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Lebanon on Wednesday marked a year since a cataclysmic explosion ravaged Beirut, with a mix of grief over lost lives and rage at the impunity for its worst peacetime disaster at a time when its economy was already in tatters.

The people of Lebanon noted with dismay on Tuesday that the first anniversary of the huge and deadly Port of Beirut explosion has arrived without any real progress in the much-touted probe to determine who was responsible.

The UKMTO warned of a “potential hijack” of a ship off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman, without elaborating.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday while he was rallying other countries to respond collectively to an Iranian attack on an Israeli-operated oil tanker off the coast, his country could act alone if needed.

The government of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) began offering Sinopharm, a Chinese state-made coronavirus vaccine candidate, to children as young as three years old on Monday, the nation’s health ministry announced.

Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University, made headlines last year after defending comparing then-President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and those questioning election results to Holocaust deniers.

The UK taxpayer has reportedly paid for a prosthetic arm and a £500,000 house for a jihadi bride who returned to the UK after joining ISIS.

The U.S., UK and Romania said Sunday they believed Iran carried out an attack on an Israeli-owned oil tanker off the coast of Oman on Thursday that killed a Briton and a Romanian, with the UK corroborating Israel’s claim a day earlier that there is proof of Tehran’s culpability.

Pop sensation Billie Eilish provoked a storm of controversy for saying the words “hi Israel” in the opening of a 20-second clip promoting her new album to Israeli fans.

Calls to “globalize” a violent intifada (uprising) against the Jewish state were front and center at a recent demonstration in Brooklyn attended by hundreds of Palestinian supporters, with other chants calling for the demise of the Jewish state and support of Palestinian liberation “by any means necessary.”

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said Iran was “absolutely” to blame for an attack on an Israeli-operated ship off the coast of Oman that killed two people, adding the regime had made a “grave mistake” in doing so.

Israeli artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat made history on Sunday by winning an Olympic gold medal — Israel’s second ever — in the men’s artistic gymnastics floor exercise competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s outgoing president on Sunday acknowledged his nation at times “did not tell part of the truth” to its people during his eight-year tenure, as he prepares to leave office with his signature nuclear deal with world powers in tatters and tensions high with the West.

TOKYO (AP) – Israel has won a bronze medal in the Olympic debut of mixed team judo, shocking the Russian team in the medal bout.

The radical anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) along with over twenty other pro-Palestinian groups, blasted Rutgers University as well as the Jewish campus group Hillel.

The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) released a report Thursday claiming Uyghur terrorists from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are attempting to carve out an Uyghur state in Afghanistan.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Israeli-owned merchant ship reportedly came under attack off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, the British military said Friday, offering few other details about the incident.

Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who is campaigning to be governor of New York, called for the firing of Mohammad Abbasi, an adjunct professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Professional Studies, following a recent “vile antisemitic” sermon delivered by him in which he accused Jews of irredeemable corruption and advocated for the destruction of the Jewish state.

According to a report at Middle East Eye on Wednesday, Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi was persuaded to resign over the weekend by getting repeatedly punched in the face, allegedly with the involvement of visiting Egyptian security officials who were advising President Kais Saied on his bid to assert total control by invoking emergency powers.

The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s said they “unequivocally support” the ice cream maker’s move to boycott Israeli settlements in the West Bank, calling it “one of the most important decisions the company has made in its 43-year history.”

A baby girl was born in Israel with the embryo of her twin inside her stomach, in an medical rarity that occurs in once in half a million births.

An expert panel in Israel approved a proposal Wednesday to provide a third dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to people over 60 years of age, given that they frequently struggle to make antibodies and may therefore be vulnerable to infection.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said Tuesday the United States “really messed it up in Afghanistan” by foolishly believing it could keep the Taliban out of power.

The Olympics is facing backlash after the official Twitter account for the event shared praise for an alleged Iranian marksman who won the gold medal in the air pistol men’s final.

After a swastika was found etched into the wall at the State Department building, President Joe Biden said Tuesday there was no place for antisemitism in his administration.

Iranian defector and judoka Saeid Mollaei dedicated his silver medal to Israel at the Tokyo Olympics, and thanked the Jewish state for the “good energy.”

As protests rage within Iran against the hardline Islamist regime, demonstrations calling for the regime’s fall and death to its Islamic rulers have appeared in its capital Tehran as more and more Iranians speak out against the Islamic Republic’s abuses.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi met with President Joe Biden in the White House on Monday to finalize an agreement that will end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq by the end of this year.

During a Tuesday interview with Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) sounded off on President Joe Biden withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and the combat mission in Iraq coming to an end. Waltz, a Green Beret, wondered

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will meet with President Joe Biden next month at the White House, Israel confirmed on Monday.

In a first, an Israeli woman is set to donate a kidney to a patient in the UAE, almost a year after the Trump administration brokered a historic normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

A second judo athlete dropped out of the “woke” Olympics and was sent home after refusing to face an Israeli Olympian.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday that her government will take custody of a 26-year-old woman with two children who joined the Islamic State in Syria in 2014 and was detained in 2021 when attempting to enter Turkey.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has put Ben & Jerry’s and its British manufacturer Unilever on a state watch list for its decision to stop the sale of its products in “disputed territories” in and around Israel. 

After yet another fatal explosion in the terrorist-ruled Gaza Strip, Palestinians have demanded  Hamas and other terror groups stop storing weapons in residential areas.

Seven months after the Trump administration brokered a normalization deal between Morocco and Israel, the first direct commercial flights between the two countries launched on Sunday.