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02/09/2021
The head of Morocco’s diplomatic mission to Israel landed at Ben Gurion Airport Tuesday and met with Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi before commencing his work in the country, following a normalization agreement between Jerusalem and Rabat.
Abderrahim Beyyoud, head of Morocco’s liasion office in Israel, told Ashkenazi that he was…
02/11/2021
January was a record month for the Israeli tech ecosystem, with six start-ups raising mega-rounds of more than $100 million each, Start-Up Nation Central said Thursday.
In total, a record $1.44 billion was raised by Israeli firms in January, the NGO said.
The number of mega-rounds in January alone was almost a third of the 21…
02/12/2021
The “To Live and Not Forget” Holocaust memorial in the Armenian city of Yerevan was desecrated with paint sprayed all over the Hebrew writings.
The memorial was built to honor both the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide victims and consists of two primary pillars, with “To Live and Not Forget: To the Memory of the Victims of the…
02/10/2021
CUFI Coffee Break
How Israel Proves The Bible Is True
As Christians, we believe that God’s inspired Word has been breathed out, written down, and preserved throughout many centuries to be passed down to us in the form we have today. These inerrant Scriptures are clear that Israel is the only nation in the world created by a sovereign…
02/10/2021
Benjamin Orenstein, a famous survivor of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, died on Thursday in France at age 94.
Orenstein’s Auschwitz tattoo was “B4416.”
After Klaus Barbie’s trial in Lyon in 1987, Orenstein started testifying in front of hundreds of students across France, from high schools to universities, recalling…
02/11/2021
Israel on Wednesday became the 10th country to join the United Arab Emirates-led World Logistics Passport program, in a move that will allow Israeli firms to expand trade to countries in the southern hemisphere.
India, South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil and Columbia are all members of the WLP.
At a virtual ceremony to sign the…
02/10/2021
Israeli and Greek officials agreed Monday to clear the way for vaccinated tourists to travel between their Mediterranean nations in a bid to boost their economies amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the agreement in Jerusalem on Monday. The…
02/08/2021
Iran and North Korea cooperated on long-range missile development projects last year, according to a confidential United Nations report that may pressure the Biden administration to respond to one of its first major geopolitical crises.
“This resumed cooperation is said to have included the transfer of critical parts, with the…
02/09/2021
‘The IDF will continue to prepare and improve its readiness along the border with Lebanon,’ army says
The “Lightning Storm” military drill on Israel’s border with Lebanon begins on Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a press release.
The exercise will wrap up on Wednesday afternoon and is designed to build up the…
02/08/2021
Holocaust survivor Shoshana Ovitz, who’s birthday celebration with about 400 of her descendants at the Western Wall in 2019 went viral, passed away on Sunday at the age of 105.
Ovitz survived Auschwitz after witnessing her mother being handed over to the infamous Nazi doctor and “Angel of Death,” Josef Mengele, known for his cruel…
02/05/2021
The House of Representatives voted to remove Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from all committee assignments in a February 4 vote.
The final vote was 230-199, with 11 Republicans joining with the Democrats in voting to remove Greene from all House committees.
Greene has been under fire for some of her past social…
02/05/2021
In 2020, UAE reportedly only contributed $1 million to UN Palestinian refugee agency’s budget
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain slashed their funding for the UN agency working with Palestinian refugees in the wake of normalization with Israel, Channel 12 reported on Friday.
The report cited the Center for Near East Policy…
02/05/2021
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula linked to 2015 attack on the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo
The leader of Al-Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate has been under arrest for several months, according to a United Nations report released on Thursday, in what will be seen as a huge breakthrough in the fight against the global…
01/04/2021
The IDF Prosecution filed an indictment against Palestinian Mohammad Maroh Kabaha on Thursday with the Salem Military Court for the murder of Esther Horgen on December 20.
According to the indictment, Kabaha planned the attack some six weeks in advance.
One reason was to avenge the death of his friend Camal Abu Wae’r – a…
02/01/2021
In yet another step to improve Israel’s air defense system, the Defense Ministry announced on Monday that it has successfully completed a series of tests in the upgraded Iron Dome weapon system.
The test was conducted by Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO), in the Directorate for Defense R&D of the Defense Ministry, and…
02/03/2021
An IDF surveillance drone was targeted by anti-aircraft missile fire over southern Lebanon on Wednesday but was not hit, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
The IDF claimed that the drone was conducting routine surveillance operations over the area – Israel regularly patrols Lebanese skies – and completed its mission as planned.
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02/02/2021
The Biden administration has said it will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, a key tool in fighting anti-Semitism at home and abroad.
While addressing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kara…
02/02/2021
The threat emanated from Brussels barely a day after Kosovo and Israel finalized diplomatic relations — over Zoom due to the coronavirus pandemic — and the latter’s Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, confirmed that he had received and accepted a petition from Pristina to open the diplomatic mission in Jerusalem.
Peter Stano, the…