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A group of five prominent anti-Israel BDS movement activists were prevented Monday from boarding a flight from Washington, D.C., to Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport.

About 20 Israeli tourists were temporarily detained by Jordanian police and threatened with imprisonment Monday at a hotel near Petra.

Hundreds of people gathered in Boston on July 11 to rededicate the New England Holocaust Memorial after it was vandalized in late June.

President Donald Trump’s international negotiations representative, Jason Greenblatt, Thursday announced an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) on a historic Red Sea-Dead Sea canal.

The Palestinian terror group Hamas called for additional terror attacks in Jerusalem, and against Israelis living in Judea and Samaria, as the Temple Mount gradually reopened Sunday afternoon with bolstered security.

Israeli basketball player Omri Casspi signed a one-year contract with the Golden State Warriors, the 2017 National Basketball Association (NBA) champions.

The United Church of Christ (UCC) — one of the largest mainline Protestant churches in America with 915,000 members — overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning Israel for its alleged treatment of Palestinian children. The resolution, “A Call for the United Church of Christ to Advocate for the Rights of Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation,” was approved last week at the UCC synod in Baltimore, with 79 percent voting in favor, 13 percent against and 9 percent abstaining.

A doctoral student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a new groundbreaking tool that could lead to earlier detection of Parkinson’s disease. Suaad Abd-Elhadi’s “lipid ELISA” test could also improve monitoring of the disease’s progression and a patient’s response to treatment. ELISA stands for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. As a result of his work, Abd-Elhadi received Hebrew University’s Kaye Innovation Award, which was established by British pharmaceutical industrialist Isaac Kaye in 1994.

About 100 firefighters tackled a raging night-time fire that ripped through London’s Talmud Torah Machzikei Hadass School.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who faced criticism last month over his hesitation to support designating all of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, plans to write to U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd to urge her support in blacklisting the Lebanese group.

One of the greatest challenges of a medical corps team member is to care for captured and wounded enemy soldiers. I served as an army medic during the 1967 Six-Day War in the battle over Jerusalem and as a battalion physician in the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the Sinai Desert. In both wars, I cared for many captured and wounded enemy prisoners.

About 20 Jewish pilgrims were arrested when they attempted to visit the Jewish holy site of Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has come under fire for refusing to confirm that he would petition U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd to designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

Vandals posted an anti-Semitic banner on a Holocaust memorial outside a synagogue in Lakewood, N.J.

The construction of a new Holocaust museum in Thessaloniki, Greece, turns a page in the history of this city’s once thriving Jewish community that was nearly wiped out during the Holocaust.

Support for Israel is significantly declining among American Jewish college students, according to a research study released by the Brand Israel Group at this week’s Herzliya Conference.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched retaliatory airstrikes on two Hamas terror targets in Gaza early Tuesday, in response to the first rocket fired into Israeli territory since March.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday that Israel’s decisions to freeze the construction of an egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall and to bolster strict Jewish conversion laws are undermining relations between Israel and diaspora Jews.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is requesting that UNESCO recognize Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs, one of the holiest sites in Judaism, as a Palestinian World Heritage Site.

On June 22, the nation commemorated the 73rd anniversary of the GI Bill, the first major piece of legislation to address the challenges of the postwar era. With veterans coming home to fully staffed factories, the GI Bill, officially known as the Service Member Readjustment Act of 1944, provided education and housing opportunities to veterans, facilitating new jobs and businesses in America’s then-booming economy. Now the bill is seen as historic, but many members of the public are not aware of the Jewish effort behind it.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and international negotiations adviser Jason Greenblatt will travel to Jerusalem and Ramallah this week to discuss the next phase in renewed U.S.-led peace efforts in the region, a White House official said Sunday.

Several British Jewish groups expressed solidarity with the U.K.’s Muslim community following an attack outside London’s Finsbury Park Mosque Monday, where a van plowed into a crowd of Muslim worshipers as they left prayer services just after midnight.

Israel’s Arrow 3 missile defense system to be tested in Alaska in 2018

U.S. authorities last week announced the arrest of two men tied to the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah for plotting attacks against Americans and Israelis in the U.S. and Panama.