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Upgraded Iron Dome Defeats Drones & Rockets In Test

03/17/2021

TEL AVIV: The Israeli Iron Dome tested out its latest upgrades in recent tests, taking out every target in a mixed swarm of drones and rockets.

The new upgrades will be rapidly installed on existing Israeli units at the border and on two Iron Dome batteries sold to the US Army.

The threat scenarios, with multiple simultaneous…

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D.C. foreign policy elites rush to shore up faltering Pentagon nomination

03/16/2021

A group of Obama-era foreign policy elites and Washington lobbyists are organizing a letter to shore up Biden Pentagon nominee Colin Kahl, accusing pro-Israel activists in West Virginia of engaging in a “disgusting smear campaign,” according to email correspondence obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The diplomat Martin…

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Israel among world’s biggest arms exporters, counts up to 90 nuclear weapons: report

03/16/2021

Israel is ranked among the world’s top ten arms exporters during the past five years and has an estimated 90 operational nuclear weapons, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published Monday.

The report said Israel was the eighth largest arms exporter during the 2016–2020 period….

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Rocket Exchange With Gaza Signals Israel Won’t Hesitate to Act Despite Coronavirus Crisis

02/24/2020

The Israel Defense Forces fired on Hamas military positions in the northern Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired into Israel just after 9 P.M. Friday.

The Israeli strikes were meant to send the message that Israel would not hesitate to act despite the coronavirus crisis and would not tolerate any attempt to drag the region into a…

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Israeli UN Ambassador Danon: Palestinians getting coronavirus aid from Israel respond with outrageous claims

04/22/2020
Israel has gone to great lengths and donated generously to protect Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from the coronavirus pandemic, but our lifesaving assistance has been greeted by Palestinians spreading lies and inciting hatred against Israel and the Jewish people.
The Palestinian Authority that governs much of the…

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Israel loans PA money, FM warns against Palestinian COVID-19 crisis

04/16/2020

Israel loaned money to the Palestinian Authority to help avert a COVID-19economic and humanitarian crisis.

“The situation with in the West Bank worries us all and could cause a humanitarian crisis,” Finance Minister Moshe Khalon (Likud) said on Thursday after he met with President Reuven Rivlin and UN Special Coordinator to the…

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Spy Agency’s Phone Surveillance Detected a Third of Israel’s Covid-19 Cases

05/26/2020

Spying by Israel’s Security Agency, better known as the Shin Bet, was responsible for the early discovery of around a third of all the verified coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in the country, according to a report by the Ministry of Health submitted to the Parliament’s Subcommittee of Secret Services seen exclusively by Calcalist.

As…

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Eugene Kontorovich: To fight coronavirus spread, Israel is using cellphone technology – Could US do the same?

03/19/2020
Israel’s government this week approved the use of people’s cellphone location information to help battle the coronavirus epidemic – the strongest such action of any Western country.
This has raised serious – and legitimate – concerns about privacy and governmental intrusion in the form of unseen surveillance. Placing such sweeping…

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Ahead of Biden’s Pentagon nominee’s confirmation, CUFI calls on Joe Manchin to oppose

03/17/2021

WASHINGTON – Christians United for Israel (CUFI), published a full-page ad in six West Virginia newspapers this week, urging state residents to contact Senator Joe Manchin and ask him to oppose the nomination of Colin Kahl to serve as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. 

The ads feature an op-ed from CUFI’s West Virginia State…

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Israel’s Iron Dome simultaneously intercepts drones, rockets in hi-tech leap

03/16/2021

After significant upgrades, Israel’s famed Iron Dome missile-defense system successfully and simultaneously intercepted a barrage of rockets and drones in a recent round of tests.

The news comes as the IDF warns of a possible new confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon, where the Iranian-backed terrorist group is constantly…

Netanyahu: Israel will have four more peace deals soon

03/16/2021

Israel is on the way to making peace with four more countries in the region, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.

“One of the leaders in the region” had called him on Monday night, and they spoke for 45 minutes, he said.

Netanyahu rebuffed accusations that he did not attend a planned Likud event in Ashkelon on Monday…

Seven rockets target Iraqi air base hosting US troops

03/16/2021
Two rockets hit near base, causing no reported injury, while five miss mark, hitting village closeby

Seven rockets targeted an air base in Iraq holding US troops Monday, according to a security source that spoke to AFP.
Two rockets made it outside al-Balad base, north of Baghdad, but no casualties or structural damage was…

IDF soldiers thwart terrorist attack, arrest three suspects

03/16/2021

IDF troops stopped an attempted terrorist attack in the West Bank settlement of Beit El late Monday night, according to the IDF Spokesperson.

The soldiers identified three suspects throwing Molotov cocktails at houses and worked to apprehend them, using live fire as required.

Two suspects were said to have been hit by the…

Kosovo opens embassy in Jerusalem after establishment of diplomatic ties

03/14/2021

Kosovo opened an embassy to Israel for the first time on Sunday, making it the third country with an embassy currently in Jerusalem.

“A truly proud and historic moment for Kosovo-Israel relations,” Kosovar Ambassador Ines Demiri tweeted. “The greatest honor of my life is to have this opportunity to open the embassy and proudly…

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‘Israel will be hit by 2,000 missiles a day in future war’ – IDF general

03/15/2021

Israel will come under an onslaught of 2,000 rockets and missiles every day during a future war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, OC Home Front Command Maj.-Gen. Uri Gordin warned on Monday. 

Speaking at the B’Sheva Conference in Jerusalem, Gordin said that some 2,000 rockets and missiles will be fired at Israel every day and will…

Largest pro-Israel group in US launches ads against Biden Pentagon pick

03/12/2021

A prominent pro-Israel group is launching a targeted ad campaign calling on Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W. Va.) to oppose Pentagon nominee Colin Kahl, citing Kahl’s “antagonism” toward Israel and “disturbing” positions on Iran.

The series of ads will run in six West Virginia newspapers early next week, ahead of the Senate Armed…

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Nearly 300 Ethiopians Jews arrive in Israel

03/12/2021

Nearly 300 new immigrants from Ethiopia landed on Thursday at Ben-Gurion International Airport on the ninth and final flight of “Operation Tzur Israel” (“Operation Rock of Israel”), launched last December after the Israeli government approved the aliyah of 2,000 members from the Ethiopian community.

Among those who arrived are 893…

Israeli, Czech, Hungarian premiers meet in Jerusalem to discuss vaccine cooperation

03/13/2021

The prime ministers of Israel, Hungary and the Czech Republic met in Jerusalem on Thursday for a summit on the research, development and production of COVID-19 vaccines.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also held a working meeting with their…