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Ben-Gurion Airport: Passenger Traffic Climbed to 24.8 Million in 2019
Read ›: Ben-Gurion Airport: Passenger Traffic Climbed to 24.8 Million in 2019By: Eytan Halon – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com More than 2.32 million people passing through Ben-Gurion Airport in 2019 traveled to and from Turkey, a major and nearby aviation hub, representing 9.67% of all passengers. More than 24.8 million passengers and nearly 168,000 flights passed through Ben-Gurion Airport in 2019, marking a record year for Israel’s leading…
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Defense Ministry Completes Trials of Advanced Version of the Iron Dome
Read ›: Defense Ministry Completes Trials of Advanced Version of the Iron DomeBy: Anna Ahronheim – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com 10 years after the first interception test of the system, Defense Ministry boasts of over 2,400 successful interceptions A decade since the first successful interception test of the Iron Dome system, Israel took a step closer to defending itself against heavy missile barrages with a series of complex, successful…
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Israeli Holocaust Survivor to Address Central UN Remembrance Event
Read ›: Israeli Holocaust Survivor to Address Central UN Remembrance EventBy: Lahav Harkov – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com “As a child in a concentration camp, who lost his parents and family, I never imagined that one day I would speak to the world about the darkest era in the history of the Jewish people.” Shraga Milstein, 87, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen and an Israeli, is set to…
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Not Just Another Iranian General
Read ›: Not Just Another Iranian GeneralBy: Eyal Zisser – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org For Iran’s friends and foes alike, Qassem Soleimani was second only to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Tehran will struggle to find another strategist of his caliber. For many in the Middle East, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the Islamic Republic’s elite extraterritorial black-ops arm, embodied Iran’s…
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The Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year 2019: Holocaust Survivor Max Glauben
Read ›: The Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year 2019: Holocaust Survivor Max GlaubenBy: Dallas Morning News Editorial – dallasnews.com Max Glauben survived one of humanity’s darkest chapters and shines as one of Texas’ brightest lights We might say Max Glauben started becoming the 2019 Texan of the Year in 1941 when he wriggled into a cramped smuggler’s space under the false bottom of a horse-drawn wagon to…
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Israel, Cyprus and Greece are Signing an Agreement to Build a Pipeline that Will bring Israeli Gas Across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe
Read ›: Israel, Cyprus and Greece are Signing an Agreement to Build a Pipeline that Will bring Israeli Gas Across the Mediterranean Sea to EuropeBy: JNS – Breaking Israel News; breakingisraelnews.com “maker of heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;” (Psalm 146:6) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz traveled to Athens, Greece, on Thursday, where they are to sign a three-way gas agreement with Cyprus and Greece…
