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The Sands of Samar, a dune expanse in the Arava region of southern Israel, near Eilat, on Aug. 30, 2019. Photo by Mila Aviv/Flash90.

Anti-Israel groups lash out at Sierra Club for reinstating educational trips to Israel

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The environmentalist Sierra Club has reopened its Israel travel program five months after canceling a pair of trips to the Jewish state in the wake of pressure from anti-Israel activists. Last weekend, the Oakland, Calif.-based...
Students from Wayne State University's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter host a chalking event in Detriot on Aug. 13, 2022. Source: Instagram.

Wayne State University pro-Palestinian student group glorifies dead terrorist

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Wayne State University’s Student for Justice in Palestine (SPJ) chapter shared an Instagram post glorifying dead Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terrorist Ibrahim Nabulsi, who was recently slain by Israel. The Instagram graphic, posted by the student group on...

Rubio tells media to hold Florida-bound Roger Waters culpable for anti-Semitism

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Florida’s Republican Sen. Marco Rubio went on an all-around attack on Pink Floyd co-founder and longtime anti-Israel activist Roger Waters ahead of his tour of Rubio’s state. Writing in an op-ed for The Floridian, Rubio called Waters out for his recent...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey on March 9, 2022. Source: Isaac Herzog/Twitter.

Israel and Turkey to restore full diplomatic ties

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Israel and Turkey will restore full diplomatic relations in a process that will include the return of ambassadors and consuls general, according to a statement on Wednesday from Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s office. “Upgrading...

PA security forces arrest two Islamic Jihad recruits in possession of 17 kg of...

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Palestinian Authority security forces last week arrested two Nablus residents who had been recruited by Palestinian Islamic Jihad and were in posession of 17 kilograms of explosives, Channel 2 reported Tuesday night. The report said that while...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 26, 2019. Credit: UN Photo/Cia Pak.

Palestinian Authority to seek full UN membership

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The Palestinian Authority is again seeking full membership in the United Nations, although the effort is liable to fail just as Ramallah’s previous attempt did in 2011 when the Obama administration essentially kiboshed the...
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid gives a statement to the media after a farewell ceremony for U.S. President Joe Biden at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 15, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Lapid slams as ‘monstrous lie’ Abbas’s claim that Israel perpetrated ‘50 Holocausts’ against Palestinians

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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid early on Wednesday slammed as a “monstrous lie” comments made the day before by Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, who claimed following a meeting with Germany’s chancellor in Berlin...
Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart; executive vice president Zev Gershinsky; and Israeli Consul General in New York Ambassador Asaf Zamir with 40 future Lone Soldiers at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Photo by Shahar Azran.

‘Look forward,’ says lone soldier on 20th-anniversary ‘aliyah’ flight to Israel

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With lots of hugs and plenty of tears—and a mix of joy and anticipation, and excitement of the unknown—225 Jews from North America said goodbye to family and friends and left John F. Kennedy...
Olaf Scholz. Source: Olaf Scholz/Facebook.

Abbas tells Germany leader Israel committed ‘Holocausts’ against Palestinians

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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas expressed no regrets on Tuesday for the murderous attack by Palestinian terrorists on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics half a century ago. He also claimed that Israel had committed...
Jake Fishman. Photo by Hutch Fishman.

Team Israel to Major League Baseball: Jake Fishman’s debut with the Miami Marlins

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The Miami Marlins baseball team has a good sense of humor and loves a good fish story. When Jewish player Jake Fishman was called up to the majors from the triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp...