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Israeli embassy spokesperson calls the allegations “absolute nonsense,” saying “Israel doesn’t conduct espionage operations in the United States, period.”
“This is something you don’t see anywhere else. Full-time engineering students who also spend several hours a day studying a 1,500-year-old text in small print. China has no such thing,” said one of the visitors.
Iranian coast guard captures tugboat allegedly carrying nearly 284,000 liters of diesel fuel and detains its 12 Filipino crew members.
The 4,000-acre development, with a price tag of roughly NIS 4 billion ($1.13 billion), is the largest renewable-energy project in Israel and among the largest in the world.
Asked whether the Polish government had bought controversial telephone-surveillance technology from the Israeli firm NSO Group, Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki tells opposition lawmakers that “everything that needs to be, will be clarified in due time.”
“We can expect more deaths to be recorded,” said Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis after Hurricane Dorian. “Our priority is search, rescue and recovery.”
America has warned not to aid the supertanker possibly headed towards Syria—a violation of sanctions against Iran’s energy sector.
The Ashalim solar-power facility extends nearly 1,000 acres, making it the largest such facility in Israel • Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz: Israel is on target to hit its 2020 renewable energy target of 10 percent.
The two countries agreed to strengthen cooperation in the areas of agriculture, water, irrigation, health, science and technology, and the economy, and expressed interest in examining additional cooperation in cyber security, telecommunication, space science and technology.
The surprise move comes just as Israel resumes regular shipments of fuel to the Gaza Strip after reducing them due to rocket attacks.
It was the first attack by the Cyber Command since it was raised to full combatant command in May.
“Sources say the ship plans to meet two Syrian-owned oil tankers in the Mediterranean later this year and conduct a ship-to-ship transfer of the crude oil,” according to Fox News.