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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 ›

11% of terrorists in current wave of violence were women

11% of terrorists in current wave of violence were women

An analysis conducted by the IDF finds most female terrorists came from affluent and educated families; many decided to carry out attacks after being exposed… Read More ›

Nasrallah: Ammonia plant in Haifa is my atomic bomb

Nasrallah: Ammonia plant in Haifa is my atomic bomb

In a speech from his bunker, Hezbollah leader boasts of having ‘the ability to cover the entirety of Israel with missiles,’ arguing the terror group… Read More ›

Exclusive: Main German bank closes top BDS-linked account

Exclusive: Main German bank closes top BDS-linked account

There is a growing backlash against BDS in Germany.   The Munich-based DAB Bank is slated to discontinue the account of one of the top… Read More ›

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah outraged by Sunni states’ warming Israel ties

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah outraged by Sunni states’ warming Israel ties

“You are free to consider Iran an enemy but how can you consider Israel a friend and an ally? This issue must be confronted in… Read More ›

IDF to equip first division with ‘operational internet’ by end of 2016

IDF to equip first division with ‘operational internet’ by end of 2016

Senior source: In 2014 conflict with Hamas, we did not do well enough in detecting rocket launch locations in real-time, can’t make same mistake with… Read More ›

Britain to issue anti-boycott regulations

Britain to issue anti-boycott regulations

Matthew Hancock, the British government’s Cabinet Office Minister, is scheduled to visit Israel early this week and unveil details of the regulations.   In what… Read More ›

Who’s for destroying democracy?

Who’s for destroying democracy?

Op-ed: The prime minister’s ‘big plan’ is to weaken the political system, debilitate the civil servants and gatekeepers and destroy free press. This is not… Read More ›

Elizabeth Warren unloads on Republicans for saying they’ll block Obama’s attempt to replace Scalia

Elizabeth Warren unloads on Republicans for saying they’ll block Obama’s attempt to replace Scalia

  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), an influential member of the Senate Democratic caucus, unloaded on Republicans who have said that President Barack Obama should not… Read More ›

Ruth Bader Ginsburg released a moving tribute to her ‘best buddy,’ Antonin Scalia

Ruth Bader Ginsburg released a moving tribute to her ‘best buddy,’ Antonin Scalia

  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sunday released a statement paying tribute to a man she called her “best buddy” — Justice Antonin Scalia, who… Read More ›

Japan just posted a stinker GDP result

Japan just posted a stinker GDP result

  Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is addressing Parliament later today and there is now every chance that he hints at further easing after… Read More ›

Peace Now: PM okayed 20 outposts since 2009

Peace Now: PM okayed 20 outposts since 2009

Last year, construction began on 265 homes in West Bank outposts. Out of those, 32 were built on private Palestinian property in the outposts.  … Read More ›

Quartet eyes peace push, warns chances for 2-state solution fading

Quartet eyes peace push, warns chances for 2-state solution fading

Mideast peacemakers say status quo is not sustainable; urge Israel, Palestinians to take concrete action to calm situation   The chances for a two-state solution… Read More ›

Here’s the man 2 prominent legal experts believe Obama would like to make the next Supreme Court justice

Here’s the man 2 prominent legal experts believe Obama would like to make the next Supreme Court justice

  The replacement of Justice Antonin Scalia — who died on Saturday at the age of 79 — could shape up to be a bitter fight. While President Barack… Read More ›

OBAMA: ‘I plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibility to nominate a successor’ to Scalia ‘in due time’

OBAMA: ‘I plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibility to nominate a successor’ to Scalia ‘in due time’

  President Barack Obama made a statement on Saturday following news that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had died at the age of 79. Obama… Read More ›

‘The World Trade Center came down’: Donald Trump and Jeb Bush unload on each other in explosive debate exchange

‘The World Trade Center came down’: Donald Trump and Jeb Bush unload on each other in explosive debate exchange

  Donald Trump and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) faced off over foreign policy at the CBS News Republican debate on Saturday night in… Read More ›

Munich – French PM: There Will Be Other Major Terrorist Attacks Share Tweet Share Mail

Munich – French PM: There Will Be Other Major Terrorist Attacks Share Tweet Share Mail

  Munich – France’s prime minister is warning that the terrorist threat is a long-term one and there will be other major attacks. Manuel Valls… Read More ›