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Meretz labeling bill will hurt Palestinians, factory owners in West Bank tell Gal-On

Meretz labeling bill will hurt Palestinians, factory owners in West Bank tell Gal-On

The letter called on Gal-On to withdraw the proposal, or else   Legislation that requiring products from the West Bank be labeled as such will… Read More ›

Oren: Israel helped Obama avoid bombing Syria after chemical attack

Oren: Israel helped Obama avoid bombing Syria after chemical attack

US senior official denies Oren’s account of events, says Obama and Putin discussed disarmament well before August 2013.   Israel’s former ambassador to the United… Read More ›

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader sentenced to death in Cairo

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader sentenced to death in Cairo

Court gives former president Morsi life in prison in espionage case.   An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat el-Shater, Mohamed el-Beltagy and Ahmed Abdelaty… Read More ›

Thousands of Israeli Druze rally for Syrian brothers

Thousands of Israeli Druze rally for Syrian brothers

Protesters say the future of the community across the border is in danger   Thousands of Israeli Druze took to the streets in the northern… Read More ›

Sexual assault allegations surface against scandal-ridden MK

Sexual assault allegations surface against scandal-ridden MK

Oren Hazan’s former employees say he made unwanted advances towards them, would get drunk and expose himself to bar patrons   New allegations of misconduct… Read More ›

Millennials’ banking habits could make Wall Street obsolete

Millennials’ banking habits could make Wall Street obsolete

  Half of millenial consumers would consider swapping Google or Apple in for their current financial services provider, according to a study provided to Business… Read More ›

Bill Gates just made an alarming point about what could ‘kill 10 million people in the next 30 years’

Bill Gates just made an alarming point about what could ‘kill 10 million people in the next 30 years’

  On June 3, Forbes hosted its fourth annual Summit on Philanthropy. Bill Gates was included on a panel discussing what went wrong with the global response… Read More ›

New York – Study: Green Space Around Schools May Boost Mental Abilities

New York – Study: Green Space Around Schools May Boost Mental Abilities

  New York – Putting more green space around an elementary school may help students develop some mental abilities, a study suggests. Researchers tested students… Read More ›

New York – Millionaires Projected To Control More Than Half Of Global Wealth By 2019

New York – Millionaires Projected To Control More Than Half Of Global Wealth By 2019

New York – A Global Wealth report states that millionaires are expected to control 46 percent of the global wealth by 2019. The report, from… Read More ›

Detroit – Slow Sales Cause Honda To Scrub Natural Gas, Hybrid Civics

Detroit – Slow Sales Cause Honda To Scrub Natural Gas, Hybrid Civics

Detroit – Slow sales and falling gasoline prices have prompted Honda to stop selling gas-electric hybrid and natural gas-powered versions of its Civic compact car.… Read More ›

10-year-old dies after riding roller coaster at Six Flags park in California

10-year-old dies after riding roller coaster at Six Flags park in California

A 10-year-old who lost consciousness on a Six Flags roller coaster in Southern California has died. Jasmine Martinez was airlifted to the hospital Friday when… Read More ›

Family shocked by UK suicide bomber’s reported death in Iraq

Family shocked by UK suicide bomber’s reported death in Iraq

17-year-old Talha Asmal had been recruited online and left England in March to link up with the extremists   LONDON — Members of the family… Read More ›

Report: Hamas mulling long-term ceasefire with Israel

Report: Hamas mulling long-term ceasefire with Israel

According to the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper, Gaza-based group officials met in Qatar to discuss truce proposal   Leading members of Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas convened… Read More ›

Spat with Israel lurks in new UN General Assembly president’s past

Spat with Israel lurks in new UN General Assembly president’s past

Former Danish parliament speaker Mogens Lykketoft met with Palestinian officials during trip to region but chose not to convene with Israelis   Denmark’s former parliament… Read More ›

Peres calls on Jerusalem festival not to screen Yigal Amir documentary

Peres calls on Jerusalem festival not to screen Yigal Amir documentary

‘A black flag hangs over the decision to screen the movie about Yigal Amir,’ says former president and long-time friend and political partner of slain… Read More ›

Iran talks spy virus used stolen credentials

Iran talks spy virus used stolen credentials

Russia-based security firm Kaspersky claims Iran talks virus utilized legitimate digital certificates stolen from a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer. Company alludes to Israeli involvement, which Jerusalem… Read More ›

Cyber warfare: A new, dangerous world

Cyber warfare: A new, dangerous world

Op-ed: Discovery of sophisticated computer virus at hotels hosting Iran nuclear talks points to a new phenomenon embodying a new danger: Cyber technology makes it… Read More ›

Netanyahu calls Uruguay’s Vázquez to thank him for support

Netanyahu calls Uruguay’s Vázquez to thank him for support

Uruguay has broken out of the bloc of countries that automatically vote against Israel, and has supported Israel in recent votes in international and regional… Read More ›

IDF to set up unified cyber division within 2 years

IDF to set up unified cyber division within 2 years

Source: Field is now so critical that every operational order must relate to it   The IDF said Monday it will set up a unified… Read More ›

Ambassador to UNHRC: ‘Israel does not behead people, we use our heads’

Ambassador to UNHRC: ‘Israel does not behead people, we use our heads’

Eviatar Manor spoke in advance of the upcoming report on last summer’s war with Hamas, in which Israel is expected to be charged with war… Read More ›