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‘Star Wars’ actress Carrie Fisher is dead at 60

‘Star Wars’ actress Carrie Fisher is dead at 60

  Carrie Fisher, the actress known around the world for playing Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” movies, has died at the age of 60.… Read More ›

Analysis: Differentiation clause will boost BDS

Analysis: Differentiation clause will boost BDS

These moves could be just the tip of the iceberg.   The anti-settlement resolution that the US allowed to pass through the UN Security Council… Read More ›

New York – Fox News Has Kept Most Of Its Audience After The Election

New York – Fox News Has Kept Most Of Its Audience After The Election

  New York – A sharp drop in cable news ratings following a presidential election is as inevitable as snow in Buffalo. Yet in the… Read More ›

Trump, Putin both seek to boost their nuclear capability

Trump, Putin both seek to boost their nuclear capability

President-elect Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he will look to “strengthen and expand” the US’s nuclear capability hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to… Read More ›

Killer trucks: What can the West do to stop the next attack?

Killer trucks: What can the West do to stop the next attack?

“ISIS wants to change the subject from Mosul and its failures in Iraq and Syria.”   Following Monday’s terrorist attack in Germany, what can the Germans… Read More ›

Columbus, OH – Biden, Other Mourners Choke Up In Tribute To John Glenn

Columbus, OH – Biden, Other Mourners Choke Up In Tribute To John Glenn

  Columbus, OH –  The nation’s vice president and a retired Marine Corps general were among the dignitaries, family members and other mourners who choked… Read More ›

Trump on China’s capture of a US Navy drone: ‘Let them keep it!’

Trump on China’s capture of a US Navy drone: ‘Let them keep it!’

  President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Saturday evening that China should be told to “keep” the US Navy underwater drone it recently seized from South China… Read More ›

Ethics experts say Trump’s latest move to distance himself from his business empire is not enough: ‘Nothing of consequence has changed’

Ethics experts say Trump’s latest move to distance himself from his business empire is not enough: ‘Nothing of consequence has changed’

  President-elect Donald Trump promised this week that he will both relinquish control over his business empire and that “no new deals” will occur while… Read More ›

Israel losing public opinion support in US

Israel losing public opinion support in US

Op-ed: The American public’s growing support for anti-Israel sanctions over the ongoing expansion of settlements is setting off alarm bells, but the Israeli government couldn’t… Read More ›

With fog delay, F-35 ceremony turns farcical — but it could’ve been worse

With fog delay, F-35 ceremony turns farcical — but it could’ve been worse

Event for Israel’s new fighter jet starts 6 hours late with greatly depleted audience; though unlike a botched 1976 ceremony for the F-15, it probably… Read More ›

Settlements bill to be pushed off until Trump inauguration

Settlements bill to be pushed off until Trump inauguration

Sources close to Netanyahu say that PM ‘won’t let the bill become law.’   The controversial legislation meant to retroactively legalize close to 4,000 settlement… Read More ›

Declassified documents indicate Israel and South Africa conducted nuclear test in 1979

Declassified documents indicate Israel and South Africa conducted nuclear test in 1979

37 years after a mysterious double flash was detected in the South Atlantic Ocean, newly declassified American documents suggest that Israel cooperated with the Apartheid… Read More ›

Haredim boycott speech of slain girl’s father

Haredim boycott speech of slain girl’s father

Haredim refuse to attend a speech given by Uri Banki, father of Shira Banki, who was murdered by Yishai Schlissel at the Jerusalem LGBT Pride… Read More ›

ANALYSIS: In opposing Obama, Netanyahu played a risky hand — and won

ANALYSIS: In opposing Obama, Netanyahu played a risky hand — and won

Six weeks before Inauguration Day, doomsday predictions about shattered relations and the outgoing president’s wrath striking Israel at the Security Council appear to have been… Read More ›

A showdown between Trump and the Fed is looming

A showdown between Trump and the Fed is looming

  The Federal Reserve could clash with President-elect Donald Trump on its core responsibility to keep prices stable. To control inflation — the gauge of… Read More ›

Jewish Democrats cry hypocrisy over US general’s Israel remarks

Jewish Democrats cry hypocrisy over US general’s Israel remarks

Gen. James Mattis, contender for Trump’s defense secretary, said settlements could lead to ‘apartheid.’   WASHINGTON – After defending US President Barack Obama’s credentials on… Read More ›

Finance minister: NIS 2,500 immediately to every person who can’t go home

Finance minister: NIS 2,500 immediately to every person who can’t go home

Speaking in Haifa, Moshe Kahlon committed to provide emergency relief, distributed by local authorities, to every person whose home was rendered uninhabitable by the recent… Read More ›

Israeli Jews of Iraqi descent meet Abbas in Ramallah

Israeli Jews of Iraqi descent meet Abbas in Ramallah

“The hostility must end, and we want people to live in peace with everyone, whether [Mizrahi] or Ashkenazi,” Abbas remarks, adding, “We will one day… Read More ›

What the Trump presidency could mean for sneaker prices

What the Trump presidency could mean for sneaker prices

  If President-elect Donald Trump has made anything clear about what he plans to do in his first 100 days in office, it’s that he… Read More ›

New Israel poverty index ranks Jerusalem near bottom

New Israel poverty index ranks Jerusalem near bottom

The report, which was conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics, calculates the socio-economic ranking of 255 communities in Israel and creates a rank from… Read More ›