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Israelโ€™s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday marked 85 years since Nazi Germany issued a Sept. 1, 1941, decree requiring Jews in the German Reich to wear a yellow Star of David.

The measure was intended to publicly identify Jews for harassment, exclusion and persecution.
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Israel declares additional 91 acres of state land in Judea for planned city

The Israeli government expanded the blueprint for the planned city of Mishmar Yehuda this week, declaring an additional 91 acres of land in Judea as state property.

The newly designated land, located near Maโ€™ale Adumim, brings the future cityโ€™s total planned footprint to approximately 926 acres. The planned expansion aligns with the initial master plan to construct 3,600 housing units in the area.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

โ€œThe attractive and strategic location of the city, near Jerusalem, will provide a tremendous opportunity for young couples to establish their homes there and strengthen the settlement in Judea and Samaria.โ€


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Israelโ€™s Foreign Ministry slammed Hollywood celebrities backing the release of Palestinian terror boss Marwan Barghouti.

Barghouti is serving five life sentences for murdering Israelis.

โ€œRemember their names instead of glorifying their killer,โ€ the ministry wrote, calling out actors including Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Ruffalo and Don Cheadle.
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Tuesday extended greetings to Lebanonโ€™s children for the start of the new school year, wishing them peace.

โ€œYou deserve peace, and our children deserve peace,โ€ Herzog said. โ€œFor that, we must do everything so that Hezbollah is not here and instead have a border of peace.โ€
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American forces carried out a wave of strikes on IRGC targets in southern Iran over the past hour.

The strikes came in response to Iranian attempts to mine the Strait of Hormuz and an IRGC missile attack on a US airbase in Jordan earlier this week.
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Damascus is working toward a โ€œdiplomatic solutionโ€ with Jerusalem despite ongoing Israeli military incursions and raids, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani told Agence France-Presse.

โ€œWe are still committed to the option of a diplomatic solution, and we are working seriously to achieve this,โ€ al-Shaibani said.
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Israel is condemned in international forums and pressured in European capitals, yet the same governments that criticize Jerusalem are increasingly building their national defense around Israeli technology.

In this episode, Ryan Jones examines the gap between the diplomatic rhetoric aimed at Israel and the strategic reality on the ground, where democracies from Greece to Germany are turning to Israeli air defense to protect their citizens.

Watch the full episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySDZRyOeJE8
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US forces hit Iranian targets along the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman overnight.

Iran responded with ballistic missile attacks on US assets in Jordan.
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Israel this week took possession of a new German-made submarine, the INS Drakon.

The Drakon is the third and final Dolphin-AIP class submarine acquired by the Israel Navy. 

Equipped with state-of-the-art systems, the submarine positions Israel at the forefront of global military technology and enhances the operational flexibility of the Israeli Navy for many years to come.
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Israeli troops operating in the Southern Lebanon security zone located combat equipment and weapons, including guided anti-tank missiles, a rocket launcher, missile launchers, grenades, explosive devices, Kalashnikov rifles, tactical vests, uniforms, and helmets.

Terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah was found embedded within civilian infrastructure, as is Hezbollahโ€™s modus operandi, and was dismantled by the troops.
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WATCH: The German Navy tests the Israeli-made LORA ballistic missile from a Baden-Wรผrttemberg-class frigate in the North Atlantic.
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Britain vows to stop Israel from building in E1 corridor

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband warned that Israelโ€™s โ building project in E1, a strategically critical area between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem, โ€œrisks making a Palestinian state unviable.โ€

Miliband said his government would โ€œnot acquiesce in the destruction of the two-state solution,โ€ and vowed to โ€œset โ€Œout โ a comprehensive set of measures in the coming weeks.โ€
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