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The temperatures are high and humidity is low – and in Israel in the summer, that has become a recipe for forest and brush fires. With Wednesday's temperatures hovering around…
A new poll on Channel 12 shows that the standoff between the left and right remains as it was: Neither the Likud nor Blue and White will be able to…
U.S. officials say they are unsure whether an oil tanker towed into Iranian waters was seized by Iran or rescued after facing mechanical faults as Tehran asserts, creating a mystery…
More than 60 opposition Labour members of Britain's Upper House of Parliament signed a statement in a newspaper on Wednesday accusing leader Jeremy Corbyn of failing "the test of leadership"…
Pakistan authorities on Wednesday arrested Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of a four-day terror attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, on terror finance charges, a spokesman for…
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Members of the Salomon family, three of whom were murdered in a 2017 terror attack, were up in arms over the dissemination of a photo of Omar Abed al-Jalil, the…
A 10-year-old boy from southern Israel was killed in tragic circumstances on Wednesday morning. The incident occurred at a park near the southern city of Kiryat Gat, when a large…
The chances for a joint election run between Labor and Meretz is “very high,” insiders from both parties told Yediot Acharonot Wednesday. After a meeting between Labor head Amir Peretz…
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Tefillos were held across the world Wednesday on behalf of the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Rebbe, shlita, who underwent a medical procedure on his heart. The Rebbe was operated on at…
Police are searching for the perpetrators who vandalized a Woodland Hills shul on Sunday, KABC reported. White paint was thrown from the roof to the ground onto the front of…
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Army Secretary Mark Esper, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become secretary of defense, told his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that he is troubled by Turkey’s decision to defy the United…
The alligator had a good run as day after day the people hunting for him in a Chicago lagoon came up empty, but in the end he was no match…
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Iran says remarks by the country’s foreign minister about Iran’s missile program possibly being up for negotiations with the U.S. were meant to challenge Washington’s arms sales policy to the…
A Jewish association says some private donors to Poland’s renowned Jewish history museum have suspended funding out of concerns about the government’s failure to renew the term of its director.…
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