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Israel-UAE Deal: Warm Peace, Economic Boon & Underwear Ads

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The United Arab Emirates is reportedly planning to send its first official delegation to Israel on September 22; this, following last month’s US-brokered normalization agreement between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi.


Leaders of the Gulf state are expected to finalize the details of the prospective visit after a date is set for the formal signing of the accord that will likely take place at the White House.

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The European Union has warned Serbia and Kosovo that they could weaken their chances of gaining membership in the bloc by opening up respective embassies in Jerusalem.

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Media Silence as Arch-Terrorists Plot to Destroy Israel

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The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed that it had thwarted a Hamas plot to carry out bombings throughout the Jewish state.

The Palestinian terror group recruited and then initially tasked Mahmoud Makdad, 30, with gathering intelligence.

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The Tsofen not-for-profit organization has teamed up with the heads of Arab-majority locales with a view to launching a $237 million five-year plan to boost the number of Arab-Israeli engineers in the country to 20,000.

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Oxford University will award two Israeli students its Rhodes Scholarship, which funds two or three years of advanced study at the institution. 

Only six Israelis have, to date, received the honor, which is considered one of the most prestigious in the world.

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Model May Tager is currently in Dubai to shoot an advertisement for the Israeli-based Fix undergarment and pajama company.

Who will join Tager?
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The leaders of two sworn enemies of Israel, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist organizations, met recently to discuss diplomatic normalization between the Jewish state and Arab countries.

They discussed “political and military developments in Palestine, Lebanon, and the region,” as well as “the dangers to the Palestinian cause.”

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All You Need to Know About The Hezbollah Threat to Israel

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September 7, 2020, marks the sixth anniversary of when Avera Mengistu was taken captive by Hamas. A year later, the Palestinian terror group also took hostage Hisham al-Sayed.

 

Since then, neither has had access to medical treatment or been afforded the privileges guaranteed by international law.

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Antisemitism Watch: Two American citizens with ties to a far-right extremist group have been charged with trying to support Hamas by plotting violent attacks in Minnesota.

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Palestinian officials have accused the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and other Gulf states of trying to foil a United Nations draft resolution that aims to prevent normalization between Israel and Arab countries.

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Under pressure from his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed course on implementing lockdowns in some 40 communities with high COVID-19 infection rates.

 

Instead, the Israeli government approved a measure that would see a night-time curfew placed on such locales.

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Dean Kremer, the first Israeli to be drafted by a Major League Baseball team, made his debut for the Baltimore Orioles. In the first inning, the pticher recorded two strikeouts and a pop fly out for a perfect 1-2-3 opening frame against the New York Yankees.

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Israel Expands Circle of Friends; COVID-19 Toll Rises
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Kosovo intends to establish diplomatic ties with Israel and will, in addition to Serbia, open an embassy in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the historic development, which was made public by US President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House that also focused on the establishment of official economic relations between Pristina and Belgrade.

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The normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will reportedly be defined as an official “peace treaty” and be given the same status as the Jewish state’s agreements with Egypt and Jordan.

 

Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi are currently hashing out the details of the accord, which is expected to be signed at a White House ceremony in the next few weeks.

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Authorities announced that Israel had become the 49th country in the world to surpass the grim threshold of 1,000 deaths caused by the novel coronavirus.

With Israel struggling to contain the spread of the contagion, lockdowns are set to begin on Monday in up to 30 locals.

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The Palestinian Authority has reportedly expressed interest in gradually renewing security coordination with Israel after having abruptly cut off defense ties in response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to apply sovereignty to parts of the West Bank in accordance with the US peace plan.

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Under the Radar: The History of Israeli-Palestinian Security Cooperation

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Antisemitism Watch:  A new documentary film featuring elderly Nazis describing the evil perpetrated during the Holocaust will premiere later this month at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.

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Apple TV+ has debuted the official trailer for Tehran, an eight-episode spy thriller co-created by Israeli writer Moshe Zonder, of Fauda fame. 

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Israel: Syria Tensions Rise, Lockdown Looms &      UAE Leader Wants to Visit

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The Israeli military on Wednesday night allegedly conducted airstrikes near the central Syrian city of Homs. According to reports, Israel Defense Forces jets fired “a burst of missiles” at the T-4 Syrian airbase.

 

It comes just two days after the IDF purportedly struck military installations near Damascus.

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Israel on Wednesday recorded 3,150 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily tally since the beginning of the pandemic.

 

In response, Israel’s coronavirus “czar,” Prof. Ronni Gamzu, warned that lockdowns could be imposed in cities with high infection rates.

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An official close to United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed said that the leader of the Gulf state wants to visit Israel in order to formalize a “comprehensive peace.”

 

In fact, Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi are reportedly finalizing the details for the mutual opening of embassies.

Read what Egypt's leader said  ➞
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The Trump Administration imposed sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) due to her ongoing preliminary investigation into possible war crimes committed by US soldiers in Afghanistan.

 

Neither the US nor Israel are signatories to the Rome Statue, the ICC’s founding charter, and thus both countries do not believe that the Hague-based court has jurisdiction to investigate alleged crimes by its citizens.

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Legally Blind: The International Criminal Court and Israel

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Antisemitism Watch: The BBC is investigating one of its journalists, Nimesh Thaker, over allegations that he created the anonymous “Not that bothered” Twitter account, which has disseminated anti-Israel propaganda.

 

Various posts have described Israel as “racist” and a “white supremacist state.”

 

Over in the US, the department of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University is slated to hold a Zoom discussion on September 23 featuring notorious Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled.

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Hackers earlier this summer stole more than $7 million from an endowment fund belonging to the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, which on Wednesday revealed the details of the theft.

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The Israel Police was put on high alert in Eilat after a man swam from Jordan into Israel, arriving at a beach in the southern resort city.

What motivated him?
Roger Waters’ Antisemitic Hypocrisy Exposed…By Al Jazeera (VIDEO)

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Hamas’ Ultimatum, Khamenei’s Antisemitism & Terrorism in Israel

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Hamas’ deputy chief in the Gaza Strip has given Israel a two-month window in order to implement the conditions of the cease-fire reached earlier this week between the sides.

 

Otherwise, Khalil al-Hayya warned that Gaza-based terrorists were prepared to enter “a confrontational campaign, even if it will lead to the bombing of Tel Aviv.”

 

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AP Whitewashes PLO and Hezbollah Violence in Lebanon Centennial Story

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The rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have reportedly put the brakes on a US effort to mediate normalization agreements between Israel and additional Arab countries in the wake of the historic deal with the United Arab Emirates.

 

The positions of both nations were conveyed during separate meetings on Tuesday with senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, the chief architect of President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan.

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is again under fire from Jewish groups for disseminating antisemitic — if not annihilationist — rhetoric on social media.

 

Khamenei has in the past been slammed for describing Israel on Twitter as “a deadly, cancerous growth” that must be “uprooted and destroyed.”

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An Israeli soldier and a police officer on Wednesday morning were lightly injured in a suspected car-ramming attack at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank.

 

The incident occurred exactly one week after a Palestinian stabbed to death Shai Ohayon in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva.

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The Polish government has after a three-month delay agreed to accept the appointment of a new German ambassador, Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, whose father between 1944 and April 1945 prepared the daily military briefing in Adolf Hitler’s bunker .

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French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is republishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that made the publication the target of a deadly January 2015 terrorist attack in Paris.

 

The move coincides with the beginning of the trial of 14 people accused of helping the two Islamist attackers carry out their shooting rampage.

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Israel-Hamas Cease-fire, Airstrikes in Syria & Spotlight on UAE

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The Hamas terror group has agreed to a tentative cease-fire agreement with Israel, thus ending a nearly month-long round of low-level confrontations.

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Gaza Violence Makes Headlines, but Media Mum on Israeli Captives

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed gratitude to the United Arab Emirates following the first-ever direct flight between the countries.

Netanyahu also revealed that he had, in turn, invited Emirati officials to the Jewish state, saying, “We’ll give them the same red carpet [greeting] they gave us.”

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A top Palestinian official has reiterated his belief that acts of terrorism constitute a legitimate response to the recent normalization deal between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates.

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The Israel Defense Forces on Monday night allegedly conducted airstrikes targeting military installations near Damascus, Syria.

The IDF did not comment on the incident.

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Billionaire Sheldon Adelson is reportedly in advanced negotiations to purchase the US Ambassador to Israel’s residence in Herzliya Pituah, located just north of Tel Aviv.

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Antisemitism Watch: Social media platform TikTok has instituted a “zero tolerance” policy for accounts disseminating antisemitism and other forms of bigotry.

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Israel Tests Laser Weapon at Gaza Border (VIDEO)
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From Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, Israel Pursues Peace Even as Enemies Threaten War

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An Israeli commercial plane for the first time in history took off from Ben-Gurion International Airport and landed in the United Arab Emirates.

The historic flight carried a US peace team headed by senior Trump administration adviser Jared Kushner and an Israeli delegation. It came just weeks after Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi agreed to a Washington-mediated normalization agreement.

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has vowed to murder an IDF soldier in response to the killing of a member of the Iranian-backed terrorist organization in an alleged Israeli airstrike earlier this summer in Syria.


“If you kill one of our men, we kill one of your soldiers. That’s the equation,” Nasrallah said in televised remarks.

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Qatar’s envoy to Gaza has reportedly made progress in indirect cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas. Mohammed al-Emadi said in a statement that he has been in touch with “all sides” and that a framework for a truce agreement was in place but that certain details still needed to be hashed out.

The report came as Gaza-based terrorist factions resumed their campaign of launching incendiary balloons into southern Israel. 

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A notorious Islamist preacher who was convicted on 11 terrorism-related charges, including inciting the murder of Jews, has filed a lawsuit in the US because he is allegedly, among other things, being forced to eat kosher food.


Abu Hamza, the former leader of the Finsbury Park Mosque in London, was accused of hostage taking, collaborating with Al Qaeda and supporting jihad. 

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Electricity consumption in Israel on Sunday hit an all-time record, with 14,089 megawatts consumed. It topped the previous hight set this past May.

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Following an outcry from international rights groups, Jordanian authorities released a prominent cartoonist who had been detained for publishing a drawing critical of the Israel-UAE normalization deal.

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An Israeli delegation departed for California to assist in combating a massive outbreak of wildfires. The group includes 10 members of Israel’s Fire and Rescue Authority in addition to experts and a foreign ministry official.

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UAE Ends Israel Boycott, Hamas Threatens War & Snoop's Antisemitic Dog(g) Whistle

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President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is also the Emir of Abu Dhabi, issued a decree as part of “the UAE’s efforts to expand diplomatic and commercial cooperation with Israel, leading to bilateral relations by stimulating economic growth and promoting technological innovation."

Meanwhile, Israeli officials are eagerly awaiting a prospective official signing ceremony in Washington, D.C.

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Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh has warned that his terrorist group will not agree to halt attacks against Israel until the blockade on the Gaza Strip is at least partially lifted.

Haniyeh’s statement came amid reports that various terrorist factions in Gaza are coordinating efforts to increase the amount of rudimentary incendiary devices flown across the border into Israeli territory.

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Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will welcome Saeb Erekat and Federica Mogherini as Fisher Family Fellows for the 2020-21 academic year.

For his part, Erekat is a staunch proponent of the PA’s policy of paying stipends to terrorists jailed in Israel and in the past has accused the Jewish state of pursuing apartheid-like policies.

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Harvard to Welcome Chief Palestinian Rejectionist

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Antisemitism Watch: Rapper Snoop Dogg compared the United States to Nazi Germany in a post to his more than 50 million Instagram followers.

IfNotNow has walked back its condemnation of the spray-painting of “Free Palestine” on a synagogue in Graz, Austria.

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The private rooms where Sigmund Freud treated patients in Vienna were opened for the first time to the public on Saturday. The additions came after 18 months of renovations that had forced the closure of the Sigmund Freud Museum.

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Israel’s Health Ministry on Sunday released public guidelines in response to a major heatwave sweeping across the country.

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       Palestinian Propaganda, Iran Nuke Deal &              Two Famous Israelis Make Headlines

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An Associated Press article failed to include critical facts that are crucial to understanding the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and, as a corollary, the predicament Ramallah is currently facing.

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Iran has agreed in principle to grant international inspectors access to two sites where the country is suspected of having conducted undeclared nuclear activities.

 

One of the facilities is reportedly in Abadeh, south of Isfahan, and was exposed in September 2019 by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Following this week’s conflagration with Hezbollah, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan submitted a letter to the Security Council demanding that immediate action be taken against the Lebanese government and that changes be made to the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

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Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi arrived in Berlin on his first official visit overseas. The top Israeli diplomat met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whom he thanked for Germany’s decision to designate Hezbollah’s “political wing” as a terrorist organization.

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Israeli company BrainsWay announced that it had received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (Deep TMS) system aimed at helping people to quit smoking. 

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Former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire has officially converted to Judaism. Stoudemire, who received Israeli citizenship in March 2019 while playing professional basketball in the country, made the announcement in a post on Instagram.

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Eurovision Song Contest winner Netta Barzilai explained in an interview how art and music can help people across the world stay connected during the coronavirus pandemic.

“There are more barriers now that we’re going to have to learn how to break,” the Israeli musician said. “We’re going to have to find inspiration within, and look for a deeper content.”

Catch a glimpse of Netta creating her new album ➞
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IDF Hits Hezbollah After Shots Fired at Israeli Troops

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Israeli aircraft bombed several Hezbollah observation posts early Wednesday after Israeli soldiers came under cross-border fire. It is believed to be the first time that Israel conducted aerial strikes against Hezbollah targets inside Lebanon since the 2006 war.

The Israeli response came in the wake of the security incident along the shared frontier that forced residents in the North to remain inside their homes.

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Tensions are running high along the Israel-Gaza border, with the IDF striking Hamas targets in the coastal enclave in response to the continued launching by Palestinian terrorists of incendiary balloons into Israel. 

In a bid to prevent further escalation, a Qatari delegation led by envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi entered the Gaza Strip.

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On the heels of the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the United States is planning a Middle East peace summit that will likely be held in one of the Gulf states.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is currently on a multi-nation tour of the region and has reportedly received positive feedback regarding the proposed initiative from Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, Chad and Sudan.

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The United States’ bid to reimpose “snapback” UN sanctions on Iran has failed. The move, which was opposed by 13 of the 15 UN Security Council members, would have also extended an arms embargo on the Islamic Republic that is due to expire in October in accordance with the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal.

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Antisemitism Watch: Antisemitic posters blaming Jews for the coronavirus pandemic have appeared in the southern Argentine city of Neuquen, located some 700 miles south of Buenos Aires. The posters contained phrases such as “The Jews are the virus” and “Argentines Awake to the World Jewish Dictatorship.”

Concurrently, British rapper Wiley has doubled down on his antisemitic rhetoric, repeating tropes about Jewish power and money that previously got him banned from social media platforms.

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A stormy debate is expected in the Knesset on Wednesday over a controversial bill that aims to redefine who is eligible to become an Israeli citizen in consonance with the Law of Return.

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An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who described as a “profound regret” never having had a formal education was awarded a high school diploma. Miriam Schreiber was presented with the honorary degree from the New England Jewish Academy in Hartford, Connecticut.

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With Short-term Compromise, Israel Averts Immediate Elections

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Israel’s Knesset approved a bill to push back the deadline on passing a state budget, thereby giving the shaky coalition an additional 120 days — until December 23 — to come to an agreement in order to prevent the government from collapsing and, by extension, a fourth election in less than two years.

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel will retain its military dominance in the Middle East amid speculation that Washington is preparing to sell fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who expressed hope that the Israel-UAE accord would strengthen regional stability and security.

 

It comes as British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab traveled to Jerusalem and Ramallah in a bid to press Israel and the Palestinian Authority to renew negotiations.

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The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday morning struck several military sites in the Gaza Strip in response to the ongoing launching of incendiary balloon into Israeli territory.

 

Coinciding with the escalation in violence, Hamas authorities have confirmed the first cases of COVID-19 among Gaza residents not placed in quarantine after returning from abroad.

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Saving Lives: Israel’s ‘Disproportionate’ Civil Defense

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Antisemitism Watch: An e-commerce website that last year sold T-shirts containing the words “Zyklon B” — a gas used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews — is now offering merchandise with the tagline, “Make Israel Palestine Again.”

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A 3,200-year-old Canaanite citadel where epic battles were fought has been unearthed near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat.

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Unprovoked Carnage: The Hebron Massacre of 1929
BY EMANUEL MILLER  AUGUST 23, 2019
In the eyes of many, the Hebron massacre is the defining event of the 1929 Arab riots in Palestine.

For centuries, the small Jewish community of Hebron coexisted alongside a much larger Muslim community. Although Jews were never accorded full equality and often faced rampant discrimination and even extreme violence, at times relations were cordial.

1929 was a seminal year for the inhabitants of the Holy Land, as violent Arab riots against Jewish immigration swept through Palestine, which was then administered by the British.

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Triggered by a baseless rumor that Jews were planning to march to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and claim ownership of their holiest place, thousands of Arab villagers streamed into Jerusalem to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, many armed with sticks and knives. The crowds worked themselves into a frenzy, with some 20-30 gunshots reported fired in the vicinity of the Temple Mount by rabble-rousers. A British report on the events describes the excited Arab crowds as intent on mischief and possibly murder. Fed by rumors that two Arabs had been killed by Jews elsewhere in Jerusalem, Arabs in the Old City went on the rampage, attacking and murdering Jews.

The rumors, and the violence  they prompted, spread swiftly across the land – most notably to Hebron, where a massacre unfolded.

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The Massacre Begins
As Jews prepared to mark Shabbat, the holy day of rest, reports of the violence in Jerusalem made their way to their Arab neighbors.

The first to be targeted were the Ashkenazi Jews, who lived separately from both the Sephardi Jewish community and from the Arab population. Although their community had been established in the town for at least a century, their isolation fed the Arab views that these “Zionist immigrants” were suspicious and thus hated.

Despite the suspicion borne towards the Ashkenazi Jews, some recall being on good terms with the Arab neighbors. So peaceful was the city that only one British policeman guarded the entire city.

He oversaw a small force of 18 mounted police, together with 15 constables on patrol. All but one of whom were Arabs. Many were infirm and elderly.

Arab youths took to hurling rocks at the Ashkenazi yeshiva students passing by. That afternoon, a Jewish student named Shmuel Rosenholtz went to learn at the yeshiva. Around 4pm, Arab rioters forced their way in to the building. The caretaker managed to hide in a well, but Rosenholtz wasn’t so lucky. Absorbed in study, he didn’t see his attackers till too late.

The killing frenzy had started.

Seeing the warning signs, a number of Jews took shelter in the home the son of Rabbi Slonim, Eliezer Dan Slonim that night. The following day, he was approached by the rioters. They offered him a deal. If he agreed to hand over all the Ashkenazi yeshiva students to the Arabs, the rioters would spare the lives of the Sephardi community.

Such an act would have meant certain death for dozens of Jews. Slonim refused, saying “we are all one people”. In retaliation, he, his wife and 4-year-old son were promptly shot dead.

The following hours were hell for Hebron’s Jewish community, as the attacks turned into a massacre of the helpless Jewish community.

The following day, 24 August, saw Arab mobs gather and attack the Jewish quarter. The resulting carnage became known as the Hebron Massacre of 1929.
By 8am on Saturday morning, Arabs began to gather around the Jewish community. Armed with clubs, knives and axes, the mobs prepared to attack. Women and children threw stones while men ransacked Jewish houses and destroyed Jewish property.

With only a single police officer in all of Hebron, the Arabs were able to enter Jewish courtyards with literally no opposition.

Jews of all ages were attacked at random – men, women and children alike were the targets of the fury of the Arab mob. Women were raped, children were bludgeoned to death, and men stabbed and mutilated.

The Beit Romano police station turned into a shelter for the Jews on the morning of Saturday, August 24. It also became a synagogue when the Orthodox Jews gathered there said their morning prayers. As they finished praying, they began to hear noises outside the building. Thousands of Arabs descended from Har Hebron, shouting “Kill the Jews!” in Arabic. They even tried to break down the doors of the station.

The small police force was overrun and utterly incapable of stemming the mob. Some Arab policemen even joined in the killings.

The Beit Hadassah Jewish hospital, operated by the Hadassah Medical Organization, which provided equal treatment for Arabs and Jews alike, wasn’t spared. The rioters destroyed the pharmacy, and torched a synagogue on the top floor, destroying the Torah scrolls inside. The pharmacist there, a crippled man who had served both Jews and Arabs for four decades, was forced to watch as his daughter was raped and then murdered. He was then killed himself.

Photographs from the time show a girl struck on the head by a sword with her brain spilling out, a woman with bandaged hands, people with their eyes gouged out, a man whose hand had been savagely amputated, and other grisly sights.

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It’s important to note that some Arabs did try to help Jews as the Hebron massacre unfolded. Nineteen Arab families saved dozens, if not hundreds, of Hebron’s Jews. Zmira Mani wrote about an Arab named Abu Id Zaitoun who brought his brother and son to rescue her family. The Arab family protected the Manis with their swords, hid them in a cellar along with other Jews they had saved, and eventually found a policeman to escort them safely to the police station at Beit Romano.

The Aftermath of the Hebron Massacre
In all, 67 Jews were murdered, and dozens injured.

Following the attacks, the British High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor visited Hebron. He later wrote to his son, “The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jews men and women were murdered in cold blood.” Sir Walter Shaw concluded in The Palestine Disturbances report that “unspeakable atrocities have occurred in Hebron.”

With their homes laid to waste and their synagogues destroyed, the few hundred Jewish survivors were evacuated to Jerusalem by the British.  Although a small number of Jews returned in 1931, their stay was to prove short-lived as the events of the Arab revolt between 1936-1939 led to the entire Jewish population being removed once more.

The following decade, Israel was established, but Hebron was captured by King Abdullah’s Arab Legion during the 1948 War of Independence and ultimately annexed to Jordan.

Jews only returned to the city in 1968, a year after Israel liberated Hebron from Jordanian control in the Six-Day War.

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Antisemitism Watch: The Jewish mayor of Asheville, North Carolina, said it is “very concerning” that the Republican congressional candidate in her district visited Adolf Hitler’s vacation home and referred to him as “the Fuhrer.”

 

Meanwhile, Jewish and pro-Israel groups slammed the victory of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman who has made antisemitic and other racist remarks, in the Republican run-off in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.

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Harrased For Being a Zionist: The Resignation of USC’s Rose Ritch

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Phishing attacks, in which a message is sent to people to try to get them to open a link and hand over details or information to a fake website or application, have surged in Israel during the second quarter of 2020.

 

Experts maintain that the COVID-19 pandemic is largely to blame for the increase in Israel, which goes counter to global trends that actually saw a 10% decrease in attempts from the first quarter of the year.


What makes Israel different?

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IDF Strikes Back After Barrage of Incendiary Balloons Launched from Gaza into Israel

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In response to a barrage of incendiary balloons flown from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the IDF has over the past 24 hours struck numerous Hamas assets in the Palestinian enclave. The targets destroyed included a military compound, underground terror infrastructure and observation posts.

 

The spate of arson attacks sparked 60 separate fires in southern Israeli communities, most of them located close to the shared border.

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Hezbollah’s weapons must be removed from populated areas in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, during a phone call.

 

The Israeli leader added that “Hezbollah is sorely mistaken if it thinks it can solve the crisis in Lebanon by creating a crisis with Israel.”

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Hezbollah and the UN’s Toothless Resolution 1701

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The UN Security Council (UNSC) remains divided over the nature and scope of the mandate of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon — known as UNIFIL — with the United States backing Israel’s demand for major changes.

 

Israel has repeatedly accused Hezbollah of preventing UNIFIL from fulfilling its mission, and, on the flip side, has also called out UNIFIL for turning a blind eye to Hezbollah’s militarization of the border area in violation of international law.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a member of Congress’ progressive “Squad,” resoundingly defeated a well-funded challenger in a primary vote. Some expected the outcome to be closer given that the two candidates had raised nearly the same amount of money.

 

Omar and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who also recently won her primary race, have drawn the ire of many American Jews for making comments and sharing memes on social media that were perceived as antisemitic. 

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Letter: Facebook, Create a Hate Speech Policy on Antisemitism

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An Italian judge has ruled that declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel is tantamount to the “dissemination of incorrect information.” 

 

The ruling marks the end of a lawsuit filed in May by two pro-Palestinian organizations against a popular Italian quiz show. During one episode, host Flavio Insinna would not accept as an answer that Tel Aviv was the capital of Israel and instead said that the correct response was Jerusalem.

 

As “punishment,” Insinna will be forced to explicitly say that Jerusalem is not Israel’s capital the next time the show airs.

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A new technology developed by Israeli start-up PulseNmore will allow pregnant women to perform ultrasounds from the comfort of their homes.

 

The small device, which attaches to smartphones, is operated directly by the woman, with directions coming either from a doctor during a live telemedicine appointment or by following instructions outlined on the associated app. 

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The popular website creation platform Wix has become Israel’s second-highest valued company, its share price having increased by 260% since March.


The jump has been widely attributed to coronavirus-related restrictions that have since the spring intermittently forced people across the globe to remain in their homes.

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HR Pressures Facebook to Create a Clear Antisemitism Hate Speech Policy
On Friday, HonestReporting submitted a letter to social media giant Facebook as part of a coalition of over 100 organizations, urging it  to adopt a clear antisemitism hate speech policy based on the widely accepted working definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

Online antisemitism has been of significant concern in recent years. The gunman who in late 2018 perpetrated the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre frequently visited racist sites and shared antisemitic messages on social media, including his wish for “all Jews to die.”

Conspiracy theories abound about Jews undermining the US government, for example, and tropes about Jews being responsible for COVID-19 have become ubiquitous.

Facebook urgently needs to stem the flow of hate. And that can only be done by using tools which identify all forms of antisemitism.
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US Senate Bill Aims to Normalize Ties Between Israel and Arab World

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Two US senators have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at promoting the normalization of ties between Israel and Arab countries.

 

The bill, sponsored by senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), would require the State Department to publish an annual report documenting the mistreatment by Arab governments of citizens who violate laws preventing, or even criminalizing, cooperation with Israelis.

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The History and Failure of the Arab Boycott of Israel

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pointed the finger at the United States in explaining his government’s inaction to date regarding the application of Israeli sovereignty to parts of the West Bank in consonance with President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan.

 

In an interview with Israeli media, Netanyahu said: “It was clear from the start that [any annexations] would be done only with agreement from the United States. Otherwise, I would have already done it a while ago.”

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Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz told parliament’s’s powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that while Hezbollah is currently Israel’s “biggest enemy from the North,” the terrorist group headed by Hassan Nasrallah is also “Lebanon’s biggest problem.”

 

Gantz noted that last week's massive blast in Beirut could have been even worse, given that Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah is known to manufacture and stash explosive materials and devices in populated areas throughout Lebanon.

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From Condemnation To Praise: Why Israel’s Bombing of Iraq’s Osirak Nuclear Reactor Stands Test of Time

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A Lebanese blogger’s video attacking Hezbollah over its role in the Port of Beirut explosion, and suggesting that all of her country’s wars with Israel had done less damage, has gone viral.

 

As of Monday, Dima Sadek’s post had been viewed over 700,000 times on Twitter.

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The Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality has announced plans to launch Israel’s first “sail-in” floating cinema at the city’s famous HaYarkon Park. A total of 70 boats will be outfitted with screens so that viewers can enjoy a film of their choice from the park’s lake.

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As Florida’s annual hurricane season approaches, Israeli-made autonomous drones will play a part in ensuring that the state’s major power companies prevent civilians from being kept in the dark. 

 

Modi’in-based Percepto developed the unmanned aerial vehicles with a view to ensuring that they are fit to fly in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane.

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Antisemitism Watch: Former professional baseball player Cody Decker said that antisemitism remains “rampant throughout the game.” In a recent interview, Deck described several instances over the course of his career in which he was singled out for being Jewish and called antisemitic slurs by fans and teammates.

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Sbarro Massacre: When media turns a terrorist into a heroine
BY HONESTREPORTING STAFF  AUGUST 9, 2020
On August 9, 2001, Ahlam Tamimi, along with another Hamas operative, perpetrated the suicide bombing of the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem, one of the deadliest attacks of the Second Palestinian Intifada.

Ahlam’s niece, Ahed Tamimi, has also gained notoriety, if not praise, for her violent attacks on Israeli soldiers. Yet much of the mainstream media has painted the Tamimis as “activists.”

President Donald Trump has applied heavy pressure on Jordanian King Abdullah II to extradite Ahlam — who is currently residing in the Hashemite Kingdom after having been released by Israel in a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas — to the US, as one of her victims was an American citizen.
Amman has to date refused the request.
It is time for justice to be served.
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Israel to Begin COVID-19 Human Vaccine Trials

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COVID-19: The Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) will as early as October begin human trials for a potential COVID-19 vaccine, the Defense Ministry announced.

 

The development comes on the backdrop of a series of protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what some perceive as his government’s mishandling of Israel’s second wave of coronavirus and its economic fallout.

 

In response, Netanyahu recently green-lighted a universal bailout package to the tune nearly $2 billion.

 

According to a new poll, Likud would receive 29 seats if elections were held today. When including Yamina, Netanyahu’s right-wing religious bloc would come away with 63 seats, enough for a majority in the 120-member Knesset.

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Jewish Roots: Building the Land of Israel 

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US Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) has urged Attorney General William Barr to open an investigation into the International Criminal Court (ICC), alleging that The Hague-based tribunal has indirect connections to terrorist groups.

 

“Shocking information” revealed ties between terrorist groups and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in the case against Washington, as well as a separate investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes.

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Lebanon’s government has appointed a committee to determine within four days the cause of last week’s massive explosion in Beirut that killed at least 175 people and injured thousands more.

 

The government has, however, rejected calls by French President Emmanuel Macron, in addition to other world leaders and various rights groups, for an international inquiry into the incident.

 

Preliminary findings suggest that the blast was caused by a huge amount of improperly stored ammonium nitrate, with many pointing the finger at the Hezbollah terror organization that is known to have previously stored its weapons in civilian areas. In the past, Hezbollah has threatened to use ammonium nitrate as a weapon against Israel. 

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A new Instagram account has started amalgamating stories about antisemitic incidents on campuses across the US, in order to “provide a safe space” for Jewish students to speak up.

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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, a prolific Jewish scholar who spent 45 years compiling a ground-breaking translation and commentary of the Talmud, has died at the age of 83.

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Is Antisemitism Free Speech or Hate Speech?

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Antisemitism Watch: Administrators at the University of Southern California have called for a campus-wide dialogue on tolerance following the resignation of a student who claimed she was the target of antisemitic attacks due to her support for Israel.

 

Australia's Channel Ten is “refusing to apologize for airing an anti-Israel conspiracy theory” about the cause of the Beirut explosion. The station’s program The Project invited a guest who insinuated the disaster may have been orchestrated by Israel.

 

More than 150 Jewish gravestones have in recent months been unearthed during construction work in the Polish town of Lezajsk. The gravestones were removed by the Nazis in 1939 from the town’s Jewish cemetery.

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