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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…
02/20/2021
Israel’s first nanosatellite to be completely designed, developed, assembled and tested by an Israeli university will launch into space on Saturday night, Tel Aviv University shared.
TAU-SAT1 is scheduled to launch at 7:36 p.m. Israel time from the NASA launch facility in Virginia. A special panel discussion on the launch will…
02/19/2021
Two Jewish friends from Berlin who believed that each other had been killed during World War II and the Holocaust recently reunited with the help of the USC Shoah Foundation.
After Ana María Wahrenberg and Betty Grebenschikoff said goodbye to each other in a German school year in May 1939, Wahrenberg’s family fled to Chile, while…
02/18/2021
The first official advance delegation from the United Arab Emirates Foreign Ministry visited the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation on Wednesday as part of a wider visit to prepare for the opening of the United Arab Emirates embassy in Israel as early as April.
The Emirati delegation requested to visit the Peres Center for…
02/19/2021
CUFI Coffee Break
In Romans 9-11, Paul tells a group of Gentiles that God is not done with the Jewish people. He explains that Gentile believers have become branches in a tree which was originally only made up of Jewish believers. God has not moved on from the Jewish people to the Gentiles, replacing Israel as His special people….
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…
