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UN Set To Elect Syria To Top Post In Human Rights Forum

02/23/2021
The announcement came on the same day that Damascus was said to likely be guilty of genocide

Syria, which has fought a long and bloody civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions, was recently elected to a United Nations senior post on a “decolonization” committee, charged with upholding human rights…

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IDF Thwarts Threat To Navy

02/22/2021

The IDF thwarted naval activity that posed a potential threat to vessels of the Israeli Navy on Monday morning, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit announced later in the day. The incident reportedly occurred near the coast of the Gaza Strip.

“The IDF will continue to act against dangerous threats in the naval space,” said the unit.

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Israel’s Defense Ministry Signs Contract To Buy 2 New Tankers From Boeing

02/22/2021

A week after a ministerial committee approved the Israeli Air Force’s (IAF) major procurement deal, the Defense Ministry said on Monday that it signed a letter of acceptance to buy two tankers.

The Boeing KC-46a aerial refueling tankers are intended to replace Israel’s aging Re’em fleet, converted Boeing 707s.

The Defense…

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Israel’s First University-Made Nanosatellite Launches Into Space

02/20/2021

Israel’s first nanosatellite to be completely designed, developed, assembled and tested by an Israeli university launched into space on Saturday night, Tel Aviv University shared.

TAU-SAT1 took off right on time at 7:36 p.m. Israel time from the NASA launch facility in Virginia.

“We have now joined the ‘Civil Space Revolution,’…

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Four Rockets Strike Iraqi Base Hosting US Contractors

01/21/2021
One person was reportedly wounded in the attack that followed a raid on an Islamic State hideout

At least four rockets hit the Al-Balad airbase north of the Iraqi capital on Saturday, as security sources said that a local contractor for a US company managing Iraq’s F-16s was wounded, according to AFP.
No group has yet claimed…

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Israeli, Moroccan Students To Learn About Mutual Jewish History Next Academic Year

02/18/2021

Students in Israel and Morocco will be taught Moroccan Jewish history in school starting next year in a historical collaboration between the education ministries of the two countries, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Israeli Education Minister Yoav Gallant and his Moroccan counterpart, Saaïd Amzazi, agreed to establish a system of…

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Israel’s First University-Made Nanosatellite To Launch Into Space

02/20/2021

Israel’s first nanosatellite to be completely designed, developed, assembled and tested by an Israeli university will launch into space on Saturday night, Tel Aviv University shared.

TAU-SAT1 is scheduled to launch at 7:36 p.m. Israel time from the NASA launch facility in Virginia. A special panel discussion on the launch will…

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82 Years Later, Reunited Childhood Friends Torn Apart By Holocaust Zoom Regularly

02/19/2021

Two Jewish friends from Berlin who believed that each other had been killed during World War II and the Holocaust recently reunited with the help of the USC Shoah Foundation.

After Ana María Wahrenberg and Betty Grebenschikoff said goodbye to each other in a German school year in May 1939, Wahrenberg’s family fled to Chile, while…

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In Preparation For Israeli Embassy Opening, UAE Delegation Visits Peace Center

02/18/2021

The first official advance delegation from the United Arab Emirates Foreign Ministry visited the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation on Wednesday as part of a wider visit to prepare for the opening of the United Arab Emirates embassy in Israel as early as April.

The Emirati delegation requested to visit the Peres Center for…

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The Dangers Of Replacement Theology

02/19/2021
CUFI Coffee Break
In Romans 9-11, Paul tells a group of Gentiles that God is not done with the Jewish people. He explains that Gentile believers have become branches in a tree which was originally only made up of Jewish believers. God has not moved on from the Jewish people to the Gentiles, replacing Israel as His special people….

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Equatorial Guinea To Move Embassy To Jerusalem

02/19/2021
The African nation of Equatorial Guinea will move its diplomatic mission in Israel to Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Friday.
Netanyahu made the announcement following a telephone conversation held with Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
In a statement released by the Prime…

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US Says Ready For Talks With Iran To Revive Nuclear Deal

02/19/2021

The United States on Thursday said it was ready to talk to Iran about both nations returning to a 2015 agreement that aimed to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, seeking to revive a deal that Washington itself abandoned nearly three years ago.

The move reflects the change in US administration, with US Secretary of…

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Israeli Girl Released After Crossing Into Syria

02/18/2021

The girl who crossed into Syria was set to return to Israel on Friday, with government hostage negotiator Yaron Bloom headed to Moscow on Thursday night to bring her back.

An Israeli doctor examined the teenage girl from the haredi town of Modi’in Illit in Moscow on Wednesday, and found that she was healthy and did not seem to…

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Jerusalem Covered In Snow As Cold Winter Storm Underway In Jewish State

02/17/2021
Schools will remain open in the capital, but Golan Heights’ education system closes due to weather

Israel’s capital Jerusalem was covered in white overnight Wednesday as temperatures hit below 30 Fahrenheit, causing the relatively rare sight of snow in the country’s central mountainous region.
Due to the temperatures rising…

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Israel, US Begin Developing Arrow-4 Missile Defense System In Signal To Iran

02/18/2021

In face of Iran’s continued development of long-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the Defense Ministry announced on Thursday that it has started developing, alongside the US Missile Defense Agency, a new generation of the advanced Arrow missile defense system.

The new system – known as the Arrow-4 -…

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U.S., Kurds Blame Iran For Deadly Attack On Airport Housing U.S. Forces

02/16/2021

The U.S. and its Kurdish allies in Iraq believe Iran was complicit in a deadly rocket attack Monday against an airport housing American forces near the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Irbil that killed at least one contractor from the U.S.-led coalition and injured a U.S. service member among many others, multiple sources confirm to U.S….

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Rocket Attack On US Airbase In Iraq Kills Contractor, Wounds US Service Member

02/15/2021

A rocket attack in Iraq on Monday evening appeared to target both busy streets and a base where US soldiers are located near the Erbil International Airport.

Over the last two years, dozens of rocket attacks have targeted areas where US soldiers were located on facilities on bases in Iraq. These have been blamed on Kataib…

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In Iran, I Was Taught To Hate Israel And Jews. Then I Watched Schindler’s List.

02/12/2021

I am an Iranian, born in Iran one year after the Islamic Revolution in 1980. I spent my entire childhood there and was schooled in its educational system, which is designed by an extremist Islamic cult known as the Islamic Republic of Iran. Throughout those years and up until today, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel dogma pervaded the…