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Flying High Downed Israeli Airman Returns To The Skies
Israel Defense Force (IDF)

Flying High: downed Israeli airman returns to the skies

The Israeli Air Force navigator who was lightly injured after ejecting his F-16 while on a mission over Syria, returned to the cockpit Sunday. He was accompanied on his first back-to-service practice flight by IAF Chief Major General Amikam Norkin.

The fighter jet was fired on while targeting Iranian targets in Syria as a reaction to an Iranian...

Members of Congress Urge ‘Immediate’ Passage by Senate of Legislation Targeting PA Terrorism Payments
US-Israel Relationship

Members of Congress Urge ‘Immediate’ Passage by Senate of Legislation Targeting PA Terrorism Payments

As the US Senate prepares for an imminent vote on the Taylor Force Act targeting Palestinian Authority payments to terrorists, 63 members of Congress have written to House Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer urging its “immediate consideration.”

“March 8, 2018, will mark two years since Taylor Force was...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday vowed Israel would respond after four IDF soldiers were wounded by a bomb planted along the Gaza Strip border fence.
Hamas

Netanyahu vows Israel will respond to Gaza bombing as IAF hits targets in Strip

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday vowed Israel would respond after four IDF soldiers were wounded by a bomb planted along the Gaza Strip border fence.

An Israeli tank fired a shell at an observation post in an initial response to the attack, but Netanyahu said there would be further reaction from Israel.

Soon after Netanyahu spoke,...

Bomb detonated on IDF force patrolling Gaza border
Israel Defense Force (IDF)

Bomb detonated on IDF force patrolling Gaza border

An explosive device was detonated on an IDF patrol along the Gaza Strip border on Saturday and a tank fired a shell at an observation post in response to the attack, the army said,

The incident occurred in the southern Gaza area near the city of Khan Younis, the IDF said. Many additional details were not immediately released for publication,...

Saving Lives In The ICU Through Artificial Intelligence
Israeli Technology

Saving lives in the ICU through artificial intelligence

An Israeli venture capitalist’s personal tragedy brought him to a startup seeking to provide immediate health updates for fragile patients.
Two years ago, Gal Salomon’s mother developed sepsis during a stay in the hospital. “It was a big hospital with a lot of patients and no one saw or understood it was happening,” Salomon recalls bitterly. “We...

Hezbollah ‘threatens Lebanon
Hezbollah

Hezbollah ‘threatens Lebanon, region, and must withdraw from Syria’ — Tillerson

BEIRUT — US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday accused the Lebanon-based terror organization, Hezbollah, of threatening Lebanon and the region, and called for it to end its activities in Syria, to lower tensions there.

On the same day, Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, a former deputy head of Hezbollah’s executive council, who led the group’s...

US-Israel Relationship

New York Sen. Charles Schumer Predicts ‘Unanimous’ Support in US Congress For Taylor Force Act Targeting PA Terror Payments

US Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) has told an audience in New York that he expects new legislation targeting Palestinian Authority payments to terrorists to pass with overwhelming bipartisan support.

“The House could pass this bill by unanimous consent,” Schumer said at a Sunday breakfast meeting of the Jewish Community Relations...

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Jan 30 Deming, NM Stand With Israel

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Jan 28 Rio Communities, NM Stand With Israel

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Jan 31 Las Cruces, NM

Syria

Israel launches ‘large-scale’ strikes in Syria after drone infiltration

Israel’s military attacked 12 Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Saturday in a new wave of strikes it described as a ‘large-scale’ attack, following exchanges of fire earlier in the day sparked by an Iranian drone infiltration from Syria.

The military called the drone infiltration a “severe and irregular violation of Israeli sovereignty” and...

Iran

Pastor Hagee’s Briefing on the situation in northern Israel

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IDF intercepting an Iranian UAV

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Micro-History

Camp David Accords

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Micro-History

Israel at 70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ug4xXmzHXU

This year the Jewish state marks 70 years since it's rebirth in 1948! Take a minute to check out our CUFI Micro History and hear about the modern miracle. Then look for a year of remembrance, as CUFI marks Israel at 70.

US-Israel Relationship

Thanks to Trump and Pence, America’s relationship with Israel is stronger than ever

The White House last month released a transcript of remarks made by Vice President Mike Pence. According to the release, he spoke in “The Knesset, Jerusalem, Israel.”

This may not seem groundbreaking at first glance, but the simple act of defining Jerusalem as a part of Israel is evidence of a long-awaited and much-needed shift in how America...

Israeli Technology

New nanomedicine could prevent progression of pancreatic cancer

A new study published in scientific journal Nature Communications distinguishes the reason for extended pancreatic cancer survival: an inverse correlation between a known oncogene, a gene that promotes the development of cancer, and the expression of an oncosuppressor microRNA.

The study may serve as a basis for the development of a medicine that...

Hamas

Planting Seeds

Mark and Lisa Teubner sat at the restaurant table enjoying their meal and conversation. When they left home that day, Mark had proudly attached his CUFI unity pin to his shirt as he always did and then promptly moved on to thinking about other things. He and his wife could not have been more surprised when their server brought the bill to their...

Israeli Society

Remembering a Hero of the Munich Massacre

Israeli fencer Dan Alon (March 28, 1945 — January 31, 2018) was a hero of the rarest kind. He did not rush into a burning building to save a neighbor, nor did he stand up to a despotic tyrant. Yet he still set a singular standard for heroism.

Before dawn on September 5, 1972 — in Apartment 2 of the Israeli athletes’ compound at the Munich...

Israel Defense Force (IDF)

IDF Busts Palestinian Weapons Ring Amidst Increased Violence in West Bank

Israeli Defense Forces busted a weapons-smuggling operation in the southern Hebron Hills early Thursday morning, arresting six suspects.

The army reported that the weapons were found in a compound belonging to a weapons dealer in Deir Razih, on the periphery of Hebron. Troops confiscated four handguns, three air-powered guns, four commando...