Articles by: JewishNews-Limor

Budget to go to first vote in Knesset, final vote set for Nov. 20

Budget to go to first vote in Knesset, final vote set for Nov. 20

Margalit: Israel is going through one of worst turndowns   The Knesset is scheduled to vote on the 2015-2016 state budget – the government’s first… Read More ›

Visiting US Republican senator deems Iran deal not legally binding, can be overturned

Visiting US Republican senator deems Iran deal not legally binding, can be overturned

Arkansas’s Tom Cotton says he supports Israel because of common values, shared security interests.   Even if the US Congress does not muster enough votes… Read More ›

Prosor: Efforts to fly Palestinian flag at UN not the way to peace, statehood

Prosor: Efforts to fly Palestinian flag at UN not the way to peace, statehood

Prosor formally raised Israel’s objection to the proposal in a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and current president of the General Assembly, Sam… Read More ›

Iran blocks Barenboim concert due to Israeli citizenship

Iran blocks Barenboim concert due to Israeli citizenship

Director of Berlin State Opera House denied entrance to Iran despite also holding Argentinean, Palestinian citizenship. Iran has barred famed conductor Daniel Barenboim from entering… Read More ›

‘Supergiant’ gas field found off Egyptian coast

‘Supergiant’ gas field found off Egyptian coast

Announcement from Italian energy company says field may hold 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas; Egypt says parliamentary elections to take place in October.… Read More ›

Watchdog warns Netanyahu against appointing another minister to cabinet

Watchdog warns Netanyahu against appointing another minister to cabinet

Movement for Quality Government says PM should keep the cabinet at 21 ministers and combine rather than split ministries.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should… Read More ›

Lost Nazi train is merely a sliver of theft ‘beyond imagination,’ says historian

Lost Nazi train is merely a sliver of theft ‘beyond imagination,’ says historian

Gideon Greif: Germans were not only the biggest murderers, but the biggest thieves.   The possible discovery of a Nazi train filled with Holocaust- era… Read More ›

Abbas moving to boot political opponents and tighten grip on power, critics claim

Abbas moving to boot political opponents and tighten grip on power, critics claim

Differences erupt among Palestinian factions ahead of PLO parliament meeting; Abed Rabbo: Session will just be about personal changes.   Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s… Read More ›

Netanyahu in Milan: Israel’s contributions to world far outweigh efforts to isolate it

Netanyahu in Milan: Israel’s contributions to world far outweigh efforts to isolate it

The prime minister says millions around the world benefit from Israeli advancements.   Israel’s technological and agricultural developments to better the world are much stronger than… Read More ›

Palestinians set date for first congress in two decades

Palestinians set date for first congress in two decades

Palestine National Council is set to meet in Ramallah following recent power shifts within the Palestinian political system. Palestinian leaders have set September 15-16 as… Read More ›

IDF warns deserters, initiates new sanctions

IDF warns deserters, initiates new sanctions

Around 3,000 IDF deserters receive text messages warning them of punishment, as army moves to legislate wide-ranging sanctions including refusal to issue driver’s licenses, passports,… Read More ›

Hamas reveals first image of Shalit in captivity

Hamas reveals first image of Shalit in captivity

A year after ‘Black Friday’, Hamas claims the IDF lied about the incident in which one soldier was captured and two killed, and mistakenly took… Read More ›

Iran’s Parchin not a nuclear site, State Department says

Iran’s Parchin not a nuclear site, State Department says

Statement is departure from past US characterizations of the controversial site, which has been shut off to international nuclear inspectors since 2006.   NEW YORK… Read More ›

Hamas claims IDF took terrorist’s body instead of Israeli soldier’s during 2014 Gaza war

Hamas claims IDF took terrorist’s body instead of Israeli soldier’s during 2014 Gaza war

Al Jazeera interview with Hamas commanders also airs never before seen photos of Gilad Schalit in captivity in Gaza.   A Hamas commander from the… Read More ›

Concerns grow over Iran military complex as construction is spotted

Concerns grow over Iran military complex as construction is spotted

Iran will not receive additional sanctions relief until UN watchdog satisfied with its investigation of site; Biden to meet Jewish leaders in Miami next week.… Read More ›

Tensions defused as Koreas reach deal on apology, loudspeakers

Tensions defused as Koreas reach deal on apology, loudspeakers

Seoul, South Korea – North Korea and South Korea have reached an agreement to de-escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s national security chief, Kim… Read More ›

Assad: First we’ll deal with the rebels, then Israel

Assad: First we’ll deal with the rebels, then Israel

Syrian president indicates there will be no immediate retaliation for last week’s cross-border clashes   Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday said he would deal… Read More ›

Hammond says Iran genuinely seeks to ‘turn a page’ with West

Hammond says Iran genuinely seeks to ‘turn a page’ with West

Visiting British foreign secretary says he was surprised to find Islamic republic a ‘bustling, dynamic’ place with ‘enormous potential’   British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond… Read More ›

Complaint claims US taxpayer dollars subsidizing Jewish terrorism in Israel

Complaint claims US taxpayer dollars subsidizing Jewish terrorism in Israel

New York-based Honenu supports Jews accused of violence against Arabs. Now a Jewish human rights group wants them investigated   NEW YORK (JTA) — Taxpayer… Read More ›

Israeli bio-gas digesters energize isolated Palestinian village

Israeli bio-gas digesters energize isolated Palestinian village

40 portable digester generators designed by HomeBioGas start-up are in use in pilot project at Palestinian village of al-Awja in West Bank; start-up’s CEO says… Read More ›