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      <title>Israel voices support for Bolivia amid civil unrest</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The weekend statement from the Foreign Ministry comes six months after Jerusalem and the South American nation restored full diplomatic relations.]]></description>
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      <title>Honduras designates Hamas, IRGC as terror groups</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Central American nation is the 46th country to label Iran's Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group in the past year.]]></description>
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      <title>Israeli ambassador: Hatred that spurred Holocaust is not gone</title>
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      <description><![CDATA["We have seen it all before," envoy Daniel Meron says at U.N. ceremony in Geneva where Argentina was handed the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.]]></description>
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      <title>Lufthansa Group to gradually resume Tel Aviv flights</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The large European airline group includes SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings.]]></description>
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      <title>Canadian Jews 'questioning future' amid increasing antisemitism</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“No Jewish community in this country has been left unscathed over the past several years," said B'nai Brith Canada's CEO.]]></description>
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      <title>20% of Australian Jewish women experienced verbal or physical abuse since Oct. 7, poll finds</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“This survey shows how antisemitism impacting Jewish Australian women isn’t marginal; it’s widespread,” a Jewish leader tells JNS.]]></description>
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      <title>Huckabee: Israel may have to disarm Hamas on its own</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Remarks by the US envoy highlight a growing realization that disarming Hamas will likely be left to Israel as the terror group reasserts control in half of Gaza.]]></description>
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      <title>Huckabee confirms Israel sent UAE Iron Dome, personnel during Iran war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Gulf country was the target of most of Tehran's missiles and drones.]]></description>
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      <title>Costa Rica’s new president wants to open its embassy in Jerusalem</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The move would reverse a decision by the Central American nation two decades ago to move its Israeli embassy to Tel Aviv.]]></description>
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      <title>Arkia to expand Vietnam service</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The planned new flights to Saigon come as Israelis are increasingly flying to the Far East amid a burst of antisemitism in much of the West.]]></description>
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