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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 -…
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….
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…
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…
02/15/2021
Plans for where, how and when the U.S. Army’s two new Iron Dome air defense batteries could deploy are being finalized, according to Brig. Gen. Brian Gibson, the lead on the service’s air and missile defense modernization effort.
Lawmakers have demanded the service come up with a plan to deploy Iron Dome systems, which were…
02/15/2021
Israeli airstrikes targeted a number of sites in southern Syria after midnight Sunday, Syrian state media reported, in the latest in a series of attacks attributed to the Jewish state.
The attack came amid a reported uptick in efforts by Iran to transfer advanced weapons to its proxies in the region through Syria.
The strikes…
02/14/2021
Dubai’s ruler and The United Arab Emirates Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has sworn in the country’s first ambassador to Israel, Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Khaja, the Dubai Media Office said on Sunday.
The UAE’s cabinet last month approved the establishment of an embassy inTel Aviv in Israel, state media said, while…
02/14/2021
Israel’s largest healthcare provider on Sunday reported a 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections among 600,000 people who received two doses of the Pfizer’s vaccine in the country’s biggest study to date.
Health maintenance organization (HMO) Clalit, which covers more than half of all Israelis, said the same group was also 92%…
02/11/2021
Oman is satisfied with its current relationship with Israel, the foreign minister said on Thursday, even after two fellow Gulf Arab states normalized ties with Israel and raised U.S. hopes others would follow suit.
“As regards Israel we are content so far with the level of our current relations and dialogue, which involves the…
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
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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…