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In addition to meeting with Israel’s top leaders during his visit to the Jewish State this week, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen visited a center that promotes Israeli-Arab coexistence and admitted that Austria bore “shared responsibility” for the Holocaust. The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday that Van der Bellen said that...

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The Islamic Republic of Iran arrested, imprisoned, or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the 1979 revolution and 2009, according to leaked Iranian justice department documents, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Thursday. February 7 marks the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution that...

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Europe

The year 2018 saw a record number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain, a fact that comes down to “anti-Semitic” politics, not news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a new survey by the Community Security Trust (CST). The number of recorded anti-Semitic events rose 16 percent in the last year...

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Europe

The blame for the ongoing civil war in Yemen lays primarily with the Islamic Republic of Iran and not the West and the Saudi-led coalition, Britain’s Chair of the Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC) has told the Guardian. Labour MP Graham Jones – the most senior parliamentarian overseeing...

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Global Affairs

A company headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts with Israeli roots is playing an important role in curbing global hunger, saving millions of people from malnutrition, and pulling farmers around the globe out of the cycle of poverty. Its invention is already doing great things, but much more can be done to...

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Israel

January 2019 saw a lot of investment activity involving Israeli companies, although no triple-digit investments were posted. The biggest round for the month was $55 million raised by cybersecurity company Cato Networks from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, Greylock Partners, Singtel Innov8 Ventures and USVP Management Company LLC. Tel Aviv-based Cato was...

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Iran

The recent boasts by Iran’s atomic energy chief mean that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must ascertain that the Islamic Republic does not have a secret “plutonium pathway to nuclear weapons,” a paper published Tuesday by the Institute for Science and International Security asserted. In widely publicized remarks, Ali Akbar Salehi,...

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Diplomacy

A bill that would support United States allies in the Middle East, including Israel and Jordan, and which supports states’ efforts to discourage discriminatory anti-Israel boycotts, overwhelmingly passed the Senate, JNS reported Tuesday. The bill passed by a vote of 77 to 23. Provisions in the bill would increase U.S. security...

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Israel

The United States Army announced on Wednesday that it will purchase an unspecified number of Israel’s Iron Dome short-range missile defense systems from state-owned developer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. Globes reported that this is the first-ever export deal for Iron Dome agreed to by Israel. “The Iron Dome will...

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Iran

United States President Donald Trump defended his decision to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and branded the Islamic Republic “the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism” in his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night, JNS reported. “The radical regime in Iran is a radical...

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