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IDF finishes new 15 km. Magez Oz Corridor splitting critical Hamas-controlled city of Khan Yunis

The IDF on Wednesday announced that it had completed the new Magen Oz Corridor, splitting the critical Hamas-controlled southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Professor who called for Iran to strike US base removed, Georgetown says at House hearing

Robert Groves, the interim president of Georgetown University, told members of Congress on Tuesday that the school removed a professor who called for Iran to attack U.S. military bases in the Middle East.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Beirut bans all financial dealings with Hezbollah bank

Lebanon’s central bank has barred banks and financial institutions from conducting transactions with Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a financial entity linked to the Hezbollah terror organization, according to a circular dated July 14, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Exiled Yemen government claims to seize 750 tons of Iran-supplied Houthi weapons

Fighters allied to Yemen’s exiled government claimed Wednesday they had seized 750 tons of Iranian-supplied missiles and weaponry bound for the country’s Houthi rebels, the latest interdiction of arms allegedly tied to Tehran in the country’s decadelong war.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF strikes Syrian regime military HQ over threat to Druze in Sweida

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday attacked the entrance to the Syrian regime’s military headquarters in the Damascus area in response to reports of atrocities against local Druze residents.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iranian national charged with exporting electronics to Islamic Republic

Bahram Mohammad Ostovari, 66, an Iranian national and U.S. permanent resident, was arrested and charged with four counts of illegally sending electronics that are used for telecommunications and railway signaling to the Islamic Republic over at least seven years, the U.S. Justice Department stated.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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UK Jews’ wellbeing, way of life ‘increasingly challenged, undermined’ by antisemitism

The increase of antisemitism in civil society has left UK Jews feeling they have no one they can turn to outside of their own community, the Board of Deputies of British Jews said in a report released Tuesday that pointed to problems in the health service, unions, and professional bodies.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israeli Air Force downs Houthi drone

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday morning intercepted a drone launched from Yemen by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF strikes Syrian forces moving in on Druze city at center of deadly clashes

Israel bombed Syrian government forces rolling into a Druze-majority city in southern Syria following days of ethnic fighting there, in a rare direct attack on forces loyal to the new leadership in Damascus that Jerusalem had seen as a potential ally.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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NYC comptroller backs Mamdani, divests from Israel, city mayor claims

Lander withdrew tens of millions of dollars from investments in State of Israel Bonds, prompting First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro to demand review of the decision-making process surrounding the effective withdrawal of New York City pensions funds from investment in State of Israel Bonds, claiming Lander's policies not only caused Israel harm but...

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‘Kill all Jews’: Elmo’s X account inflitrated by antisemetic hacker

Elmo's X account was taken over Sunday night by an unknown hacker. Antisemitic content such as 'Kill all Jews' was posted to the official account and was taken down within the hour.

Read more: i24 News

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Filipino caregiver dies of wounds caused by Iranian missile strike

Leah Mosquera, a Filipino caregiver working in Israel, has died of injuries she sustained when an Iranian missile struck her apartment building in Rehovot during the June Israel-Iran war, the Philippine Embassy in Israel announced Sunday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel kills key Hamas, Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza

A series of Israeli strikes in Gaza over the past two weeks killed several senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders, the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said in a joint statement released on Sunday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Christians United for Israel offers support where others fail: ‘Won’t let Jewish people suffer on our watch!’

We’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places.

As a Jew, I was moved to tears last week at the Christians United for Israel annual summit in Oxon Hill, Md. Passionate support for the Jewish people from speakers and crowds was palpable —and overwhelming.

Read more: New York Post

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Bar-Ilan U delivers MD diploma to soldier on Gaza frontline

When Ohad’s classmates celebrated the completion of their medical degrees at Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, he was nowhere near the graduation hall.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Largest US teachers union narrowly votes to cut ties with ADL

The National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers union, has passed a non-binding measure barring the union from using, endorsing or publicizing any materials from the Anti-Defamation League.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Iran targeting UK Jews for abduction, assassination, intel panel reports

A July 10 report by the British parliamentary committee that oversees the United Kingdom’s intelligence agencies, including Mi5 and Mi6, revealed that Iran is targeting British Jews for killing and kidnapping in the U.K.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Netanyahu says hoping hostage deal will be finalized ‘in a few days’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed optimism on Thursday that a hostage release deal with Hamas could be sealed in the near future.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Senior Israeli official: Intel shows enriched uranium was at Iran sites when bombed

A senior Israeli official said Thursday that Israeli intelligence shows that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had not been removed from Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan before the three nuclear sites were struck by the US last month amid Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, and has not been moved since.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF soldier Abraham Azulay killed in Khan Yunis during attempted abduction

Staff-Sergeant-Major (res.) Abraham Azulay was killed in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after terrorists emerging from a tunnel attempted to abduct him, the military said on Wednesday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post