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Maccabi Haifa players celebrate a goal during the Israeli Premier League match between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Haifa at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on July 7, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

UAE, Israeli soccer clubs to play first friendlies since normalization

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United Arab Emirates soccer club Al-Ain will play Israel’s Maccabi Haifa in two friendly matches, the Emirati club announced on Wednesday. The announcement was made during the virtual signing of a deal between the two...
Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Avi Dichter, Aug. 13, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Former Shin Bet chief calls for Israel to ‘initiate military operations against Iran’

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In light of Iran’s fast-moving efforts to develop a nuclear bomb, Likud Knesset member and Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter, a former director of the Shin Bet, has called “to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a welcoming ceremony at Ben-Gurion International Airport for the first commercial flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Nov. 26, 2020. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Netanyahu postpones trip to Abu Dhabi, Bahrain

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed his scheduled visit next week to Abu Dhabi and Bahrain, citing Israel’s coronavirus lockdown and the shuttering of Ben-Gurion International Airport, his office announced on Thursday. “Despite the...
Israeli currency. Source: pixabay.com.

2021 opens with record investments for Israeli startups

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Following a record-breaking year that saw some $10 billion of investment flowing to Israeli companies, the reported amount of funds raised in January exceeded $1.2 billion, the highest-ever amount for a single month. The highest reported amount...
Then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R.-Calif.) speaks on day two of the 2016 RNC, July 19, 2016. Credit: Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.

McCarthy decides not to remove Taylor Greene from House committee assignments

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) issued a statement on Feb. 3 stating that although he condemns Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) past social-media posts, he doesn’t support removing her from her committee assignments. Greene’s comments have...
A view of the barrel room at Psagot Winery in the Binyamin region mountains of Judea and Samaria. Credit: Courtesy.

UAE embraces trade with Israeli-owned businesses in Judea and Samaria

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The Psagot Winery sits on the peaks of the Binyamin region mountains in Judea and Samaria, north of Jerusalem and just east of Ramallah. Though Psagot and many Israeli-owned businesses operating over the 1967...
Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

February 4, 2004: Facebook shows its face

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Facebook was launched  from a Harvard dormitory room by Mark Zuckerberg, then 19 years old, and three classmates on this date in 2004. By summer they had an investor, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of...
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. Source: Twitter.

Technion to award Pfizer CEO honorary doctorate for coronavirus vaccine

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The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will award an honorary doctorate to Pfizer CEO and chairman Dr. Albert Bourla for his “extraordinary achievement” in leading the record-time development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, Technion president...
View of the Jewish city of Ariel, in Samaria, on July 2, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90

West Bank facts on the ground cannot be ignored

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Palestinian and American officials had on Monday their first formal public contact since 2017. The Palestinian Authority refused to speak to the Trump administration for years because of anger over the moving of the...

It’s not enough to just remember the Holocaust

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is meant to serve two purposes: to memorialize the victims of the Nazi genocide and help prevent future genocides. Last week, on Jan. 27, the day designated by the U.N....