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Australian high court rejects challenge to Nauru detention centers

Australian high court rejects challenge to Nauru detention centers

Australia’s High Court has rejected a challenge to the government’s right to detain people in government-funded centers on Nauru. Wednesday’s court decision allows hundreds of… Read More ›

Zika has been sexually transmitted in Texas, CDC confirms

Zika has been sexually transmitted in Texas, CDC confirms

Zika has been sexually transmitted in Texas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. It is the first known case of the virus… Read More ›

New search engine to target anti-Semitism

New search engine to target anti-Semitism

Meet the Sniper, an app that will scan the net using a new algorithm, looking for anti-Jewish content. Individuals will be able to check the… Read More ›

Hamas member fakes illness, enters Israel

Hamas member fakes illness, enters Israel

Two Gazans used fake medical documents to travel to an East Jerusalem hospital. The next day, the ‘patient’ was found perfectly healthy in Umm al-Fahm.… Read More ›

Al-Aqsa mosque manager banned from Temple Mount

Al-Aqsa mosque manager banned from Temple Mount

Jerusalem police decides to keep Najah Bacirat away from the holy site for six months; security forces say Bacirat is a radical, inciting figure. In… Read More ›

Analysis: The West Bank tipping point

Analysis: The West Bank tipping point

It is still too soon to talk about a new, armed phase in Palestinian attacks, but the coming weeks will indicate whether the area is… Read More ›

Palestinian youth arrested with concealed knife while stalking Jewish home in Old City

Palestinian youth arrested with concealed knife while stalking Jewish home in Old City

Arrest near Lion’s Gate, where terrorist stabbed 2 Israelis to death in October.   A 14-year-old Palestinian boy suspected of attempting to carry out a… Read More ›

Bennett to ‘Post’: Kotel now open to all Jews

Bennett to ‘Post’: Kotel now open to all Jews

Education minister slams Levin’s criticism of non-Orthodox strains of Judaism.   Sunday’s cabinet vote to upgrade and legally sanction an egalitarian prayer space at the… Read More ›

Netanyahu associate at meeting with Iranian FM

Netanyahu associate at meeting with Iranian FM

French Jewish MP attended parliamentary meeting with Foreign Minister Zarif during the latter’s latest visit to France. They discussed the Holocaust, Israel, Iran’s infamous cartoon… Read More ›

Obama’s Jewish heart

Obama’s Jewish heart

Op-ed: Even those who see Obama as hostile to Israel have to admit he went all the way in his expressions of affection during a… Read More ›

World Medical Association affirms trust in Israeli doctors in response to BDS campaign

World Medical Association affirms trust in Israeli doctors in response to BDS campaign

Organization’s president writes the Simon Wiesenthal Center, following a call by a group 71 British doctors to expel the Israeli Medical Association over accusations of… Read More ›

White House backs US Treasury’s views on Putin as ‘corrupt’

White House backs US Treasury’s views on Putin as ‘corrupt’

Earlier this week, the BBC reported that Adam Szubin, acting Treasury secretary for terrorism and financial crimes, said in an interview the United States considers… Read More ›

Analysis: Using Israel’s gas to cement ties

Analysis: Using Israel’s gas to cement ties

Decades after saying that it has no natural resources, Israel is now emerging as a regional gas power, in the enviable position of having to… Read More ›

Analysis: With emergence of a new Iran, Israel needs new allies

Analysis: With emergence of a new Iran, Israel needs new allies

Israel’s problem was and remains the asymmetry between us and Iran. We don’t have a border with Iran, but Iran has more than one border… Read More ›

Italian PM says new deals with Iran are ‘just the beginning’

Italian PM says new deals with Iran are ‘just the beginning’

Contracts signed in Rome worth over $18 billion as Rouhani embarks on post-sanctions European tour   ROME, Italy (AFP) — Iran’s return to the international… Read More ›

Fearing return to jail, freed spy Pollard aborts first speech in 30 years

Fearing return to jail, freed spy Pollard aborts first speech in 30 years

Address to US Jewish leaders on ‘draconian’ parole conditions nixed after word leaks to media and lawyers warn of possible repercussions   Recently released Israeli… Read More ›

Goocha: Seafood delight in Tel Aviv’s financial district

Goocha: Seafood delight in Tel Aviv’s financial district

Review: The third branch of the popular Goocha seafood chain in downtown Tel Aviv offers a falafel-shaped version of crab cakes, a rarity dish in… Read More ›

Palestinian media spurring wave of terror

Palestinian media spurring wave of terror

Since the beginning of the current terror wave, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV and other Palestinian networks have been devoting nearly all their programming to lauding attacks… Read More ›

EJC brings elections forward unexpectedly

EJC brings elections forward unexpectedly

Some EJC members criticize early elections, as it means no candidate could run against current president Moshe Kantor; EJC spokesman: ‘Elections were brought forward due… Read More ›

Canada to send ‘tough message’ on violence to ally Israel

Canada to send ‘tough message’ on violence to ally Israel

Remarks by new Liberal government in Ottawa come after expressing concern about Israeli-Palestinian violence, Israeli settlements and unilateral Palestinian moves.     OTTAWA – Canada’s… Read More ›