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The Israeli Defense Ministry has signed a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, to integrate advanced Israeli mission systems into 12 CH-53K “Pere” helicopters for the Israeli Air Force.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
For the first time since George W. Bush, a non-Jew is poised to represent the United States in Israel. Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden dispatched Jewish ambassadors to needle Israel, but President Donald Trump’s nominee would be a rock-ribbed friend to the Jewish state.
Read more: The Jewish Chronicle
U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that before Hamas backed out he had believed a hostage deal was within reach.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Sunday.
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Five days after Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was arrested by Turkish authorities, tens of thousands continued to take to the streets Monday night in protest of the regime's suppression of the opposition. In Istanbul, violent clashes broke out between demonstrators and police forces, who deployed extensive tear gas, batons, water cannons, and...
U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said on Sunday that Iran was “in the worst place it has been for its own national security since 1979,” while reiterating the Trump administration’s stance that Tehran must dismantle its nuclear project.
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An 86-year-old man was killed, and a 20-year-old IDF soldier was seriously wounded in a terrorist attack near Yokneam in the Lower Galilee on Monday.
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Defense Minister Israel Katz on Friday threatened to annex parts of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas releases the 59 hostages still being held in the Palestinian enclave.
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Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced a “significant” milestone in the ongoing development of the Iron Dome missile defense system on Thursday, following the completion of comprehensive flight tests.
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Eli Sharabi, 53, a former hostage held by Hamas in Gaza, told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that the terror group exploits aid from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees for its own enrichment.
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The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday began conducting ground operations to dismantle terror infrastructure in southern Gaza’s Rafah.
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U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on Thursday expressed strong backing for renewed Israeli military operations against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip.
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This column has been adapted from a March 3 speech by Alyza D. Lewin at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.
Four years after Dr. Benjamin Rush founded Dickinson College, he attended a Jewish wedding. It was the wedding of Rachel Phillips to Michael Levy, held in Philadelphia in June 1787.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to hold a hearing on Mike Huckabee’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to Israel on March 25, according to a source close to the former Arkansas governor and pro-Israel Baptist minister.
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Israeli security officials are aware that a “more intense front” could open in Judea and Samaria amid the resumption of combat with Hamas in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday.
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The Israel Defense Forces intercepted a missile fired by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen in the early hours of Thursday morning.
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Israel Defense Forces troops have initiated a ground operation along the coastal axis in the Beit Lahia area of northern Gaza, according to a joint statement from the IDF and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Thursday afternoon.
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Google parent company Alphabet on Tuesday confirmed its $32 billion acquisition of Israeli cloud security firm Wiz, making it the tech giant’s largest deal to date.
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A delegation of Pakistani journalists and educators made a rare visit to Israel last week, defying a travel ban by the South Asian Muslim country which has no diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan brands Israel a “terror state” following the most intense Israeli airstrikes in Gaza since a fragile ceasefire took effect last month.
Read more: The Times of Israel
