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Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead in Herzliya home

Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead in Herzliya home

There are reportedly no signs of violence. Wei’s death comes a week after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Israel in an apparent attempt… Read More ›

Likud members are marionettes on strings for Netanyahu

Likud members are marionettes on strings for Netanyahu

Opinion: Now that the fifth Netanyahu government is up and running, those left empty-handed by his political chicanery have – despite their supposed undying loyalty… Read More ›

Outgoing health minister says office’s former director ‘exaggerated’ virus fears

Outgoing health minister says office’s former director ‘exaggerated’ virus fears

Yaakov Litzman, who came under heavy criticism for his handling of crisis, says Netanyahu acceded to Moshe Bar Siman-Tov’s ‘overblown’ assessment of pandemic danger  … Read More ›

Canadian Acrobatic Jet Crashes Amid Pandemic Show; 1 Dead

Canadian Acrobatic Jet Crashes Amid Pandemic Show; 1 Dead

  KAMLOOPS, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian acrobatic jet crashed into a British Columbia neighborhood Sunday during a flyover intended to boost morale during… Read More ›

Texas reported its highest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases as restaurants, salons, and cinemas open to the public

Texas reported its highest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases as restaurants, salons, and cinemas open to the public

  Texas reported 1,801 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday — the highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases in the state so far. More than 700… Read More ›

Senior MKs scramble to meet Netanyahu hoping for ministerial posts

Senior MKs scramble to meet Netanyahu hoping for ministerial posts

Likud rebels held up swearing in Thursday, Netanyahu seeking to placate Dichter, Hanegbi, Saar   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to meet with Likud… Read More ›

Religious Zionists must wise up about Netanyahu

Religious Zionists must wise up about Netanyahu

Opinion: The prime minister’s insistence on keeping Naftali Bennett confined to the sidelines while he favors the ultra-Orthodox politicians, who care only for their own… Read More ›

Italy to reopen borders on June 3, scrap quarantine in bid to restart tourism

Italy to reopen borders on June 3, scrap quarantine in bid to restart tourism

Restaurants, bars and hairdressers to reopen on Monday, 2 weeks earlier than planned; entry shutdown caused heavy economic damage to country dependent on the tourism… Read More ›

Mayor: NYPD Won’t Break Up Small Groups, Police Masks

Mayor: NYPD Won’t Break Up Small Groups, Police Masks

  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department, criticized over instances of harsh social distancing enforcement, will no longer be involved in breaking… Read More ›

Analysis: 9/11 saw much of our privacy swept aside. Coronavirus could end it altogether

Analysis: 9/11 saw much of our privacy swept aside. Coronavirus could end it altogether

London – Spit into a cup when you land in an airport, and your DNA is stored. Every phone in every city talks to every… Read More ›

What Netanyahu does in the next few months will seal his legacy

What Netanyahu does in the next few months will seal his legacy

Political Affairs: What the PM decides to do in Judea and Samaria will determine how he will be remembered.   It has taken 507 days,… Read More ›

Israel offers peek at new normal for air travel during pandemic

Israel offers peek at new normal for air travel during pandemic

Airport Authority’s plan set to create ‘virus-free area’ through use of disinfection stands, thermal imaging at the entrance to the airport, social distancing and allowed… Read More ›

EU ministers set to review possible responses to Israeli annexation in West Bank

EU ministers set to review possible responses to Israeli annexation in West Bank

Top diplomats to convene Friday, with Jerusalem’s plan to apply sovereignty to settlements, Jordan Valley ‘the most important item on the agenda’   European Union… Read More ›

Trump Says He’ll Replenish Stockpile For Future Pandemics

Trump Says He’ll Replenish Stockpile For Future Pandemics

  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he intends to prepare for future pandemics by replenishing the national stockpile and bringing… Read More ›

US weekly jobless claims hit 3 million, bringing the 8-week total to more than 36 million

US weekly jobless claims hit 3 million, bringing the 8-week total to more than 36 million

  The number of US jobless claims last week totaled 2.98 million, the Labor Department said Thursday. The median economist estimate was for 2.5 million claims.… Read More ›

Haniyeh: Hamas can kidnap more Israeli soldiers

Haniyeh: Hamas can kidnap more Israeli soldiers

“Hamas will not be quiet about prisoners sitting in Israeli prisons; some of them for over 40 years already.”   Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh threatened… Read More ›

Israel should look to EU before West Bank annexation

Israel should look to EU before West Bank annexation

Opinion: Jerusalem is accustomed to viewing Europe as weakened entity and to dismissing its protests, but this could be mistake if Israel decides to take… Read More ›

Coronavirus may never go away, World Health Organization warns

Coronavirus may never go away, World Health Organization warns

Disease that has infected more than 4.2 million people worldwide, killing nearly 300,000, may, like HIV, become endemic and a part of the fabric of… Read More ›

Biden, Comey, Clapper Tried To ‘Unmask’ Flynn During Russia Probe, What Does ‘Unmasking’ Mean?

Biden, Comey, Clapper Tried To ‘Unmask’ Flynn During Russia Probe, What Does ‘Unmasking’ Mean?

  WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2016, Obama administration officials received intelligence reports that were concerning, but incomplete. Surveillance of Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. revealed… Read More ›

Trump privately questions whether coronavirus deaths are being overcounted as Fauci projects the opposite

Trump privately questions whether coronavirus deaths are being overcounted as Fauci projects the opposite

Questions about the US coronavirus death count have taken hold inside the White House, officials familiar with the matter say, as President Donald Trump and… Read More ›