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Rare 150-year-old Jerusalem maps sell for NIS 13,000 at auction

Rare 150-year-old Jerusalem maps sell for NIS 13,000 at auction

First modern maps of Jerusalem from Ottoman era composed by British Army contractor sold.   Rare, 150-year-old maps of Jerusalem from a British Army operative during… Read More ›

Analysis: Panama Papers deal a harsh blow to corruption, but also to privacy

Analysis: Panama Papers deal a harsh blow to corruption, but also to privacy

It is becoming harder for the real power brokers to hide behind straw people even in foreign lands.   Defense lawyer and co-chairwoman of the… Read More ›

Tzipi Livni rejects national unity government with Likud

Tzipi Livni rejects national unity government with Likud

‘Secret coalition talks’ between Netanyahu, Herzog said frozen after Labor head hit by graft probe   Zionist Union no. 2 MK Tzipi Livni has said… Read More ›

Bliss and relaxation at Dead Sea resort

Bliss and relaxation at Dead Sea resort

Hotel Review: Dead Sea hotel offers relaxing massage, sulfur pools, a Jacuzzi, a sauna and steam room, along with a lavish buffet breakfast and a… Read More ›

Labor MK Bahloul defends remark that Hebron stabber is not a terrorist

Labor MK Bahloul defends remark that Hebron stabber is not a terrorist

Likud MK Avi Dichter harshly criticizes Labor MK Zuhair Bahloul’s comment that the Hebron stabber is not a terrorist because he attacked a soldier rather… Read More ›

Egypt relinquishes control of strategic islands

Egypt relinquishes control of strategic islands

Saudi Arabia and Egypt demarcate maritime boundary, officially putting islands in the Straits of Tiran under Saudi control; implications for Israel-Egypt relations and Israeli shipping… Read More ›

Three Palestinians suspected of planning attack arrested in West Bank with guns, grenades

Three Palestinians suspected of planning attack arrested in West Bank with guns, grenades

According to Palestinian sources, the three suspects were on their way to carry out a shooting attack against unspecified Israeli targets.   Palestinian sources confirmed… Read More ›

US might support UN resolution against West Bank settlements

US might support UN resolution against West Bank settlements

Netanyahu: Such a move would delay negotiations.   The United States has yet to decide whether or not to support a Palestinian drive to push forward… Read More ›

UN: IDF has razed more Palestinian structures this year than all of 2015

UN: IDF has razed more Palestinian structures this year than all of 2015

Of these, 14 structures, nine of which were residential, were demolished in Beduin encampments in the area of E1, which is within the boundaries of… Read More ›

Experts: Annual ‘Anonymous’ cyber-attack effort largely unsophisticated, unsuccessful.

Experts: Annual ‘Anonymous’ cyber-attack effort largely unsophisticated, unsuccessful.

In the past, it has claimed some success in tampering with websites belonging to Yad Vashem, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Israel Defense Forces, the… Read More ›

Sanders tells ADL he knows he got his Gaza death toll number wrong

Sanders tells ADL he knows he got his Gaza death toll number wrong

Candidate notes he immediately accepted correction to much-inflated 10,000 figure in midst of controversial interview; campaign says his words were ‘distorted’   WASHINGTON — Three… Read More ›

United Nations – Palestinians Seek UN Resolution Against Israeli Settlements

United Nations – Palestinians Seek UN Resolution Against Israeli Settlements

  United Nations –  The Palestinian U.N. Mission says it has circulated a proposed Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements to Arab nations. The draft… Read More ›

US open to ‘new arrangement’ on Iran’s missile tests

US open to ‘new arrangement’ on Iran’s missile tests

After appeal to UN over Tehran’s violation of ballistic missiles resolution, Kerry says White House ‘prepared to work for peaceful solution’   The United States… Read More ›

Wounded security personnel receive trip to Nepal

Wounded security personnel receive trip to Nepal

The Friends of Nechei Tzahal organization is providing an all expense paid trip to Nepal for 20 security services personnel who were wounded in the… Read More ›

1300 Ethiopian Jews to make aliyah

1300 Ethiopian Jews to make aliyah

Likud party decision puts end to coalition crisis after MKs David Amsalem and Avraham Neguise refused to vote with the coalition due to PM Netanyahu’s… Read More ›

The rule of fear

The rule of fear

Op-ed: Fear and the manner in which it is leveraged by leaders in the US, Europe and Israel threatens democracy. The common denominator of what… Read More ›

‘Ties with Romania won’t be hurt by arrest of Israelis’

‘Ties with Romania won’t be hurt by arrest of Israelis’

According to the official, the Romanian government understands that the Israelis are private citizens and were acting in a private capacity.   Israel and Romania… Read More ›

Danon on Palestinian Security Council move: There are no shortcuts to peace

Danon on Palestinian Security Council move: There are no shortcuts to peace

“The only way to promote negotiations starts by them condemning terrorism and stopping the incitement, and ends with direct negotiations between the two sides,” says… Read More ›

PM: Abbas move to condemn settlements at UN will push negotiations further away

PM: Abbas move to condemn settlements at UN will push negotiations further away

“The only way to advance peace is by direct negotiations and Abu Mazen is avoiding this,” Netanyahu says.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a… Read More ›

Sanders yet to correct false claim Israel killed ‘over 10,000’ Palestinian innocents

Sanders yet to correct false claim Israel killed ‘over 10,000’ Palestinian innocents

Despite two days of ToI questions, and an ADL plea that he correct his misstatement, Democratic presidential hopeful stays silent   WASHINGTON — Two days… Read More ›