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Clash over Arabs moving into Jewish towns reflects deeper conflict

Clash over Arabs moving into Jewish towns reflects deeper conflict

High Court decision delays case over preventing Arabs from purchasing homes in Jewish Afula.   The High Court on Sunday did not reach a decision… Read More ›

In Jordan, Kerry urges Palestinians, Israelis to ease tensions

In Jordan, Kerry urges Palestinians, Israelis to ease tensions

In Amman meeting, PA leader Abbas tells top US diplomat Washington should intervene in Israeli-Palestinian deadlock   US Secretary of State John Kerry met Palestinian… Read More ›

Prisoner on death row performs Bar Mitzvah

Prisoner on death row performs Bar Mitzvah

Houston Chabad rabbi helps Jewish prisoner on death row put on tefillin and perform a Bar Mitzvah; the rabbi says, ‘When he saw that I… Read More ›

Israel presents Bedouin with demolition orders

Israel presents Bedouin with demolition orders

Israel sent notices to ramshackle 12 Bedouin properties; affected bedouin says ‘The Israeli occupation seeks to displace us from our territory’ Israel’s Civil Administration, the… Read More ›

Israeli sailor’s olympic dreams are crushed

Israeli sailor’s olympic dreams are crushed

Following altercation at friend’s house, Israeli champion sailor is ran over by a car; suspect says he lost control of car. Maor Ben Harush, who… Read More ›

Government, environmentalists butt heads over Haifa pollution at special Knesset session in Haifa

Government, environmentalists butt heads over Haifa pollution at special Knesset session in Haifa

Government representatives said it is too early to tell if there is correlation between pollution and health problems in Haifa – everyone else criticized them… Read More ›

Last year some 13,000 trucks laden with products from Turkey and Bulgaria passed through Israel, an increase of more than 25%.

Last year some 13,000 trucks laden with products from Turkey and Bulgaria passed through Israel, an increase of more than 25%.

  Chances are good that if members of the Saudi royal family are eating Turkish dried fruit or wearing Bulgarian shoes, some of those products… Read More ›

AP bureau chief: Israeli media criticism of foreign press verges on ‘incitement’

AP bureau chief: Israeli media criticism of foreign press verges on ‘incitement’

Comments come during Israeli offensive against “biased media.”   Israel’s increasingly hostile condemnations of the foreign press are beginning to verge on incitement, Associated Press… Read More ›

Egypt – Arab Social Media Abuzz Over Sisi’s Reported Praise Of Netanyahu To American Jewish Leaders

Egypt – Arab Social Media Abuzz Over Sisi’s Reported Praise Of Netanyahu To American Jewish Leaders

  Egypt – What exactly did Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi say to a group of American Jewish leaders about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? That… Read More ›

Treblinka revolt’s last survivor passes away at 93

Treblinka revolt’s last survivor passes away at 93

Samuel Willenburg, one of 67 to escape the Treblinka extermination camp in 1943, passed away Saturday evening beside his beloved daughter and wife Samuell Willenburg,… Read More ›

Education Ministry presents new ‘culture basket’ for next school year

Education Ministry presents new ‘culture basket’ for next school year

Budget increase to fund 6,000 cultural performances for 8,000 students, with less advantaged towns getting priority; following controversy over play this year, a new external… Read More ›

‘Israeli captive Ron Arad died in 1988 after torture’

‘Israeli captive Ron Arad died in 1988 after torture’

Lebanese man claims to reveal truth of hostage after nearly 30 years, saying the young IAF navigator endured brutal treatment and was found dead by… Read More ›

Clinton e-mails reveal thoughts on Israel

Clinton e-mails reveal thoughts on Israel

New batch of communications sent on Hillary Clinton’s private server give a behind-the-scenes look at the then-secretary of state’s views on Israel, and particularly Prime… Read More ›

From hi-tech to ‘high’ tech, Israel is planting the seeds for a cannabis economy

From hi-tech to ‘high’ tech, Israel is planting the seeds for a cannabis economy

Israel has been a leader in cannabis research, compared to the United States, where heavy regulation prohibits many forms of marijuana- related research.   Spark-Up… Read More ›

Iran-backed group blames Israel for trying to kill leader in Gaza

Iran-backed group blames Israel for trying to kill leader in Gaza

Iranian-backed terror group Al-Sabireen popped up in the Gaza Strip about three years ago and has since posed a direct challenge to Hamas.   The… Read More ›

Amid concerns Syrian war may widen, Russia urges Israel to resume peace process

Amid concerns Syrian war may widen, Russia urges Israel to resume peace process

Israel’s Gold tells Russian FM Lavrov: “Regional security prerequisite for peace.”   Amid concerns the raging war in Syria may widen, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei… Read More ›

Meet the guys helping Israeli entrepreneurs make it big in the Big Apple

Meet the guys helping Israeli entrepreneurs make it big in the Big Apple

Eyal Bino and Arie Abecassis launched ICONYC Labs to connect American investors with Israeli ideas in Manhattan   NEW YORK (JTA) — The hoodie-clad millennials… Read More ›

Israeli court convicts radical right-wing activist of sedition

Israeli court convicts radical right-wing activist of sedition

Moshe Orbach faces maximum of 5 years in prison for writing pamphlet with instructions on how to firebomb Palestinian homes   The Rehovot Magistrate’s Court… Read More ›

Israel prepares to fight boycott activists online

Israel prepares to fight boycott activists online

Gov’t allots $26 million to fight BDS movement; Israel is using its world-leading expertise in cyber security to take on the growing threat of the… Read More ›

Soldier killed and another wounded in Sha’ar Binyamin stabbing attack

Soldier killed and another wounded in Sha’ar Binyamin stabbing attack

Two 14-year-old Palestinians enter a Rami Levi supermarket and stab two Israelis. 21-year-old Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman died of his wounds. Two 14-year-old Palestinians carried… Read More ›