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Ahead of Tel Aviv shows, Seinfeld headlines Israeli charity ball in LA

Ahead of Tel Aviv shows, Seinfeld headlines Israeli charity ball in LA

During time of increased conflict in Israel, a record-breaking $12m is raised at American Friends of Magen David Adom event   LOS ANGELES — It… Read More ›

Poland lurches right, as anti-migrant, eurosceptic party wins election

Poland lurches right, as anti-migrant, eurosceptic party wins election

Conservative Law and Justice wins 242 of 460 seats in parliament, ending 8 years of centrist rule   WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland took a… Read More ›

White House pans Netanyahu’s ‘inflammatory’ mufti remarks

White House pans Netanyahu’s ‘inflammatory’ mufti remarks

Obama spokesman says there’s no doubt Germany was behind Holocaust, calls for an end to statements that ‘can feed the violence’   The White House… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s Mufti myth

Netanyahu’s Mufti myth

Analysis: There is historical context to PM’s comment about al-Husseini’s role in the Holocaust, but Hitler didn’t need the Mufti to exterminate the Jews –… Read More ›

Who put a giant bra on a famous Tel Aviv statue?

Who put a giant bra on a famous Tel Aviv statue?

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness month, one of Tel Aviv’s most famous statues, the discs in Habima Square, have been decked out in a… Read More ›

Netanyahu approves urban planning in settlement

Netanyahu approves urban planning in settlement

Following protests in front of his house, the prime minister agrees to an urban building plan for Itamar the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Read More ›

Albuquerque road rage: Man in custody after 4-year-old shot, killed

Albuquerque road rage: Man in custody after 4-year-old shot, killed

A man has been taken into custody in connection with a road rage incident that left a 4-year-old girl dead, police in Albuquerque, New Mexico,… Read More ›

Netanyahu criticized for saying Holocaust was mufti’s idea, not Hitler’s

Netanyahu criticized for saying Holocaust was mufti’s idea, not Hitler’s

There’s no question Adolf Hitler led Nazi Germany when it implemented the “final solution” in an effort to kill all Jews. But, in a speech… Read More ›

Inside Biden’s decision not to run

Inside Biden’s decision not to run

With barely 10 minutes warning, a press staffer yelled at shocked journalists and hustled them to the White House Rose Garden just before noon on… Read More ›

Family of American-Turkish Mavi Marmara victim sue Ehud Barak

Family of American-Turkish Mavi Marmara victim sue Ehud Barak

Former defense minister served with lawsuit while attending conference in US; Furkan Dogan was among 9 killed in 2010 commando raid on Gaza-bound vessel  … Read More ›

Female soldier severely wounded in West Bank stabbing

Female soldier severely wounded in West Bank stabbing

Doctors battle to save her life; attacker shot and killed by security forces at the scene, near Adam junction north of Jerusalem   An Israeli… Read More ›

Five soldiers hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack

Five soldiers hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack

One victim in serious condition with head injury after car rams into group near Beit Ummar south of Jerusalem, driver shot by forces on scene… Read More ›

Analysis: Neither Israeli nor Palestinian leadership has an exit strategy

Analysis: Neither Israeli nor Palestinian leadership has an exit strategy

Both Israeli and Palestinian leaders are captive to their respective narratives and trapped by political forces that won’t allow them to break the impasse.  … Read More ›

The problem with being gay in South Korea

The problem with being gay in South Korea

Seoul, South Korea – Micky Kim remembers the day two years ago when he married Tony Ruse in California. “All the people from City Hall suddenly… Read More ›

Thousands displaced as Typhoon Koppu pummels northern Philippines

Thousands displaced as Typhoon Koppu pummels northern Philippines

  A woman and a teenage boy were killed in the Philippines on Sunday as Typhoon Koppu began its multiday battering of the region. The… Read More ›

Top al Qaeda leader Sanafi al-Nasr killed in U.S. airstrike, Pentagon says

Top al Qaeda leader Sanafi al-Nasr killed in U.S. airstrike, Pentagon says

The leader of an al Qaeda-linked group allegedly bent on attacking the West has been killed in an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Syria,… Read More ›

A US state just became the world’s greatest renewable-energy market

A US state just became the world’s greatest renewable-energy market

  Renewable-energy developers, take note. There’s a new spot on earth leading the way for projects in solar, wind, and other sources of green power.… Read More ›

Netanyahu, stop intimidating and start working

Netanyahu, stop intimidating and start working

Op-ed: Instead of constantly talking about the threat to destroy Israel, the prime minister should find practical solutions for the horrific reality created under his… Read More ›

New Jerusalem hostel rooted in history

New Jerusalem hostel rooted in history

The Post takes its name from the building it occupies – a historical landmark built in the days of the British Mandate, part of which… Read More ›

With a skirt and a rifle: Meet the IDF’s religious girl power

With a skirt and a rifle: Meet the IDF’s religious girl power

Three young, motivated women explain why they decided to serve the State of Israel as combat soldiers instead of doing national service like other observant… Read More ›