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End-Time Battle for the Temple Mount

August 3, 2015 Tensions surrounding the Temple Mount continue to escalate. As Jews fasted on Tisha B'Av (Av 9) mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples, hundreds of Jewish visitors made pilgrimage to the Temple site. In preparation for Jews visiting the Mount on the annual fast, armed Muslim youth barricaded themselves in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Several dozen Arab masked rioters attacked Israeli police, hurling rocks and setting off fireworks into the crowd of responders, wounding several officers.

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CT Scanner and Virtual Unwrapping Identify Charred Leviticus Scroll

July 27, 2015 The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced last week that a piece of charred parchment found near the Dead Sea 45 years ago is from the Book of Leviticus. The burned scroll was assessed through high-resolution technology.

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Schindler’s List Producer Presents Oscar to Yad Vashem

July 27, 2015 On Wednesday, some Holocaust survivors who were on Schindler’s list—the real list—witnessed the movie’s co-producer, Croatian Auschwitz survivor Branko Lustig, honor his 111 countrymen named as Righteous among the Nations by donating his 1994 Oscar to Yad Vashem.

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Italian PM Matteo Renzi: Boycotts Are “Stupid and Futile”

July 27, 2015 In a speech before the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) on Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi aligned Italy with the Jewish state. “Italy will always stand for cooperation and never for boycotts, which are stupid and futile. Peace for Jerusalem is peace for the whole world. Our fate is your fate. Together we will build a more just world."

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Canada Modernizes Free Trade Agreement with Israel

July 27, 2015 While many around the world seek to enforce and expand a boycott of Israel, Canada and Israel enriched their Free Trade Agreement on Tuesday, strengthening ties between Canadian and Israeli businesses. When the deal was announced last week, Canadian politicians not only hailed the agreement's benefits, they also emphasized commitment to Israel.

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Thousands of Dead Sea Sinkholes Threaten Tourism

July 27, 2015 The salty, mineral rich waters Dead Sea (Hebrew: The Salt Sea—Yam HaMelach) have drawn visitors and health pilgrims for millennia. Recently, however, dangerous Dead Sea sinkholes have been rapidly appearing along the sea's banks as the water level recedes, posing a major threat to the area’s inhabitants, visitors, landscape, and tourism in general.

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Syrian Christians Rescued by Jewish Holocaust Survivor

July 20, 2015 Lord George Weidenfeld is repaying a debt of gratitude to Christians who helped him escape the Nazis by facilitating the first of many rescues, bringing 42 Christian families out of Syria. "We have been deeply moved by the plight of Christians in conflict-torn Middle East countries, and we are supporting the transfer of Christian families to safe havens where they can lead normal lives," Weidenfeld told The Times of Israel, after the first transfer of 150 people.

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Israeli BioGas Device Turns Trash into Cooking Fuel

July 20, 2015 An Israeli company has developed an outdoor biodigester unit that converts trash into clean, renewable biofuel that is set to be a boon to the developing world and environmentalists in Israel and abroad.

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ICC Reopens 2010 Mavi Marmara Case Against Israel

July 20, 2015 Just seven months after the Hague's International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, closed the file on the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla incident, concluding that the crimes were not of sufficient gravity to fall under the court’s jurisdiction, the ICC ordered Bensouda to open a criminal investigation of Israel Defense Forces soldiers.

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Iran Nuclear Deal Decided, Moved to Congress

July 20, 2015 Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated calls for a better Iranian nuclear deal, Iran and the “P5+1” powers, including the United States concluded on Tuesday a nuclear agreement that Netanyahu has called a “historic mistake for the world.”

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