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02/25/2021
“Between 11th and 12th grade, after a tough fencing session, I saw a television report about all these elderly people and Holocaust survivors and their difficulties and loneliness. It really shocked me and I was really, really sad and depressed for a couple of days,” recounts Yakov Pizenberg. “I told myself that being sad won’t help…
02/25/2021
Jerusalem is currently in talks with the kingdoms of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on establishing a four-nation defense alliance, according to an exclusive i24 News report.
While Jerusalem does not have official diplomatic relations with Riyadh, foreign media report that the two countries have long-standing…
02/25/2021
Coming shortly after attack on US forces in Erbil, President Biden approves strike, sources say
The US military launched a strike on facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran-backed militia Thursday, in retaliation for recent rocket attacks on US troop locations in Iraq, the Pentagon said.
“At President Biden’s direction, US…
02/24/2021
Ten years have passed since the Iron Dome air-defense system, produced by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, made its first revolutionary interception of a Gazan rocket in Israeli skies in 2011. Since then the system has conducted more than 2,500 successful real-world interceptions, preventing large-scale carnage in Israeli cities.
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02/25/2021
Oberlin College is facing fresh criticism for continuing to give a platform to a so-called “professor of peace,” Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, who as Iranian ambassador to the United Nations urged the elimination of the Jewish state.
A Fox News Digital investigation can reveal for the first time that Mahallati, a professor of Islamic…
02/24/2021
Senator Tom Cotton and more than 40 other Republican lawmakers introduced a resolution Wednesday opposing any move to lift sanctions on Iran, underscoring the resistance the Biden administration will face in trying to get back into the 2015 nuclear accord.
The resolution “rejects and opposes the reapplication of sanctions relief…
02/24/2021
The number of countries Israel is planning to send surplus COVID-19 vaccinations in exchange for diplomatic support has risen to 19, according to Hebrew media sources on Wednesday.
Nearly 100,000 doses in total are expected to be shipped outside of Israel, which were obtained earlier in the year by American biotechnology company…
02/24/2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will form a strategic working group with the US on a possible new nuclear deal between the Iran, according to an Axiosreport — the latest indication that Israel will attempt to engage the Biden Administration on the issue.
Israel will reconvene a working group that was…
02/24/2021
‘The President affirmed US support for Iraq’s sovereignty and independence,’ White House says
US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi spoke about this week’s rocket strikes on the US embassy in Baghdad, the White House said Tuesday, with both leaders saying those responsible should be “held fully to…
02/23/2021
Israel will not rely on efforts to return to a nuclear deal with Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.
“Israel isn’t pinning its hopes on an agreement with an extremist regime like ,” he said at a memorial service for the 1920 Battle of Tel Hai. “We already saw what these agreements are worth… with North Korea.”…
02/23/2021
Shlomo Hillel, a Baghdad-born Israeli operative who in the late 1940s and early ’50s used bribes, fake visas and a network of smugglers to move more than 120,000 Jews from Iraq to Israel, died on Feb. 8 at his home in Ra’anana, Israel. He was 97.
His death was confirmed by his son, Ari, who did not specify a cause.
Mr. Hillel was…
02/22/2021
The attack is the third in a week to target Western diplomatic, military or commercial installations in Iraq
A volley of rockets on Monday targeted the high-security zone in the Iraqi capital that is home to the US embassy, the military and security sources said as cited by AFP.
The attack is the third in a week to target Western…
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…
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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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…
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,’…
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…
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…
