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Despite everything, Abbas tells Israelis, peace is attainable

Despite everything, Abbas tells Israelis, peace is attainable

In rare TV interview, Palestinian leader says Netanyahu is still a ‘partner’ for talks; PA security forces are preventing knifings; and while there’s incitement in… Read More ›

Herzog: Those who try and harm me will be struck down

Herzog: Those who try and harm me will be struck down

The Knesset Opposition Leader had fierce words for those behind publicizing the police’s investigation of his actions. He claimed his political opponents are to blame.… Read More ›

Deri now under criminal investigation

Deri now under criminal investigation

The preliminary police inquiry into the Interior Minister has been upgraded to a full police investigation, the attorney general announced Thursday; Deri promises full cooperation… Read More ›

UNHRC decision has serious implications

UNHRC decision has serious implications

Op-ed: The UN Human Rights Council approved a decision instructing the compilation of a blacklist of companies operating in the settlements; though it lacks enforcement… Read More ›

Israeli and Egyptian ministers meet for first time in years

Israeli and Egyptian ministers meet for first time in years

Discussion focused on various regional issues, including the possibility of Israel supplying Egypt with natural gas.   National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz… Read More ›

Abbas: We are searching schools, in one 70 children had knives

Abbas: We are searching schools, in one 70 children had knives

Abbas’s administration and Israel coordinate security in the West Bank despite the stalling two years ago of US-sponsored negotiations on Palestinian statehood.   Palestinian Authority… Read More ›

Digital diplomacy in Arab world is an uphill battle

Digital diplomacy in Arab world is an uphill battle

The ministry tries to target and engage with social media “influencers,” who have large followings.   The social media age may have ushered in unprecedented… Read More ›

Specter of nuclear terrorism draws world leaders to Washington for summit

Specter of nuclear terrorism draws world leaders to Washington for summit

Israel sends delegation including Steinitz; Iran, Russia absent   WASHINGTON – Last year, when an active black market for radioactive materials was uncovered in Moldova,… Read More ›

Washington – U.S. Condemns U.N. Call For List Of Firms Operating In West Bank

Washington – U.S. Condemns U.N. Call For List Of Firms Operating In West Bank

  Washington – The United States on Wednesday condemned a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution that calls for setting up a database of businesses… Read More ›

US pans move to blacklist companies working with settlements

US pans move to blacklist companies working with settlements

State Department condemns Human Rights Council’s ‘bias’ against Israel in resolution that is ‘far outside their scope of authority’   The US on Wednesday condemned… Read More ›

Netanyahu pans US senator’s call to probe ‘extrajudicial killings’

Netanyahu pans US senator’s call to probe ‘extrajudicial killings’

Patrick Leahy, 10 other lawmakers questioned military aid to Israel, Egypt given allegations of human rights abuses by their security forces   Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

Trump says nuclear Saudi Arabia may be inevitable

Trump says nuclear Saudi Arabia may be inevitable

GOP front-runner calls for US to consider allowing allies to acquire atomic weapons as defense against rogue states   Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said… Read More ›

Police examines suspicions against Herzog

Police examines suspicions against Herzog

Israel Police and Tax Authority are looking into suspicions the Opposition leader violated the Parties Financing Law during last Labor primaries; similar suspicions arose against… Read More ›

US congressmen call on Kerry to probe Israeli ‘extrajudicial executions’

US congressmen call on Kerry to probe Israeli ‘extrajudicial executions’

In letter, Dem. Senator Patrick Leahy urges State Department to investigate allegations of ‘gross violations of human rights’ by Israel and Egypt, and reexamine military… Read More ›

NGO to A-G: Spill the beans on new Deri scandal to High Court

NGO to A-G: Spill the beans on new Deri scandal to High Court

Movement for Quality of Government wants the interior minister fired.   An NGO wrote to Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit demanding that he reveal evidence from the… Read More ›

Settler leader: IDF to raze outpost synagogue

Settler leader: IDF to raze outpost synagogue

The synagogue was constructed in memory of Naftali Fraenkel, 16, Gil-Ad Shaer, 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, whom Hamas terrorists kidnapped and murdered on June… Read More ›

Quartet envoys in Jerusalem to work toward restarting peace talks

Quartet envoys in Jerusalem to work toward restarting peace talks

Group expected to release report in coming months.   Envoys from the Middle East Quartet, made up of the US, Russia, EU and UN, met… Read More ›

Theater director: Take ‘Israel’ off my name on int’l festival program

Theater director: Take ‘Israel’ off my name on int’l festival program

Ofira Henig’s Arabic-language ‘manmaRo’ project will be showing at the Festival of International New Drama in the Schaubühne theater in April.   A prominent Israeli… Read More ›

Israel, China announce 260-million-shekel academic cooperation

Israel, China announce 260-million-shekel academic cooperation

Visiting Jerusalem, Chinese Vice Premier Liu Jindong announces start of talks over free-trade zone with Israel   Israel and China have signed seven academic cooperation… Read More ›

Israeli companies to build smart city in Brazil

Israeli companies to build smart city in Brazil

Croatá Laguna Ecopark, a high-tech city for low-income Brazilians, will boast Israeli solutions for security, landscaping and engineering   RIO DE JANEIRO — Three Israeli… Read More ›