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The Chamber of Representatives in Brussels. Belgium. (Wikimedia Commons)

Belgian parliament calls on EU to prepare list of ‘countermeasures’ against Israeli annexation

It’s the first official public reference to sanctions on Israel by a legislative branch of an EU member state.

70 top think-tank scholars sign letter to support Foundation for Defense of Democracies

The organization and its executive director Mark Dubowitz last week were added to the Islamic Republic’s sanctions list, accused of being involved in “designing, imposing and intensifying the impacts of economic terrorism against Iran.

Russia’s Jews will get their etrog fruits from Italy despite sanctions, says rabbi

Followers of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement share a strong preference for the etrog grown in Calabria, Italy, where tens of thousands are picked annually for export.

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