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Settler leader calls on US citizens in Israel to vote for Trump

Settler leader calls on US citizens in Israel to vote for Trump

Republicans set up field offices in West Bank to register eligible voters.   A prominent settler leader has called on American citizens in Israel to… Read More ›

Donald Trump says Israel will be destroyed unless he is elected

Donald Trump says Israel will be destroyed unless he is elected

Trump said the deal had rendered Iran a “world power,” whereas it had previously been a regional power.   Donald Trump said if he is not… Read More ›

Third body found in the Tel Aviv construction site collapse

Third body found in the Tel Aviv construction site collapse

Search efforts continue at the site of Monday’s construction collapse in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hachayal neighborhood.   The death toll from Monday’s construction collapse in… Read More ›

Israeli groups seeks referendum on disputed territories

Israeli groups seeks referendum on disputed territories

‘Decision 50’, led by prominent figures in Israel’s self-proclaimed peace camp has urged PM Netanyahu to call a nationwide referendum on whether Israel should withdraw… Read More ›

Playing the blame game

Playing the blame game

Op-ed: The question we should all be asking is not how the current train work crisis will be solved, but what the next battleground between… Read More ›

Dutch ex-PM: Netanyahu should be tried for war crimes

Dutch ex-PM: Netanyahu should be tried for war crimes

Van Agt said in 2012 that Jews should have had a state in Germany instead of the Land of Israel.   Former Dutch prime minister… Read More ›

‘Post’ poll: Majority backs Katz in dispute with PM over Shabbat work

‘Post’ poll: Majority backs Katz in dispute with PM over Shabbat work

Transportation minister still has job after train shutdown, but Netanyahu maintains threat to fire him amid turmoil with haredim.   Only a quarter of Israelis support… Read More ›

Israel shells Syria in retaliation for mortar hitting Golan

Israel shells Syria in retaliation for mortar hitting Golan

Opposition media report barrage in village in demilitarized zone; Syrian state news says planes caused ‘material damage’   Israel targeted Syrian Army artillery in the… Read More ›

Pro-Israel Dems who backed Iran deal feel the heat in 2016 races

Pro-Israel Dems who backed Iran deal feel the heat in 2016 races

Prominent supporters of Jewish state are being attacked for not ‘standing with Israel,’ while some in Jewish community warn against using the deal as a… Read More ›

Palestinian killed in apparent ramming attempt in East Jerusalem

Palestinian killed in apparent ramming attempt in East Jerusalem

Another is moderately wounded as car tries to run over Border Police in Shuafat, officials say; no Israelis hurt   A Palestinian assailant was killed… Read More ›

Ultra-Orthodox press praises Netanyahu, criticizes Katz

Ultra-Orthodox press praises Netanyahu, criticizes Katz

The controversy over Shabbat work on train lines has led the ultra-Orthodox media in Israel to berate the transportation minister, who supported the Shabbat renovations,… Read More ›

Australian FM: Palestinians share blame for impasse

Australian FM: Palestinians share blame for impasse

During visit to Israel, Julie Bishop tells ‘Post’ that BDS is anti-Semitism   Unilateral actions toward statehood and violence by Palestinians – not only Israeli settlement… Read More ›

Netanyahu-Katz fight puts interim-PM post in doubt

Netanyahu-Katz fight puts interim-PM post in doubt

With Erdan, Liberman and Steinitz abroad, who will fill in?   The ongoing dispute between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Israel Katz has created… Read More ›

Top researcher: Israel must ‘finally set national space policy’

Top researcher: Israel must ‘finally set national space policy’

Space expert tells ‘Post’: Amos-7 possible in two years.   The Israeli government must finally lay out a clearly defined national space policy, based on… Read More ›

Traffic jams, canceled trains as Likud rail row begins to be felt

Traffic jams, canceled trains as Likud rail row begins to be felt

Some 150,000 passengers expected to be affected by closure Sunday of Tel Aviv-Haifa train line after political standoff over Sabbath repair work   Israelis began… Read More ›

Supreme Court orders outpost demolished, Justice minister tries to bypass it

Supreme Court orders outpost demolished, Justice minister tries to bypass it

Supreme Court President Miriam Naor decreed Thursday that the structures in the Way of the Patriarchs outpost, set up on private Palestinian land, be torn… Read More ›

Husband of terror victim urges people to adopt

Husband of terror victim urges people to adopt

In a Facebook post about how Natan Meir’s family is coping with the murder of his wife in a terror attack last January, Natan Meir… Read More ›

Opinion: Civil war on the horizon?

Opinion: Civil war on the horizon?

Pardo didn’t specify who his comments were aimed at, but it is safe to assume that he was referring to the settler movement.   Tamir… Read More ›

Netanyahu may allow ICC reps into West Bank

Netanyahu may allow ICC reps into West Bank

Officials: Trip’s aim would be PR, not investigating alleged war crimes.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a request by the International Criminal Court… Read More ›

Public Defender slams police for brutality, rights abuses

Public Defender slams police for brutality, rights abuses

The report notes a number of deficiencies in the country’s criminal justice system, including too many indictments, police brutality and the violation of suspects’ rights.… Read More ›