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CloudEndure, an Israeli company, confirmed that it had been acquired by AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing unit, for $250 million, Globes reported Thursday. “CloudEndure is now an Amazon Web Services company. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner since 2016, CloudEndure has long joined forces to help customers future-proof their businesses. This acquisition...

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Human Rights

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have been accused of holding six prominent members of the Baha’i religious minority as prisoners of conscience and fabricating criminal charges against them, including colluding with Israel, The National reported last week. The deputy human rights minister of the internationally recognized Yemeni government said...

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Diplomacy

Britain’s International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt has been urged to take “a firmer approach” to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), which is under fire for a lack of reform and the perpetuation of the Palestinian refugee problem. After the United States announced in September that it was...

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Europe

The Dutch government has revealed for the first time that Iran hired criminal hitmen to assassinate two Iranian dissidents in the Netherlands, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. The announcement was part of a coordinated European Union initiative that saw sanctions imposed on Tehran for a widespread campaign of assassination plots...

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Diplomacy

The United States has begun withdrawing its troops from Syria, following last month’s announcement by President Donald Trump that the U.S. would leave the country, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-led forces fighting ISIS, stated that U.S. troops have “begun the process of our deliberate withdrawal from...

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Israel

Hoping to produce more Olympic medalists in the future, the Israel Olympic Committee and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology recently launched the Israeli Olympic Sports Research Center. “The joint establishment of the center will position Israel in an advantageous position over our competitors in world sports with regard to scientific...

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Europe

A Scottish councillor, who was suspended for her anti-Semitic comments on social media, has been readmitted into the British Labour Party, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. Mary Bain Lockhart wrote on Facebook in July that a joint editorial by three Jewish newspapers against rising anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was...

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Europe

Acclaimed author J. K. Rowling, an outspoken critic of rising levels of anti-Semitism in Britain, lashed back on Wednesday against a racist smear of comedian Stephen Fry, Benjamin Kerstein reported for The Algemeiner. The controversy arose when Rowling tweeted her support for Fry, a well-known British-Jewish comedian and actor, after...

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Diplomacy

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed in a speech in Cairo on Thursday that the Trump administration will work with allies to “expel every last Iranian boot” from Syria, the Times of Israel reported. “We strongly support Israel’s efforts to stop Tehran from turning Syria into the next...

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MidEast

Is the effort to combat the BDS movement much ado about nothing? Given the abject failure of the campaign to boycott, divest and sanction Israel to harm the economy of the Jewish state or even to get American universities to endorse their efforts, there are those who consider all the...

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