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Report: ISIS threat spurs US to weigh pull of troops in Sinai

Report: ISIS threat spurs US to weigh pull of troops in Sinai

According to CNN, the Obama administration is examining the relocation of US and international peacekeeping forces from a base in the volatile northern Sinai to… Read More ›

Police chief: We don’t want to be like the US, with masses of people in prison

Police chief: We don’t want to be like the US, with masses of people in prison

Police chief Alsheich lays out his plan to win back the public’s faith in speech to Israel Bar Association.   National Police Commisioner Roni Alsheich… Read More ›

Are French millionaires really flocking to Israel? There are reasons to be skeptical

Are French millionaires really flocking to Israel? There are reasons to be skeptical

A new report indicates, implausibly, 2,500 extremely wealthy French emigrants headed to Israel in 2015, and that more than 10 of the 31,013 new immigrants… Read More ›

Trump denies scolding Jewish son-in-law over scuttled Israel trip

Trump denies scolding Jewish son-in-law over scuttled Israel trip

GOP front-runner said to reprimand Jared Kushner for proposing visit that was nixed after Netanyahu slammed comments on Muslims   Donald Trump’s campaign denied a… Read More ›

Netanyahu dares Abbas to meet: ‘I’ve cleared my schedule for the week’

Netanyahu dares Abbas to meet: ‘I’ve cleared my schedule for the week’

Following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ declaration to Israeli journalist of his willingness to meet Netanyahu ‘at any time’, the latter states ‘any day he can… Read More ›

Expired meat from Palestinian territories sold in Israeli restaurants

Expired meat from Palestinian territories sold in Israeli restaurants

After a lengthy investigation, a smuggling network consisting of nine Israelis and Palestinians was caught; the meat was smuggled into Israel by forging expiration and… Read More ›

Why are they afraid of criticism?

Why are they afraid of criticism?

Op-ed: ‘It is doubtful whether there is another civilized country where the court assumes such authority and violates the separation of powers as Israel does…In… Read More ›

Azerbaijani official to ‘Post’: Israel must comment on Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijani official to ‘Post’: Israel must comment on Nagorno-Karabakh

Jerusalem, meanwhile, is staying quiet on contested enclave.   Israel wants to remain completely out of the Azerbaijan- Armenia dispute over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory… Read More ›

Erekat: ‘We’re reporting to the ICC’ on Israeli home demolitions

Erekat: ‘We’re reporting to the ICC’ on Israeli home demolitions

Erekat spoke in the aftermath of Civil Administration demolitions of seven illegally built Palestinians structures in Area C of the West Bank on Monday.  … Read More ›

Wars of the Jews, 21st century edition

Wars of the Jews, 21st century edition

A series of challenges to the monopoly of Israel’s state rabbinate may threaten stability of government   Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that the state must… Read More ›

Caught between White House and its critics, lawmaker pledges to renew Iran sanctions

Caught between White House and its critics, lawmaker pledges to renew Iran sanctions

  Top Democrat Ben Cardin, one of 4 who joined Republicans to oppose nuke deal, to seek reauthorization of punitive measures before year’s end  … Read More ›

At Harvard, sparks fly over Israeli-Palestinian economic ties

At Harvard, sparks fly over Israeli-Palestinian economic ties

Although a university gathering brought together business minds from both sides of the divide, some on campus condemned event for advancing ‘occupation’ and ‘daily humiliation… Read More ›

Huge leak reveals deep corruption linked to offshore accounts

Huge leak reveals deep corruption linked to offshore accounts

Israeli banks and citizens are among those implicated.   An international effort by over 100 media organizations to expose the illicit financial activities of some of… Read More ›

Meir Ettinger will not be released for his son’s circumcision

Meir Ettinger will not be released for his son’s circumcision

The radical right-wing activist’s family are planning to appeal the decision at the High Court of Justice; his wife refuses to have the ceremony in… Read More ›

Givati commanders discuss the Hebron shooting

Givati commanders discuss the Hebron shooting

Givati’s battalion commanders relate the difficulties they face out in the field dealing with disturbances from both sides as well as methods developed by brigade… Read More ›

Pathologists: Soldier’s bullet killed Hebron terrorist

Pathologists: Soldier’s bullet killed Hebron terrorist

Investigators claim that both the Israeli and Palestinian pathologist ruled that it was the bullet of the Kfir Brigade solider who shot the already-neutralized terrorist… Read More ›

Former ICC chief prosecutor talks Israel, the Palestinians and ISIS

Former ICC chief prosecutor talks Israel, the Palestinians and ISIS

The West is hypocritical for going to war with ISIS.   Luis Moreno Ocampo says that at age 32, he knew he’d just been “appointed… Read More ›

Israel – Palestinian Boat Smuggling Unknown Materials From Egypt Into Gaza, Sunk By IDF

Israel – Palestinian Boat Smuggling Unknown Materials From Egypt Into Gaza, Sunk By IDF

  Israel – ‎Israel’s Navy sunk a suspected smuggling boat that was approaching the coast of the Gaza Strip overnight on Saturday, an army spokesperson… Read More ›

Parole board to rule on release of imprisoned ex-president

Parole board to rule on release of imprisoned ex-president

Sunday decision could spell an early end to seven-year sentence for rape for former cabinet minister, lawmaker Moshe Katsav   An Israel Prisons Service parole… Read More ›

Palestinian stabber killed in Hebron to undergo autopsy

Palestinian stabber killed in Hebron to undergo autopsy

IDF soldier who shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif while he lay apparently helpless on the ground faces manslaughter charges   The autopsy of Abdel Fattah al-Sharif,… Read More ›