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Einstein letters on God, Israel and physics fetch $210,000

Einstein letters on God, Israel and physics fetch $210,000

Eight letters, written between 1951 and 1954, by esteemed Jewish scientist were initially valued at up to $46,000   JERUSALEM — Letters written by Albert… Read More ›

Israelis Come Face-to-Face with ‘The Enemy’

Israelis Come Face-to-Face with ‘The Enemy’

The project, called The Enemy, is showing as a part of the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival until Saturday and is the brainchild of… Read More ›

Gaza slowly brewing up trouble

Gaza slowly brewing up trouble

Analysis: Prof. Mkhaimar Abusada of Al-Azhar University believes that the heat, the humidity from the sea and the increasing pressure on Hamas could blow up… Read More ›

Chilean Jews Concerned Over ‘Imported’ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Chilean Jews Concerned Over ‘Imported’ Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Tensions are present on soccer fields, in media and universities.   A series of recent events in Chile have caused heightened tensions between the Jewish and… Read More ›

Netanyahu: Liberman withheld info on Palestinian city expansion

Netanyahu: Liberman withheld info on Palestinian city expansion

PM denies saying he didn’t know of plan for Qalqilya, claims defense minister failed to tell cabinet it included 14,000 new homes   Deepening a… Read More ›

Security Cabinet Debates Building 14,000 New Palestinian Homes in Area C

Security Cabinet Debates Building 14,000 New Palestinian Homes in Area C

Should recent terror attacks impact major housing decisions?   The Security Cabinet will reconsider a plan to allow the Palestinian city of Kalkilya to expand… Read More ›

IDF Humvee topples over leaving 2 soldiers injured

IDF Humvee topples over leaving 2 soldiers injured

Initial investigation indicates that IDF Humvee careened off the road after driver attempted to avoid crashing with a Palestinian vehicle being recklessly driven; two left… Read More ›

Netanyahu blasts Palestinian ‘lies’ about Jerusalem attack

Netanyahu blasts Palestinian ‘lies’ about Jerusalem attack

PM pans Abbas for failing to condemn terror, demands end to ‘martyr’ payments; US officials: Ramallah assured us it will address issue Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

Palestinians to Claim Tomb of Patriarchs on UN Heritage List

Palestinians to Claim Tomb of Patriarchs on UN Heritage List

The World Heritage Committee on Thursday publicized the list of 35 sites that it plans to consider inscribing, including Hebron.   The World Heritage Committee… Read More ›

Liberman: Hamas using power crisis to distract from its failures

Liberman: Hamas using power crisis to distract from its failures

Defense minister says Israel not party to dispute with PA over electricity, calls 10 years of Hamas rule in Strip a ‘decade of suffering’  … Read More ›

Bennett’s ‘peace’ plan: I’ll dictate, you’ll sign

Bennett’s ‘peace’ plan: I’ll dictate, you’ll sign

Op-ed: In the Bayit Yehudi leader’s world, the other side doesn’t exist. Peace is not a move in which we recognize the other and try… Read More ›

Analysis: UN Chief Stuck in the Middle

Analysis: UN Chief Stuck in the Middle

Israel is appreciative of Guterres’s efforts to fight against the anti-Israel bias at the UN.   UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is a man very much… Read More ›

Netanyahu, Bennett and Regev are afraid of the truth

Netanyahu, Bennett and Regev are afraid of the truth

Op-ed: As a government loses ethical legitimacy, its ideological infrastructure turns into a house of cards. Every critical gust of wind threatens to bring it… Read More ›

Tillerson: PA has ‘changed policy,’ will stop paying terrorists’ families

Tillerson: PA has ‘changed policy,’ will stop paying terrorists’ families

US secretary of state says Palestinian Authority intends to cease allowances to those jailed for attacking or killing Israelis   WASHINGTON — US Secretary of… Read More ›

The ‘Israeli Spy’ Affair Lebanon is Obsessed With

The ‘Israeli Spy’ Affair Lebanon is Obsessed With

Lebanese media has been intently covering the story of an Iraqi citizen who was allegedly deployed by Israel to spearhead an espionage ring in Lebanon.… Read More ›

Amid boycott of Qatar, Israel mulls expelling al-Jazeera

Amid boycott of Qatar, Israel mulls expelling al-Jazeera

After similar Saudi and Jordanian moves, Netanyahu said preparing to shutter network’s Israeli bureau, but legal hurdles abound   Israel is reportedly considering closing down… Read More ›

Franco-German TV Outlet Snubs German Jews’ Pleas to Air Film on Antisemitism

Franco-German TV Outlet Snubs German Jews’ Pleas to Air Film on Antisemitism

ARTE, a public television station, came under fire after it nixed the screening of the film it commissioned about antisemitism because it was deemed too… Read More ›

The occupation festival

The occupation festival

Op-ed: The 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War is an opportunity to remember that the war broke out because of annihilation plans, before there even… Read More ›

Michael Steinhardt thinks American Jews need to stop focusing on religion

Michael Steinhardt thinks American Jews need to stop focusing on religion

The billionaire philanthropist doesn’t believe the answers to a national Jewish identity crisis lie in the synagogue, but rather in Israel   MT. KISCO, New… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Report: Nikki Haley Embroiled In IDF, Unifil Dispute About Hezbollah Threat

Jerusalem – Report: Nikki Haley Embroiled In IDF, Unifil Dispute About Hezbollah Threat

  Jerusalem – US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley was exposed to an unusual dispute between the IDF and the UN regarding the security… Read More ›