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Israel enters US Visa Waiver Program

Israel on Wednesday joined the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, which will allow Israeli citizens to travel to America for 90 days without a visa.

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Police deployed across Israel as chief warns of terror threats

Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai instructed all police and Border Police districts on Tuesday to review protocols relevant to the ongoing High Holy Days amid the increased threat of Palestinian terror attacks targeting civilians across Israel.

‘Explosion’ near missile base rocks Iranian city

A suspected explosion shook the Iranian city of Khorramabad on Monday night, with some reports suggesting the blast resulted from a sabotage operation targeting a nearby underground missile site.

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Saudi officials meet Abbas in Ramallah

A Saudi delegation arrived in Ramallah on Tuesday for a meeting with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, amid an ongoing U.S.-led diplomatic effort to normalize relations between Israel and the kingdom.
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Haim Katz first Israeli minister to make public visit to Saudi Arabia

Tourism Minister Haim Katz on Tuesday became the first Israeli Cabinet member to lead a public delegation to Saudi Arabia.

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Iran president’s wife denies UN findings that protesters were killed in turmoil after Mahsa Amini’s death

In a new interview, the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi repeated claims by her country's officials that the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last fall was the result of a preexisting illness -- which Amini's family vigorously disputes, believing instead that she was beaten in custody after being arrested by Iran's notorious morality police...

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8 students arrested as Israeli security forces bust Hamas terror cell at West Bank university

Israeli security forces busted a terrorist cell at the Birzeit University in the West Bank, arresting eight suspects who planned to carry out a terrorist attack in the immediate time frame, according to an official statement on Sunday.

Three terror shootings in Samaria

Three separate terror shootings were reported in Samaria on Sunday, with no casualties from the incidents that came hours before the start of Yom Kippur.

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IDF strikes Hamas post after another day of riots on border

The Israel Defense Forces attacked a Hamas military post in the eastern Gaza Strip on Saturday evening.
An unmanned aerial vehicle carried out the strike on the terrorist group’s position, which was located next to where riots took place at the border fence earlier in the day, including shots fired at IDF soldiers.
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Iran parades new ‘longest-range drone in the world’ in threat to Israel

Iran on Friday paraded its military hardware on the anniversary of its 1980s war with Iraq, including "the longest-range drone in the world" along with ballistic and hypersonic missiles, Iranian state media said.

DR Congo will move its embassy to Jerusalem, leader tells Netanyahu at UN sidelines

Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly that the African country’s embassy in Israel will soon be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Palestinian terrorist fires at Israeli forces during Gaza border riots

A Palestinian terrorist was shot and wounded at the Gaza border fence on Thursday after opening fire on Israeli security forces amid violent riots, the Israel Police confirmed in a statement.

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Tehran ‘tyrants’ nothing but a curse, Netanyahu says at UNGA, calling for a ‘new Middle East,’ peace with Saudi Arabia

The “tyrants of Tehran” have been nothing but a curse since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last addressed the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, he told the body on Sept. 22 in New York City. But there has also been a blessing.

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Saudi crown prince: Israel normalization ‘getting closer every day’

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in an interview that aired on Wednesday shot down reports that U.S.-led talks over normalization with Israel had been suspended.

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Gazan with knives arrested in Tel Aviv, in second such incident in as many days

A Palestinian resident of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip was arrested in Tel Aviv on Thursday in possession of two knives, in the second such incident in as many days.

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Israeli drone strike kills two in Syria

Two people died on Thursday near Beit Jinn, west of Damascus, in an airstrike attributed to Israel.
Palestinian reports said that the men, members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, were riding a motorcycle when they were targeted by a drone strike, about six miles from the border with the Israeli part of the Golan Heights.
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Netanyahu to Biden: ‘By working together, we can confront Iran’

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly for the first time since the Israeli leader was re-elected last November, and a main topic of discussion was Iran.

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4 Palestinians killed during clashes with IDF in Jenin refugee camp

Four Palestinians were killed and around 30 were wounded during clashes with the Israeli military in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Tuesday evening, Palestinian health officials said.

Iran’s president warns against normalization with Israel

Iran’s president on Monday warned against normalization with Israel, denied his country had sent drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine, and decried the US for “interfering” in the Middle East.

Israel’s UN envoy waves Mahsa Amini photo during Iranian president’s speech

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan waved a photo of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish Iranian killed in the custody of Tehran's "morality police," during an address by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday night.