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Trump mulls sending all who cross border illegally to Mexico

Trump mulls sending all who cross border illegally to Mexico

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration is considering a plan to immediately return to Mexico all people who cross the southern border illegally because… Read More ›

Amazon to stop accepting all products other than medical supplies and household staples to its warehouses amid coronavirus crisis — read the memo it just sent sellers

Amazon to stop accepting all products other than medical supplies and household staples to its warehouses amid coronavirus crisis — read the memo it just sent sellers

  Amazon told sellers and vendors on Tuesday that it was suspending shipments of all nonessential products to its warehouses to deal with the increased… Read More ›

Ministers approve controversial phone tracking program to halt virus

Ministers approve controversial phone tracking program to halt virus

Emergency measure okayed unanimously in late night phone vote; PM says order to snoop on citizens with advanced technology will be in effect for 30… Read More ›

Number of Israel’s coronavirus cases rises to 178, say health officials

Number of Israel’s coronavirus cases rises to 178, say health officials

Health Ministry says most of the patients are hospitalized, with a handful of the infected being treated at home; the number represents an increase of… Read More ›

No more daycare, restaurants, gyms or prayer quorums: The new virus regulations

No more daycare, restaurants, gyms or prayer quorums: The new virus regulations

Following up on Netanyahu’s announcement, Health Ministry lays out long list of businesses, services and activities that Israelis will now have to do without  … Read More ›

OP-ED: The day the PM, trying to stop a pandemic, asked us to rethink human contact

OP-ED: The day the PM, trying to stop a pandemic, asked us to rethink human contact

No handshakes, hugs, kisses. Caps on weddings, communal prayer, concerts. No overseas travel. It’s no way to live, yet in the virus’s shadow, we are… Read More ›

Benjamin Netanyahu may quarantine all travelers who enter Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu may quarantine all travelers who enter Israel

39 Israelis diagnosed with coronavirus. Health Ministry clarifies that all Israelis who attended AIPAC and returned after March 5 must enter home-isolation.   As 39… Read More ›

Likud demands recount after final results published

Likud demands recount after final results published

Netanyahu’s bloc stays at 58 seats.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party demanded a recount of Monday’s election and to check every polling station’s… Read More ›

Politics in a time of pandemic

Politics in a time of pandemic

Opinion: Only by trusting one another and the mechanisms of the state can we protect ourselves and our children from coronavirus; the country’s leaders should… Read More ›

Coronavirus spreads across Israel: Patients 13, 14, 15 diagnosed

Coronavirus spreads across Israel: Patients 13, 14, 15 diagnosed

The new patients include a high school student, a principal and a young man who recently returned from Italy.   Israelis who had been in… Read More ›

Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar to address AIPAC by video after organization departs from 2016 rules

Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar to address AIPAC by video after organization departs from 2016 rules

  WASHINGTON (JTA) – Two more Democratic presidential candidates are now on the speakers’ list at this year’s AIPAC conference, after the Israel lobby group… Read More ›

Naftali Bennett signs order to seize funds transferred from Iran to Hamas

Naftali Bennett signs order to seize funds transferred from Iran to Hamas

Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennett signed an order Thursday to seize some $4 million in funds transferred from Iran to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.… Read More ›

Pete Buttigieg warns against nominating Sanders as Vermont senator gains momentum

Pete Buttigieg warns against nominating Sanders as Vermont senator gains momentum

  Las Vegas – For Pete Buttigieg, it’s now all about Bernie Sanders. The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor used his final speech in Nevada… Read More ›

Iranian smoke and Palestinian mirrors

Iranian smoke and Palestinian mirrors

Opinion: Bennett and Netanyahu’s election propaganda oversells Israel’s might and splendor while underestimating its enemies, but this is the exact same kind of ominous hubris… Read More ›

Israelis on their way home after over 2 weeks quarantined on virus-hit ship

Israelis on their way home after over 2 weeks quarantined on virus-hit ship

Passengers greeted on dock by delegation from embassy in Tokyo, will be whisked straight to plane; 11 Israelis to be isolated for 2 weeks under… Read More ›

Bernie Sanders releases new ‘proud to be Jewish’ video

Bernie Sanders releases new ‘proud to be Jewish’ video

Sanders has emphasized his Jewishness throughout this year’s race for the Democratic nomination.   Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has released a new campaign video… Read More ›

Israeli elections should be more than about war and peace

Israeli elections should be more than about war and peace

Opinion: The lines between left and right on security and diplomacy have long since blurred, and the voters must think about issues such as the… Read More ›

Wanted: Real discourse between Arabs and Jews

Wanted: Real discourse between Arabs and Jews

Opinion: Netanyahu’s hateful campaign against Arab MKs, radical statements by Joint List lawmakers and Gantz’s decision to bar Arabs from a future government have brought… Read More ›

Next White House may reject peace plan, to Palestinians’ detriment — co-author

Next White House may reject peace plan, to Palestinians’ detriment — co-author

Jason Greenblatt warns that if traditional positions on conflict are readopted, ‘Israel will likely continue to thrive and the Palestinians will continue to suffer’  … Read More ›

The Jewish nightmare of Bernie vs. Trump

The Jewish nightmare of Bernie vs. Trump

In his first months in office, President Trump emboldened the far-right fringe. President Sanders would do the same with the far left   Ask British… Read More ›