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‘US taps Hamas ally Qatar to build port in Gaza’

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At America’s request, Hamas ally Qatar has agreed to take charge of operating and financing the temporary pier on its way from the United States to the Gaza coast, Israel’s Channel 14 reported on Tuesday. Qatar consented...

Religious women in territories armor up

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Religious women living on the frontlines in Judea and Samaria are taking up arms to defend their homes, particularly after the Oct. 7 massacre. Srugim, a news site catering to the religious Zionist community, reported...
The president of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, hosted, as every year, a meal to break the fast of Ramadan (Iftar) for Muslim leaders and public figures in Israel, on June 12, 2017. Photo Credit: Mark Neyman/GPO.

Israel’s Muslim community grows by 2.5 percent, marrying even younger

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As of late 2017, the Muslim population in Israel stood at 1.562 million, representing 17.8 percent of the country’s general population. It was also an increase of 38,000 people in relation to the previous...
Israeli security forces at the scene of a shooting attack in the Barkan Industrial Park area on Oct. 7, 2018. Photo by Flash90.

Two Israelis killed by Palestinian in shooting attack at Barkan Industrial Park

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Two Israelis were killed and third moderately injured during a shooting attack at the Barkan Industrial Park early Sunday morning, in Samaria approximately 16 miles east of Tel Aviv, and just outside the Jewish...
Israeli security forces at the scene where a building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, on October 17, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Be’ersheva home destroyed by powerful Gaza rocket, family miraculously saved

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A medium-range grad rocket fired by terrorists in the Gaza Strip destroyed a home in Be’ersheva, Israel’s third largest city, deep inside Israeli territory. The Red Alert warning system was activated at 3:39am in Be’ersheva...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the fourth annual Meeting of Israel-China Joint Committee on Innovation Cooperation at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Oct. 24, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu, Chinese vice president talk economic cooperation at conference

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan chaired the fourth annual Meeting of Israel-China Joint Committee on Innovation Cooperation, where eight joint agreements are expected to be signed related to innovation, science...
Incoming House Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia participates in a five-day visit to Israel, along with other incoming congressional members to learn about the region. Photo courtesy of Denver Riggleman.

Group of incoming members of U.S. Congress spend five days touring in Israel

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A bipartisan delegation of incoming members of Congress returned to the United States on Friday following a five-day visit to Israel. Reps.-elect Denver Riggleman (R-Va.), Elaine Luria (D-Va.), David Trone (D-Md.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Susie...
Airbnb logo. Credit: Screenshot.

SWC Welcomes Airbnb’s Reported Reversal on Removing West Bank Listings

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“If confirmed, this is welcome news and we will inform our constituency of 400,000 families that we are dropping our boycott of Airbnb," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Associate Dean and Director...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin seen during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on May 9, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Israel votes in favor of UN resolution censuring Russian annexation of Crimea

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 Israel voted in favor of a U.N. General Assembly resolution on Monday condemning the Russian occupation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. The resolution calls on Russia to withdraw armed forces from what the signers call “temporarily...
Israeli Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Oct. 1, 2017. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Knesset opposition cheers news of upcoming elections

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Opposition members in the Israeli government cheered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement on Monday that there will be elections next year. “In April, we will win,” said Avi Gabbay, leader of the largest opposition party Zionist...