction of Israel. The report details how Seumas Milne, the party’s head of strategy and communications, has for decades...

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MidEast

Hezbollah flag

Britain said on Monday it would ban the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah in its entirety after Home Secretary Sajid Javid says authorities can no longer distinguish between the group’s military and political wings, Reuters reported. Hezbollah’s leaders have said on numerous occasions that while some Western governments separate between the...

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Israel

Anti-Israel activist and Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour gave the keynote address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Minority Health Conference on February 22. Many community members were baffled that the UNC Minority Health Conference extended an invitation to Sarsour to give the keynote address. As one...

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Israel

Women's Summit in Israel

For Forbes magazine Chief Content Officer Randall Lane, Israel was a natural choice to host the first-ever Forbes Under 30 Global Women’s Summit, set to take place in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from March 31 to April 4, 2019 with 600 participants from 50 countries. It’s not only because participants rated...

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Europe

The chief of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service recently visited Israel to discuss the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program, The Times of Israel reported Friday. Israel’s Channel 13 reported that Alex Younger, the MI6 chief, arrived in Israel on Monday and met with Yossi Cohen, head of the Mossad, and...

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Featured

Beresheet Lifting off, going to the moon

Israel’s first moon mission successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 missile from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Thursday night, Reuters reported. If the mission is successful, Israel will join the prestigious group of only three countries that have so far landed on the moon: Russia, the United States, and China....

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Diplomacy

U.S. Anti-Semtism Envoy Elan Carr

In an address to American Jewish leaders gathered for a conference in Jerusalem on Thursday, the United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism said that he would work to end the “attempted distinction” between anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish hate, JNS reported. Elan Carr, who was appointed to the role...

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Diplomacy

Iran's Khamenei and IRGC Leaders

In an op-ed published in The Algemeiner on Thursday, The Israel Project CEO and President, Josh Block, slammed the European Union for sabotaging “bipartisan US efforts to hold Iran accountable for its illicit nuclear and non-nuclear activities.” Block noted that “in the struggle for fundamental freedom, one would expect the...

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