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Bezeq launches digital book initiative

Bezeq launches digital book initiative

Telecom service partners with Hebrew digital book library in hopes of a digital reading revolution; poll shows digital books use is lagging in Israel, but… Read More ›

Report: Ultra-Orthodox in Israel healthier, live longer

Report: Ultra-Orthodox in Israel healthier, live longer

Cities with a high concentration of the ultra-Orthodox have a higher life expectancy – as much as three years – than otherwise expected based on… Read More ›

Ambassador to US makes political point with settlement-made gifts

Ambassador to US makes political point with settlement-made gifts

Ron Dermer counters BDS by sending items made in West Bank as embassy’s annual holiday gift. Israel’s ambassador to the United States used the embassy’s… Read More ›

Jewish terrorist suspects’ families demand inquiry into torture claims

Jewish terrorist suspects’ families demand inquiry into torture claims

Channel 10 publishes video of right-wing extremists stabbing photo of slain Palestinian toddler at wedding.   Te parents of Jewish terrorist suspects called on Wednesday… Read More ›

Hamas fears Gaza blockade won’t be lifted in Israel-Turkey rapprochement

Hamas fears Gaza blockade won’t be lifted in Israel-Turkey rapprochement

Hamas’s biggest fear is that Turkey and Israel resume their security and military cooperation, which will result in restricting Hamas activities in Turkey.    … Read More ›

US Jewish groups condemn professor’s use of yellow stars to fight Islamophobia

US Jewish groups condemn professor’s use of yellow stars to fight Islamophobia

“Muslim” written on Islamic crescent-shaped symbols.   An Iranian American academic’s initiative to combat Islamophobia through the use of yellow Stars of David marked with… Read More ›

Pita, hummus, and a side of politics in the Netherlands

Pita, hummus, and a side of politics in the Netherlands

A Jew from Tel Aviv and an Arab-Israeli from Nazareth have opened the most controversial — and successful — hummus bar in the Haugue  … Read More ›

France is Israel’s largest source of aliyah for 2nd straight year

France is Israel’s largest source of aliyah for 2nd straight year

7,328 French immigrants in 2015; Russia saw most dramatic increase in immigration, according to Jewish Agency figures   For the second consecutive year, France is… Read More ›

7 things Miriam Adelson does — besides back GOP candidates

7 things Miriam Adelson does — besides back GOP candidates

Casino magnate’s wife believes she and her husband presage collapse of democracy, is key decision maker over campaign donations to presidential candidates   JTA –… Read More ›

General strike called off as unions, Treasury come to agreement

General strike called off as unions, Treasury come to agreement

Shutdown of schools, airports, and municipalities averted as public sector workers guaranteed 7.5% salary increase over 5 years   After hours of high-level talks, Finance… Read More ›

Washington – US Congresswoman: Jerusalem’s Archaeological Discoveries Prove Historic Jewish Ties

Washington – US Congresswoman: Jerusalem’s Archaeological Discoveries Prove Historic Jewish Ties

Washington – Challenges about the inexorable connection of Jews to Jerusalem have been unequivocally disproven by archaeological discoveries, the chairwoman of the US’s House Subcommittee… Read More ›

Nationwide strike looms as unions demand pay hike

Nationwide strike looms as unions demand pay hike

Histadrut workers’ union demands 11% raise in wages in the public sector; direct economic damages of a strike are estimated at about NIS 300 million… Read More ›

Ukrainian president to ‘Post’: We do not allow Russia to affect our ties with Israel

Ukrainian president to ‘Post’: We do not allow Russia to affect our ties with Israel

Petro Poroshenko declines to comment on a statement by his Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, asserting that vandalism against Jewish sites were meant to “destabilize” Ukraine.… Read More ›

From Boston to Beit Shemesh, slain Ezra Schwartz honored with service and sports

From Boston to Beit Shemesh, slain Ezra Schwartz honored with service and sports

A month after his murder by Palestinian terrorists, a look at mitzvah projects — from ‘epic wiffle tournaments’ to polar plunges — inspired by 18-year-old… Read More ›

With fanfare and warning to Israel, Hezbollah buries Samir Kuntar in Beirut

With fanfare and warning to Israel, Hezbollah buries Samir Kuntar in Beirut

Thousands turn out for funeral of terrorist said to have been killed in IDF strike on Syria; Shiite group calls assassination a ‘stupid act’  … Read More ›

Russian-Israelis embrace tinsel, trees and Santa Claus — but don’t call it Christmas

Russian-Israelis embrace tinsel, trees and Santa Claus — but don’t call it Christmas

Novy God, New Year’s in Russian, is celebrated as a secular holiday, but that doesn’t stop some Israeli Jews from criticizing its observance   TEL… Read More ›

Jerusalem bus stops get security upgrade

Jerusalem bus stops get security upgrade

Around 300 stops are receiving steel pillars to prevent cars from ramming into waiting crowds, following vehicular attack last week that wounded 11. The Jerusalem… Read More ›

How Hezbollah may take revenge

How Hezbollah may take revenge

Following the assasination of Samir Kuntar attributed to Israel, the IDF has increased its alert level along the Lebanese border; it is now confronting a… Read More ›

Nasrallah: Israel responsible for Kuntar’s death, we will retaliate

Nasrallah: Israel responsible for Kuntar’s death, we will retaliate

Hezbollah chief delivers televised speech following targeted killing of notorious terrorist; says he knew Kuntar would be targeted because ‘Israel never forgives’. Hezbollah Secretary General… Read More ›

Hamas activity in Turkey an obstacle to Ankara-Jerusalem reconciliation

Hamas activity in Turkey an obstacle to Ankara-Jerusalem reconciliation

Hamas’ Saleh al-Arouri left Turkey months ago after intensive US, Israeli pressure, but on Monday an official in Jerusalem said with regard to the two… Read More ›