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Blinken and Eli Cohen phone call addresses ‘shared challenges, including Iran’

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen spoke by phone on Thursday evening, Washington time, according to a readout from the U.S. State Department.

Blinken “reaffirmed the importance of the enduring U.S.-Israel bilateral relationship.”

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran says IRCG officer killed in Israeli strike on Syria, vows revenge

An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on Damascus shortly after midnight Friday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

The report identified the dead officer as Milad Heydari, saying he was an adviser. No rank was given, but the report said he was “martyred” in the attack,…

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Report shows disparities in social platforms’ removal of antisemitism

CyberWell, an online antisemitism database, released a new report that shows wide disparities in the types of antisemitism social platforms see – and in how much they remove.

CyberWell founder and CEO Tal-Or Cohen said the report was conducted as an attempt for social platforms to start taking hate speech more seriously.

Read more: The…

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Russia Nears Major Shahed Drone Deal With Iran—ISW

Russia is set to receive further weapons deliveries from Iran, as Tehran works to “solidify” the relationship between the two countries, according to a new assessment.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, met his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in Moscow on Wednesday. The pair likely discussed the Russian use of Iranian…

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Two arrested in alleged Iranian plot to attack Israelis, Jews in Athens

Greek police arrested two Pakistani nationals Tuesday who were allegedly planning mass-casualty terrorist attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in the country.

Israel’s Mossad spy agency, which aided the Greek investigation, said in a statement that the two were part of an Iranian terror network.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Syria: Two soldiers wounded in Israeli strike near Damascus

Two Syrian soldiers were wounded on Thursday by an Israeli missile strike near Damascus, according to Syrian state media.

The strike occurred at approximately 9 a.m., with the missiles being launched from the direction of the Golan Heights, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported, citing a military source.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Jordan offers ‘sins of the Nakba’ tours in west Jerusalem

The official Facebook site of the “al-Aqsa library,” an organization of the Jordanian Wakf (Islamic religious trust), published an invitation to a tour following the “sins of the Nakba” in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Katamon.

This comes against the background of recent strains in the relations between Israel and Jordan. The signature of the…

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Soccer’s U-20 World Cup draw in limbo due to anti-Israel protests

The draw for the Under-20 FIFA World Cup that was scheduled to take place in Indonesia next week will be postponed, a source told Reuters after Bali’s governor refused to host Israel’s team.

The Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) said the draw that was to be held on Friday had been canceled. FIFA was still conducting checks on tournament…

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Saudi-Iran talks develop, Russia urges Turkey, Iran and Syria to talk- analysis

Two major diplomatic rounds of talks may take place in the coming weeks. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, agreed to a meeting in the next week or weeks during Ramadan, according to a Monday report. At the same time, Turkish media reported that the deputy foreign…

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Hebrew University researchers discover how pancreatic cancer spreads through body

Researchers have known for some time about the DNA mutations that lead healthy pancreatic cells to turn cancerous. What was not understood is how pancreatic cancer cells metastasize and invade other organs.

On March 22, the peer-reviewed journal Nature published a new study led by Israeli researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem that…

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New Palestinian terrorist group emerging in West Bank – report

The Martyr Omar Abu Laila Battalion said its ‘soldiers were preparing many surprises that would shake the brutal entity’

A new armed Palestinian group has been established in the northern West Bank town of Salfit, media reported on Sunday.
The Jerusalem Post learned that a number of terror militias have been operating there for several…

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Iran and Syrian regime seek to draw new red line on US-Syria policy – analysis

The airstrikes the US carried out against Iran-backed forces in Syria last week are continuing to reverberate across the region. The Syrian regime, backed by Iran and Russia, is taking a tougher stance than in the past.

The regime has condemned the US strikes, and US President Joe Biden also warned on Friday that the US would “act forcefully”…

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Jerusalem Police brace for a tense Ramadan as Hamas threatens ‘explosion

Security forces led by Jerusalem District Police have been preparing for possible violence during Ramadan, which began on Wednesday evening and is due to continue until April 21. Hamas leaders threatened to respond to any perceived upset to the status quo on the Temple Mount with “an explosion,” and called on Palestinians in Judea and Samaria to…

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Israel, UAE pave way for free-trade pact to take effect

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Israel Mohamed Al Khaja signed a customs deal on Sunday that paves the way for the countries’ free-trade agreement to enter into force.

“The taking effect of the free-trade agreement is important news for the Israeli economy, for the strengthening of ties with the UAE and…

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After Iran, Saudi Arabia to re-establish ties with Syria, sources say

Syria and Saudi Arabia have agreed to reopen their embassies after cutting diplomatic ties more than a decade ago, three sources with knowledge of the matter said, a step that would mark a leap forward in Damascus’s return to the Arab fold.

Read more: Reuters

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Jerusalem security forces on alert as tens of thousands at 1st Friday Ramadan prayers

Security forces were on high alert in Jerusalem for the first Friday of Ramadan, as mass afternoon prayers held at the Temple Mount passed peacefully.

The Muslim holy month, which began Thursday and will end April 21, often sees elevated Israeli-Palestinian tensions, with frictions already high this year in Jerusalem and across the West Bank…

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US launches airstrikes in Syria after drone kills US worker

A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria, and U.S. forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the Pentagon said. Activists said the U.S. bombing killed at least four people.
While it’s not the…

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Pastor John Hagee on a mission to build ‘pro-Israel machine’

Pastor John Hagee is on a mission to “build a pro-Israel machine that will combat and defeat antisemitism in this generation.”

The founder of Christians United for Israel was in Israel this week with 32 rabbis and pastors on the first mission of the Rabbi Scheinberg Fellowship, created in honor of Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg, Hagee’s long-time…