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The terrorists who wounded a pregnant woman and six others near the West Bank community of Ofra Sunday night have reportedly been captured, just hours after the woman’s baby, who was delivered by emergency C-section, died, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The main suspect in the attack, Salih Barghouti,...

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Europe

European Jews increasingly see anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism according to a report released earlier this week by the European Union, Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. The survey of 16,500 Jews living in 12 EU nations found...

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MidEast

During the first meeting of the Women’s March in November 2016, leaders of the organization endorsed virulent anti-Semitic tropes, claiming that Jews were “leaders of the American slave trade” and “bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people,” Tablet Magazine reported on Monday. The comments about...

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MidEast

The United States House of Representatives on Tuesday passed, with strong bipartisan support, legislation which targets members of Hamas and Hezbollah responsible for the use of human shields, a war crime under international law, The Jerusalem Post reported. The legislation, titled the Sanctioning of the Use of Civilians as Defenseless...

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Israel

It’s not every day that TIME magazine calls you a genius. “They’re not calling me a genius,” Elad Walach protests. “They’re referring to the company!” Walach is the 30-year-old CEO of Aidoc, a two-year-old Tel Aviv-based startup that is saving lives through medical imaging. Aidoc applies proprietary artificial intelligence to the...

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Iran

An Iranian general called a recent ballistic missile test launch that defied a United Nations Security Council Resolution “significant,” Iran’s PressTV news reported Tuesday. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Aerospace Division, boasted, “We will continue to conduct our missile tests and...

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Israel

Two car-ramming attacks were reported in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The driver in one attack was killed and the driver in the second one was arrested. The two apparently unrelated incidents come just two days after a pregnant woman and six others were wounded in a drive-by...

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Iran

Israel still intends to fight back against Hezbollah threats and Iran’s presence in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, despite lingering tensions between Jerusalem and Moscow over the downing of a Russian plane in Syria last September. He also said that military delegations...

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Diplomacy

Australia is set to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, after the country’s national security committee approved the move on Tuesday night, The Times of Israel reported. The Australian government is expected to formally announce the decision on Wednesday, although it remains unclear if the country intends to...

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Israel

Israeli startups Refundit, Pruvo, SeeVoov and Howazit captured four of the 10 finalist slots in the inaugural United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) startup competition. They bested 3,000 other applicants from 132 countries. “This is a significant achievement for companies in the field of tourism technology in Israel, which position Israel as a global leader in...

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