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Israeli passport with visa and entry stamps. Credit: Israel.Travel.

Israel passes important hurdle to enter US visa waiver program

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Fiscal year 2022 saw a significant drop in the number of Israelis refused visas to enter the United States, for the first time falling under the 3% threshold to qualify for the U.S. Visa...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, on May 7, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Abbas urges US spymaster to pressure Israel to stop ‘aggression’

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President Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas met with CIA Director William Burns in Ramallah on Sunday, amid heightened tensions following two Palestinian terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. Abbas briefed Burns on the “dangerous developments and the Israeli aggression against...

How Sustained Monogamous Intimacy Keeps Much Of The Human Race Afloat

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Sustained fidelity between two people seems to be becoming increasingly unpopular today.  First of all, when people choose to live together today rather than get married, they are putting themselves in a position to...

Dia Enternasional de la Komemorasion del Olokosto

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La Asamblea Jeneral de las Nasiones Unidas aksepto el 27 de enero (ke es el dia de la liberasion de Auschwitz-Birkenau), komo Dia Enternasional de la Komemorasion del Olokosto. Akel dia, se komemora el jenosidio...
Israeli Jewish men put on tefillin at the entrance to Carmel Market in downtown Tel Aviv on Feb. 10, 2017. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Wearing tefillin may prevent damage from heart attacks

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Wearing tefillin may have life-saving cardiovascular benefits for both men and women, according to University of Cincinnati researchers. Tefillin, or phylacteries, are small leather boxes containing biblical passages on parchment scrolls. There are two in...
This 10th-century handprint was found in the moat surrounding Jerusalem's Old City. Photo by Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Ancient moat and enigmatic hand imprint uncovered in Jerusalem

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A mysterious hand imprint carved into a thousand-year-old rock-hewn moat that was part of the ancient fortifications of Jerusalem has been uncovered next to the Old City’s northern wall, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced...
Lottie and Howard Marcus. Source: Courtesy of Americans for Ben-Gurion University.

Documentary on largest-ever gift to Israel to screen at international film festival

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A documentary that reconstructs the lives of Holocaust survivors Lottie and Howard Marcus, who made the largest-ever charitable donation to an institution based in Israel, will screen at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival...

Middle Eastern Studies Association Honors Anti-Israel Professor at S.F. State

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Unsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) just awarded the 2022 Jere L. Bacharach Service Award to San Francisco State University (SFSU) Professor...
The U.S. military is reportedly supplying Ukraine with artillery rounds pulled from stockpiles based in Israel. Credit: National Guard of Ukraine, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Ukraine war starts to undermine Israeli security

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For the last 11 months, Israel has sought to signal its opposition to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine while avoiding being dragged into a war that compromises its own security and interests. Threading that...
U.S. President Joe Biden. Source: Twitter/@POTUS.

Anti-Israel activist withdraws nomination for assistant secretary of state

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Sarah Margon has withdrawn her nomination for assistant secretary of state for democracy, human Rights and labor, following Republican pushback against her anti-Israel record at Human Rights Watch (HRW) and George Soros’ Open Society...