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They see smoke, grab their gear and run

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By Pesach Benson Verified, Omer Novoselsky
| JNS Verified
(Aug. 5, 2026 / TPS-IL) Racing up smoke-filled hillsides with fire beaters and water bottles has become routine for hundreds of volunteers across Judea and Samaria, where suspected arson fires can ignite within seconds but take hours to contain. The network they built three years ago now numbers 500-600 people—and in a single recent week, it logged seven suspected arson incidents in the Binyamin region, north of Jerusalem, and in Samaria.
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Israeli archaeologists uncover historic heart of Great Synagogue of Vilna Original

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By Pesach Benson Verified
| JNS Verified
(Aug. 5, 2026 / TPS-IL) Israeli archaeologists have fully uncovered the large central bimah—the raised platform used for Torah readings—at the site of the Great Synagogue of Vilna in Vilnius, Lithuania, one of Europe’s most important Jewish religious centers, following a month of excavation work, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday.
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Visa to acquire Israeli fraud detection firm BioCatch for $2.4b

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By Pesach Benson Verified
| J-Wire Verified
Visa, one of the world’s largest digital payments networks, has agreed to acquire Israeli-founded fraud detection company BioCatch in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.4 billion, the companies announced on Monday. Founded in 2011, BioCatch develops behavioural intelligence technology that analyses how customers interact with websites, mobile applications and devices to distinguish legitimate users from fraudsters.
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