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Israeli cabinet approves national remembrance day for October 7 massacre

The annual memorial will be marked by two state ceremonies honoring the memory of the servicemen and women who fell in the ongoing war against Hamas and the civilians murdered during Hamas’s brutal incursion.

Israeli intelligence services foiled 400 terror attacks in 2017

Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman announced to the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that 400 “major attacks” were prevented in 2017.

Syrian refugee baby airlifted to Israel for emergency heart surgery

A two-day-old baby boy born in Cyprus to a pair of Syrian...

Israel to launch world’s first nanosatellites in 2018

The Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and the Israel Space Agency said...

Archaeologists find Governor of Jerusalem seal in Israeli capital

Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Monday a 2,700-year-old clay seal imprinted with images...

2017 breaks tourism record for Israel

Some 3.6 million tourists visited Israel in 2017. The figure, an all-time record,...

In world first, Israeli undergoes surgery to regrow a bone

Groundbreaking surgery to regrow part of a human bone was carried out on Tuesday at HaEmek Hospital in the northern Israeli town of Afula.

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European Jewish Congress expresses solidarity with Israel and condemns Iranian attack on Jewish State

We urge the European Union and its member states to totally isolate Iran economically and politically from the international family of nations by strongly enforcing and extending sanctions against the Islamic Republic.