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Netanyahu and Ya’alon: To be continued

Netanyahu and Ya’alon: To be continued

Analysis: The Prime Minister and Defense Minister have supposedly put their differences to rest, but the divide between them is deeper than it may seem.… Read More ›

Analysis: Jewish terrorism has been clipped

Analysis: Jewish terrorism has been clipped

Shin Bet believes the pursuit after the suspected Jewish terrorists – their arrest, interrogations, detentions, indictments and detentions – set a major blow to the… Read More ›

Jerusalem doctors help Palestinian child with rare foot defect

Jerusalem doctors help Palestinian child with rare foot defect

AVM can appear in various parts of the body, but in the foot area it is especially painful and debilitating.   An eight-year-old Palestinian boy… Read More ›

Bangladesh opposition official arrested over Israel meeting

Bangladesh opposition official arrested over Israel meeting

Nationalist Party secretary general Aslam Chowdhury denies charges he plotted ‘conspiracies against the government’   DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh police have arrested a senior official… Read More ›

Shin Bet: Hamas bringing weapons, rocket-making material into Gaza

Shin Bet: Hamas bringing weapons, rocket-making material into Gaza

Palestinian arrested by Navy dishes on naval smuggling; Israel says terror group ‘taking advantage’ of eased blockade   The Israeli Navy arrested off the coast… Read More ›

Netanyahu appoints Hanegbi to minister without portfolio

Netanyahu appoints Hanegbi to minister without portfolio

MK David Bitan will replace Hanegbi as coalition chairman; however, PM yet to appoint new ministers of communication, economy, foreign and regional cooperation as he… Read More ›

Former IDF generals come out in support of defense minister

Former IDF generals come out in support of defense minister

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Gadi Shamni says officers should speak their minds as ‘army of Yes-Men’ is dangerous for Israel’; while Maj.-Gen. (res.) Avi Mizrachi argues ‘opinions… Read More ›

Liberman sues reporter for defamation

Liberman sues reporter for defamation

Channel 10’s Or Heller claimed MK leaked Comptroller Gaza report.   Avidgdor Libernam on Monday sued Channel 10 military reporter Or Heller for running a story… Read More ›

Rafael unveils 1,500-meter-range infantry missile

Rafael unveils 1,500-meter-range infantry missile

Defense company declines to comment whether Spike has been purchased.   Rafael Advanced Defense Systems plans to unveil its Spike, short-range (SR) shoulder- fired (man… Read More ›

Deputy IDF chief denies likening Israel to Germany in Remembrance Day speech

Deputy IDF chief denies likening Israel to Germany in Remembrance Day speech

Yair Golan had warned of growing callousness, indifference to others, says he saw examples of pre-Holocaust sentiments ‘in our midst, today’   Deputy Chief of… Read More ›

Ya’alon to IDF brass: Army’s values under attack by ‘extremist minority’

Ya’alon to IDF brass: Army’s values under attack by ‘extremist minority’

Amid row over deputy IDF chief, who appeared to liken trends in Israel to pre-Nazi Germany, defense minister tells generals to speak out ‘courageously’  … Read More ›

The Double Nakba

The Double Nakba

Op-ed: Reconciliation will only be achieved when the Arab world stops deceiving itself and takes responsibility for the double nakba. Both the Arab one and… Read More ›

Israel at peak of heat wave

Israel at peak of heat wave

Southern Israel registers highest temperatures on Sunday, with 47 °C in kibbutz Yotvata and 46 °C in the Jordan Valley and Eilat; 442 people treated… Read More ›

Netanyahu summons Ya’alon for ‘clarification meeting’ after heated exchange

Netanyahu summons Ya’alon for ‘clarification meeting’ after heated exchange

Prime minister and defense minister go head to head in public exchange of remarks regarding the IDF; Ya’alon urges army chiefs: ‘Follow your human conscience… Read More ›

Expert dismisses Jordanian rhetoric against Israel as election ‘propaganda’

Expert dismisses Jordanian rhetoric against Israel as election ‘propaganda’

Parliament speaker: We oppose the peace treaty with Israel.   A Jordanian expert is dismissing comments opposing the peace treaty with Israel by Jordanian House… Read More ›

Right takes aim at Ya’alon: ‘IDF is subordinate to civilians, not a junta’

Right takes aim at Ya’alon: ‘IDF is subordinate to civilians, not a junta’

“Somebody needs to remind Bogie (Ya’alon’s nickname) that we live in a democracy, not a military regime,” Likud MK Oren Hazan said.   The Israeli… Read More ›

French Jews oppose Cannes film defending Munich terrorists

French Jews oppose Cannes film defending Munich terrorists

‘Munich: A Palestinian Story’ by director Nasri Hajjaj claims German police, not Palestinian hostage-takers, killed Israeli athletes at 1972 Olympics   The umbrella group of… Read More ›

Former Syrian general calls for peace with Israel

Former Syrian general calls for peace with Israel

Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein received a letter from a former Syrian brigadier general, Nabil al-Dandel, who defected from the ranks of the regime… Read More ›

Eurovision 2016: Israeli haircut disappoints, Ukraine backhands Russia

Eurovision 2016: Israeli haircut disappoints, Ukraine backhands Russia

In the end, with all of the theatrics and corny Euro pop, it was a deeply serious and political song that won the contest.  … Read More ›

A new Mediterranean friendship amid regional instability

A new Mediterranean friendship amid regional instability

The once frosty relationship between Israel and Greece has blossomed into a new partnership dedicated to boosting security ties, as the region is plagued by… Read More ›