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In The News

WATCH: Bazan oil refinery damaged after Iran launches series of missile barrages across Israel

The Bazan oil refinery in Haifa was damaged by fallen shrapnel after several consecutive missile barrages from Iran triggered sirens across Israel on Thursday afternoon.

Read More: The Jerusalem Post

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Old-fashioned antisemitic tropes and trendy anti-Zionism converge at US Quds Day rallies

On Friday, at an Al Quds Day protest in Times Square, a protest leader directed the crowd to chant “Stop eating babies” toward a handful of mostly Jewish counter-protesters.

Read More: The Times of Israel

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Tlaib accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Lebanon

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a progressive member of the anti-Israel “squad” in Congress, accused Israel of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in Lebanon and said there should be a total U.S. arms embargo on the Jewish state.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran’s textbooks promote violent martyrdom, normalize militarization, IMPACT-se finds

Iran’s textbooks reflect and promote the regime’s geopolitical stance, normalizing militarization, violent martyrdom, and anti-Western sentiment, IMPACT-se said in its new report on the Iranian curriculum.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post 

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IDF targets Basij members across Iran, kills over 20 Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged on Thursday the United States and Israel to stop the war and called on Iran to stop attacking its neighbors.

"It is high time to end this war that is risking to get completely out of control," Guterres told reporters in Brussels after he met with European Union leaders.

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Saudi Arabia issues stark warning to Iran

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister said on Thursday that his country reserves the right to act militarily after Iran launched an attack against a Saudi oil installation.

Speaking after a meeting in Riyadh which brought together the foreign ministers of 12 Arab and Muslim countries, Saudi Prince Faisal bin Farhan said Iran “doesn’t believe in...

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Two men indicted in UK for spying on Jews for Iran

Prosecutors in the United Kingdom have indicted two Iranian citizens for collecting reconnaissance on Jewish targets for Iran, British justice authorities said on Wednesday.

The Metropolitan Police identified the two as Nematollah Shahsavani, 40, and Alireza Farasati, 22. They were arrested earlier this month on suspicion of assisting a foreign...

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Iranian cluster bombs kill foreign worker in Israel, 4 Palestinian women in West Bank

A foreign worker was killed in central Israel on Wednesday night and four Palestinian women were killed in the southern West Bank as the country faced multiple barrages of ballistic missiles from Iran.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Six lightly injured by Hezbollah rockets in Nahariya

Six people suffered mild smoke inhalation on Monday, according to Magen David Adom, after Hezbollah rocket fire from Lebanon struck the northern Israeli coastal city of Nahariya.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Russia sharing satellite imagery and drone technology with Iran

Russia has been expanding its intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery and improved drone technology to aid Tehran’s targeting of US forces in the region, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IAF strikes ‘foundations of Iranian terror regime’ across Tehran

The Israeli Air Force carried out a wave of strikes across Tehran aimed at “further deepening the damage to the core systems and foundations of the Iranian terror regime,” the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iranian gas infrastructure at Iran’s South Pars and Asaluyeh hit in Israeli air strike

Facilities linked to Iran’s gas industry in South Pars and Asaluyeh were targeted in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday, a source confirmed to The Jerusalem Post.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Ramat Gan couple in their 70s killed by Iranian cluster missile

An elderly couple, identified as Yaron and Ilana Moshe, were killed early Wednesday morning in Ramat Gan by a cluster missile as Iran continued to fire salvoes at Israel through the night and into the morning.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Iran didn’t direct but could’ve inspired attacks at Michigan temple and Old Dominion, experts say

The recent attacks at Temple Israel, a Reform congregation in West Bloomfield, Mich., and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., may have been inspired by the Iranian regime or the ongoing war against Iran but aren’t necessarily the result of Iranian sleeper cells, experts told JNS.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran missile fragments hit Jerusalem holy sites

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem on Tuesday that Iran is deliberately targeting civilians and holy sites after missile fragments damaged the Church of the Holy Sepulchre’s roof in the Old City, where the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem is headquartered.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF pushes deeper into south Lebanon as Hezbollah keeps up fire at northern Israel

The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that it has pushed even more forces deeper into southern Lebanon to create an expanded buffer zone, as Hezbollah attacked towns in northern Israel with rockets and drones.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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US embassy in Baghdad hit by Iranian drones

An attack drone struck the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, causing a fire, witnesses told international media.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel says Iran’s ‘de facto leader’ Ali Larijani, Basij force chief killed overnight

Top Iranian official Ali Larijani was killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight, the Israeli military and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Tuesday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Herzog tours missile-hit home in Rishon Letzion

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday visited the site of the missile strike in Rishon Letzion, south of Tel Aviv, touring a family home that was destroyed in the attack earlier in the day and viewing the damage up close, his office said.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF 9900 intel official: We destroyed Iran’s base for attacking satellites to keep space supremacy

In an extremely rare public statement, an IDF Unit 9900 intelligence official said on Monday that Israel has destroyed an Iranian base which was focused on building technologies to shoot down Israeli satellites and other adversaries' satellites.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post