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Jerusalem – Israeli-American Violinist Perlman Wins ‘Jewish Nobel’ Share Tweet Share Mail

Jerusalem – Israeli-American Violinist Perlman Wins ‘Jewish Nobel’ Share Tweet Share Mail

  Jerusalem – Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman has been awarded this year’s “Jewish Nobel” for his accomplishments as a musician, teacher and advocate for the… Read More ›

Netanyahu: Israel to do its part in ‘important’ climate deal

Netanyahu: Israel to do its part in ‘important’ climate deal

Agreement reached this weekend would actually entail increasing Israel’s greenhouse gas output by 2030, due to population growth   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday… Read More ›

After accord, activists hope Israel finally warms to climate change fight

After accord, activists hope Israel finally warms to climate change fight

But environmentalists say Jerusalem’s plan to battle global warming falls short of what other countries have vowed to do, and might not be implemented at… Read More ›

Netanyahu instructs to fortify bus stops in Jerusalem

Netanyahu instructs to fortify bus stops in Jerusalem

Following vehicular attack that left 11 wounded, concrete barriers to be placed in front of 300 bus stations in the capital, after the measure proved… Read More ›

Abbas calls terror attacks ‘justified popular uprising’

Abbas calls terror attacks ‘justified popular uprising’

Polls finds two-thirds of Palestinians support knife attacks and say intifada would ‘serve Palestinian national interests in ways that negotiations could not,’ while three-quarters oppose… Read More ›

Analysis: Turkey’s Israel charm offensive is all about Russia

Analysis: Turkey’s Israel charm offensive is all about Russia

Skepticism remains if Erdogan wants rapprochement.   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest charm offensive toward Israel and his country’s Jews seems to show how… Read More ›

Two Palestinian families in capital’s Silwan neighborhood served with eviction notices

Two Palestinian families in capital’s Silwan neighborhood served with eviction notices

Court finds for NGO that homes were illegally inhabited via ‘absentee property.’   Government officials served two Palestinian families residing in east Jerusalem’s Silwan with… Read More ›

Reporters notebook: ‘I struggled to believe it was actually gunfire’

Reporters notebook: ‘I struggled to believe it was actually gunfire’

A Jerusalem Post intern recounts his experience at the scene of Monday’s car ramming attack.   En route to a doctor’s appointment in Har Nof… Read More ›

PA seeks arrest of Gaza cartoonist over drawing of ‘sex’ with Jews

PA seeks arrest of Gaza cartoonist over drawing of ‘sex’ with Jews

Virulantly anti-Israel caricaturist Baha Yassin accused of insulting Palestinian women after depicting intercourse between Fatah leaders and Israel   The Palestinian public prosecutor in the… Read More ›

Gaza rocket lands in Israel

Gaza rocket lands in Israel

Rocket fired from coastal enclave strikes southern Israel after weeks of relative quiet. Red Alert sirens sounded in southern Israel on Sunday evening, sending residents… Read More ›

Policeman who shot ‘scissor terrorists’ under investigation

Policeman who shot ‘scissor terrorists’ under investigation

The investigation was approved by the Attorney General, and seeks to determine whether the officer shot the terrorist after she was neutralized. Israel’s Justice Ministry… Read More ›

PM: Israel will do its part to combat global warming

PM: Israel will do its part to combat global warming

In September, the government approved a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the climate… Read More ›

IDF strikes two Hamas military targets in response to Gaza rocket fire

IDF strikes two Hamas military targets in response to Gaza rocket fire

IDF retaliation hits two Hamas targets – one in northern strip and second in center.   The Israel Air Force attacked two Hamas owned infrastructure… Read More ›

German newsweekly owner compares Israel to National Front, fascists

German newsweekly owner compares Israel to National Front, fascists

Jakob Augstein of Der Spiegel: “So right-wing like the German right-wing populists is the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.”   BERLIN – Jakob Augstein, a partial… Read More ›

Young United Hatzalah volunteer loses battle with illness on 10th birthday

Young United Hatzalah volunteer loses battle with illness on 10th birthday

Raphael’s dream was to one day get healthy and become a full medical emergency volunteer.   A young volunteer for United Hatzalah passed away Sunday after… Read More ›

Netanyahu taps Hebrew U. professor as economic czar

Netanyahu taps Hebrew U. professor as economic czar

Haredi, opposition MKs protest Avi Simhon’s appointment, say he ‘hates families blessed with children’ and the poor   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced… Read More ›

Palestinians reject PM’s linkage of Palestinian, global terrorism

Palestinians reject PM’s linkage of Palestinian, global terrorism

As Netanyahu seeks to tie attacks in Europe, US to threat faced by Israelis, leading PA official say the issues are nothing alike   Leading… Read More ›

Jewish teens stone car, injure Jewish toddler, were aiming for Palestinians

Jewish teens stone car, injure Jewish toddler, were aiming for Palestinians

Two minors from Kiryat Arba settlement arrested; 4-year-old lightly hurt   An Israeli toddler, 4, was lightly injured on Saturday night when Jewish teenagers, seeking… Read More ›

Tel Aviv terrorist indicted

Tel Aviv terrorist indicted

Raed Khalil, who stabbed Aharon Yisayev and Reuven Aviram to death in a terror attack in the Panorama building in Tel Aviv last month, has… Read More ›

IDF prepares to demolish West Bank home of terrorist who ran over 4 IDF soldiers

IDF prepares to demolish West Bank home of terrorist who ran over 4 IDF soldiers

The Shin Bet and IDF arrested the driver early on Friday during a raid.   The IDF on Sunday prepared a home for demolition belonging to… Read More ›