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+21 +1Is Israel’s silence in the Khashoggi case due to its involvement?
Le Figaro’s correspondent in Israel analyses Tel Aviv’s “late reaction” to Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. The newspaper supports Edward Snowden’s thesis. The latter accused Israel of being indirectly involved in the assassination by providing spyware to Riyadh to help trace this “dissident”.
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+20 +1How Israel became the most promising land for clean meat
On August 5, 2013, Dutch scientist Mark Post presented to the world the first lab-grown burger ever created. The event took place in London, the burger was cooked by chef Richard McGeown, and only Hanni Ruetzler and Josh Schonwald – two food critics – could taste it. Hanni Ruetzler said that it tasted like meat, “just not as juicy.”
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+15 +1Jordan seeks to end Israel land lease
Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he will try to extend the lease on two border areas.
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+16 +1Israel fines New Zealand women $18,000 for urging Lorde concert boycott
Judge rules ‘artistic welfare’ of three Israeli teenagers was harmed by actions of Justine Sachs and Nadia Abu-Shanab
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+1 +1Saudi head of “World Muslim League” calls for cooperation with Israel
Abdul Karim Issa, head of the Saudi-controlled “World Muslim League”, has officially called for cooperation with the Zionist entity of Israel, after meeting with high-ranking Zionist representatives in New York. In a shocking statement, Saudi cleric and head of the “World Muslim Leage” (WML), Abdul Karim Issa has openly called for cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the Zionist entity of Israel. This highly controversial statement, which goed directly against the policies and beliefs that nearly the entire Islamic...
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+14 +1Poll: Trump increasingly unpopular globally - except in Israel
While America's global image has "plummeted" during US President Donald Trump's presidency, Israelis give high marks to his administration and the country as a whole, according to the Pew Research Center. Israelis were often three times more likely to give Trump a positive rating than those surveyed in other allied countries, i
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+19 +1Kosovo offers Israel an embassy in exchange for recognition
President of Kosovo says his country would open an embassy in Jerusalem if Israel recognizes it as an independent state.
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+15 +1Israel declares it is above the law
Israel’s critics often describe the country as being above the law, but until now this has never been brazenly declared by its government. Documents published this week shows a legal representative of the Israeli government audaciously claiming that Israel can “legislate anywhere in the world,” that it is “entitled to violate the sovereignty of foreign countries,” and that it “is allowed to ignore the directives of international law in any field it desires”.
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+15 +1Russia blames Israel after plane shot down
Russia has said Syria shot down one of its military planes - but laid the blame for the deaths of the 15 personnel on board with Israel. The defence ministry said Israeli jets put the Il-20 plane into the path of Syrian air defence systems on Monday after failing to give Moscow enough warning of a strike on Syrian targets.
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+11 +1Fancy a 13,000-year-old beer, anyone?
Researchers believe they have found the world's oldest brewery in a prehistoric cave in Israel.
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+5 +1Israeli soldier filmed killing wounded Palestinian attacker says he 'has no regrets'
An Israeli soldier who was convicted of killing a wounded Palestinian attacker said he had “no regrets” in his first interview since he was released from prison. Elor Azaria was 19 when he shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif in the head at point-blank range as he was lying on the ground in the West Bank city of Hebron in 2016. He served nine months of his 14-month manslaughter sentence and was released three months ago.
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+13 +1I Was Detained At [Israel’s] Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs
By detaining me, the Israeli government reminded us that if we want to be proud of our future, we’ll have to fight for it. By Peter Beinart.
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+13 +1Dozens of olive trees cut down in suspected West Bank hate crime
Dozens of olive trees were cut down Sunday in a suspected hate crime near the Palestinian town of Ras Karkar in the Ramallah area. According to the Palestinians, 74 trees were cut down to the ground. Nationalist slogans were spray-painted near the trees, including “Regards from the prisoners of Zion,”and “price tag,” as well as the Hebrew word for “administrative” spelled wrong. The slogans are an apparent reference to the administrative orders barring certain settlers from the West Bank.
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+12 +1The New Exiles
By denying access to its critics, Israel is turning its back on Jewish Americans. Peter Beinart’s detention at Ben Gurion Airport should be a wake-up call. By Sofie Werthan.
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+23 +1Australia’s mysterious nuclear fallout
IN 1979, a strange ‘double flash’ was observed by a satellite as coming from between South Africa and Antarctica. It was a telltale cue. That kind of flash was usually a nuclear explosion.
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+4 +1A Top Syrian Rocket Scientist Is Blown Up, and Fingers Point at Mossad
Aziz Asbar was one of Syria’s most important rocket scientists, bent on amassing an arsenal of precision-guided missiles that could be launched with pinpoint accuracy against Israeli cities hundreds of miles away. He had free access to the highest levels of the Syrian and Iranian governments, and his own security detail. He led a top-secret weapons-development unit called Sector 4 and was hard at work building an underground weapons factory to replace one destroyed by Israel last year.
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+20 +1Sacha Baron Cohen’s Col. Erran Morad in ‘Who is America?’ gets chuckles from Israelis
Sacha Baron Cohen is at it again. After tapping into his familiarity with Israel and his fluency in Hebrew to shape previous eccentric personas such as Borat and Bruno, the Jewish comedian has created his most stereotypical Israeli character yet — a grotesque, faux counterterrorism instructor in his new Showtime series “Who is America?”
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+15 +1Israel passes controversial Jewish nation-state [Apartheid] bill after stormy debate
62 lawmakers vote in favor of the bill after a stormy debate. Arab lawmakers tossed out after they tear bill in protest, call it 'apartheid law.' By Jonathan Lis, Noa Landau.
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+11 +1Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty
A Half Century Later, Still No Justice. By Jeffrey St. Clair.
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+5 +1Being transgender is a mental disorder, Israeli insurance company says
An insurance company has refused to finance a mastectomy for a transgender man, claiming that being transgender is a mental illness. A transgender man in his 20s, from the central region, underwent mastectomy a year and a half ago. But when he asked the Ayalon Insurance company for a refund, he was told his policy does not cover mental disorders or psychiatric treatments. “My classification as transgender has nothing to do with mental disorder,” he told Haaretz. “This is an unfair and wrong generalization.”
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