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  • Israel Needs to Wake Up with Regard to the Iranian Threat

    By: Eyal Zisser – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org Israel must do away with the obsolete paradigm guiding its analysis of Iran. As the recent attack on Saudi Arabia proves, Tehran has moved from proxy warfare to direct confrontation. Israel this week marks the anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a war that cost thousands of…

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  • UNRWA Must Evolve or Dissolve, Says Senior Agency Official at End of General Assembly

    By: Ellie Rudie – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org The agency’s failure to resolve the Palestinian refugee problem “is really the failure of its donors,” says former general counsel James Lindsay, and stems from its definition of who is a refugee. “Direct pressure” by donors is the most likely way to induce the United Nations Relief…

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  • Court Gives Norway’s CPS ‘Permanent’ Custody of 3 American Children Taken Away from Parents

    By: Samuel Smith – The Christian Post; christianpost.com A child welfare court in Norway has awarded custody of three American children who were removed from their parents’ home this year to the state child services agency even though the criminal case against their parents was dropped, the mother told The Christian Post.  American citizen Natalya…

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  • Above the Fold: Israel Takes Cahrge of Its Own Defense

    You can sleep well. Israel is in good hands – her own hands. By: Micah Halpern – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com One of the ironclad principles of Israel, articulated first and best by prime minister David Ben-Gurion, is that Israel will not rely on anyone else for her defense; that first and foremost, Israel is…

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  • ‘Nothing Will Be Left of Israel’: Iran Says It Now Has the Power to Wipe Israel ‘Off the Map’

    By: Emily Jones – CBN News; cbn.com JERUSALEM, Israel – The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Monday that Iran now has the capability to destroy Israel.  Major General Hossein Salami called Israel a “sinister regime” that “must be wiped off the map,” according to the Revolutionary Guard’s news site. “This is no…

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  • Israel’s economy grew at 3.6% in H1 2019

    en.globes.co.il According to the Central Bureau of Statistics’ second estimate, the economy grew by 3.6% on an annualized basis in the first half of 2019. According to the second estimate by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, the economy grew by 3.6% on an annualized basis in the first half of 2019. This compares with 2.8%…

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