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Danon to UN Security Council: Iran spends $7 billion a year on terrorism

JNSJanuary 22, 2019

“Iran is exploiting the regime to conduct military operations against Israel, but we will respond with force and remove any threat to our people,” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said at a special session on the latest the Middle East.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East. Credit: U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe.

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Israel and US defense ministries successfully test Arrow-3 missile-defense system

JNSJanuary 22, 2019

Arrow-3, designed to intercept ballistic missiles from outer space, neutralizing them before they even enter Earth’s atmosphere, is considered the most state-of-the-art interceptor and the only one that crashes into missiles, rather than detonating them with warheads.

File photo: The "Arrow II" intercepting missile launcher at the Palmachim Israeli Airforce base. May 9, 2014. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash 90.

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Israel reopens Hermon ski resort after Iranian missile soars over Golan

JNSJanuary 22, 2019

The Israel Defense Forces shuttered the snowy site amid concerns for public safety in case of a possible military escalation.

An Israeli soldier skis on snow-covered Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights in northern Israel on Jan. 21, 2019. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.

Israeli soldiers guard at the Israeli side of the Quneitra Crossing, in the Israeli Syrian border, in the Golan Heights on Oct. 15, 2018, as it reopens after four years. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.

briefIsrael pounds Iranian sites in Syria after missile launched at Golan Heights

A poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Oct. 6, 2018. Credit: Basel Awidat/Flash90.

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With elections approaching, is Israel prepared for foreign cyber threat?

Yaakov LappinJNSJanuary 21, 2019

Israel’s intelligence community, together with the Foreign Ministry, the National Cyber Directorate and private cyber-defense firms, are all preparing to track and repel any attempts at foreign intervention.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 8th Annual International Cybersecurity Conference at Tel Aviv University on June 20, 2018. Credit: GPO/Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom.

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January 22, 2019

briefDanon to UN Security Council: Iran spends $7 billion a year on terrorism

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January 22, 2019

briefIsrael, US defense ministries successfully test Arrow-3 missile-defense system

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January 22, 2019

briefNature group attempts to halt JNF building plan to save desert mammals and reptiles

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January 22, 2019

briefIsrael reopens Hermon ski resort after Iranian missile soars over Golan Heights

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January 21, 2019

briefIsrael prepares for historic visit by Mali prime minister

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January 21, 2019

briefIDF thwarts stabbing attempt, shoots Palestinian attacker

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January 21, 2019

briefPA releases Palestinian American sentenced to life for selling land to Jews

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January 21, 2019

briefGermany sanctions Iranian airline, as EU hedges on US-led summit on Iran

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January 21, 2019

briefIDF distributes 10 tons of dried fruits, nuts to soldiers for holiday of Tu B’Shevat

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January 21, 2019

briefIsrael inaugurates new international airport to boost Eilat tourism

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January 21, 2019

briefNetanuyahu’s lawyers meet with attorney general on indictment

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January 21, 2019

briefNetanyahu implies that observers’ mandate in Hebron will not be extended

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January 21, 2019

briefGreenblatt slams Palestinian leadership for attack on US credibility on Mideast peace

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January 21, 2019

briefJihadists say killing of UN peacekeepers from Chad retribution for ties with Israel

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January 21, 2019

briefIsrael pounds Iranian sites in Syria after missile launched at Golan Heights

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January 21, 2019

briefIsrael set to revoke UNRWA permits for Jerusalem schools

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January 20, 2019

briefNetanyahu asks Romania, Ukraine to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

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January 20, 2019

brief‘We will not change nation-state law,’ Israel’s justice minister tells Druze

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January 20, 2019

briefIDF officer assaulted while arresting Palestinian 14-year-old for throwing rocks

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January 20, 2019

briefPalestinians: Qatari envoy to bring bags of money to Gaza

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January 20, 2019

briefPalestinian Authority spends six times more on terrorists than on own population

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January 20, 2019

briefPalestinian Authority calls peace-building, economic efforts with Israelis ‘treason’

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January 20, 2019

briefFatah and PA journalists: ‘Zionist entity’ is ‘greatest danger to our Arab nation’

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January 20, 2019

briefNetanyahu makes historic visit to Muslim-majority Chad to renew formal ties

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Nature group attempts to halt JNF building plan to save desert mammals

JNSJanuary 22, 2019

At risk, according to the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, are the Greater Egyptian gerbil, Greater Egyptian jerboa and the Anderson’s gerbil, as well as reptiles such as the Desert monitor and Wedge-snouted skink, two indigenous lizards.

A Greater Egyptian jerboa. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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IDF distributes 10 tons of dried fruits, nuts to soldiers for Tu B’Shevat

JNSJanuary 21, 2019

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel urged Israeli consumers to begin buying fresh fruits grown in Israel for their celebrations, noting that dried fruits became traditional only due to the difficulty in successfully transporting fresh produce from Israel to places around the world.

Dried fruits are prepared for a Tu B’Shevat holiday celebration in Meron, in northern Israel, on Jan. 20, 2019. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israelis replant trees after arson attacks from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2018. Credit: Kibbutz Erez.

featureBuilding Israel and battling terrorism, one tree at a time

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Alan and Rosaline Barron are kicking off their new mission sponsored by JNF right before the Jewish festival of Tu B’Shevat—the “New Year for Trees”—a time of renewal, and a celebration of nature and the environment. They are encouraging others to do the same.

A mega-celebration of Tu B’Shevat, sponsored by the Israeli-American Council, will take place beginning on Friday, Jan. 18, and ending on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. Credit: IAC.

briefIsraeli-American Council to celebrate Tu B’Shevat with families, students nationwide

A weekend of programs marking the holiday will unite 40 communities and college campuses around the country.

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Amid BDS, students given tools to battle misinformation against Israel

Noa AmouyalJNSJanuary 21, 2019

With anti-Israel groups and anti-Semitism gaining prevalence on college campuses, pro-Israel activists with the Hasbara Fellowship visit Israel to learn how to fight back.

Hasbara Fellows visit an indoor playground in Sderot in Israel's south, a city that has long been in the cross-hairs of Hamas rocket fire. Credit: Courtesy.

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Israel prepares for historic visit by Mali prime minister

JNSJanuary 21, 2019

Mali cut ties with Israel following the Yom Kippur War in 1973, when Israel faced a surprise attack from neighboring Arab countries on the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.

Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga. Credit: Screenshot.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chad President Idriss Déby at the Presidential Palace in Ndjamena, Jan. 20, 2019. Credit: GPO/Kobi Gideon.

briefNetanyahu makes historic visit to Muslim-majority Chad to renew formal ties

“Chad is a very important country, and very important for Israel,” Netanyahu said during a joint appearance with Chadian President Idriss Déby at the presidential palace in N’Djamena.

Chad's President Idriss Déby during a visit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on Nov. 26, 2018. Photo by Yonatan SIndel/Flash90.

briefJihadists say killing of UN peacekeepers from Chad retribution for ties with Israel

An attack by an Islamic terror group killed 10 U.N. peacekeepers from Chad and wounded at least 25 others in Mali on Sunday in what the attackers said was a response to Chadian President Idriss Déby’s renewed diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

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PA releases Palestinian American sentenced to life for selling land to Jews

Jackson RichmanJNSJanuary 21, 2019

Issem Akel was prosecuted for selling an Arab-owned home in Jerusalem to the Ateret Cohanim organization, a yeshivah group that has bought properties in the Muslim quarter of the Old City.

Muslims walk near a shop belongs to Israelis during Ramadan in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on May 20, 2018. Photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90.

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Analysis: 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

Record at a glance: California presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris on Jewish issues, hate crimes

Jackson RichmanJNSJanuary 21, 2019

Since being elected in 2016, Harris’s record related to the Jewish community and Israel—from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to anti-Israel bias at the United Nations—has largely reflected the mainstream positions of the Democratic Party.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) addresses the 2017 AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. Credit: Screenshot.

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Evidence mounting that US BDS groups are fronts for terror organizations

Sean SavageJNSJanuary 18, 2019

Emerging evidence suggests that the BDS movement has extensive ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations, using the “social justice” movement as a veritable human shield for anti-Israel ideology and activism.

Palestinian solidarity protesters march towards the British parliament on June, 5 2018. Credit: Alisdare Hickson via Flickr.

File photo: An anti-Israel "apartheid wall" on display at Columbia University during Apartheid Week in 2017. Photo: Facebook.

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Jeremy Burton, executive director of the Boston JCRC. Credit: Boston JCRC via Twitter.

newsBoston JCRC moves towards ouster of Workmen’s Circle over BDS support

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Calls to remove the Boston Workmen’s Circle from JCRC began to mount last summer when the group signed on to a petition organized by Jewish Voice for Peace.

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