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Iran has been suspended from international judo competitions because it boycotts bouts with Israeli athletes.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Iran has been suspended from international judo competitions because it boycotts bouts with Israeli athletes.

The Palestinian Authority is allegedly actively encouraging Israeli-Arab voters to turn out in today’s Israel election.

Voter turnout in Israel was up significantly Tuesday morning in comparison with turnout levels at the same stage in previous elections.

A Gaza-based terror group on Saturday said it had downed an Israeli military drone over the Strip, but the small vehicle may have actually belonged to another terrorist organization.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) docked briefly in Lebanon, the U.S. embassy in Beirut said on Sunday, as regional tensions continue to rise.

After John Bolton’s exit, look for consistency on Iran, Venezuela, and China. But on North Korea, Afghanistan, and Russia, Trump wants more progress. That is the next advisor’s task.

Unknown warplanes targeted an arms depot and posts of Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border, killing at least 18 fighters in a nighttime attack, Syrian opposition activists said Monday. A Syrian security official said Israeli jets staged the airstrikes, but denied there were any casualties.

Sudan’s new Minister of Religious Affairs Nasr al-Din Mufreh has called on Jewish expatriates to return home to the African nation following the ousting of former president Omar al Bashir.

The German police said that a group of BDS activists violently assaulted visitors at the Israeli Seret International film festival on Sunday in Berlin, causing injuries and disrupting a podium discussion. An estimated 10-12 BDS activists participated in the disruption and attacks.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) recently met with members of the terrorist-sympathizing, anti-Israel group Palestine Youth Movement, according to a picture on social media featuring the lawmaker with supporters of the organization.

In a belligerent speech to officials of his ruling AKP party on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he “cannot accept” nuclear powers denying Turkey access to nuclear weapons of its own, and threatened to “open the gates” and flood Europe with Syrian refugees if the United States does not work with Turkey to resettle the refugees in a new “safe zone.”

TEL AVIV — In what seems to be another indication of thawing relations between Israel and Gulf states, several prominent figures have come forward and publicly condemned the Hezbollah terror group for attacking Israel and have expressed support for the Jewish state’s right to retaliate. 

TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said while Sunday’s exchange of fire with the Hezbollah terror group was tense, Israel achieved all its goals. 

TEL AVIV – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Sunday opened a trade mission in Jerusalem, in a move he said was a “first step” toward transferring his country’s embassy to the city.

The Islamic monarchy of Qatar is yet to confirm Israeli soccer fans will be welcomed into the country for the soccer World Cup in 2022.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair has called on Germany to immediately stop its “outrageous” policy of providing millions of euros in aid money to radical Israeli and Palestinian NGOs that are bent on bringing an “end to the Jewish state” and make Israelis feel as if Germany sees the Jewish state as its “colony.”

Tuesday during an appearance Huntsville radio’s WVNN on Tuesday, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), a candidate for Alabama U.S. Senate up in 2020, reflected on a recent visit to Israel and how the bond between Israel and the United States under President Donald Trump has strengthened.

The U.S. Israel Education Association (USIEA) took members of the Republican House to Israel to meet with Israeli and Palestinian business leaders about the financial threats to the Jewish state and how cooperation could benefit all parties.

TEL AVIV – Israel had been following the killer drones that Iran planned to use against it on Saturday night since they were flown into Syria from Tehran several weeks ago along with four members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IDF said Sunday.

American leaders “lack wisdom” and the country itself is “all brawn and no brains,” the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), General Hossein Salami, said in an address that aired on Iran television Saturday night.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach blasted Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) for using the Jewish Torah in an attempt to attack President Donald Trump.

TEL AVIV – A Washington Post columnist slammed Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar for falsely accusing Israel of denying them entry because they are Muslim and “implementing Trump’s Muslim ban,” saying instead that the two women were barred from visiting because they are antisemites. 

Accusations of antisemitism embedded in the New York Times newsroom have roots dating back years. The paper removed a bizarre list of Jewish lawmakers who opposed former President Obama’s Iran Deal after backlash in 2015.

HBO host Bill Maher ripped Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (MI-D) support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, questioning whether she will now boycott the Democratic Party given their overwhelming condemnation of the movement.

Wednesday during an appearance on Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) weighed in anti-Israel overtures coming from within the Democratic Party, primarily from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

Wayne Allyn Root defended President Donald Trump’s relationship with the Jewish people. Root claimed that Jews in Israel loved him as much as the “King of Israel” or the “second coming of God.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed Wednesday that President Trump is “encouraging—wittingly or unwittingly—antisemites throughout the country and world.” His assessment follows a remark Trump made Tuesday, questioning how Jews can support a party that openly embraces antisemitism.

Earlier this week during an appearance on Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN, Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) reacted to the responses from Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) after being denied entry into Israel, and Tlaib having refused a waiver granted by the Israeli government to visit her grandmother in the West Bank.

President Donald Trump criticized Democrats on Tuesday after Rep. Ilhan Omar suggested that the United States should cut aid to Israel after officials blocked her and Rep. Rashida Tlaib from visiting the country. Trump indicated that the suggestion was ridiculous.