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New York – Biden Says He Would Keep US-Israel Relationship ‘ironclad’ And Rejoin The Iran Deal As President

New York – Biden Says He Would Keep US-Israel Relationship ‘ironclad’ And Rejoin The Iran Deal As President

  New York –  In a talk laying out the foreign policy principles he would hew to as president, Joe Biden said the United States’… Read More ›

Hamas stages large-scale surprise drill with other Gaza groups

Hamas stages large-scale surprise drill with other Gaza groups

Strip-wide exercise sees land crossings closed, fisherman banned from entering the sea; group hails its performance in 2014 war with Israel, says it has not… Read More ›

Syria Has Right to Recover the Golan Heights from Israel, Envoy Tells UNHRC

Syria Has Right to Recover the Golan Heights from Israel, Envoy Tells UNHRC

“Our country in no way recognizes any of the administrative measures taken by the Israeli occupying power in the Syrian Golan,” Syria’s ambassador to the… Read More ›

Israel Police bracing for fresh protests by Ethiopian community

Israel Police bracing for fresh protests by Ethiopian community

Statement disseminated on social media calling for resumption of demonstrations following killing of teen in Haifa by off-duty cop; authorities say they are ‘preparing for… Read More ›

Israeli court says terror victims can sue PA for hundreds of millions of dollars

Israeli court says terror victims can sue PA for hundreds of millions of dollars

Ruling cites Ramallah’s own claims to have encouraged and even sent terrorists during Second Intifada; decision could mean Palestinians liable for NIS 1 billion in… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israeli Researchers Uncover King David’s Biblical Town Of Ziklag

Jerusalem – Israeli Researchers Uncover King David’s Biblical Town Of Ziklag

  Jerusalem – Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have found Biblical Ziklag.… Read More ›

Ex-IAEA Official to ‘Post’: Iran Cutting Nuclear Breakout Time by Two Months

Ex-IAEA Official to ‘Post’: Iran Cutting Nuclear Breakout Time by Two Months

Things could get worse in 60 days if Tehran carries out previous threats   Iran’s violation of nuclear limits by enriching uranium to the 5%… Read More ›

If you build it who will come?

If you build it who will come?

An Olympic village on the ruins of the abandoned Israeli settlement of Netzarim is an ambitious, some might say fantastical project while Gazan homes have… Read More ›

Longtime director of Chicago’s Jewish federation hands empire over to his son

Longtime director of Chicago’s Jewish federation hands empire over to his son

As 40-year head of the Jewish United Fund, Steve Nasatir helped bring in $8 billion from the city’s 300,000 Jews   JTA — Before he stepped… Read More ›

Tehran Imam Threatens Missile Attack on Dimona Nuclear Power Plant

Tehran Imam Threatens Missile Attack on Dimona Nuclear Power Plant

Imam Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani also warned the US against a military attack on Iran.   “If Iran decides to confront you, a missile… Read More ›

The left insists on saving Netanyahu from his voters

The left insists on saving Netanyahu from his voters

Opinion: Likud voters are a diverse group, fearful of a binational state that would lose Israel’s Jewish majority, critical of funds handed out to ultra-Orthodox… Read More ›

Suspected driver in car-ramming near Jerusalem arrested, army says

Suspected driver in car-ramming near Jerusalem arrested, army says

Suspect and father reportedly nabbed in West Bank town of Hizme, near where apparent attack took place   A driver suspected of ramming his vehicle… Read More ›

The Ethiopian fight should be the fight of every Israeli

The Ethiopian fight should be the fight of every Israeli

Opinion: The young members of the community stand alone crying out against racism and injustice because unlike the protest movements of the recent past, the… Read More ›

Analysis: As Bahrain showed, even Trump’s Arab allies see two-state solution as essential

Analysis: As Bahrain showed, even Trump’s Arab allies see two-state solution as essential

They didn’t heed PA’s call to boycott Kushner’s Manama economic workshop, but Mideast participants made plain the US political vision must enable some kind of… Read More ›

Kushner: Trump ‘Very Fond’ of Abbas, PA’s Response to Parley ‘Hysterical’

Kushner: Trump ‘Very Fond’ of Abbas, PA’s Response to Parley ‘Hysterical’

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said “the U.S. peace plan is good, we need support.”   The Palestinian leadership’s reaction to the Bahrain economic… Read More ›

Silent protests get you nowhere in Israel

Silent protests get you nowhere in Israel

Opinion: We saw how the protests of the disabled community slipped from the public agenda the minute they stopped blocking main roads, how the quiet… Read More ›

Two Years On, No Progress at Egalitarian Kotel Plaza

Two Years On, No Progress at Egalitarian Kotel Plaza

‘They are trying to make us feel like second-rate citizens by making us pray at a third-rate place.’   Last July, an ancient stone fell… Read More ›

The traffic jam worth being stuck in

The traffic jam worth being stuck in

Opinion: Those who think they’ve suffered in the talkbacks caused by the demonstrations of Ethiopian youth against police brutality that took place across Israel should… Read More ›

136 held, 83 hurt in protests against Ethiopian Israeli teen’s slaying by cop

136 held, 83 hurt in protests against Ethiopian Israeli teen’s slaying by cop

47 police officers, 26 protesters, 9 passersby and one firefighter treated by MDA; Erdan: No repeat of Tuesday’s violence; roads across country to be blocked… Read More ›

The Israeli right-wing’s moment of truth

The Israeli right-wing’s moment of truth

Opinion: Four politicians to the right of Likud believe they can mobilize voters better than anyone else to present the next coalition with a viable… Read More ›