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US Jewish camp chided for posting promotional IDF-like training video

US Jewish camp chided for posting promotional IDF-like training video

“I am completely shocked that there are Israelis involved in this who think this is about pride and not a profound insult to the service… Read More ›

New York – Israeli Invention Aims To Take Smartphones Out Of Family Time

New York – Israeli Invention Aims To Take Smartphones Out Of Family Time

New York – An Israeli invention, launched on Tuesday, has set out to put quality back in family time by taking smartphones out of the… Read More ›

State Comptroller report: Israel unprepared for cyber attacks

State Comptroller report: Israel unprepared for cyber attacks

The newly published report draws attention to a plethora of deficiencies in Israeli sectors intimately affecting the lives of millions; report includes, inter alia, shortfalls… Read More ›

HBO refuses comment on status of Ari Shavit book documentary

HBO refuses comment on status of Ari Shavit book documentary

“I am ashamed of the mistakes I made with regards to people in general and women in particular.”   HBO is not discussing the status… Read More ›

Northern residents tell Kahlon: The gov’t ‘treats us like toilet paper’

Northern residents tell Kahlon: The gov’t ‘treats us like toilet paper’

The activists were forcibly removed and escorted out of the hearing by security.   A Knesset Finance Committee meeting about the 2017- 2018 state budget on… Read More ›

Mercy: hospitals at 200% capacity

Mercy: hospitals at 200% capacity

Major hospitals across the country are seeing record numbers of people, with many being at 200% capacity and waiting times approaching six hours; ‘This is… Read More ›

Defense Ministry to ramp up IDF reserve payments

Defense Ministry to ramp up IDF reserve payments

NIS 30 million budget earmarked to increase reimbursement payments to self-employed IDF reservists; Lieberman: ‘Reservists play a central, critical role in the IDF’s ability to… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s new imaginary enemy

Netanyahu’s new imaginary enemy

Op-ed: When the prime minister turns a marginal issue—the new public broadcasting corporation—into his No. 1 threat, it’s possible we are witnessing one of his… Read More ›

Soros group supports Breaking the Silence in not disclosing sources

Soros group supports Breaking the Silence in not disclosing sources

Open Society files legal brief arguing NGO should be treated as media organization   One of George Soros’s foundations has jumped into the legal battle between… Read More ›

Israel to build new settler homes in Shiloh, despite US objections

Israel to build new settler homes in Shiloh, despite US objections

US: “This settlement’s location deep in the West Bank… would link a string of outposts that effectively divide the West Bank and make the possibility… Read More ›

Incoming UNHRC less stacked against Israel than outgoing one

Incoming UNHRC less stacked against Israel than outgoing one

The biggest plus for Israel on the new council is the US, returning to the council following a mandatory one-year absence after serving two consecutive… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israel High Court: Haredi Parties Must Explain Why Women Are Banned From Party Lists

Jerusalem – Israel High Court: Haredi Parties Must Explain Why Women Are Banned From Party Lists

  Jerusalem – The High Court of Justice has ordered haredi political parties United Torah Judaism and Shas, along with the Party Registrar, to explain… Read More ›

Deputy IDF chief race on its way

Deputy IDF chief race on its way

Major Generals Aviv Kochavi and Sami Turgeman are the leading candidates to replace Maj. Gen. Yair Golan as IDF deputy chief of staff; will the… Read More ›

Alexander Levlovich’s murderer receives 9 years

Alexander Levlovich’s murderer receives 9 years

One year after the deadly attack, a minor involved in the death of Alexander Levlovich, whose name became synonymous with the inception of the wave… Read More ›

Political victory for Hezbollah expected in Lebanon election

Political victory for Hezbollah expected in Lebanon election

Aoun’s impending election is “a political victory for Hezbollah,” said Benedetta Berti, an analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies.   Lebanon is poised… Read More ›

UNHRC official: ‘Israel’s status at UN depends on ending the occupation’

UNHRC official: ‘Israel’s status at UN depends on ending the occupation’

“The UNHRC has been taken over by some of the worst human rights violators in the world, Israel said, adding “The council has long abandoned… Read More ›

Uzbek envoy says Israel will have more friends in Muslim states

Uzbek envoy says Israel will have more friends in Muslim states

One of the Jewish state’s longest serving ambassadors, Oybek Eshonov is proud of his country’s rich Jewish heritage.   Israeli politicians with Utopian fantasies about… Read More ›

Bennett brings ‘Regulation Bill’ to a vote

Bennett brings ‘Regulation Bill’ to a vote

Bayit Yehudi Leader Naftali Bennett announces he will bring the bill, intended to allow Amona’s settlers to remain on the land, before the Knesset’s Constitution,… Read More ›

General Michel Aoun is bad news for Israel

General Michel Aoun is bad news for Israel

Analysis: If Aoun, who is known for changing his loyalties, is elected president in Lebanon, he will be the one to select the country’s prime… Read More ›

Why is the Hamas government as stable as Netanyahu government?

Why is the Hamas government as stable as Netanyahu government?

Op-ed: The rhetoric between Jerusalem and Gaza may be filled with deep hatred, but it allows both governments to prove there is no solution; In… Read More ›