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Iron Dome Plans Being Finalized As US Army Begins Training On Systems

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…

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Israeli Airstrikes Said To Hit Targets In Syria

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…

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UAE’s First Ambassador To Israel Sworn In

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…

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Israeli Study Finds 94% Drop In Symptomatic COVID-19 Cases With Pfizer Vaccine

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%…

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Oman Content With Its Relationship With Israel, Foreign Minister Says

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…

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Morocco’s Envoy Arrives In Israel To Reopen Liaison Office

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…

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Israeli Start-Ups Raise Record $1.44 Billion In January

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…

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Holocaust Memorial In Yerevan, Armenia Vandalized

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…

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How Israel Proves The Bible Is True

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…

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One Of The Last Auschwitz Survivors, Benjamin Orenstein, Dies At 94

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…

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Israel Becomes 10th Country To Join UAE-Led International Trade Program

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…

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Israel, Greece Sign Tourism Deal To Boost Economies

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…

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Iran And North Korea Resumed Cooperation On Missiles, UN Says

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…

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Israel: IDF Holds ‘Lightning Storm’ Drill On Lebanon Border

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…

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Holocaust Survivor With About 400 Descendants Passes Away At 105

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…

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House Votes To Remove Marjorie Taylor Greene From Committees

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…

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UAE, Bahrain Slashed Funding For UNRWA After Israel Normalization: Report

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…

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Al-Qaeda’s Leader In Yemen Under Arrest: UN Report

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…