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The 2017 foreign-language Oscar submission list
Israel’s ‘Foxtrot’ competes with Palestinian family drama ‘Wajib’ and Lebanon’s ‘The Insult’ on civil war

Israeli teens form night patrols as clown panic sweeps country
As the ‘scary clown’ fad hits Israel, a year after it ended in the US,

86-year-old woman dies in house fire in northern Israel
Police investigating cause of blaze in Or Akiva apartment building; elderly resident found unconscious, likely

Google earbuds offer real-time translation; Hebrew not included
Pixel Buds, synched to new Pixel smartphones, promise translations of conversations in any of 40

Trump meets military leaders on Iran, says announcement coming ‘shortly’
US president says Tehran violating spirit of nuclear deal; said set to decertify Iran accord,

Islam is world’s most common state religion — study
Pew Research Center analysis of data from 199 countries finds 4 in 10 have officially

Hollywood bigwig Weinstein takes leave after sexual harassment claims
Producer apologizes after expose in New York Times alleges misconduct, including against actress Ashley Judd

Police detain 7 teens over holiday in clown-related incidents
Youths wearing masks held across the country amid spate of creepy sightings aimed at scaring

Brunei monarch marks golden jubilee in style
While Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah is the world’s second-longest reigning royal, his reign has had

PM vows to bring to justice those behind murder of Jewish man in Kafr Qassem
Netanyahu offers condolences to family of Reuven Schmerling, to be laid to rest Friday in

Israel TV: Trump to decertify Iran nuke deal, impose ‘harsh sanctions’ on IRGC
President will not withdraw from 2015 accord, but will announce series of measures to punish

Did the Las Vegas gunman target other music festivals?
Stephen Paddock rented rooms overlooking two other music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago, authorities

New Google earbuds offer real-time translation feature
Pixel Buds, synched to new Pixel smartphones, promise translations of conversations in any 40 languages

Threatening anti-Semitic flier sent to Brooklyn kosher bakery
New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind posts picture of flier which reads, ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

Hippies welcome as Woodstock Festival returns to Jerusalem
Eighth local event honoring iconic 1969 ‘Summer of Love’ music gathering moves to new home

The Jews of the US Coast Guard: ‘always ready’ during hurricane season
Whether providing disaster relief or rescuing terror victims, these Members of the Tribe are on

Decaying body found outside Israeli army base in West Bank
Police, unable to identify the gender of the deceased due to advanced decomposition, open investigation

In Moscow, Saudi king slams Iran, signs billion dollar defense, energy deals
In first official visit by a Saudi monarch to Russia, King Salman tells Putin Iran

Larry David and Bernie Sanders learn they’re distant cousins, flip out
Curb / Seinfeld star: ‘What the hell!’ Bernie: ‘You’re kidding! Omigod’ The post Larry David

NY film screening on Kurdish fighters sells out despite terror threat
Director Bernard-Henri Levy says Israel should embrace the Kurds, who waved Israeli flags on the

Anti-Semitic graffiti discovered on Minnesota junior high school
Authorities find a swastika and word ‘soon’ hours before start of Yom Kippur The post

A younger Netanyahu for prime minister? ‘I hope not,’ says Bibi
Amid speculation Yair Netanyahu seeks to follow father’s footsteps, PM says he has expressed his

Hamas names mastermind of attacks on Israelis as deputy
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The Palestinian Hamas movement has named as its deputy leader

Iraq forces retake Islamic State bastion Hawija
Iraqi PM calls latest victory one ‘for the whole world’ while spokesman for US coalition

US ‘deeply disturbed’ by arrest of Istanbul consulate staffer
Turkish authorities accuse local man of links to US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed for 2016’s

Bedouin man suspected of forcibly marrying, raping Palestinian girl
14-year-old in protective custody in Israel after reportedly walking up to Border Police in Hebron

Palestinian Authority PM leaves Gaza after reconciliation visit
Fatah and Hamas to meet in Cairo next week as part of unity efforts, but