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Stabbing attack attempted near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate

A possible stabbing attack took place in Jerusalem Sunday when a man attempted to stab two Israelis.

The attacker reportedly tried to stab two young ultra-Orthodox Jews who were Breslov hassidim at a parking lot near Damascus Gate. The two are currently being questioned by police, ynet reported.

According to KAN, the attacker approached the...

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Israeli forces nab suspected terrorists in deadly West Bank shooting

Israeli security arrested the terrorist cell suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the West Bank last week, the Shin Bet security agency said Sunday morning.

Six suspects were arrested during an overnight raid in the northern West Bank village of Silat al-Harithiya, near Jenin, by the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police’s...

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Iran’s regime posts image of seeking to engulf Israel in flames

An Arabic language Twitter account of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Sunday published an image that shows the planned burned elimination of the Jewish state in 2022.

The picture shows Israel composed of nails and matches and a book of matches next to words in Hebrew and English declaring: “Just try and you will see.”

The book of matches,...

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Antisemitic flyers distributed to Greensboro Jewish community, North Carolina

Antisemitic flyers were distributed to members of the Greensboro Jewish community in North Carolina on Sunday morning.

The flyers featured conspiracies about blaming the Jewish community for COVID-19 and the nation's efforts to combat its spread, reported by local North Carolina news station Channel 2.

The flyers were sent to both Jewish and...

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DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust ‘because Jews ruined Christmas’

A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended after making third-grade children reenact scenes from the Holocaust, including getting them to pretend to dig mass graves and shoot victims, and telling them the Germans were angry “because the Jews ruined Christmas,” parents and officials said Sunday.

The incident occurred Friday at...

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Indiana University Jewish Community Decries ‘Hatred’ After Sixth Swastika in Weeks Found in Bloomington

At least six swastikas have been found daubed around Bloomington, Indiana, in recent weeks, alarming Jewish students at the city’s flagship university and coming on the heels of a previous spate of antisemitic vandalism.

The sixth such symbol was discovered on Wednesday at Sixth and Madison streets, reported the local Indiana Daily Student,...

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Ukraine recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, to open embassy there

Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said his country recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s “one and only capital,” and will open a branch of its embassy in the city in the coming year upon a visit by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Korniychuk's announcement came at an event marking 30 years of Israel-Ukraine ties, which was attended by...

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Senator Paul blocks another unanimous vote to replenish Iron Dome

US Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) voted on Wednesday to block another attempt to provide Israel with $1 billion to replenish its Iron Dome system, citing the need to find a financial source to the bill. The vote took place as Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) asked for unanimous consent for the Senate to proceed with the House version of...

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Clashes in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah; cop hurt, 2 arrested

Fresh unrest was reported Friday in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, which has been a flashpoint for demonstrations and rioting in recent months.

Police said dozens of people were rioting and hurling chairs at officers at the scene. A cop was lightly hurt after being hit in the head with one of the chairs and was taken to...

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Israeli killed in West Bank terror shooting attack

Three IDF battalions scoured the West Bank for the Palestinian gunmen who sprayed a car with bullets on Thursday night, killing Yehuda Dimentman, 25, and wounding two others.

Dimentman was married, with a toddler. He was a resident of the Shavei Shomron settlement and a student at the Homesh Yeshiva, located close to where the attack took...

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US Senate sends Biden defense bill, with funding for cyber-cooperation for Israel

The US Senate overwhelmingly passed a $768.2 billion defense bill on Wednesday, which includes hundreds of millions in funding for Israel-related programs, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden for his signature.

Among the amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act is the US Israel Cybersecurity Cooperation Enhancement Act,...

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Shin Bet catches Hamas agents spying in Israel

The Shin Bet and Israel Police caught two Hamas agents who were spying in Israeli territory in November, the agency announced on Thursday.

The agents, Hussein Biari, an Israeli citizen with family in the Gaza Strip, and Mahmoud Ahmad, a resident of the Gaza Strip with a trade permit to enter Israel, were arrested on November 29. Evidence showed...

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Iranian hacker group targets Israelis in ‘Log4j’ exploit attack

Following The Jerusalem Post's report on Tuesday, over 1,800,000 attempts to exploit the Log4j vulnerability since Friday, according to cybersecurity provider Check Point. Most recently, the vulnerability has been used against 7 targets in Israel within the government and business sector, by Iranian hacking group “Charming Kitten” or APT 35.
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US intercepts drone at American Al Tanf outpost in Syria

The US military intercepted a small drone at the American Al Tanf outpost in southeastern Syria on Tuesday, with Iranian or Iran-backed forces suspected of launching it, NBC News reported on Thursday.

Capt. Bill Urban, spokesman for US Central Command (CENTCOM), stated that two drones entered the airspace around Al Tanf on Tuesday evening, with...

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US, Palestinian officials revive economic dialogue after 5-year hiatus

United States and Palestinian officials met on video conference Tuesday for the relaunch of the "US-Palestinian Economic Dialogue" (USPED), discussions absent from the US agenda under the Trump administration.
Officials from several government offices on both sides spoke of "infrastructure development, access to US markets, US regulation, free...

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40 years since Israel declared Golan Heights sovereignty

Israel on Tuesday marked 40 years since Menachem Begin’s government officially established the Jewish state’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights territory that it conquered from Syria.
While Israel still holds claim to the northern region, much has changed in the area since then.
“Everything changed for the better. Israel has also changed since...

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‘One wrong move’: Tehran Times reveals Iran’s targets in Israel

An Iranian newspaper published a map on Wednesday threatening Israel with missile attacks with pins representing rocket alerts placed on dozens of potential targets, although some of the pins were placed in Lebanese territory and on Palestinian cities in the West Bank.

The map, published on the front page of the Tehran Times newspaper, was part...

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UK to outlaw BDS in the ‘following months,’ Conservative MP says

British MP and member of prime minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party Robert Jenrick, has announced on Tuesday that the British government will pass legislation to outlaw the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the UK.

Jenrick, formerly the UK's secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, made the...

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Jewish groups provide relief, physically and emotionally, after tornado devastation in Kentucky

The last time Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, co-director of Chabad of the Bluegrass, had been in Hopkinsville, Ky., he was joined by thousands of other people to see a total eclipse.

He returned to the area on Monday to find a much-changed landscape after a massive tornado ripped through the western part of the state on Dec. 10, rendering much of it...

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Iranian army spokesman: ‘Not backing down from goal of erasing Zionist regime’

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, the spokesman of Iran’s armed forces, said in a video that was posted on Iran’s Basij News Agency on Nov. 28 that his country’s “biggest goal” is to remove the “regime that occupies Jerusalem” from the map.

According to the report by the Middle East Media Research Institute...