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Government approves 50% pay raise for soldiers

Government approves 50% pay raise for soldiers

The proposal by Finance Minister Kahlon, first reported in Yedioth Ahronoth, has been approved by the government, bringing the salaries of enlisted military members up… Read More ›

PM names new Mossad chief

PM names new Mossad chief

Current national Security Advisor Yossi Cohen appointed head of the Mossad after a charismatic career as a recruiter and handler. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named… Read More ›

Jewish groups blast Trump for call to block entry of Muslims

Jewish groups blast Trump for call to block entry of Muslims

Trump in his press release alluded to the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., last week of 14 people by a couple apparently radicalized by the… Read More ›

Hamas rejects putting PA in charge of Gaza side of Rafah crossing

Hamas rejects putting PA in charge of Gaza side of Rafah crossing

Since the beginning of this year, the terminal was opened for only 21 days.   Hamas on Sunday rejected calls to let the Palestinian Authority… Read More ›

NYC mayor urges Syrian Jews to empathize with refugees

NYC mayor urges Syrian Jews to empathize with refugees

Bill de Blasio says members of Brooklyn congregation can identify with pain of families forced to leave homeland   New York City Mayor Bill de… Read More ›

CA attacker ‘hated Israel’

CA attacker ‘hated Israel’

Father of Syed Rizwan Farook tells Italian media he tried to convince his son to stay away from terrorism: ‘Be patient; Israel won’t exist in… Read More ›

Eiffel Tower hanukkia spreads light on the first night of Hanukka

Eiffel Tower hanukkia spreads light on the first night of Hanukka

Ceremony goes ahead despite cancellation rumors.   Just weeks after Paris saw some of its darkest days, around 6,000 people gathered to add some much needed… Read More ›

If Iranian jets get close to Israel, security expert says ‘anything can happen’

If Iranian jets get close to Israel, security expert says ‘anything can happen’

Ex-national security advisor Amidror tells Post Iranian jets cannot challenge IAF air superiority; Defense establishment remains silent over possibility of Iranian jets in Syria.  … Read More ›

PA leaders meet to seek mechanisms that ‘define’ relations with Israel

PA leaders meet to seek mechanisms that ‘define’ relations with Israel

Both the PLO and Fatah accused Israel of turning its back on signed agreements with the Palestinians.   For the second time in less than… Read More ›

Leading rabbi: Higher education for women more damaging than the Holocaust

Leading rabbi: Higher education for women more damaging than the Holocaust

The remarks were reported amid a growing furor in the haredi world over Education Ministry efforts to prevent discrimination against teenage girls in high schools.… Read More ›

Tel Aviv coop decides to boycott settlement goods

Tel Aviv coop decides to boycott settlement goods

Small organic Florentin coop draws online criticism after announcing produce from West Bank ‘not welcome’   A Tel Aviv supermarket coop has decided to ban… Read More ›

Muslim writes Hebrew letter in German community’s new Torah

Muslim writes Hebrew letter in German community’s new Torah

Marburg Jews invite leaders of other faiths to help complete scroll and celebrate synagogue’s 10th anniversary   In a first for Germany, and perhaps the world,… Read More ›

Israeli women live longer but are more susceptible to breast cancer

Israeli women live longer but are more susceptible to breast cancer

Report presented to Knesset’s Health Committee reveals that while Israeli women’s life expectancy is higher than the OECD average, Israel ranks fifth in breast cancer… Read More ›

Middle Israel: Naftali Bennett’s dangerous liaisons

Middle Israel: Naftali Bennett’s dangerous liaisons

Naftali Bennett’s dream to refashion religious Zionism as Israel’s political fulcrum seems increasingly elusive, following his scandalized protégé Yinon Magal’s resignation.   The never learn.… Read More ›

PLO: Jewish plans to add installations at Western Wall a ‘flagrant assault’

PLO: Jewish plans to add installations at Western Wall a ‘flagrant assault’

The PLO called on the Israeli government to “take the hand of the (Jerusalem) occupation municipality off the Al-Aksa Mosque and its premises.”   The… Read More ›

Arab MK, expert debate: Does the Arab minority integrate into Israeli society?

Arab MK, expert debate: Does the Arab minority integrate into Israeli society?

“I can never be Zionist and Jewish, said the Arab MK, “but my state should take care of me like other citizens in the country.”… Read More ›

A survival story from the daughter of a survivor

A survival story from the daughter of a survivor

What’s a Jewish comic to do, after growing up with hoarder mother who was born in wartime Kirgizia? She works it out for us in… Read More ›

Jewish victim of California attack had argued with shooter about Islam

Jewish victim of California attack had argued with shooter about Islam

Messianic Jew Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, one of 14 fatalities, had heated debate with co-worker Syed Rizwan Farook two weeks before San Bernardino rampage   One… Read More ›

West Bank shooter identified as PA intel officer

West Bank shooter identified as PA intel officer

Mazen Aribe, an East Jerusalem father of 4, was a member of Palestinian Authority’s security forces, sources say   Palestinian security sources have identified the… Read More ›

Israeli car hit in suspected West Bank terror shooting

Israeli car hit in suspected West Bank terror shooting

Driver emerges uninjured despite some 10 bullets hitting his car near just north of Jerusalem   More than 10 bullets pummeled an Israeli car in… Read More ›