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Netanyahu steps up calls to end Iran nuclear deal

Netanyahu steps up calls to end Iran nuclear deal

In bid to shore up opposition to agreement ahead of Trump deadline, Israel sharing intelligence on Tehran’s once ‘robust’ atomic program with world powers  … Read More ›

Rabbi Aaron Panken, Hebrew Union College president, killed in plane crash at 53

Rabbi Aaron Panken, Hebrew Union College president, killed in plane crash at 53

Reform Jewish leader, who has helmed the movement’s flagship seminary since 2014, was a licensed commercial pilot   (JTA) — Rabbi Aaron Panken, the president… Read More ›

Despite PM Netanyahu’s request, Ministerial Legislation Committee to vote on override power bill Sunday

Despite PM Netanyahu’s request, Ministerial Legislation Committee to vote on override power bill Sunday

PM Netanyahu’s request for second postponement on override power bill vote denied by Justice Minister Shaked; Netanyahu will not veto vote, Likud source says; following… Read More ›

Trump to Tell Israel: Withdraw From Four East Jerusalem Neighborhoods

Trump to Tell Israel: Withdraw From Four East Jerusalem Neighborhoods

Move is part of administration’s peace plan expected to be unveiled after embassy relocation.   The Trump administration will ask Israel to withdraw from four… Read More ›

Israelis deserve to know: Is Netanyahu pursuing war with Iran?

Israelis deserve to know: Is Netanyahu pursuing war with Iran?

Op-ed: Sometimes, war is inevitable. Sometimes, in the event of an existential threat, there’s no escape from initiating a war. But one of the lessons… Read More ›

Tunisia bid for 2022 Youth Olympics frozen over ban on Israeli athletes

Tunisia bid for 2022 Youth Olympics frozen over ban on Israeli athletes

IOC head says political boycotts against Games’ values, citing case in which four Israelis were blocked from taekwondo championship last month   Tunisia is being… Read More ›

What did the Mossad Actually Get From Iran?

What did the Mossad Actually Get From Iran?

What was actually presented, and second, how does it matter or not matter?   Everyone has an opinion about the importance or irrelevance of the… Read More ›

Top PA official insists Abbas didn’t deny the Holocaust

Top PA official insists Abbas didn’t deny the Holocaust

Chairman of the Palestinian Executive Committee Saeb Erekat insists Palestinian president never ‘denied massacres that were perpetrated against Jews’, accuses Israel of launching international assault… Read More ›

Yad Vashem blasts Abbas for anti-Semitic bid to blame Jews for their own murder

Yad Vashem blasts Abbas for anti-Semitic bid to blame Jews for their own murder

Palestinian Authority head ‘assaults Holocaust remembrance’ by turning it into ‘into a propaganda tool, blatantly falsifying history’   Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Yad… Read More ›

New York – Birthright Israel Marks 18 Years Of Trips For Young Jews

New York – Birthright Israel Marks 18 Years Of Trips For Young Jews

  New York – Taking a trip with an organization called Birthright Israel has almost become a rite of passage for some young Americans with… Read More ›

White House Adopts Netanyahu’s ‘False Pretences’ Narrative on Iran Deal

White House Adopts Netanyahu’s ‘False Pretences’ Narrative on Iran Deal

“Iran lied at the front end,” said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.   WASHINGTON – Hosting his French and German counterparts at the White House last… Read More ›

Early elections: This is what Netanyahu is afraid of

Early elections: This is what Netanyahu is afraid of

Analysis: The day after the elections, we’ll likely see the formation of a rightist-centrist group—including Bennett, Lieberman, Kahlon, Levy-Abekasis and Ya’alon—which will offer Likud the… Read More ›

Lipstadt: With ‘classic anti-Semitism,’ Abbas ending career the way he started

Lipstadt: With ‘classic anti-Semitism,’ Abbas ending career the way he started

Leading Holocaust scholars take aim at PA leader over speech denigrating Jews, accuse him of ‘rewriting history’ of 1933 ‘haavara’ deal with Nazis   Holocaust… Read More ›

Between Riyadh and Tel Aviv: Spy games and secret relations

Between Riyadh and Tel Aviv: Spy games and secret relations

Analysis: Every time there seem to be internal tensions in one of our neighborhood’s countries, the easiest thing to do is to divert the fire… Read More ›

Iran dismisses Netanyahu’s nuclear exposé as ‘childish’ and ‘ridiculous’

Iran dismisses Netanyahu’s nuclear exposé as ‘childish’ and ‘ridiculous’

FM, deputy defense minister say speech on file trove relating to Tehran’s weapons program was coordinated with US in order to justify Trump nixing nuclear accord… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Facing Claim From Photo Agency, Rivlin Apologizes For Reposted Picture While Knesset Member Considers Modifying Copyright Laws

Jerusalem – Facing Claim From Photo Agency, Rivlin Apologizes For Reposted Picture While Knesset Member Considers Modifying Copyright Laws

  Jerusalem – While Israeli lawmakers hope to sidestep claims that they violated the law by using copyrighted photographs without permission, President Reuven Rivlin issued… Read More ›

Netanyahu says he has proof of secret Iranian nuclear program

Netanyahu says he has proof of secret Iranian nuclear program

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has evidence Iranian officials were “brazenly lying” when they said Iran wasn’t pursuing nuclear weapons and that the… Read More ›

A Jewish future? Only in Israel

A Jewish future? Only in Israel

Op-ed: Considering soaring assimilation rates, the Jewish population in many countries around the world will likely disappear completely in six or seven generations. Israel is… Read More ›

Defense minister vows to retain freedom of action in Syria

Defense minister vows to retain freedom of action in Syria

Liberman says Jerusalem prepared to prevent an Iranian forward base’ in Syrian territory ‘at any cost’   Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday that Israel will preserve… Read More ›

Quebec – Pro-Palestinian Charity In Canada Promoting Book Containing Anti-Semitic Content

Quebec – Pro-Palestinian Charity In Canada Promoting Book Containing Anti-Semitic Content

Quebec – B’nai Brith Canada has called on the country’s tax authority to revoke the registration of a pro-Palestinian charity after alleging that it is… Read More ›