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Bennett Initiative to Block Dividing Jerusalem Heads to Early Vote

Bennett Initiative to Block Dividing Jerusalem Heads to Early Vote

Critics of the bill in question say that such a law would be a major and irreversible stumbling bloc on the way to a peace… Read More ›

Liberal Jews protest conversion bill, Kotel plan freeze outside PM’s residence

Liberal Jews protest conversion bill, Kotel plan freeze outside PM’s residence

Over a thousand people gather after the end of Shabbat to urge the prime minister, ‘Bibi, don’t divide the Jewish people’; ‘The Israeli government turned… Read More ›

Ex-PM Olmert released from prison after 16 months

Ex-PM Olmert released from prison after 16 months

Former premier freed on parole after board reduces corruption sentence by one-third on good behavior   Former prime minister Ehud Olmert was released on parole… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israel’s Labor Aims For Relevance With Leadership Election

Jerusalem – Israel’s Labor Aims For Relevance With Leadership Election

  Jerusalem –  Israel’s venerable Labor Party, which led the country to independence and steered it for decades through wars, crises and the pursuit of… Read More ›

Soldiers must learn how to deal with Jewish rioters

Soldiers must learn how to deal with Jewish rioters

Op-ed: After 50 years of serving in the territories, after hundreds and maybe even thousands of clashes with settlers and Hilltop Youth, the army must… Read More ›

Hamas, PFLP Partners to Speak at UN Event Marking 50 Years of ‘Occupation’

Hamas, PFLP Partners to Speak at UN Event Marking 50 Years of ‘Occupation’

Earlier this month, the PFLP claimed responsibility for the murder of Israeli policewoman Hadas Malka, killed in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem on June 16.… Read More ›

It’s not Olmert who should be ashamed

It’s not Olmert who should be ashamed

Op-ed: The attorney general and state attorney’s decision to allow five police investigators to raid the Yedioth Books publishing house is nothing less than a… Read More ›

David Friedman: Can Jews Survive Themselves?

David Friedman: Can Jews Survive Themselves?

Friedman was speaking at a B’nai B’rith World Center award ceremony for excellence in journalism on Diaspora affairs   In his maiden public speech as… Read More ›

US Israel envoy won’t take sides on Kotel, conversion crisis

US Israel envoy won’t take sides on Kotel, conversion crisis

Speaking to an audience in Jerusalem, David Friedman acknowledges divides between Jews but refuses to take sides on gov’t decisions over conversions and Kotel; laments… Read More ›

LGBT Jews say it’s increasingly difficult to be pro-Israel and queer

LGBT Jews say it’s increasingly difficult to be pro-Israel and queer

The complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is lost on many in the gay community leading to outright rejection of the Jewish state   NEW YORK… Read More ›

Shin Bet director: Hackers experience ‘unexpected errors’ when targeting Israell

Shin Bet director: Hackers experience ‘unexpected errors’ when targeting Israell

Director Nadav Argaman says his agency was able to thwart many terror attacks thanks to cyber security activity, saying Israel’s intelligence agencies play both defense… Read More ›

Jewish Agency takes out ad slamming Western Wall decision

Jewish Agency takes out ad slamming Western Wall decision

Organization says freezing pluralistic prayer pavilion and granting ultra-Orthodox conversion monopoly ‘endangers the unity of the Jewish people’   The Jewish Agency for Israel on… Read More ›

Analysis: The Weakness of Diaspora Jews Does Them In

Analysis: The Weakness of Diaspora Jews Does Them In

In the dispute over egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall, conversion and other matters of religion and state, the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties have strength.  … Read More ›

Analysis: New generation of Hilltop Youth: Less ideology, more anti-state activity

Analysis: New generation of Hilltop Youth: Less ideology, more anti-state activity

Analysis: The main targets of ‘price tag’ perpetrators in recent weeks have been Israel’s security forces—the Shin Bet, the IDF and the police—rather than the… Read More ›

Netanyahu to millions of Jews: We don’t really want you

Netanyahu to millions of Jews: We don’t really want you

Op-Ed: The PM’s decision to freeze the Western Wall compromise plan is a blow to the heart and soul of world Jewry   By most… Read More ›

Jerusalem – US Ambassador To Israel Honors Hadar Goldin’s Memory At Ammunition Hill

Jerusalem – US Ambassador To Israel Honors Hadar Goldin’s Memory At Ammunition Hill

  Jerusalem – A plaque was dedicated to fallen IDF soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin on Sunday at Jerusalem’s hallowed Ammunition Hill Wall of Honor in… Read More ›

Reports that Trump Considering Pulling Out of Peace Efforts ‘Nonsense,’ US Official Says

Reports that Trump Considering Pulling Out of Peace Efforts ‘Nonsense,’ US Official Says

A Palestinian official claims Abbas is furious at American demands, accuses the US of taking sides.   US President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing whether… Read More ›

Why Israel Needs to Disband the Military Censor to Preserve its Democracy

Why Israel Needs to Disband the Military Censor to Preserve its Democracy

It is a question of the trade-off we want between freedom of speech, freedom of press and an obscure, unproven potential harm to Israeli security.… Read More ›

Hezbollah head: ‘Hundreds of thousands’ of Muslim fighters will respond if Israel attacks

Hezbollah head: ‘Hundreds of thousands’ of Muslim fighters will respond if Israel attacks

In ‘al-Quds Day’ remarks, Nasrallah says any future conflict ‘would open the door’ for gunmen from Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan   BEIRUT, Lebanon —… Read More ›

Kushner Meets with Abbas in Bid to Renew Peace Process

Kushner Meets with Abbas in Bid to Renew Peace Process

Earlier on Wednesday, Trump’s top advisor met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.   “President Trump is committed to working to reach a serious… Read More ›