Hezbollah Boasts of Lebanon-Israel Tunnel Network

May 25, 2015 Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group based in Lebanon, boasted last week of its complex network of tunnels along the Israel-Lebanon border. According to a report by Lebanese paper As-safir on Friday, these tunnels are well-equipped and ready to launch a plague of rockets against Israel.

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100th Anniversary of 1915 Shavuot: Expulsion or Execution

May 25, 2015 While traditional Jews connect Shavuot to Matan Torah, God's giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai to the Israelites in the wilderness, not all Shavuot memories are joyful. One hundred years ago, some Jewish communities were compelled to celebrate the holiday on their own journey—after expulsion, not exodus.

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Netanyahu on Chronic Housing Shortage: “We Build in Jerusalem”

May 24, 2015 On May 17th, at a special Jerusalem Day Knesset meeting marking 48 years since Jerusalem was reunited in the Six Day War, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed a deep domestic need for more affordable housing after a decade of skyrocketing prices. Out of 26 countries, Israel has felt the third-steepest increase in home prices between 2008 and 2014, with home prices rising 87.1% and rent costs rising 43%.

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Israel Remembers Eli Cohen 50 Years After Damascus Execution

May 22, 2015 The Israeli president's official residence hosted the ceremony this week remembering Israeli spy Eli Cohen 50 years since his execution. "Eli Cohen was an extraordinary hero of Israel. He merited that the entire country would know him well and maintain his legacy. We, citizens of Israel, will forever remember Eli Cohen as a true hero, who sacrificed his life in the defense of our security and for the freedom of our country," said President Reuven Rivlin on Monday, calling Cohen "our brother, a hero of Israel."

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Nakba Day: A Strategy to Delegitimize Israel

May 17, 2015 On Friday, Palestinians in Gaza and Judea and Samaria commemorated the 67th “Nakba Day,” an annual day of remembrance of the establishment of the Jewish state. Nakba is an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe” which is they consider the establishment of Israel on May 14, 1948—a catastrophe.

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Vatican Recognizes Palestinian State in Treaty

May 15, 2015 The Vatican announced Wednesday that it would be signing a treaty that recognized the “state of Palestine,” rather than the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which is the sole representative of the Palestinian people in the disputed territories.

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Temple Mount Activist Yehuda Glick Allowed Monthly Visits

May 11, 2015 Jerusalem Magistrate's Court has granted Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick a monthly visit allowance to the Temple Mount. Glick has sought to acquire wider access to the Mount for Jews, who also have faced limits in their visitation activities to the site—such as moving their lips or expressing any signs of public prayer.

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Congress Approves Aid to Israel for Tunnel Detection

May 4, 2015 On Wednesday, in the face of reports of ongoing tunnel digging in the Gaza Strip, the United States Congress has unanimously approved adding an amendment to defense legislation authorizing Iron Dome-style research and development for tunnel detection in Israel.

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UN Report Documents Hamas Exploiting UN Facilities

May 3, 2015 The first United Nations Board of Inquiry (BOI) report regarding Operation Protective Edge and last summer’s fighting in the Gaza Strip found that Hamas terrorists exploited UN facilities in the Gaza Strip and used children as human shields. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon admitted that at least three UN schools, which were supposedly not used as shelters at the time, were used for warfare: “The fact that they [UN schools] were used by militants to store their weaponry and, in two cases, probably to fire from is unacceptable,” wrote Ban in the executive summary.

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San Remo Conference: Israel’s Right to Exist

April 27, 2015 As much as the rebirth of Israel is a significant miracle, many are actively working against the tiny nation’s right to exist. They consider the existence of Israel a catastrophe.

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