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New report slams social-media giants for ‘failing to act on anti-Semitism’

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A new report by the Center to Counter Digital Hate (CCDH) revealed that five major social-media companies failed to act upon 84 percent of anti-Semitic posts on their websites, despite promising to double down on anti-Semitism. Researchers...
Shontel Brown. Credit: Shontel Brown/Facebook.

Pro-Israel voters likely tipped scales in favor of Shontel Brown’s ‘stunning upset’ in Ohio,...

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Pro-Israel and establishment Democrats secured a major victory on Tuesday as their favored candidate, Cuyahoga County council member Shontel Brown, handily defeated former State Sen. Nina Turner on Tuesday to become the Democratic Party’s...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Aug. 1, 2021. Photo by Emil Salman/Flash90.

In face of Delta variant, Israel reverts to stringent COVID-19 restrictions

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Israel’s ministerial committee approved new restrictions on fighting the spread of COVID-19, announced the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday. They are set to be instituted on Aug. 8 as a result of the uptick in...
Wendy Sherman signs her appointment papers to become the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 2021. Credit: State Department Photo by Mark Stewart.

Incoming Israeli national security adviser meets with US counterparts

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Eyal Hulata, the incoming Israeli national security adviser, met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Tuesday, during which, according to a U.S. State Department readout of the meeting, the two discussed a number of...
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan, in his first address to the Security Council, Oct. 26, 2020. Source: Facebook/Gilad Erdan.

Israel’s UN envoy demands Security Council sanction Iran for maritime attack

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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan called on Tuesday for the U.N. Security Council to “condemn and sanction” Iran over an attack on an Israeli-managed oil tanker in the Arabian Sea on July 29. “Iran’s...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan speaks at a webinar, “A Festival of Hate: How to Defeat the Durban Strategy—A Primary Vector of 21st Century Anti-Semitism,” Aug. 3, 2021. Source: Twitter.

Erdan, Cotler decry upcoming UN Durban commemoration

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Ahead of the United Nations commemoration next month of the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration, the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM) held a webinar on Tuesday to decry the participation of members states at the event,...
Israel Defense Forces artillery units deployed near the Lebanese border outside Kiryat Shmona, Sept.1, 2019. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.

IDF shells targets in Lebanon following rocket fire on Israel’s north

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Israeli artillery units shelled targets in Lebanon on Wednesday, after three rockets were fired at northern Israel from across the border, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Three launches were detected, but only two projectiles...
Ebrahim Raisi. Credit: Mohammad Hossein Taaghi via Wikimedia Commons.

Raisi’s presidency a ‘metaphor’ for Iran’s regional escalation

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Iran’s new president Ebrahim Raisi will be sworn in on Thursday, and he is already making his mark. Reports on Tuesday that a number of ships in the Gulf of Oman were the victims...
The "professor's gate" at George Washington University. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

GW becomes first American university to offer master’s program in Israel education

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George Washington University’s ​​Graduate School of Education and Human Development is now offering a master’s degree program in Israel education. The private university in Washington, D.C., is the first major educational institution in the United...
ESG CEO Christoph Otten (left) with Yosef Melamed, executive vice president of Israel Aerospace Industries and general manager of the IAI Aviation Group. Credit: ESG.

Israel Aerospace Industries to provide combat network systems to German company

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Israel Aerospace Industries announced on Tuesday that it had signed a cooperation agreement with ESG, a German security-related electronics and IT systems company, to provide the German Armed Forces with combat network technology. The deal...