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In The News

13 years after saving infant, medics join ‘miracle’ bar mitzvah

In a heartwarming reunion, a team of medics were invited to the recent bar mitzvah celebration of Shmuel Kovetzik in Kfar Chabad, near Tel Aviv, whose life they saved at birth.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israeli forces clash with Islamic Jihad terrorists in Samaria

Israeli forces engaged Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists on Sunday night in the Nur Shams camp east of Tulkarm in northern Samaria.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran’s Most Powerful Unit Yet in Syria Targets U.S. and Israel, Intel Finds

Iran has assembled a heavily armed unit comprised of thousands of fighters from across the region capable of conducting attacks on U.S. troops in Syria as well as against neighboring Israel, according to a document shared with Newsweek by a member of an intelligence agency of a nation allied with the United States.

Read more: Newsweek

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US dispatches more warships, jets to Persian Gulf to protect shipping lanes

The US is sending additional warships and thousands of Marines to the Middle East to increase security in the wake of Iranian attempts to seize commercial ships there.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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New Senate bill seeks to expand Abraham Accords

“Further integration in this region, one marked by conflict and disunity, must be a pillar of U.S. foreign policy moving forward,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said as he led the announcement of legislation intended to nurture Middle East peace.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israeli wounded by IED in Judea

An Israeli was moderately wounded on Friday when an improvised explosive device detonated near the Palestinian-controlled village of Beit Ummar, located near Hebron in Judea.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel-Morocco ties expected to grow stronger

The bilateral relationship between Israel and Morocco is expected to significantly deepen in the coming weeks and months following Israel’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, Israeli experts said Thursday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Herzog’s ‘important’ speech to Congress wins plaudits from across political spectrum

Israeli politicians from across the spectrum offered praise for President Isaac Herzog’s address Wednesday to a joint session of the US Congress, in a rare moment of cross-aisle unity amid increasingly fractious divisions over the judicial overhaul.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Islamic Jihad terrorists attack worshippers at Joseph’s Tomb

One person was reported dead and several wounded in clashes that erupted in Shechem (Nablus) on Wednesday night after Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists attacked Jewish worshippers and their military escort at Joseph’s Tomb.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Courage, combating antisemitism take center stage at CUFI’s ‘chai’ national summit

More than 1,200 people gathered on July 17 in Arlington, Va., for the annual Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Washington Summit. It was the event’s 18th—or chai—iteration, gathering some of the more than 10 million members of the nation’s largest, pro-Israel organization.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Bulgaria commemorates Israelis killed in Hezbollah bombing

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev participated in a ceremony on Tuesday marking the 11th anniversary of a deadly Hezbollah attack on an Israeli tour bus at the Burgas Airport.
The ceremony was held at a monument at the site of the attack in which five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver were killed. Another 35 persons were wounded.
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US bipartisan group calls on Blinken to end Palestinian ‘pay-for-slay’

A bipartisan group of 30 Democrat and 20 Republican congress members wrote to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Tuesday for an update on US plans to end the Palestinian Authority’s ‘pay-for-slay’ scheme.

Under the current ‘pay-for-slay’ scheme, called the "Martyrs’ Fund" by the PA, terrorists receive monetary payments as a reward for...

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Herzog meets with Blinken after White House visit

Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday after visiting President Joe Biden at the White House.
In statements issued before the meeting, the two leaders expressed mutual appreciation for the “unique relations” between the countries and discussed the shared goal of countering the Iranian threat....

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US bipartisan group urges EU to deem Hezbollah a terror group

A bipartisan group of members of Congress introduced a resolution on July 18 “urging the European Union to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization.”

The resolution “coincides with the 11th anniversary of Hezbollah’s deadly assault in Bulgaria, where a bus carrying Israeli youths was targeted, resulting in the loss of six...

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Hezbollah video simulates attack on Israeli military outpost

Hezbollah published a video on Sunday night simulating a cross-border attack against an Israeli military outpost.
The six-minute video was published by the media wing of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group to mark the 17th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War.
Read more: JNS

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Israeli FM meets official from Muslim country with no diplomatic ties

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met on Sunday with a senior official of an African Muslim country with no diplomatic ties to the Jewish state.
The meeting took place under the condition that the name of the country not be published.
Read more: JNS

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Palestinian security arrests five Islamic Jihad terrorists in Jenin

Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists said Palestinian security forces detained five more of their members in Jenin overnight, underlining rifts between groups in the West Bank two weeks since Israel launched its largest raid there in years.

Israel - which says its raid targeted terrorists - has pressed the Palestinian Authority to take tougher...

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IDF appoints first-ever military attache to Morocco

The Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday the appointment of Col. Sharon Itach as Israel’s first-ever military attaché to Morocco, which normalized relations with Jerusalem as part of the Trump administration-brokered Abraham Accords.

Itach, who is of Moroccan descent, currently heads the IDF Home Front Command’s Haifa district, and...

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IDF intel chief: We’ll keep peace in North despite Hezbollah provocations

IDF intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva has struck back verbally at Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, dictating to him that Israel will enforce quiet on the northern border, despite the terror groups’ provocations.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Journalist who claimed Palestinian Authority arrests dissidents arrested by PA

Palestinian security forces have detained a Palestinian journalist after he wrote critical posts on social media, an activist group said Thursday.

Read more: The Times of Israel