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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hailed the strong alliance between Israel, Cyprus and Greece at the fifth trilateral summit in Beersheba, JNS reported on Thursday. “We have been meeting regularly since our first summit in 2016,” said Netanyahu. “And as I said, our personal friendships grow stronger as our...

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Europe

Labour MP John Mann made an impassioned speech against Jew-hate during the last Prime Minister’s Question of the year on Wednesday, saying, “A disturbing large number of young Jewish people are questioning whether they should remain in this country.” WATCH – @JohnMannMP with an important question to the PM during...

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Europe

After mysterious unmanned aerial vehicles caused 36 hours of paralysis at London’s Gatwick Airport last week, stranding more than 100,000 travelers, the British military saved the day with one of six Drone Domes it had purchased a few months ago from Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Rafael’s Drone Dome pinpoints...

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Europe

A senior European Union counterterrorism official said several countries sought to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety, after their operatives murdered five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver in 2012, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Giles de Kerchove, the EU anti-terror chief, said...

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Human Rights

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have enlisted some 18,000 child soldiers into their group since the beginning of the civil war in 2014, as a heartbroken teacher told them: “They were taken from the school and returned in coffins.” The former teacher from...

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Israel

A fundraising company based in the United States has suspended the account of the umbrella organization promoting boycotts of Israel over the group’s ties to terror groups, The Times of Israel reported Friday. Donorbox, which makes fundraising management software, suspended the account of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign,...

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MidEast

As the Women’s March prepares to march again on January 19, the organization’s national leadership is under intense pressure from local branches over allegations of anti-Semitism against co-chairs Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez. Several local affiliates are disbanding, defecting or distancing themselves from the national branch over their...

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Israel

The IDF has begun the process of destroying the Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnels it has discovered, The Times of Israel reported Friday. Iran's annual funding of Hezbollah in Lebanon to attack Israel: 1 billion dollars. Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnel: A few million dollars. Destroying this attack tunnel and protecting Israeli civilians:...

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Featured

Pittsburgh was a wake-up call to a Jewish community often focused on combating threats to others. Today, anti-Semitism not only survives but flourishes on both Right and Left, and Jews need to confront it. In doing so, Jews would strengthen internal unity and increase their credibility by borrowing a page...

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Israel

Israel is the third most educated country, according to 2017 data compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). OECD calculated the percentage of each country’s population between the ages of 25 and 64 who have completed a two- or four-year degree beyond high school – including both...

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