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Diplomacy

Arabs, Israelis at Warsaw Conference

The Arab world vowed to intensify its confrontation with Iran at a Middle East summit in Poland, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Senior Arab officials from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain said that the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran was a mistake and that the Islamic...

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Europe

Seven Labour politicians have quit Britain’s main opposition party over leader Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to tackle anti-Semitism and his approach to Brexit, the BBC reported Monday. They will sit as a new, independent group of MPs while planning their next steps in the worst Labour split for nearly 40 years....

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MidEast

Linda Sarsour

In 2018, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) gained national attention when it was revealed that a required textbook for almost 19,000 students was found to blame Jews for not tapping into their inner strength to resist during the Holocaust. Now, UNC-CH is in the news again...

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Europe

Iranian FM Javad Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif refused to answer questions about his regime’s human rights abuses, indignantly telling an interviewer, “I am a human rights professor,” Al Arabiya reported Monday. Javad Zarif, Iranian regime's PR minister's circus in Munich: "I'm a human rights professor, hence, don't question me about the...

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Israel

EarlySense

EarlySense, an Israel pioneer in contact-free continuous monitoring solutions in healthcare, was selected for a pilot project with Save the Children, an international nonprofit that works in 120 countries. Supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, EarlySense’s contact-free sensor — placed under the mattress with no...

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MidEast

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney, Australia has fired a controversial senior lecturer after he showed his students material featuring the Nazi swastika imposed over the flag of Israel, The Algemeiner reported Thursday. Tim Anderson, who taught economics and international politics at the University of Sydney for two decades, was first suspended...

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Featured

Juniper Falcon

The United States and Israeli militaries completed a joint exercise on Thursday, code-named Juniper Falcon, which tested coordination capabilities between the two countries in the event of a ballistic missile threat against Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported. As part of the exercise, some 400 IDF troops from various units –...

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Diplomacy

Nikki Haley

Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, was awarded the 2019 Friend of Israel Humanitarian Award by the Greater Miami Jewish Federation for her steadfast and courageous support of the Jewish State as part of her public activity, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday. In her speech to...

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Europe

Luciana Berger

The British Labour Party was rocked by a new scandal on Wednesday after a Jewish councillor resigned from the organization over concerns it has become “a welcoming environment for antisemites,” Jewish News reported. Councillor Dany Louise from Hastings, who is a member of Brighton and Hove Progressive Shul, wrote on...

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Iran

Hezbollah Flag

The Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, which exercises complete political and military control over Lebanon, appears to have threatened to attack Israeli passenger flights and popular tourist destinations in the Jewish State in a video circulated on social media, JNS reported Thursday. The video marked the anniversary of the death of...

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