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The War in Northern Sinai

The War in Northern Sinai

Will Israeli Arab youth be tempted to join the ISIS battle in the peninsula?   At the end of 2017, the Israeli prosecution indicted Tasnin… Read More ›

Bennett weighs running for PM if early elections called

Bennett weighs running for PM if early elections called

Lashing Netanyahu for deliberately failing to resolve ‘fake and unnecessary crisis’, and accusing him of treating Israeli citizens like ‘toys’ by possibly calling early elections,… Read More ›

Coalition heads blame PM amid last-ditch efforts to prevent early elections

Coalition heads blame PM amid last-ditch efforts to prevent early elections

Bennett says ‘there is a limit’ amid speculation that parties will be asked to commit to sticking with Netanyahu even if he is charged in… Read More ›

Women in Israel in 2018: The glass ceiling is cracked, but unbroken

Women in Israel in 2018: The glass ceiling is cracked, but unbroken

Data released on the occasion of the International Women’s Day shows that women in Israel, while largely faring better than in previous years, still face… Read More ›

White House to convene Gaza ‘stakeholders’ for summit on saving Strip

White House to convene Gaza ‘stakeholders’ for summit on saving Strip

Administration mum on guest list for brainstorming session devoted to solving humanitarian crisis in enclave, announced by Greenblatt   WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House… Read More ›

Time to Leverage the Coalition Crisis?

Time to Leverage the Coalition Crisis?

All this being the case, Litzman appears to think that he is well served within the haredi world by flexing his muscles and demonstrating his… Read More ›

The man who knew too much

The man who knew too much

Op-ed: Nir Hefetz protected Benjamin Netanyahu until he realized that, as far as the latter is concerned, he no longer exists. In that critical moment,… Read More ›

Opposition leaders flay Netanyahu over attack on police

Opposition leaders flay Netanyahu over attack on police

Lapid calls PM’s latest diatribe ‘a new record for total madness,’ while Gabbay accuses him of heading ‘an industry of government corruption’   Senior opposition… Read More ›

Iron Dome Can Intercept Missiles But Not Diseases or Pollution From Gaza

Iron Dome Can Intercept Missiles But Not Diseases or Pollution From Gaza

Southern Command head Zamir says Hamas growing closer to Iran and Hezbollah   Former defense minister Amir Peretz warned of the increasingly dire humanitarian situation… Read More ›

A lot of rotten eggs in one basket

A lot of rotten eggs in one basket

Op-ed: The willingness to sign more and more state’s witness deals, to forgive more and more criminals, indicates the AG is convinced that at least… Read More ›

Peace ‘Requires Compromise,’ Pence Says at AIPAC

Peace ‘Requires Compromise,’ Pence Says at AIPAC

Pence said that Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt are “hard at work” on the Trump administration’s peace plan. WASHINGTON — A comprehensive peace agreement between… Read More ›

What will history say about Netanyahu?

What will history say about Netanyahu?

Op-ed: Unlike his representatives on social media and his written responses, the prime minister values journalists and values words. He understands that history is written… Read More ›

Haley to AIPAC: Our push to end UN bias on Israel is really ‘a demand for peace’

Haley to AIPAC: Our push to end UN bias on Israel is really ‘a demand for peace’

Only when illusion that Israel is going to go away is shattered, Trump’s UN ambassador tells ecstatic crowd, will compromise prevail over absolutism   WASHINGTON… Read More ›

Former Trump aide says he’s refusing Mueller subpoena: ‘Screw that’

Former Trump aide says he’s refusing Mueller subpoena: ‘Screw that’

Washington – In a defiant pair of CNN interviews, former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg said Monday he refuses to comply with a grand jury… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s Coalition on Collision Course to Early Election

Netanyahu’s Coalition on Collision Course to Early Election

Haredi, Likud ministers fail to reach deal over draft exemption dispute   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed hope on Sunday that his coalition partners would… Read More ›

Meretz is back in the game

Meretz is back in the game

Analysis: Tamar Zandberg’s surprise decision to join the left-wing party’s leadership race created a huge swing in her direction. Her challenge will be to end… Read More ›

Guatemala president tells AIPAC he’ll move embassy to Jerusalem in May

Guatemala president tells AIPAC he’ll move embassy to Jerusalem in May

President Morales promises 18,000 pro-Israel advocates he’ll relocate his embassy to holy city two days after the US does, for Israel’s 70th birthday   WASHINGTON… Read More ›

Trump, Treason and the Israeli and American Legal Systems

Trump, Treason and the Israeli and American Legal Systems

Visiting American Bar Association head Hilarie Bass sits down with the ‘Post’.   American Bar Association president Hilarie Bass, in an interview with The Jerusalem Post,… Read More ›

Netanyahu: Goodwill in coalition can prevent early elections

Netanyahu: Goodwill in coalition can prevent early elections

Facing pressure from his ultra-Orthodox flank, which has made its support for 2019 state budget dependent on legislation to enable Haredi yeshiva students to avoid… Read More ›

Will Israel’s clash with Poland affect Holocaust commemoration trips?

Will Israel’s clash with Poland affect Holocaust commemoration trips?

As some call for a boycott of tours of Nazi sites to protest Warsaw’s complicity law, others argue Auschwitz visits more important than ever  … Read More ›