Thursday, 23 February 2017 | An 1,800 year old limestone capital dating to the Roman period that is engraved with two Hebrew inscriptions was discovered during the course of restoration and conservation work being carried out in the ancient synagogue and neighboring Beit Zinati visitor center at Peki’in in the Western Galilee. The work is
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Wednesday, 22 February 2017 | Less than two weeks ago, the screech of air raid sirens warned residents in Israel’s southern port city of Eilat that four rockets had been fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The next day, an affiliate of the Islamic State or ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack—and vowed to launch more
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Wednesday, 22 February 2017 | After years of encountering disproportionate anti-Israel criticism and bias at the United Nations [UN], the United States “will not turn a blind eye to this anymore,” new United States Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said on Thursday. Haley described her first meeting of the UN Security Council: “The Security
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Wednesday, 22 February 2017 | Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday described Israel as a “cancerous tumor” and called for a “holy intifada” to destroy the Jewish state. Khamenei’s latest threat came in a speech introducing the regime’s sixth conference in support of a Palestinian intifada, or violent uprising against Israel. The conference
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Wednesday, 22 February 2017 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, Monday evening, at the presidential palace in Singapore, attended a dinner together with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife Ho Ching. During the event an orchid was named after the Netanyahus. Prime Minister Netanyahu said at the start of
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Tuesday, 21 February 2017 | At first glance, the nations of Israel and Saudi Arabia share little common ground. The majority of residents in the Jewish state ascribe to the culture, religion, values and principles of Judaism while the lives of those who call Saudi Arabia home are governed by Islam. Moreover, since the birth
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Tuesday, 21 February 2107 | “The operations posed quite a logistical challenge,” said Dr. Michal Kaufmann, the performing surgeon. “Many authorizations were required from the Defense Ministry. Some of the children arrived without a medical record and required extensive tests at Hadassah, alongside the emotional and psychological treatment.” The cochlear implant is an implanted hearing
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Tuesday, 21 February 2017 | More than 6,000 investors and entrepreneurs crammed the Israel Convention Center in Jerusalem Thursday for the annual OurCrowd Investors’ Summit, braving Jerusalem’s freezing rain to attend what was billed as the largest gathering of investors in Israeli history. Including investors from 82 countries and corporate representatives from close to 300
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Tuesday, 21 February 2017 | The optics, certainly, were fine. It was good to see an American president and an Israeli prime minister standing together on the podium with what appeared to be genuine good will. Most important, and promising for the future, perhaps, was how they dealt with the “two state solution” mantra. There
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Monday, 20 February 2017 | Iran has sent “game-changing” weapons to its proxy group Hezbollah which has been actively building tunnels and fortifications along Lebanon’s border with Israel, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported Wednesday, citing Lebanese media. Ibrahim al-Amin, chairman of the pro-Hezbollah newspaper Al-Akhbar, wrote in an editorial on January 24
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