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Trump Says He Will Release Mideast Peace Plan After Israel Elections

Trump Says He Will Release Mideast Peace Plan After Israel Elections

The first part of Trump’s Middle East peace plan – the economic part – was presented in Manama, Bahrain, in June.   WASHINGTON – U.S.… Read More ›

Israel cannot normalize Rabin’s murderer

Israel cannot normalize Rabin’s murderer

Opinion: The state’s gentle touch when it comes to Yigal Amir has let him have kids, make contact with other far-right extremists and even plot… Read More ›

Five Terrorists Killed Infiltrating Israel from Gaza Strip

Five Terrorists Killed Infiltrating Israel from Gaza Strip

The five armed men were reported to be members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wing, Saraya al-Quds.   Five armed Palestinians were killed by IDF… Read More ›

IDF: 3 rockets fired from Gaza, 2 intercepted by Iron Dome

IDF: 3 rockets fired from Gaza, 2 intercepted by Iron Dome

The shrapnel from one of the rockets landed in the southern city of Sderot where at least 2 people were lightly hurt while running to… Read More ›

Israeli doctor treating Syrians hopes to save hearts and win minds

Israeli doctor treating Syrians hopes to save hearts and win minds

In 2013, Salman Zarka, then head of IDF Northern Command’s medical corps, sent injured Syrians who came to Israel’s border to a Safed hospital. Now,… Read More ›

Tlaib’s Hometown ‘Disappointed, But Not Surprised’

Tlaib’s Hometown ‘Disappointed, But Not Surprised’

PLO: Israel dragging region to ‘religious war.’   Relatives of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) said on Thursday that they were not surprised byIsrael’s decision to… Read More ›

Palestinian leader seems to have lost his way

Palestinian leader seems to have lost his way

Opinion: Though shunning the current U.S. administration and its emissaries is understandable as a policy, Abbas is refusing to ensure there is someone in Washington… Read More ›

Analysis: And then Trump tweeted — Why Israel suddenly decided to bar 2 US congresswomen

Analysis: And then Trump tweeted — Why Israel suddenly decided to bar 2 US congresswomen

Israel’s DC envoy initially said Tlaib, Omar were free to visit. But less than 2 hours after US president wrote that letting them in ‘would… Read More ›

Former PM Olmert: Gov’t Views Abbas as the Real Enemy, Not Hamas

Former PM Olmert: Gov’t Views Abbas as the Real Enemy, Not Hamas

The current prime minister “has no courage or determination to do what he promised.”   The Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu views the… Read More ›

Israel considers banning visit by U.S. Muslim lawmakers

Israel considers banning visit by U.S. Muslim lawmakers

Bi-partisan leadership in the House of Representatives cautioned the Israeli government against banning the visit on the basis of political believes while President Trump is… Read More ›

Netanyahu sees ambassador to US, Mossad chief as possible successors – report

Netanyahu sees ambassador to US, Mossad chief as possible successors – report

In rare comment on country’s future leadership, Israel’s longest-serving PM said to list just two candidates, neither from Likud   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently… Read More ›

Hamas to ‘Shower’ Israeli Cities with Missiles

Hamas to ‘Shower’ Israeli Cities with Missiles

Group’s leader Yayha Sinwar vows to defeat IDF troops in the event of another war.   Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar vowed to defeat the IDF and… Read More ›

A victim of the anti-vaccination movement

A victim of the anti-vaccination movement

Opinion: Some 4,300 Israelis contracted a long-gone disease this year because of a movement that doesn’t respond to reason; the health ministry can’t simply settle… Read More ›

Iraqi official blames Israel for blast in Iran-backed militia weapons depot

Iraqi official blames Israel for blast in Iran-backed militia weapons depot

Unnamed security source tells Saudi-owned daily that the war that Israel has been waging against Iran In Syria has now spread to Iraq   An… Read More ›

Extremists are calling the shots on the Temple Mount

Extremists are calling the shots on the Temple Mount

Opinion: Israel’s government has yielded sovereignty of one of Judaism’s holiest sites to a fringe group who violate a rabbinical ban on praying there, so… Read More ›

‘Soldier’s killers couldn’t believe we’d got them’

‘Soldier’s killers couldn’t believe we’d got them’

Commander of Yamam, the elite police counter-terrorism unit, has caught the perpetrators of some of the most horrific terrorist crimes, and his latest arrests are… Read More ›

Iran’s navy chief warns any Israeli presence in Gulf could ‘spark war’

Iran’s navy chief warns any Israeli presence in Gulf could ‘spark war’

Remark follows reports Israel taking part in US-led mission to secure Western vessels in Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has seized several tankers   The… Read More ›

Gazan gunman shot after firing at troops in fresh border battle

Gazan gunman shot after firing at troops in fresh border battle

IDF shells Hamas positions in response to infiltration attempt in northern Strip day after four Palestinian killed trying to sneak into Israel   Israeli forces… Read More ›

Terror Victim Killed Days Before 19th Birthday Eulogized as Gentle Soul

Terror Victim Killed Days Before 19th Birthday Eulogized as Gentle Soul

  Days before what would have been his son Dvir’s 19th birthday, Yoav Sorek stood in tears near his child’s body late on Thursday night. It was… Read More ›

Netanyahu is fighting for his personal life, not his political survival

Netanyahu is fighting for his personal life, not his political survival

Opinion: The prime minister should not be dragging down the state institutions responsible for potentially bringing him to justice for his alleged crimes and endangering… Read More ›