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Israel’s El Al looks to new planes to reassert dominance

Israel’s El Al looks to new planes to reassert dominance

El Al’s main advantage has long been tough security; average age of its long-haul fleet is 18 years; airline, pilots in new wage deal to… Read More ›

The last dance at Amona

The last dance at Amona

With the clock ticking, hundreds gather in the wildcat outpost, slated for evacuation by next Sunday, to protest, comfort and celebrate   The Amona outpost… Read More ›

Will Netanyahu’s visits to Muslim countries bring Israel’s secret ties out of the closet?

Will Netanyahu’s visits to Muslim countries bring Israel’s secret ties out of the closet?

Azerbaijan, located in the Caucasus region, and Kazakhstan, in Central Asia, are Muslim republics. Friendly relations with both of them, and especially the strategic alliance… Read More ›

New US Ambassador to Israel references ’embassy in Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem’

New US Ambassador to Israel references ’embassy in Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem’

During the campaign, Trump made it clear he would support Israel in a number of critical areas, including moving the American embassy to Jerusalem.  … Read More ›

Soldier imprisoned for distributing flyers

Soldier imprisoned for distributing flyers

The newly enlisted man will serve ten days in a military prison; the IDF considers the posters racist and political, which it specifies as forbidden… Read More ›

Trump taps adviser Friedman to be US ambassador to Israel

Trump taps adviser Friedman to be US ambassador to Israel

In sign of president-elect’s resolve to move embassy to Jerusalem, intended envoy predicts he’ll be working from ‘Israel’s eternal capital’   WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald… Read More ›

Amona settlers reject state’s ‘Swiss cheese’ relocation offer

Amona settlers reject state’s ‘Swiss cheese’ relocation offer

The offer, proposed by Education Minister Naftali Benett and approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was to relocate the homes to abandoned Palestinian property on… Read More ›

IDF Manpower Directorate chief resigns after laptop stolen

IDF Manpower Directorate chief resigns after laptop stolen

Maj. Gen. Hagai Topolanski tells IDF chief he was taught to take responsibility for his actions and that he hopes that in his decision to… Read More ›

Jerusalem – In First, Israeli Neurosurgeons Perform ‘live’ Surgeries On Facebook

Jerusalem – In First, Israeli Neurosurgeons Perform ‘live’ Surgeries On Facebook

  Jerusalem – More than half a million people have tuned in during the last two days and watched the Soroka-University Medical Center operations. It’s… Read More ›

Tillerson’s past offers few clues on his Middle East perspective

Tillerson’s past offers few clues on his Middle East perspective

Trump’s choice for secretary of state, an oil man, will come under scrutiny for his broad opposition to sanctions.   WASHINGTON – Donald Trump announced… Read More ›

A disaster waiting to happen

A disaster waiting to happen

Op-ed: The picture emerging from the latest state comptroller report on the home front’s preparedness for war it is that we are on the verge… Read More ›

First cousins who thought entire family died in Holocaust united in Israel

First cousins who thought entire family died in Holocaust united in Israel

Two pairs of Polish Jewish siblings meet in Jerusalem after one of them finds her father’s testimony at Yad Vashem database filled out by previously… Read More ›

Israel losing public opinion support in US

Israel losing public opinion support in US

Op-ed: The American public’s growing support for anti-Israel sanctions over the ongoing expansion of settlements is setting off alarm bells, but the Israeli government couldn’t… Read More ›

With fog delay, F-35 ceremony turns farcical — but it could’ve been worse

With fog delay, F-35 ceremony turns farcical — but it could’ve been worse

Event for Israel’s new fighter jet starts 6 hours late with greatly depleted audience; though unlike a botched 1976 ceremony for the F-15, it probably… Read More ›

Netanyahu, Israel’s one and only

Netanyahu, Israel’s one and only

Op-ed: The system of checks and balances, which stabilized the prime minister, has collapsed. Only two restraining systems remain: The IDF General Staff and the… Read More ›

Iran: If war imposed on us, Israel, Gulf states will be destroyed

Iran: If war imposed on us, Israel, Gulf states will be destroyed

Iranian defense minister says Mideast worried about conflict risks with Trump, amid president-elect’s vow to dismantle ‘disastrous’ nuclear deal   The election of Donald Trump… Read More ›

Do chemical weapons in Syria threaten Israel?

Do chemical weapons in Syria threaten Israel?

Among the most horrifying aspects of the five-year-old Syrian civil war was Assad’s use of chemical weapons, including the massive August 2013 sarin gas attack… Read More ›

Medical inequalities noted between the Center and the Periphery

Medical inequalities noted between the Center and the Periphery

A new Ministry of Health report shows immense differences in the quality of medical care between the periphery regions of Israel and the Center; minister… Read More ›

Coalition chair ‘can’t understand fuss’ over his comments on Arabs

Coalition chair ‘can’t understand fuss’ over his comments on Arabs

Blasted for saying he would prefer Arab Israelis did not vote, David Bitan says no party wants its opponents going to polls   Coalition chairman… Read More ›

Settlements bill to be pushed off until Trump inauguration

Settlements bill to be pushed off until Trump inauguration

Sources close to Netanyahu say that PM ‘won’t let the bill become law.’   The controversial legislation meant to retroactively legalize close to 4,000 settlement… Read More ›