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Netanyahu associate at meeting with Iranian FM

Netanyahu associate at meeting with Iranian FM

French Jewish MP attended parliamentary meeting with Foreign Minister Zarif during the latter’s latest visit to France. They discussed the Holocaust, Israel, Iran’s infamous cartoon… Read More ›

Obama’s Jewish heart

Obama’s Jewish heart

Op-ed: Even those who see Obama as hostile to Israel have to admit he went all the way in his expressions of affection during a… Read More ›

World Medical Association affirms trust in Israeli doctors in response to BDS campaign

World Medical Association affirms trust in Israeli doctors in response to BDS campaign

Organization’s president writes the Simon Wiesenthal Center, following a call by a group 71 British doctors to expel the Israeli Medical Association over accusations of… Read More ›

Analysis: Using Israel’s gas to cement ties

Analysis: Using Israel’s gas to cement ties

Decades after saying that it has no natural resources, Israel is now emerging as a regional gas power, in the enviable position of having to… Read More ›

Washington – VIDEO: Obama Honors 4 Who Protected Jews During Holocaust

Washington – VIDEO: Obama Honors 4 Who Protected Jews During Holocaust

  Washington –  President Barack Obama is honoring four people, including Americans from Indiana and Tennessee, for risking their lives to protect Jews during the… Read More ›

1,700-year-old rabbis’ tombstones reflect Jewish life in Galilean city

1,700-year-old rabbis’ tombstones reflect Jewish life in Galilean city

Archaeologists unearth Greek and Aramaic funerary inscriptions from Tzippori, showing strong Jewish presence during period   Three 1,700-year-old funerary inscriptions written in Aramaic and Greek… Read More ›

UN chief rejects criticism from Israel: ‘Nothing justifies terrorism’

UN chief rejects criticism from Israel: ‘Nothing justifies terrorism’

After PM Netanyahu accused him of ‘giving terror a tailwind,’ Ban Ki-moon’s spokesman says the UN secretary-general stands behind remarks to the UN Security Council… Read More ›

Civilians apprehend stabber in Givat Ze’ev

Civilians apprehend stabber in Givat Ze’ev

Terrorist attacks a man about 50 years old outside a gas station restaurant, seriously wounding him; civilians tackle attacker to the ground, lightly wounding him.… Read More ›

Israel and Greece send message to Turkey: Our friendship is not aimed against you

Israel and Greece send message to Turkey: Our friendship is not aimed against you

“Our cooperation with Greece and Cyprus stands on its own,” Netanyahu said at a joint press conference in Jerusalem with Tsipras.   Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

One Israeli in serious condition after suspected terror stabbing in West Bank

One Israeli in serious condition after suspected terror stabbing in West Bank

  A Palestinian assailant stabbed an Israeli at a gas station in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze’ev, according to initial reports. MDA paramedics… Read More ›

‘I never implied Swedish FM should be assassinated,’ ex-government official says

‘I never implied Swedish FM should be assassinated,’ ex-government official says

Dr. Zvi Zameret, the former head of the Education Ministry’s pedagogical secretariat, wrote a stinging op-ed in ‘Makor Rishon’ on Friday that was harshly critical… Read More ›

US jihadist plotted assault on Masonic temple

US jihadist plotted assault on Masonic temple

Samy Mohamed Hamzeh had originally planned to travel to West Bank to attack Israelis there   A US man who plotted to attack a Masonic… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Survivor Sheds Light On Divisive WWII-era Jewish Councils

Jerusalem – Survivor Sheds Light On Divisive WWII-era Jewish Councils

  Jerusalem – Throughout the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, and while incarcerated in two prison camps, Mirjam Bolle wrote letters to her fiance that she… Read More ›

After stabbing attacks, army ordered to rethink settlement security

After stabbing attacks, army ordered to rethink settlement security

Netanyahu directs army to prepare widespread program to protect West Bank communities following three attacks in eight days   After a third terror attack inside… Read More ›

US envoy to UN condemns recent West Bank terror

US envoy to UN condemns recent West Bank terror

Samantha Power says while US ‘strongly opposes settlement activity,’ it ‘can never in itself be an excuse for violence’   US Ambassador to the UN… Read More ›

Furious Netanyahu slams Ban Ki-moon for ‘stoking’ Palestinian terrorism

Furious Netanyahu slams Ban Ki-moon for ‘stoking’ Palestinian terrorism

UN chief: It’s ‘human nature to react to occupation’; PM: There’s no justification for terror, the Palestinians want to destroy Israel   Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

Netanyahu: Europe not doing enough to fight anti-Semitism

Netanyahu: Europe not doing enough to fight anti-Semitism

Holocaust survivor Martha Weiss to represent Israel at UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, while US President Obama will attend ceremony at Israeli Embassy. Prime… Read More ›

IDF preparing for possible war on northern, Gaza borders

IDF preparing for possible war on northern, Gaza borders

Israel isn’t expected to start a war of choice in the near future, but the IDF believes incidents on the borders with Syria, Lebanon and… Read More ›

With Hezbollah to the left, Syria to the right, and snow all over, IDF takes no chances

With Hezbollah to the left, Syria to the right, and snow all over, IDF takes no chances

The most significant threat facing Israel today sits just a few meters from the soldiers of the Armored Brigade’s 605th engineering battalion.   In one… Read More ›

Milwaukee man charged with terror plot had planned attack on Israelis

Milwaukee man charged with terror plot had planned attack on Israelis

The officials said Hamzeh had been under investigation since September and had first considered an attack on Israelis in the West Bank but decided instead… Read More ›