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Baghdad market bombings kill 28; ISIS claims responsibility

Baghdad market bombings kill 28; ISIS claims responsibility

  Two blasts rocked a busy outdoor market in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 28 people. Police officials said a motorcycle rigged with… Read More ›

Iran election: Reformists poised to win parliamentary seats, ministry says

Iran election: Reformists poised to win parliamentary seats, ministry says

Tehran, Iran – Preliminary results in Iran’s first major election since last year’s landmark nuclear deal show reformists poised to take all 30 seats up for… Read More ›

El Al lawsuit could set gender discrimination precedent

El Al lawsuit could set gender discrimination precedent

81-year-old Renee Rabinowitz suing after airline moves her because ultra-Orthodox man refused to sit next to a woman; behavior ‘systematically harms women’s dignity’, she says.… Read More ›

Terrorist behind Ma’ale Adumim ax attack arrested

Terrorist behind Ma’ale Adumim ax attack arrested

Saadi Ali Abu Hamed, 21, ties himself to mall attack in initial questioning; has no affiliation to terror organization; situation of his victim, an Israeli… Read More ›

Rouhani’s relative reformists set to increase representation in parliament

Rouhani’s relative reformists set to increase representation in parliament

Loosening of control by the anti-Western hardliners who currently dominate the 290-seat parliament could strengthen the president’s hand to open Iran further to foreign trade… Read More ›

Expelling terrorists’ families to Gaza ‘illegal’: Attorney General

Expelling terrorists’ families to Gaza ‘illegal’: Attorney General

Earlier in February, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan had expressed frustration that his initiative was meeting opposition from Mandelblit.   Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has… Read More ›

Report: At least five Hamas men trapped in Gaza tunnel collapse

Report: At least five Hamas men trapped in Gaza tunnel collapse

The ‘Al Quds’ newspaper reported that Hamas authorities in Gaza are searching for the people trapped in the tunnel collapse.   A Palestinian newspaper is… Read More ›

Agreement reached in deadly caste protests in India

Agreement reached in deadly caste protests in India

Off and on throughout India’s history, the country’s caste system has provoked violence over rights and opportunities. One such conflict was resolved Monday, with the… Read More ›

El Chapo’s beauty queen wife says she fears for his life

El Chapo’s beauty queen wife says she fears for his life

Atlanta – The wife of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman says she fears for her husband’s life and that the Mexican government is using… Read More ›

North Korea offered — then rebuffed — talks with U.S.

North Korea offered — then rebuffed — talks with U.S.

  Washington – North Korea quietly reached out to U.S. officials through the United Nations in New York last fall to propose formal peace talks on… Read More ›

Israel reportedly preparing plan to boost Palestinian economy

Israel reportedly preparing plan to boost Palestinian economy

Finance officials from both sides propose new cooperation in medicine, tech and construction, among other areas   Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has met several times… Read More ›

Army intelligence warns Fatah militants may join terror wave

Army intelligence warns Fatah militants may join terror wave

In briefing last month, security cabinet reportedly heard that without peace talks, violence could spiral further   Military Intelligence officials warned last month that with… Read More ›

Rash of Gaza suicides points to rising poverty, despair

Rash of Gaza suicides points to rising poverty, despair

In contrast to the West Bank, life in the Strip just keeps on getting worse. And yet Hamas rule is under no threat   Media… Read More ›

Prisoner on death row performs Bar Mitzvah

Prisoner on death row performs Bar Mitzvah

Houston Chabad rabbi helps Jewish prisoner on death row put on tefillin and perform a Bar Mitzvah; the rabbi says, ‘When he saw that I… Read More ›

Israel presents Bedouin with demolition orders

Israel presents Bedouin with demolition orders

Israel sent notices to ramshackle 12 Bedouin properties; affected bedouin says ‘The Israeli occupation seeks to displace us from our territory’ Israel’s Civil Administration, the… Read More ›

Israeli sailor’s olympic dreams are crushed

Israeli sailor’s olympic dreams are crushed

Following altercation at friend’s house, Israeli champion sailor is ran over by a car; suspect says he lost control of car. Maor Ben Harush, who… Read More ›

Government, environmentalists butt heads over Haifa pollution at special Knesset session in Haifa

Government, environmentalists butt heads over Haifa pollution at special Knesset session in Haifa

Government representatives said it is too early to tell if there is correlation between pollution and health problems in Haifa – everyone else criticized them… Read More ›

Last year some 13,000 trucks laden with products from Turkey and Bulgaria passed through Israel, an increase of more than 25%.

Last year some 13,000 trucks laden with products from Turkey and Bulgaria passed through Israel, an increase of more than 25%.

  Chances are good that if members of the Saudi royal family are eating Turkish dried fruit or wearing Bulgarian shoes, some of those products… Read More ›

AP bureau chief: Israeli media criticism of foreign press verges on ‘incitement’

AP bureau chief: Israeli media criticism of foreign press verges on ‘incitement’

Comments come during Israeli offensive against “biased media.”   Israel’s increasingly hostile condemnations of the foreign press are beginning to verge on incitement, Associated Press… Read More ›

Die Fledermaus wows Tel Aviv audiences

Die Fledermaus wows Tel Aviv audiences

A most original interpretation of Johann Strauss Jr.’s operetta opened last week at the Israel Opera House for an engagement that will run in Tel… Read More ›