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Arab Mks to Lobby Against Nation-State Law in EU

Arab Mks to Lobby Against Nation-State Law in EU

“We are traveling to Brussels to ask the Europeans to be loyal to their values of protecting human rights, especially minorities,” Zahalka said.   A… Read More ›

Minorities too can connect to the Zionist idea

Minorities too can connect to the Zionist idea

Op-ed: the Nation State Law is perhaps attempting to verbalize what HaShomer HaChadash is doing on the ground: assisting Jewish and non-Jewish farmers, ranchers, who… Read More ›

Visit by controversial Philippines strongman sparks ire in Israel

Visit by controversial Philippines strongman sparks ire in Israel

Some wonder why Jerusalem wants to forge a closer bond and sell arms to Rodrigo Duterte, known for poor human rights record and past self-comparison… Read More ›

Paris – Lawsuit Lays Bare Israel-made Hack Tools In Mideast, Mexico

Paris – Lawsuit Lays Bare Israel-made Hack Tools In Mideast, Mexico

  Paris –  One day late last year, Qatari newspaper editor Abdullah Al-Athbah came home, removed the SIM card from his iPhone 7 and smashed… Read More ›

Chief Rabbi Yosef Suspected of Criminal Violation

Chief Rabbi Yosef Suspected of Criminal Violation

Yosef lobbied members of the electoral committee for the Council of the Chief Rabbinate to vote in favor of his close associate and politically agreed… Read More ›

Steinitz: Replenishment of Kinneret a priority

Steinitz: Replenishment of Kinneret a priority

In an interview with Ynet, energy minister says desalination output to double, aquifers, rivers to be saved; addressing Syria, Steinitz warns ‘Assad in danger if… Read More ›

Minister’s photo burned at Tel Aviv protest against asylum seekers

Minister’s photo burned at Tel Aviv protest against asylum seekers

Angry demonstrators in city’s impoverished south rail at Aryeh Deri, chase away Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich   Protesters at a southern Tel Aviv demonstration… Read More ›

How Should Israel Respond If It Can’t Stop Iran Producing Nuclear Weapons?

How Should Israel Respond If It Can’t Stop Iran Producing Nuclear Weapons?

Former deputy national security council chief Chuck Freilich believes in planning for the worst.   Though he strongly hopes that a variety of economic, diplomatic… Read More ›

The joint struggle

The joint struggle

Op-ed: Prime Minister Netanyahu fears that a joint Arab-Jewish struggle against the anti-Arab, anti-democratic Nation-State Law has the potential to make a fundamental difference if… Read More ›

US envoy Friedman says Gaza deal would be ‘tremendous prize’ for Hamas

US envoy Friedman says Gaza deal would be ‘tremendous prize’ for Hamas

In private call with American Jewish leaders, ambassador insists Palestinian Authority must be involved in the reconstructions of the beleaguered Strip   US Ambassador to… Read More ›

Israeli Court Bars Razing of Settler Outpost on West Bank Palestinian Land

Israeli Court Bars Razing of Settler Outpost on West Bank Palestinian Land

The ruling by Judge Arnon Darel further stated that the presence of the small community on the outskirts of the Kochav Hashahar settlement was legal.… Read More ›

Let the Palestinians make lemonade of Trump’s lemons

Let the Palestinians make lemonade of Trump’s lemons

Op-ed: US cutting its aid to the Palestinians and funding to UNRWA are welcomed steps, but they must be done gradually and alongside supplementary economic… Read More ›

Abbas backs demilitarized Palestinian state, says funds better spent on schools

Abbas backs demilitarized Palestinian state, says funds better spent on schools

Palestinian leader tells Israeli academics: ‘I want unarmed police forces with batons, not guns’   Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said he believed… Read More ›

Hundreds Flock to Commemorate Clandestine Jewish Immigration in Tel Aviv

Hundreds Flock to Commemorate Clandestine Jewish Immigration in Tel Aviv

Hundreds of thousands of Jews made their way to the British Mandate of Palestine despite a strict quota imposed on Jewish immigration by the British.… Read More ›

Reimagining Gaza while recognizing reality

Reimagining Gaza while recognizing reality

Op-ed: While Hamas may wish to cynically cling to resistance against the State of Israel, some Israelis are ready, willing and able to dramatically improve… Read More ›

Police to be deployed along coast amid fears of Hamas infiltration — TV report

Police to be deployed along coast amid fears of Hamas infiltration — TV report

Increased troop deployment aims to secure Ashkelon amid fears Gaza’s ruling terror group may try to attack from the sea   Border Police will be… Read More ›

Arab MKs and Palestinians Jointly Seek to Censure Israel at U.N.

Arab MKs and Palestinians Jointly Seek to Censure Israel at U.N.

“Anyone who cooperates with the Palestinian Authority against Israel should ask themselves whether their rightful place is in the Palestinian or Israeli parliament,” Edelstein said.… Read More ›

Nasrallah: Israelis lack motivation to fight

Nasrallah: Israelis lack motivation to fight

Speaking on anniversary of battle against Syrian rebels in Lebanon, Hezbollah leader ridiculed condition of IDF manpower, took credit for ISIS defeat, warned against dependence… Read More ›

With violence ‘significantly reduced,’ Israel to reopen Erez crossing to Gaza

With violence ‘significantly reduced,’ Israel to reopen Erez crossing to Gaza

Despite some violent protests, arson kites, defense minister announces sole pedestrian passage, closed for a week, will be reopened Monday   Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman… Read More ›

Syrian Regime Cracks Down on Former Rebel Areas Near Golan

Syrian Regime Cracks Down on Former Rebel Areas Near Golan

Former Syrian rebels agreed to serve with regime forces, but some locals have protested in Daraa amid renewed raids on former rebel areas.   In… Read More ›