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Scholars: Polish PM distorts history by saying Jews participated in Holocaust

Scholars: Polish PM distorts history by saying Jews participated in Holocaust

While some Jewish collaborators did technically contribute to the downfall of their fellow victims, unlike Poles they did so under immediate threat of death, say… Read More ›

United Nations – Trump Team Briefs Security Council On Mideast Peace Plan

United Nations – Trump Team Briefs Security Council On Mideast Peace Plan

  United Nations – US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace team briefed members of the UN Security Council on their plan to jumpstart negotiations… Read More ›

Longtime Netanyahu Aides Filber and Hefetz Named in Bezeq Probe

Longtime Netanyahu Aides Filber and Hefetz Named in Bezeq Probe

Case 4000, otherwise known as the “Bezeq case,” looks into the relations between Netanyahu and Shaul Elovitch, owner of the Bezeq telecommunications company.   Prime… Read More ›

Israeli gas company announces $15B export deal with Egypt

Israeli gas company announces $15B export deal with Egypt

Delek Drilling, Noble Energy announce $15 billion deal to supply natural gas to Egypt, which could pave way for wider cooperation, help turn Egypt into… Read More ›

Likud MK compares Netanyahu investigations to Rabin assassination

Likud MK compares Netanyahu investigations to Rabin assassination

Miki Zohar calls police probes into suspected graft ‘political murder,’ says they are as grave as killing of Israeli leader in 1995   MK Miki… Read More ›

Why settlement construction isn’t the answer to terror

Why settlement construction isn’t the answer to terror

Op-ed: There is no justification for letting one public’s outcry dictate a policy that is pushing us deeper into the mud; if the government works… Read More ›

PM credits Israeli counter-strikes for years of quiet in Gaza

PM credits Israeli counter-strikes for years of quiet in Gaza

After an IED attack on IDF troops, Netanyahu says relative calm maintained thus far by ‘putting pressure on Hamas’   MUNICH — Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

IDF Forces Strike Hamas Targets, No Rockets Fired on Israel

IDF Forces Strike Hamas Targets, No Rockets Fired on Israel

After an intense Saturday, IDF forces strike 18 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Air sirens heard in cities and councils close to the operations… Read More ›

Four soldiers wounded, two seriously by bomb targeting Gaza border patrol

Four soldiers wounded, two seriously by bomb targeting Gaza border patrol

Troops were removing a flag from border fence when blast occurred; IDF tank hits observation post; Netanyahu promises ‘we will respond appropriately’   Four IDF… Read More ›

Court’s Eritrean Military Ruling May Be ‘Game Changer’ For Asylum Seekers

Court’s Eritrean Military Ruling May Be ‘Game Changer’ For Asylum Seekers

Thursday’s ruling may provide a respite for thousands of men who received deportation notices earlier this month.   Thursday’s ruling by a special appeals court… Read More ›

Eli rabbi: homosexuality a ‘problem to be exterminated’

Eli rabbi: homosexuality a ‘problem to be exterminated’

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, deputy head of the Bnei David pre-army preparatory yeshiva in Eli who has gotten into hot water in the past over statements… Read More ›

What Would Netanyahu’s Case 1000 Trial Look Like?

What Would Netanyahu’s Case 1000 Trial Look Like?

Gifts versus illegal benefits is an important fight, as the court will need to decide conceptually whether the Milchan-Netanyahu relationship was one of friends, of… Read More ›

When you are a king

When you are a king

Op-ed: In his first two terms, Netanyahu was prime minister. Towards the end of his third term, he became king, in his own mind and… Read More ›

Israel said to fear Assad chemical weapons spillover into Golan Heights

Israel said to fear Assad chemical weapons spillover into Golan Heights

In classified cable to envoys in 15 key countries, Foreign Ministry reportedly stresses Israel would respond to such a situation in ‘strongest possible terms’  … Read More ›

Iranian ‘Winter’ Coming to Northern Border, Analyst Warns

Iranian ‘Winter’ Coming to Northern Border, Analyst Warns

Iran has created a foothold in Syria that only stands to grow stronger, warns Orit Perlov, an analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies.… Read More ›

Litzman withdraws support of medical cannabis export, calls it ‘shameful’

Litzman withdraws support of medical cannabis export, calls it ‘shameful’

Joining Public Security Minister Erdan in his opposition to turning Israel into exporter of medical cannabis, Deputy Health Minister Litzman says he will only support… Read More ›

Lapid on his testimony against PM: I acted ‘like any law-abiding citizen’

Lapid on his testimony against PM: I acted ‘like any law-abiding citizen’

Yesh Atid leader says he refused, when finance minister, to pass tax amendment to aid PM’s associates, claims his party served as ‘last barrier against… Read More ›

Israeli police find ‘sufficient evidence’ to indict Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli police find ‘sufficient evidence’ to indict Benjamin Netanyahu

Jerusalem – Israeli police said Tuesday there is “sufficient evidence” to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on criminal charges in two corruption cases. According to… Read More ›

White House Denies West Bank Annexation Talks with Netanyahu

White House Denies West Bank Annexation Talks with Netanyahu

The Prime Minister’s Office also clarified that they talks had not taken place, but simply that the issue had been raised between Netanyahu and American… Read More ›

Investing in religious pluralism in Israel

Investing in religious pluralism in Israel

Op-ed: Imagine what would’ve happened had the Conservative Movement, which donated billions of dollars to Israel over the years, decided to instead invest its money… Read More ›