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Report: Lebanese leaders knew explosives in the Beirut port could flatten the city

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Lebanese security officials warned the country’s prime minister and president just last month that the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut’s port could potentially destroy the city, according to Reuters. The detonation of the...
A view of damaged buildings after multiple explosions in Beirut on Aug. 5, 2020. Photo by Zaatari Lebanon/Flash90.

Lebanese Cabinet resigns after massive explosions devastate Beirut

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Lebanon’s Cabinet has announced its resignation in the aftermath of the chemical explosions in Beirut on Aug. 4, said Health Minister Hamad Hassan on Monday. “The whole government resigned,” and Prime Minister Hassan Diab will “hand over...
Rockets being launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel on May 4, 2019. Photo by Hassan Jedi/Flash90.

Report: Hamas fires rockets into the sea in warning to Israel

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The Hamas terror group fired at least four rockets into the Mediterranean Sea on Monday in a show of force amid an uptick in violence along the Gaza-Israel border in recent days. The launch, which...
Beyoncé performing at Wembley Stadium in London in July 2016. Credit: Wikipedia.

Beyoncé dons Israeli designers’ creations for mega visual album

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Beyoncé has done it again, producing a visual album called Black Is King and sending the world into an absolute frenzy. That’s good news for the Israeli designers featured in it, and whose creations—the word “clothes” won’t...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz addresses the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, chaired by M.K. Zvi Hauser (seated, right) on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Source: Twitter/Benny Gantz.

Gantz: Hezbollah chief Nasrallah ‘Lebanon’s biggest problem’

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday that while Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is Israel’s “biggest enemy from the north,” he is “Lebanon’s biggest problem.” Referring to...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses a rally in Ramallah commemorating the fifth anniversary of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death, Nov. 11, 2009. Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash90.

Israeli MKs call for PA Prisoners’ Affairs Administration to be declared a terrorist organization

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Lawmakers from across Israel’s political spectrum have called on the country’s defense minister, Benny Gantz, to declare the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners’ Affairs Administration a terrorist organization. The Prisoners’ Affairs Administration plays a central role...
Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron speaking in Jerusalem on March 31, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Bank of Israel Governor urges government to pass budget, prevent new elections

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Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron has called on the government to pass the national budget as soon as possible to stave off another round of Knesset elections as the country grapples with the...
Artist's renderings of the ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran Neuro-Orthopedic Rehabilitative Hospital. Credit: Courtesy.

Plans for expanded village at ALEH in works, plus neuro-orthopedic hospital

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Nearly every month for the last decade, more than 1,000 people from across Israel and the world have visited ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran to see the village for themselves. By applying best practices from around...
Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist take part in a symbolic funeral for the movement's former leader, Ramadan Shalah, in Gaza City, on June 7, 2020, a day after he died in Lebanon. Photo by Ali Ahmed/Flash90.

Islamic Jihad threatens ‘Israel will bear consequences’ for escalation with Gaza

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The Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad threatened that Israel “will bear the consequences of anything that happens to the residents or farmers as a result of the escalation.” The group issued the threat on...
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (holding Torah scroll). Credit: Courtesy of the Steinsaltz Center.

Netanyahu: ‘Rabbi Steinsaltz was an outstanding example of the persistent Jew’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among the many public figures who eulogized internationally acclaimed talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who died of on Friday in Jerusalem at the age of 83. “Rabbi Steinsaltz was an...