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Diplomacy

The Palestinian Mission to Berlin took down a pro-terror Facebook post after receiving a rare rebuke from Germany’s Foreign Ministry, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. The mission removed a Facebook post featuring the image of hijacker Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...

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Israel

Among the 177 cadets who were awarded their wings from the Israeli Air Force is Lieutenant Y, the first Ethiopian to become a combat pilot, Ynet reported Wednesday. Lt. Y, whose full name remains secret like all combat pilots, said, “Being a member of the air squadrons and serving in one of the...

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MidEast

Satellite images released by an Israeli company show that a Hezbollah facility for storing Fajr-5 missiles was destroyed by overnight airstrikes Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The missile storehouse was located on an Iranian base in Syria, approximately 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border with Israel. The Fajr-5 missiles...

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Israel

Chef Einat Admony is familiar with the stress of opening a new restaurant, having opened 13 restaurants throughout her career. But the days leading up to the reopening of her latest eatery, Balaboosta, felt more intense than usual. ”We had a short amount of time to pull everything together. But...

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Featured

Here are the ten most-read posts that were published in The Tower during 2018. This selection gives a picture of the stories that were most important to supporters of Israel over the course of the year. 1) Advocates for Terror: Why Ahed Tamimi and Her Family are No Heroes This op-ed...

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MidEast

The IDF announced that it had located and destroyed a fifth cross-border terror tunnel built by Hezbollah just after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Operation Northern Shield, the effort to protect northern Israel from the tunnel threat, is “mostly behind us.” The Israeli military announced that it had located...

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Iran

Airstrikes, attributed to Israel, targeted some officials of Hezbollah, as well as a shipment of GPS components that would make the terrorist group’s arsenal more accurate, Ynet reported Wednesday. Based on a report in Newsweek citing an unnamed senior Israeli military officer, Ynet reported that there were several airstrikes around the Damascus airport...

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Diplomacy

The German government has announced that it will not back organizations that operate abroad unless they sign contracts to ensure they don’t engage in anti-Semitic activity. The country’s Commissioner for anti-Semitism made the announcement on Thursday. Dr. Felix Klein, who took on the newly created post in May and works for...

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Israel

Israeli superstar Gal Gadot got a bissel farklempt – a little choked up, as they say in Yiddish – reporting on the wrap-up of filming “Wonder Woman 1984,” the sequel to her 2017 blockbuster hit “Wonder Woman.” “We did it. Again!! And as much as the first time shooting Wonder...

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Israel

Once upon a time, Israel’s most famous export was Jaffa oranges. Fast-forward a good few years, and Israel’s turned into something much juicier – Startup Nation. Now, in a delicious twist of innovation, these two opposite ends of the country’s claim to fame are coming together to produce a much...

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