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Bar-Ilan U delivers MD diploma to soldier on Gaza frontline

When Ohad’s classmates celebrated the completion of their medical degrees at Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, he was nowhere near the graduation hall.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Largest US teachers union narrowly votes to cut ties with ADL

The National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers union, has passed a non-binding measure barring the union from using, endorsing or publicizing any materials from the Anti-Defamation League.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Iran targeting UK Jews for abduction, assassination, intel panel reports

A July 10 report by the British parliamentary committee that oversees the United Kingdom’s intelligence agencies, including Mi5 and Mi6, revealed that Iran is targeting British Jews for killing and kidnapping in the U.K.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Netanyahu says hoping hostage deal will be finalized ‘in a few days’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed optimism on Thursday that a hostage release deal with Hamas could be sealed in the near future.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Senior Israeli official: Intel shows enriched uranium was at Iran sites when bombed

A senior Israeli official said Thursday that Israeli intelligence shows that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had not been removed from Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan before the three nuclear sites were struck by the US last month amid Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, and has not been moved since.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF soldier Abraham Azulay killed in Khan Yunis during attempted abduction

Staff-Sergeant-Major (res.) Abraham Azulay was killed in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after terrorists emerging from a tunnel attempted to abduct him, the military said on Wednesday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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PM says he’s in sync with Trump on hostage deal, won’t agree to one ‘at any price’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he and US President Donald Trump were in lock-step with their efforts to secure a hostage deal.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Watchdog backs Rubio’s sanctions on UN official over ‘shameful efforts’ targeting US, Israel

The Biden-era kid gloves are off.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the United States is imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the controversial United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Palestinian rights.

Read more: Fox News

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Israeli murdered in Gush Etzion terrorist attack

Palestinian terrorists killed an Israeli man at the Gush Etzion Junction in Judea on Thursday afternoon, in a combined shooting and stabbing attack, medical authorities said.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Son of couple held in Iran: ‘They aren’t spies, they’re Mum and Dad’

The son of a British couple detained in Iran has said he broke down in tears when he learned of their arrest and has not heard from them in six months.

Read more: BBC News

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Trump targeted by Iranian death fatwas as watchdog group demands immediate sanctions response

A new report by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is urging the U.S. government to impose sanctions on senior Iranian clerics and regime-controlled institutions that have issued or promoted Islamic legal rulings — known as fatwas — calling for the torture and assassination of President Donald Trump, other American citizens and Israeli Prime…

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Troops destroy Hezbollah arms in rare southern Lebanon ground raids, IDF says

Israeli ground troops raided several sites inside Lebanon in recent days, destroying Hezbollah weapon depots and other infrastructure, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Iran, Hezbollah implicated in Ireland’s largest drug bust

An Irish court on July 4 sentenced two Iranian nationals in connection with a transnational drug trafficking operation involving more than 2.2 tons of cocaine, as authorities investigate suspected links to Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, Irish media reported.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Netanyahu talks hostage deal in second Trump meet in 24 hours

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Tuesday for a second time in 24 hours, to discuss the possible ceasefire deal in Gaza.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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‘They held a gun to her head’: Released hostage shares new details of Hamas abuse

Released Israeli-American hostage Keith Siegel on Tuesday gave harrowing new testimony from his time in Hamas captivity, saying he witnessed severe violence and abuse of a female hostage  he was held with.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israel says breakthrough on Gaza talks near after Trump-Netanyahu meeting

Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting Monday evening with United States President Donald Trump, senior Israeli officials said negotiations for a hostage release and ceasefire deal with Hamas are at a near-breakthrough, while touting the supreme coordination between Jerusalem and Washington on Gaza, Iran, and broader regional…

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IDF eliminates Hamas commander who raided gas station on Oct. 7

The Israel Defense Forces had eliminated the Hamas terrorist who led the Oct. 7, 2023 infiltration of a gas station near Kibbutz Magen, the military said on Tuesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Netanyahu to meet VP Vance, House and Senate leaders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to continue his diplomatic visit to Washington on Tuesday by meeting with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate