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Top Arab lawmaker says he is willing to join a center-left government

Top Arab lawmaker says he is willing to join a center-left government

Joint List head Ayman Odeh breaks with longstanding position, but sets conditions that include ‘ending the occupation,’ nixing nation-state law, fighting crime rates in Arab… Read More ›

Amazon Takes Major Step Toward Commencing Israel Operations

Amazon Takes Major Step Toward Commencing Israel Operations

For the first time, an Amazon Services website in both Hebrew and English offers both local and foreign vendors access to Israeli buyers.   E-commerce… Read More ›

Nursery teacher charged with toddler abuse to remain in custody until end of trial

Nursery teacher charged with toddler abuse to remain in custody until end of trial

The parents of the victims shout ‘life in prison’ as the hearing is halted in order to calm the enraged relatives who’d seen their children… Read More ›

Report: US, Russia gave Israel green light to strike Iran in Syria, Iraq

Report: US, Russia gave Israel green light to strike Iran in Syria, Iraq

Under alleged agreement, Jerusalem allowed to conduct attacks against Iranian threats in Middle East, but can’t publicly acknowledge them   Israel has conducted several strikes… Read More ›

Israeli Official: Israel Willing to Pay for Flights for Emigrating Gazans

Israeli Official: Israel Willing to Pay for Flights for Emigrating Gazans

According to the official, Israel is willing to finance flights from an airport in the south for those who are interested in leaving.   Israel… Read More ›

Gaza conflict has no magic cure, whatever Israel’s politicians say

Gaza conflict has no magic cure, whatever Israel’s politicians say

Opinion: From Netanyahu to Bennett, Gantz to Barak, everyone is willing to use the years-long conflict with Hamas to build themselves up and tear their… Read More ›

Omar says US should halt aid to Israel until it gives Palestinians ‘full rights

Omar says US should halt aid to Israel until it gives Palestinians ‘full rights

Tlaib likens Jewish state to apartheid South Africa in press conference on their denied trip to Jerusalem, West Bank   Democratic US Reps. Ilhan Omar… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Search Underway For Chareidi Man Missing At Tel Aviv Beach [VIDEO]

Tel Aviv – Search Underway For Chareidi Man Missing At Tel Aviv Beach [VIDEO]

Tel Aviv – A search operation is underway for a 25-year-old man, a father of 2, who reportedly went missing in the water at a… Read More ›

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 ›