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UK anti-Semitic incidents up 11% in 2016 – report

UK anti-Semitic incidents up 11% in 2016 – report

Community security organization counts highest number in 7 years, with peak coinciding with Labour’s anti-Semitism dust-up   The debate in British media about anti-Semitism within… Read More ›

Recommendations to police removed from report on Ethiopian community

Recommendations to police removed from report on Ethiopian community

Committee recommends limiting use of Tasers, equipping police with body cameras and handing out harsher punishments to racist officers, but these were removed from its… Read More ›

Olympics-Israeli victims of 1972 Games honored 44 years on

Olympics-Israeli victims of 1972 Games honored 44 years on

After years of refusing requests by 1972 Munich Olympic Israeli athletes’ widows to mark a moment’s silence for their murdered husbands, IOC inaugurates Place of… Read More ›

Israel buying gas masks from companies that worked with the Nazis

Israel buying gas masks from companies that worked with the Nazis

The Defense Ministry, Israel Police, Israel Prison Service and the Firefighting Commission have all for years been using HazMat gear manufactured by two German companies… Read More ›

Netanyahu dares Herzog to back media competition

Netanyahu dares Herzog to back media competition

Opposition head: Jabotinsky would be ashamed of you.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Isaac Herzog took turns volleying back and forth over… Read More ›

Knesset committee recognizes Armenian genocide

Knesset committee recognizes Armenian genocide

“It is our moral obligation to recognize the Holocaust of the Armenian nation,” committee chairman MK Ya’acov Margi (Shas) said.   The Knesset Education, Culture… Read More ›

Iran’s Rouhani: US, Israel scuppering nuclear deal

Iran’s Rouhani: US, Israel scuppering nuclear deal

President also accuses world powers of not meeting their commitments, which he says is harming Iranian economy   TEHRAN (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani… Read More ›

Monster tunnel diggers on their way to Israel

Monster tunnel diggers on their way to Israel

Four Tunnel Boring Machines are coming to Israel to create the underground sections of the Gush Dan Light Rail; beginning with the Red Line between… Read More ›

‘Never before, since 1948, has the world been so open to Israel’

‘Never before, since 1948, has the world been so open to Israel’

Michael Oren, who will serve as a “special envoy to the PM” in his new capacity as deputy minister, speaks to The Jerusalem Post about… Read More ›

Israel criticized by UNSC for mistreating Palestinian children

Israel criticized by UNSC for mistreating Palestinian children

According to the Israeli mission at the UN, during the current wave of violence 47 of the acts of terrorism against Israelis have been carried… Read More ›

Analysis: IDF using relative calm to prepare for future threats

Analysis: IDF using relative calm to prepare for future threats

Enemies growing in power but remain deterred • Stability cannot be counted on.   Despite the chaos and wafarre raging across the Middle East, the… Read More ›

White House ‘aims to conclude’ defense deal with Israel, official says

White House ‘aims to conclude’ defense deal with Israel, official says

The deal is expected to clock in at around $38 billion over ten years.   WASHINGTON – US inter-agency officials began a week of meetings… Read More ›

Israeli lawmakers advance bill to streamline cybersecurity

Israeli lawmakers advance bill to streamline cybersecurity

Citing DNC hack and Russian cyberattacks during 2008 Georgia war, MKs present plans to bring digital defenses under one roof   The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs… Read More ›

Uneasy Republicans, confident Democrats diverge on ‘Jewish’ issues

Uneasy Republicans, confident Democrats diverge on ‘Jewish’ issues

GOP Jews seek to paint Democrats as anti-Israel, but members of the faith remain overwhelmingly liberal   NEW YORK (JTA) — It’s never been easy… Read More ›

Knesset committee recognizes Armenian genocide

Knesset committee recognizes Armenian genocide

After years of Israel’s refusal to recognize Armenian genocide which claimed more than 1 million lives, Knesset committee says ‘It is our moral obligation to… Read More ›

Treating Amona and Tira as equals

Treating Amona and Tira as equals

Op-ed: The Knesset’s new “regularization bill” seeks to legalize the status of a few dozen homes in Amona. But if the people of Amona can… Read More ›

Israeli company shows interest in making Trump’s US-Mexico border wall a relaity

Israeli company shows interest in making Trump’s US-Mexico border wall a relaity

Trump sparked outrage in Mexico with his campaign vow to build a wall along the southern US border to keep out illegal immigrants and drugs,… Read More ›

In briefing to reporters, PM says Israel ‘won’t be left wanting’ in military aid talks with US

In briefing to reporters, PM says Israel ‘won’t be left wanting’ in military aid talks with US

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains interested in broadening his coalition, he said Sunday. To that end, he is keeping the foreign affairs portfolio for… Read More ›

Netanyahu ‘happy to work with whoever gets elected’ in US

Netanyahu ‘happy to work with whoever gets elected’ in US

PM tells reporters he’s being ‘very careful’ not to get involved in presidential campaign   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being “very careful” not to… Read More ›

Dark-skinned dolls and history lessons: How Israel plans to tackle prejudice

Dark-skinned dolls and history lessons: How Israel plans to tackle prejudice

Cabinet ministers to consider new report by high-level committee on addressing discrimination against Ethiopian Israelis   A major government report on ways to combat racism… Read More ›