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FARC-Colombia peace deal finalized

FARC-Colombia peace deal finalized

  Havana (CNN)Negotiators seeking to end the five-decades-old bloody insurgency in Colombia, one of the world’s longest-running conflicts, said Wednesday in Havana that they had… Read More ›

Iranian vessels conduct ‘high-speed intercept’ of US destroyer

Iranian vessels conduct ‘high-speed intercept’ of US destroyer

A US Navy official told CNN four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels conducted a “high-speed intercept” of the USS Nitze in waters near the Strait… Read More ›

Iran rounds up 450 social media users for ‘immoral activities’

Iran rounds up 450 social media users for ‘immoral activities’

Revolutionary Guard says ‘arrested or summoned’ users also guilty of ‘insulting religion’ and ‘illegal’ fashion-related posts   TEHRAN — Iran has “arrested or summoned” around… Read More ›

US paid Iran $1.3 billion, two days after $400m cash delivery

US paid Iran $1.3 billion, two days after $400m cash delivery

Obama administration says 13 separate payments of $99,999,999.99 and final payment of about $10 million part of resolution of decades-old military sale   WASHINGTON (AP)… Read More ›

In Paris, Jewish students find public schools a no-go zone

In Paris, Jewish students find public schools a no-go zone

With pervasive anti-Semitism from teachers and pupils, the last 15 years has seen a drastic shift towards private Jewish education   PARIS (JTA) — Twenty-five… Read More ›

Analysis:From Ya’alon-Weinstein to Liberman-Mandelblit

Analysis:From Ya’alon-Weinstein to Liberman-Mandelblit

Of U-turns and flips on the return of terrorists’ bodies.   There has been a split in the security establishment about whether to return terrorists’… Read More ›

Is Donald Trump’s proposal to keep out anti-Semites practical — or ethical?

Is Donald Trump’s proposal to keep out anti-Semites practical — or ethical?

US Jews once pushed for ideological tests to keep out Nazis and anti-Semites, but now worry such tests could be cover for discrimination   WASHINGTON… Read More ›

Hedge fund managers are waiting for the world to change

Hedge fund managers are waiting for the world to change

Hedge fund managers seem to be waiting for the world to change. It’s well known at this point that these funds are having a tough… Read More ›

Pfizer is reportedly close to spending $14 billion on cancer drugmaker Medivation

Pfizer is reportedly close to spending $14 billion on cancer drugmaker Medivation

  Pfizer is reportedly close to scooping up cancer drugmaker Medivation for $14 billion. The Financial Times andBloomberg are reporting that the deal could close… Read More ›

Welcome to the ‘self-driving car of finance’

Welcome to the ‘self-driving car of finance’

  Everyone is talking about blockchain. The nascent technology has the potential to allow a digital asset to be securely and seamlessly transferred from one party… Read More ›

Senior police official criticizes new recording law

Senior police official criticizes new recording law

Criticizing the new ‘Recording Law’ that PM Netanyahu is pushing forward, senior police official says, ‘The law could harm the practice of reporting complaints to… Read More ›

US town under federal investigation for alleged blocking of Muslim cemetery plans

US town under federal investigation for alleged blocking of Muslim cemetery plans

Federal prosecutors are looking into whether a Massachusetts town violated the civil rights of an Islamic group when officials there rejected plans for a Muslim… Read More ›

Surprise, surprisky

Surprise, surprisky

Op-ed: With Russia deploying its planes in Iran, Israel must ask itself how greater Russian influence in the Middle East could affect its own security.… Read More ›

Historians say Polish bill on death camps reference extreme

Historians say Polish bill on death camps reference extreme

Law would jail people who use term “Polish death camps.”   Holocaust experts said Thursday that a Polish bill to jail people who use the… Read More ›

ANALYSIS: Does delayed burial hurt or help the cause of terrorism?

ANALYSIS: Does delayed burial hurt or help the cause of terrorism?

“As time passes, it becomes more and more obvious that the Palestinians learned from Israel that the return of the bodies causes the country to… Read More ›

The Czar, the Sultan – and the Shah

The Czar, the Sultan – and the Shah

Will a Russian, Turkish, Iranian strategic triangle emerge or is it all just short-term tactical?   Less than a year ago, coverage of Russia’s relations… Read More ›

Taxi driver who refused a guide dog loses NIS 10,000

Taxi driver who refused a guide dog loses NIS 10,000

A Jerusalem court has ruled that the driver broke the law when he refused to drive a blind woman and her guide dog on a… Read More ›

From grain silos to arsenals to apartments

From grain silos to arsenals to apartments

A new national project seeks to connect some 200 silos the length of Israel and repurpose them as museums, dorms etc. The old silos that… Read More ›

Attacker stabs female soldier in Northern W. Bank

Attacker stabs female soldier in Northern W. Bank

The attack comes just days after a stabbing in Jerusalem.   A female attacker stabbed a female soldier in the Northern West Bank near the Shaked… Read More ›

3 comments on the state budget

3 comments on the state budget

Analysis: Three sections of the state budget and Arrangements Bill—approved recently by the government—are of specific interest this year, as they indicate that the Israeli… Read More ›