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Israel to upgrade longest highway due to fatal accidents
Tel Aviv: Israel will upgrade the southern part of Highway 90, the longest road in the country, due to many fatal road accidents that have occurred over the years. Israel’s Ministries of…
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Jordan intends to buy water from Israel
Amman: Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation, Muhammad Al-Najjar, announced that his country’s government intends to purchase quantities of water from Israel, to compensate for the water shortage that Jordan is going…
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Israel begins building 45-kilometre-long wall in West Bank
Jerusalem: Israel has begun building a 9-metre-tall wall to replace the old fence barrier in the northern occupied West Bank, said Israeli Defense Ministry, citing security reasons. The 45-kilometre-long wall will stretch…
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Israeli FM Yair Lapid, Blinken discuss Biden’s upcoming visit
Jerusalem: Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke over the US President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to Israel in July. Lapid and Blinken spoke to…
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Palestinians condemn Israeli decision to hold wine festival in Beersheba Mosque
Palestinians have denounced the Israeli-controlled Beersheba Municipality’s decision to hold an Iraeli wine festival in the Great Mosque of Beersheba, Israel. The festival, which will be launched under the title wine festival,…
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Israel to hold 5th general election after coalition collapses
Tel Aviv: Israel is set to hold the fifth general election in just three years after the country’s fragile coalition government concluded it could not survive and will vote to dissolve Parliament…
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Israel heads for new election after government collapses
Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office on Monday said that his weakened coalition will be disbanded and the country will head to a new election, ushering in the fifth election…
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Israeli FM to visit Turkey next week
Tel Aviv: Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is to visit Turkey on Thursday, amid months of thawing ties and fears that its nationals could become a target for Iranian attacks, his office…
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EU signs energy deal with Egypt and Israel to give up Russian gas
Nicosia: As Europe scrambles to wean itself off Russian oil and gas and tries to confront Russia for its use of energy to blackmail European countries, the EU signed in Cairo last…
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Turkish, Israeli Presidents vow to boost bilateral cooperation
Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog have pledged to boost cooperation between the two countries. During a phone call on Sunday, Erdogan and Herzog discussed Turkish-Israeli…
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Israel warns Iran over alleged attempts to attack Israelis abroad
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has warned Iran against “attempts to orchestrate attacks against Israelis overseas,” threatening that Israel will exact a price for attempts to harm its citizens. Making the…
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Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers in West Bank
Ramallah: A Palestinian was killed on Sunday by Israeli soldiers when he tried to cross the security fence between the northern West Bank city of Qaliqlya and Israel, according to Palestinian health…
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I will not allow anyone to forget Palestine: Bella Hadid
Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid shared a photo on her personal account on Instagram, in which she spoke of what links her to Palestine and the children of Palestine while she vowed to not “forget…
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Israel responds to Gaza’s rocket attack breaking 2-month lull
Jerusalem: Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel early Saturday, shattering a two-month lull in violence at the Gaza-Israel border in contrast to soaring tensions in the occupied West Bank. The…
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In a first, Catalonia parliament holds Israel guilty of apartheid
The Spanish parliament of Catalonia, in a historic vote, on Thursday, June 16, recognized Israel’s perpetration of the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people. The Catalan parliament becomes the first parliament…