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US officials: Israel requesting $5 billion in annual defense aid

US officials: Israel requesting $5 billion in annual defense aid

Congressional sources say Jerusalem’s ‘shopping list’ to top $50 billion over decade; negotiations in preliminary stages   Israel is asking the United States for $5… Read More ›

Arrests of Palestinians over rioting hit ‘unprecedented’ levels

Arrests of Palestinians over rioting hit ‘unprecedented’ levels

Over 1,500 people have reportedly been detained and over 400 prosecuted since recent unrest began   Israel has seen an “unprecedented amount” of detained suspects… Read More ›

PA claims Israel harvesting organs of dead Palestinians

PA claims Israel harvesting organs of dead Palestinians

Envoy to UN says bodies returned without corneas, other organs; Israeli ambassador blasts ‘anti-Semitic blood libel’   The Palestinian Authority’s UN representative has claimed Israel… Read More ›

Snacks and swimsuits advertise Israel at London tourism fair

Snacks and swimsuits advertise Israel at London tourism fair

London’s World Travel Market, one of the largest tourism fairs in the world, opened this week; Israel has sent its representatives over to try and… Read More ›

UK building first permanent Middle East base since 1971

UK building first permanent Middle East base since 1971

The military base in Bahrain is aimed at helping Britain and its allies “reinforce stability in the Gulf and beyond,” says British Foreign Secretary. For… Read More ›

Supreme Court to consider same-sex marriage petition

Supreme Court to consider same-sex marriage petition

Following historic US decision, Israeli LGBT association hopes to win a similar legal battle and bypass the religious establishment. The Israeli GLBT Association submitted a… Read More ›

De facto win for Erdogan in Turkey’s elections

De facto win for Erdogan in Turkey’s elections

Islamist AK Party garners 49.5 percent of votes, with 95 percent of votes counted in major boost for Erdogan; clashes break out between security forces… Read More ›

IDF on Mount Hermon preparing for Iran-backed terrorism

IDF on Mount Hermon preparing for Iran-backed terrorism

Since start of Russian air involvement, more assertive Assad regime has retaken several posts in Syrian Golan.   IDF units on Mount Hermon, which borders Syria,… Read More ›

Regev to call emergency meetings after Israeli flag banned from judo competition in UAE

Regev to call emergency meetings after Israeli flag banned from judo competition in UAE

Israel’s judokas were not allowed to compete in Abu Dhabi with the Israel flag on their judo uniform.   Or Sasson completed the Israeli delegation’s… Read More ›

Analysis: A human rights record worse than Ahmadinejad’s

Analysis: A human rights record worse than Ahmadinejad’s

“The human rights situation in the country remains dire,” says Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.… Read More ›

Bomb found at central Tel Aviv intersection: ‘We were lucky’

Bomb found at central Tel Aviv intersection: ‘We were lucky’

Explosive device found in trash bin on busy corner of Bograshov and Ben Yehuda Streets on Tuesday could have caused mass casualties, say police. “If… Read More ›

High court to state: Why haven’t you destroyed terrorists’ homes

High court to state: Why haven’t you destroyed terrorists’ homes

Judges order the state to submit details of all demolition orders approved since 2013 by Monday to determine why the houses were not destroyed. The… Read More ›

Kuwait disqualified by Olympic Committee after denying Israeli delegate visa

Kuwait disqualified by Olympic Committee after denying Israeli delegate visa

The IOC suspended Kuwait on Tuesday for the second time in five years over government interference in the country’s Games committee.   BERLIN – The… Read More ›

India – Israel relationship emerges from the closet

India – Israel relationship emerges from the closet

Leaders’ visit represents most visible sign of change.   Long believed to hold the potential to become natural allies and trading partners, the predicted mutually-beneficial… Read More ›

Report: Iran signals readiness to compromise before key Syria talks

Report: Iran signals readiness to compromise before key Syria talks

On Thursday the United States said it was hoping to hear from Iran and Assad’s other main ally, Russia, on whether they would be ready… Read More ›

Peace education programs thrive amid violence

Peace education programs thrive amid violence

Peres Center for Peace reports increase in demand for joint Jewish and Arab educational programs amid concerns that recent wave of terror may lead to… Read More ›

US warns Netanyahu against unilateral steps in East Jerusalem

US warns Netanyahu against unilateral steps in East Jerusalem

After PM raises possibility of revoking benefits from Palestinians living on other side of separation wall, Washington says such a movie would ‘be of concern.’… Read More ›

Who was the real Rabin and what is left of Oslo

Who was the real Rabin and what is left of Oslo

Op-ed: No one knows what would have happened had Israel’s prime minister survived his assassination attempt, but 20 years of failure indicate that a peace… Read More ›

Study: 20 years later, Rabin assassination conspiracy theories have risen dramatically online

Study: 20 years later, Rabin assassination conspiracy theories have risen dramatically online

Some say Shin Bet, Shimon Peres responsible for assassination, others believe that former prime minister is still alive.   Support for conspiracy theories around the… Read More ›

Grand mufti: There was never a Jewish Temple on Temple Mount

Grand mufti: There was never a Jewish Temple on Temple Mount

Palestinian Media Watch says Hussein’s‘revision of history’ is nothing new   Strong criticism was leveled on Monday at Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the grand mufti… Read More ›