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Report: Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent

Report: Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent

Documents smuggled to London from Moscow by former KGB archivist and defector Vasili Mitrokhin list the Palestinian Authority President as being a KGB agent in… Read More ›

Hebrew U. tops Israeli schools making top international university list

Hebrew U. tops Israeli schools making top international university list

The 2016 QS World University Rankings list continues to cite the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the highest ranked Israeli university; Tel Aviv University crowned… Read More ›

IAF strikes Syrian weapon sites in response to mortar fire

IAF strikes Syrian weapon sites in response to mortar fire

The strikes came after a Syrian mortar shell exploded in the northern Golan Heights.   The Israel Air Force on Thursday struck a number of… Read More ›

Analysis: Does Israel’s existence rely on Trump’s election?

Analysis: Does Israel’s existence rely on Trump’s election?

Though Donald Trump has expressed his concern for Israel’s security in the past, the claim that he alone can prevent Israel’s destruction is new.  … Read More ›

‘BDS doesn’t want a better Israel — it wants no Israel’

‘BDS doesn’t want a better Israel — it wants no Israel’

Holocaust scholar Prof. Yehuda Bauer slammed the BDS movement while speaking with British-Muslim MP Tulip Siddiq.   Eminent Hebrew Universtiy historian Prof. Yehuda Bauer slammed the… Read More ›

UCLA student leader says university ‘intimidated’ by campus BDS groups

UCLA student leader says university ‘intimidated’ by campus BDS groups

Chatterjee will complete his third year of law school at New York University’s School of Law, an environment which he says has thus far been… Read More ›

If quiet persists, Liberman says he would allow Gaza workers back into Israel

If quiet persists, Liberman says he would allow Gaza workers back into Israel

Almost 10 years after imposed blockade, defense minister says Israel would like to ease humanitarian situation but not at expense of security   After nearly… Read More ›

Jordanian journalist denied entry into Israel

Jordanian journalist denied entry into Israel

Mudar Al Momani, widely regarded as a promoter of bilateral relations between Israel and Jordan, has been denied entry into Israel on grounds of ‘security… Read More ›

Poll: Lapid would win elections today

Poll: Lapid would win elections today

According to a poll conducted by Channel 2 News, Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid has received a huge boost in popularity that would suffice to dethrone… Read More ›

Israeli hi-tech super algae can power a green energy revolution

Israeli hi-tech super algae can power a green energy revolution

Tel Aviv University researchers have transformed humble pond slime into an engine for clean fuel.   Israeli researchers have transformed humble pond slime into an… Read More ›

Settler leader calls on US citizens in Israel to vote for Trump

Settler leader calls on US citizens in Israel to vote for Trump

Republicans set up field offices in West Bank to register eligible voters.   A prominent settler leader has called on American citizens in Israel to… Read More ›

Donald Trump says Israel will be destroyed unless he is elected

Donald Trump says Israel will be destroyed unless he is elected

Trump said the deal had rendered Iran a “world power,” whereas it had previously been a regional power.   Donald Trump said if he is not… Read More ›

Third body found in the Tel Aviv construction site collapse

Third body found in the Tel Aviv construction site collapse

Search efforts continue at the site of Monday’s construction collapse in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hachayal neighborhood.   The death toll from Monday’s construction collapse in… Read More ›

Israeli groups seeks referendum on disputed territories

Israeli groups seeks referendum on disputed territories

‘Decision 50’, led by prominent figures in Israel’s self-proclaimed peace camp has urged PM Netanyahu to call a nationwide referendum on whether Israel should withdraw… Read More ›

Playing the blame game

Playing the blame game

Op-ed: The question we should all be asking is not how the current train work crisis will be solved, but what the next battleground between… Read More ›

Dutch ex-PM: Netanyahu should be tried for war crimes

Dutch ex-PM: Netanyahu should be tried for war crimes

Van Agt said in 2012 that Jews should have had a state in Germany instead of the Land of Israel.   Former Dutch prime minister… Read More ›

‘Post’ poll: Majority backs Katz in dispute with PM over Shabbat work

‘Post’ poll: Majority backs Katz in dispute with PM over Shabbat work

Transportation minister still has job after train shutdown, but Netanyahu maintains threat to fire him amid turmoil with haredim.   Only a quarter of Israelis support… Read More ›

Israel shells Syria in retaliation for mortar hitting Golan

Israel shells Syria in retaliation for mortar hitting Golan

Opposition media report barrage in village in demilitarized zone; Syrian state news says planes caused ‘material damage’   Israel targeted Syrian Army artillery in the… Read More ›

Pro-Israel Dems who backed Iran deal feel the heat in 2016 races

Pro-Israel Dems who backed Iran deal feel the heat in 2016 races

Prominent supporters of Jewish state are being attacked for not ‘standing with Israel,’ while some in Jewish community warn against using the deal as a… Read More ›

Palestinian killed in apparent ramming attempt in East Jerusalem

Palestinian killed in apparent ramming attempt in East Jerusalem

Another is moderately wounded as car tries to run over Border Police in Shuafat, officials say; no Israelis hurt   A Palestinian assailant was killed… Read More ›