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Haley plan would cut development aid to countries not backing US at UN — report

Haley plan would cut development aid to countries not backing US at UN — report

Memo obtained by Foreign Policy details proposal to withdraw aid, including funds to build schools, from some 40 countries that don’t vote with Washington at… Read More ›

The Coalition Crisis Isn’t Over – It’s Just Postponed

The Coalition Crisis Isn’t Over – It’s Just Postponed

Haredi conscription has been an impossible political puzzle, and the coalition didn’t quite solve it last night.   During the last few weeks’ political turmoil,… Read More ›

No one had Israel’s best interest in mind when solving coalition crisis

No one had Israel’s best interest in mind when solving coalition crisis

Op-ed: Don’t let them tell you stories about national responsibility and about responsible adults working behind the scenes out of concern for the Israeli public.… Read More ›

Israel’s Top Arms Clients: India, Vietnam, Azerbaijan

Israel’s Top Arms Clients: India, Vietnam, Azerbaijan

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ranked Israel as the fifth largest arms supplier in the world, with $1.26b. of sales last year, following the… Read More ›

What Israel needs is leadership

What Israel needs is leadership

Op-ed: Leadership requires a personal example. A leader has more obligations than rights, and a strong leader is one who possesses the ability to fearlessly… Read More ›

Netanyahu to meet with Lieberman over coalition crisis

Netanyahu to meet with Lieberman over coalition crisis

After long meeting with Knesset speaker, the prime minister is set to meet with the defense minister in an effort to avoid going to early… Read More ›

Muslim man opens first-ever Hebrew course in Indonesia

Muslim man opens first-ever Hebrew course in Indonesia

While some criticize effort to promote language, Sapri Sale’s previously published Hebrew-Indonesian dictionary received endorsement from senior imam   A Sunni Muslim man recently opened… Read More ›

J’Lem Mum on Putin’s Remarks on Possible Jewish Meddling in US Elections

J’Lem Mum on Putin’s Remarks on Possible Jewish Meddling in US Elections

Neither the Prime Minister’s Office nor the Foreign Ministry would respond Sunday to the comments, apparently because of the extreme sensitivity of Israel’s relations with… Read More ›

Ovadia Yosef’s daughter: ‘If it was up to me, Shas would disappear

Ovadia Yosef’s daughter: ‘If it was up to me, Shas would disappear

Daughter of Shas founder and spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Adina Bar-Shalom, declares that if it was up to her, Shas would disappear; ‘Deri changed… Read More ›

Netanyahu, Haredim said to reach understanding on draft bill

Netanyahu, Haredim said to reach understanding on draft bill

PM holds last-ditch talks with party leaders, as fight over ultra-Orthodox conscription threatens to topple government   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders of his… Read More ›

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 ›