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78% of Israelis support unilateral annexation of Ma’ale Adumim, poll finds

78% of Israelis support unilateral annexation of Ma’ale Adumim, poll finds

Right-wing MKs draft bill to apply sovereignty in West Bank city the day after PM expresses support for Saudi peace plan; Gush Etzion calls to… Read More ›

IDF to institute changes in placing slain soldiers’ siblings in combat units

IDF to institute changes in placing slain soldiers’ siblings in combat units

After agreeing to send lone remaining sons, families will not be able to change their minds.   Until now, parents of slain soldiers who left behind… Read More ›

Playing coalition chicken

Playing coalition chicken

Papers seem to agree that the government won’t be toppled, at least not quite yet; plus one writer opines that killing is okay, so long… Read More ›

Dispelling rumors, Herzog says ‘no door’ to unity government

Dispelling rumors, Herzog says ‘no door’ to unity government

As Netanyahu battles Bennett, Zionist Union leader denies report his faction could replace Jewish Home in the coalition   Opposition leader Isaac Herzog denied reports… Read More ›

Rape case outrage backfires on PM

Rape case outrage backfires on PM

Prime Minister Netanyahu apologizes for chastising the media’s failiure to give proper attention to a rape by two Palestinian men on a mentally challenged Jewish… Read More ›

Russia to return Israeli tank captured 34 years ago

Russia to return Israeli tank captured 34 years ago

The tank, used by the IDF during the First Lebanon War, was taken in 1982 during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub; the fate of the… Read More ›

Republicans join Democrats in anger at AIPAC

Republicans join Democrats in anger at AIPAC

The pro-Israel lobby are shirking their mission on a host of battles, according to GOP members.   WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats are still nursing wounds from… Read More ›

Analysis: Why does Bennett care so much about the Security Cabinet?

Analysis: Why does Bennett care so much about the Security Cabinet?

No government in Israel has come or gone based on the issue so apparently trivial as whether a cabinet secretary will be appointed to brief… Read More ›

Coalition crisis over as Netanyahu and Bennett reach compromise

Coalition crisis over as Netanyahu and Bennett reach compromise

A military secretary will begin briefing the security cabinet from Monday as Litzman mediates a solution to avert the mounting crisis. The vote to expand… Read More ›

‘We are building the Democratic Camp’

‘We are building the Democratic Camp’

2,500 march in Tel Aviv against appointment of Liberman to defense portfolio.   Approximately 2,500 people protested against the appointment of Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) to… Read More ›

On Syrian border, new IDF unit will work with Syrian civilians

On Syrian border, new IDF unit will work with Syrian civilians

New liaison unit will help coordinate medical aid, dialogue in war-torn areas where Syrian regime holds no sway   The IDF is establishing a special… Read More ›

Bennett says he won’t blink first in cabinet row with Netanyahu

Bennett says he won’t blink first in cabinet row with Netanyahu

Jewish Home demands reform of security cabinet as condition for supporting Liberman as defense minister; Likud pans move as ‘political suicide’   Jewish Home party… Read More ›

Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker

Spot the difference: US slams Liberman, silent on Iran’s America-hating power broker

Op-Ed: The administration keeps mum as Tehran elevates a ‘Death to America’-spouting radical, but speaks out as peace-promising Liberman joins Israel’s coalition. Go figure  … Read More ›

Abbas wants time cap for any talks with Israel

Abbas wants time cap for any talks with Israel

Speaking in Cairo, the PA president said that upcoming Paris conference must establish time caps on resolutions; he stated that Palestinians will never recognize a… Read More ›

UNIFIL: Watchtowers on the border will be used by Lebanese military only

UNIFIL: Watchtowers on the border will be used by Lebanese military only

Maj. Gen. Luciano Portolano told Ynet that new towers, which were erected in Southern Lebanon in a short amount of time and have caused concern… Read More ›

Clalit required to account for money intended for Holocaust survivors

Clalit required to account for money intended for Holocaust survivors

The Knesset Finance Committee, in a special meeting, insisted on receiving details of how much money the HMO received from Germany and how it was… Read More ›

ANALYSIS: The plot to replace Netanyahu

ANALYSIS: The plot to replace Netanyahu

As the line from Catch-22 goes: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.   If there’s one epithet the punditry repeatedly uses about… Read More ›

The forgotten casualties: Helping Israeli society mature in the way it deals with war

The forgotten casualties: Helping Israeli society mature in the way it deals with war

“A soldier is not a mythological hero – he is a human being with pains like the rest of us.”   When Israel mourns each… Read More ›

Authorities to drill massive rocket attack this week

Authorities to drill massive rocket attack this week

Current level of readiness in home front is ‘a little better than average,’ emergency organization head says.   The National Emergency Authority will this week… Read More ›

2 Palestinians suspected of raping disabled Israeli woman

2 Palestinians suspected of raping disabled Israeli woman

Police searching for a third suspect believed to have taken part in sexual assault in Jaffa earlier this month   Police officers have arrested a… Read More ›