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Erdan blames Facebook for aiding recent murders

Erdan blames Facebook for aiding recent murders

Other MKs continued to blame MK Haneen Zoabi (Joint List) for inciting to violence on Wednesday by calling IDF soldiers murderers.   Facebook founder Mark… Read More ›

Analysis: The dangers of a violent spiral

Analysis: The dangers of a violent spiral

Is this a tolerable level of violence, which both sides are willing to absorb while they go about their daily routine?   For the first… Read More ›

Training activists in the social media war against BDS

Training activists in the social media war against BDS

IDC in Herzliya spearheading effort to provide students with tools to defend Israel.   Sitting in a classroom at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, a… Read More ›

Netanyahu links terror attacks to Islamic extremism, UN envoy to ‘Palestinian resentment’

Netanyahu links terror attacks to Islamic extremism, UN envoy to ‘Palestinian resentment’

UN special envoy Nickolay Mladenov, in an address to the Security Council on the Middle East, referred to Palestinian violence and terror – which he… Read More ›

ADL lauds Dems’ platform backing two states, opposing BDS

ADL lauds Dems’ platform backing two states, opposing BDS

Group’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt urges GOP to use similar language to reflect bipartisan consensus on Israel   The Anti-Defamation League commended the Democratic National Convention’s… Read More ›

Trump tells anti-Israel backer he’ll protect Israel ‘100%’

Trump tells anti-Israel backer he’ll protect Israel ‘100%’

At New Hampshire rally, GOP candidate calls Jewish state ‘very, very important ally,’ hints at concern over Muslim TSA officers   Donald Trump vowed to… Read More ›

Mother of slain girl: ‘Here’s one last hug from mom’

Mother of slain girl: ‘Here’s one last hug from mom’

Hundreds attend funeral of 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who was murdered in a terrorist attack on Thursday morning; MK Yehuda Glick weeps at funeral: ‘No… Read More ›

Settler leaders demand more security, new construction

Settler leaders demand more security, new construction

In wake of deadly terror attack in Kiryat Arba, Samaria Regional Council leader calls on gov’t to make ‘operational decisions’ to strengthen deterrence, while Yesha… Read More ›

Netanyahu links terror attacks to Islamic extremism, UN envoy to ‘Palestinian resentment’

Netanyahu links terror attacks to Islamic extremism, UN envoy to ‘Palestinian resentment’

UN special envoy Nickolay Mladenov, in an address to the Security Council on the Middle East, referred to Palestinian violence and terror – which he… Read More ›

AIPAC lauds Senate for additional foreign aid, anti-BDS action for Israel

AIPAC lauds Senate for additional foreign aid, anti-BDS action for Israel

The Combat BDS Act smoothed the wheels for state and local governments to legislate against the boycott, divestment and sanctioning of the Jewish state.  … Read More ›

Jihad is contagious

Jihad is contagious

Opinion : Like a set of dominoes, one attack sets off the idea for the next, and often, the chain linking them can be found… Read More ›

IDF dismantles three Hebron-area terror cells

IDF dismantles three Hebron-area terror cells

19 residents of Beit Fajjar indicted for rock-throwing, firebombing attacks on Israelis in recent months   Israeli security forces in recent months broke up three… Read More ›

Rouhani: Israel behind Mideast’s woes, to distract from occupation

Rouhani: Israel behind Mideast’s woes, to distract from occupation

Iranian leader claims ‘Zionists’ are acting behind the scenes to pit Muslims against each other   Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed Israel on Wednesday for… Read More ›

IDF chief: We’ll face threat of terrorism for many years

IDF chief: We’ll face threat of terrorism for many years

Speaking at event marking Operation Entebbe, Gadi Eisenkot says raid was a milestone in fight against terror   Israel will continue to face the threat… Read More ›

Thanks in no small part to Russia, Hezbollah is now a full-fledged army

Thanks in no small part to Russia, Hezbollah is now a full-fledged army

For now its focus is on the Syrian civil war, where it is sustaining heavy losses, but the Lebanese Shiite terror group has become a… Read More ›

Reporting for reserve duty—in their second trimester

Reporting for reserve duty—in their second trimester

Two six-month-pregnant reservists spoke with Ynet from their army base during their reserve service; while many look for excuses to get out of reserves, ‘I’m… Read More ›

New bill to strengthen Security Cabinet at expense of PM

New bill to strengthen Security Cabinet at expense of PM

Yesh Atid has proposed a new bill that depends on Bayit Yehudi to put it on the agenda; the proposed law would, inter alia, require… Read More ›

Haredi parties threaten PM to cancel Western-Wall agreement

Haredi parties threaten PM to cancel Western-Wall agreement

The heads of Shas and United Torah Judaism met on Wednesday with Netanyahu to insist that he back down from the agreement to create a… Read More ›

Erdogan blasts 2010 Gaza flotilla organizers for undermining deal with Israel

Erdogan blasts 2010 Gaza flotilla organizers for undermining deal with Israel

The IHH denounced the agreement for the restoration of diplomatic ties between Ankara and Jerusalem as amounting to the acceptance of Israel’s blockade of the… Read More ›

Jerusalemites remain unmoved by diplomatic reconciliation with Turkey

Jerusalemites remain unmoved by diplomatic reconciliation with Turkey

“It’s too dangerous there, and they don’t like us,” says one Israeli.   The restoration of diplomatic ties with Turkey held little sway over a cross-section… Read More ›