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Israeli citizens cast their ballots at a voting station during the Knesset elections on April 9, 2019. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

New Israel Fund report shows spike in donations for groups promoting left-wing parties in...

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A 2019 financial report issued by the New Israel Fund (NIF) revealed that the U.S.-based NGO donated millions of shekels to leftist organizations that tried to meddle in the Israeli elections held in April...
Technicians carry out a diagnostic test for COVID-19 in a lab at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, on March 17, 2020. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Israel to pay more than $237.5 million for potential Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

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Israel signed a deal on Friday with Pfizer to receive 8 million doses of the pharmaceutical company’s potential coronavirus vaccine, announced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli leader said that the two-dose treatment of the potential...
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi at a graduation ceremony of naval officers of the Israeli Navy in Haifa Naval Base, Northern Israel on March 4, 2020. Photo by Flash90

The IDF’s new Iran and Strategy Directorate takes the big picture approach

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The Israel Defense Forces recently formed Strategy and Third Circle Directorate (a reference to countries in Israel’s third-circle periphery with Iran being the focal point) represents a new approach to assessing and preparing for...
Israel Defense Forces Cpl. Sagi Ben-David, who was found dead on Nov. 12, 2020, after he had been missing for two days. Credit: IDF.

IDF reports that missing soldier found dead

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An Israel Defense Forces soldier who was missing for two days was found dead on Thursday near a military checkpoint close to eastern Jerusalem, the military confirmed, saying that an investigation of the incident has...
Vials of the experimental COVID-19 vaccine from the Israel Institute for Biological Research. Credit: The Israeli Defense Ministry Spokesperson's Office.

Breakthrough in bringing COVID-19 vaccine to Israel

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“Significant progress” was made late Wednesday night in removing bureaucratic impediments to signing a deal with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to enable the import of the coronavirus vaccine to Israel, the Prime Minister’s Office stated...
Rockets are fired from Gaza towards Israel following the targeted killing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad field commander Baha Abu al-Ata by Israel on Nov. 12, 2019. Photo by Hassan Jedi/Flash90.

Israel girds for Gaza violence on the anniversary of Islamic Jihad commander’s death

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A day ahead of the one-year anniversary of Israel’s assassination of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu al-Ata, Israel is preparing to counter a possible escalation in violence from the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces...
Rain in Jerusalem on Nov. 5, 2020. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Report: COVID outbreak in Israel to worsen over winter

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A new report from the Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center finds that Israel is likely to see a spike in infections over the winter, when people will convene in small indoor spaces. The...
Palestinian supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir, or the Islamic Liberation Party, chant slogans and wave black and white flags reading "There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his prophet" during a rally in Ramallah on July 7, 2012. Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash90.

This group wants a caliphate, and sees even Hamas as a ‘nationalist’ target

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The 15,000 Muslims who crowded into the courtyards of the Temple Mount mosques on Oct. 30 became another news story about COVID-19. But the real story was much bigger: the enormous anti-France protest near the al-Aqsa...
Israeli Minister of Defense Benny Gantz visits the Jerusalem Municipality on Nov. 10, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel ‘on verge of elections’ over budget issue, warns Gantz

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As Israel’s coalition partners continue to wrangle over the matter of the state budget, Blue and White leader Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned on Tuesday that time is running out to resolve the issue...
An event at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, hosted by Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, marked 82 years since the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, Nov. 9, 2020. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Rivlin hosts event marking Kristallnacht with presidents of Austria and Germany

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Monday that while anti-Semitism was a more difficult virus to deal with than COVID-19, a vaccine must be found for it. Speaking at an event at the President’s Residence...