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What was Netanyahu’s real reason for snubbing German FM?

What was Netanyahu’s real reason for snubbing German FM?

Op-ed: The prime minister’s exaggerated response to the German minister’s meeting with Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem representatives can be seen as another appeal to… Read More ›

Group of ultra-Orthodox Jews marks Independence Day by burning Israeli flag

Group of ultra-Orthodox Jews marks Independence Day by burning Israeli flag

TV footage shows men and boys from Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood watching as flag waved back and forth in bonfire   As Israelis all over… Read More ›

Comment: Netanyahu’s Bold Move Against Europe

Comment: Netanyahu’s Bold Move Against Europe

Israel is finally taking a constructive position in its own defense.   On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adopted a new strategy for managing Israel’s… Read More ›

Italy says it will vote against UNESCO Jerusalem resolution

Italy says it will vote against UNESCO Jerusalem resolution

Israel hopes to secure further support in opposing the resolution—set to be voted on on Independence Day—denying Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem; Germany led efforts for… Read More ›

On Independence Day, feel free to choose your celebration

On Independence Day, feel free to choose your celebration

Smashed burgers, a chocolatey porter, Israeli flicks and freebies are just some of the ways to avoid the silly string and inflatable hammers   As… Read More ›

Israel Commemorates 23, 544 Fallen at Western Wall Ceremony in Jerusalem

Israel Commemorates 23, 544 Fallen at Western Wall Ceremony in Jerusalem

“The price of our liberty is purchased in blood” President Reuven Rivlin says   Israeli leaders and soldiers stood in silence and bowed their heads… Read More ›

Just one photo with her father who died in Yom Kippur War

Just one photo with her father who died in Yom Kippur War

Poli Kovdala-Zeidfunden wonders whether it would have been better to know her father before his life was snatched from her when she was just a… Read More ›

English-language Memorial Day ceremony helps a community mourn

English-language Memorial Day ceremony helps a community mourn

More than 15,000 people tune in to a livestream of event held by Jerusalem’s Lone Soldier Center, in memory of Michael Levin   When I… Read More ›

Miami – Staunch Israel Supporter Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, 1st Cuban-American In Congress, To Retire

Miami – Staunch Israel Supporter Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, 1st Cuban-American In Congress, To Retire

  Miami –  U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the first Cuban-American elected to Congress, is retiring at the end of her term next year,… Read More ›

Israeli Politicians Pan Liberman for Provoking North Korea

Israeli Politicians Pan Liberman for Provoking North Korea

“Mr. defense minister, we already have enough enemies surrounding us, so let’s focus on the them,” says Zionist Union MK Shelly Yacimovich after Liberman calls… Read More ›

Netanyahu Slams German FM for Insulting Victims of Holocaust

Netanyahu Slams German FM for Insulting Victims of Holocaust

“I don’t welcome diplomats from other countries who visit Israel and at the same time meet organizations that call our soldiers war criminals,” Netanyahu said… Read More ›

Le Pen’s party in new turmoil over alleged Holocaust denial

Le Pen’s party in new turmoil over alleged Holocaust denial

In France’s presidential race, anti-Semitism occupies center stage in the bitter campaign between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, with the latter visiting a site… Read More ›

All 100 US senators to UN: End ‘unacceptable’ anti-Israel bias

All 100 US senators to UN: End ‘unacceptable’ anti-Israel bias

Letter to António Guterres, with unanimous Senate support, demands wide-ranging reforms of international body   All 100 US senators signed a letter to United Nations… Read More ›

Trump Considering Israel Visit, White House Official Confirms

Trump Considering Israel Visit, White House Official Confirms

“We are exploring the possibility of a future visit to Israel as well as other countries.”   US President Donald Trump is considering a visit… Read More ›

EU-Israel relations: Trojan horses, snakes, ladders and boycotts

EU-Israel relations: Trojan horses, snakes, ladders and boycotts

Op-ed: Why the European Parliament, and other EU institutions, need to take a strong position on the movement calling for a boycott of the State… Read More ›

Hamas says it won’t be cowed by Abbas’s threats

Hamas says it won’t be cowed by Abbas’s threats

Terror group’s No. 2 in the Gaza Strip says PA president will fail to ‘make Gaza kneel’ if he goes through with drastic funding cuts… Read More ›

Trump’s Visa Policy May Harm Israeli Hi-Tech Innovators

Trump’s Visa Policy May Harm Israeli Hi-Tech Innovators

Last Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order to evaluate the H-1B visa program, which enables skilled foreign workers with a “specialty occupation” to work temporarily… Read More ›

Israel’s poisonous political discourse

Israel’s poisonous political discourse

Op-ed: One of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s great ‘contributions’ to the Israeli discourse is turning the definition of ‘left’ into a curse, an accusation and a… Read More ›

After meeting German FM, B’Tselem calls on world to punish Israel

After meeting German FM, B’Tselem calls on world to punish Israel

Netanyahu defends decision to snub Berlin’s top diplomat Sigmar Gabriel over his meetings with leftwing advocacy groups   German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel met with… Read More ›

‘I am a Muslim Arab and an Israeli Zionist, and I love the Jewish people’

‘I am a Muslim Arab and an Israeli Zionist, and I love the Jewish people’

One of the most patriotic families in Israel lives just a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip. The father—a former Gazan—wears a medallion with the… Read More ›