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Does pro-Israel crowd ‘feel the Bern’? Sanders cites J Street, Zogby as advisers

Does pro-Israel crowd ‘feel the Bern’? Sanders cites J Street, Zogby as advisers

As his campaign has gained momentum by focusing largely on domestic issues, the Brooklyn-born son of Jewish immigrants from Poland has been coy about his… Read More ›

Labor Party votes to freeze two-state solution; Yacimovich boycotts vote

Labor Party votes to freeze two-state solution; Yacimovich boycotts vote

“The two-state vision did not die, but it will not happen tomorrow,” Herzog told the crowd.   Hundreds of Labor Party activists voted Sunday to… Read More ›

IDF lifts closure on West Bank hometown of Jerusalem terrorists

IDF lifts closure on West Bank hometown of Jerusalem terrorists

Army closed off Qabatiya on Wednesday, following deadly shooting, stabbing attack that killed 19-year-old border policewoman   Israel on Saturday evening lifted a closure on… Read More ›

Israel, US gear up for large-scale missile defense drill

Israel, US gear up for large-scale missile defense drill

IDF will host biennial Juniper Cobra exercise to ‘improve cooperation and coordination’ with American counterpart   Israel and the United States will train together against… Read More ›

Israeli TV: Kerry set to come to Israel to try to restart peace bid

Israeli TV: Kerry set to come to Israel to try to restart peace bid

If all else fails, Channel 2 says, Obama administration may seek in its final months to impose an accord; Herzog: US hasn’t given up on… Read More ›

Arson suspected in prayer tent fire

Arson suspected in prayer tent fire

Law enforcement investigating locals’ suspicions that a fire that burned several Torah books was deliberately started by a Palestinian Anonymous individuals on Saturday night set… Read More ›

Arab stabs Jew, flees in southern Israel

Arab stabs Jew, flees in southern Israel

Witnesses say young Arab man stabbed Jewish woman in her 60s, moderately wounding her, at street market in Rahat; police searching for suspect. A young… Read More ›

Fear of knowledge: What the ultra-Orthodox and secular share

Fear of knowledge: What the ultra-Orthodox and secular share

Op-ed: While the ultra-Orthodox public is intentionally ignorant about general matters, the secular public seems to be choosing its own brand of ignorance when it… Read More ›

‘The Kotel compromise defused a strategic threat to US-Israel relationship’

‘The Kotel compromise defused a strategic threat to US-Israel relationship’

Former ambassador to the US MK Michael Oren looks at this week’s agreement to build an egalitarian section of the Western Wall with satisfaction.  … Read More ›

Ban Ki-Moon speaks at NY Holocaust remembrance ceremony after Israel row

Ban Ki-Moon speaks at NY Holocaust remembrance ceremony after Israel row

The Secretary-General pointed out that the UN organized over 120 Holocaust remembrance events in 36 countries in the past year.   NEW YORK – “Only… Read More ›

Analysis: Bernie’s socialist kibbutz

Analysis: Bernie’s socialist kibbutz

Unlike today, Israel was then the darling of the world with its fresh, young, pioneering spirit and adored idealism. Those days are gone.   Thursday… Read More ›

‘Israel’s AG vetoed my plan to banish Palestinian terrorists’ kin to Gaza’

‘Israel’s AG vetoed my plan to banish Palestinian terrorists’ kin to Gaza’

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told a conference in Herzliya that Israel cannot legally deport Palestinians from the West Bank to Gaza.   Public Security… Read More ›

This is the latest sign that Xi Jinping is consolidating power

This is the latest sign that Xi Jinping is consolidating power

  Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, has already been called China’s “most powerful leader since Mao,” using a far-ranging anticorruption push, crackdowns… Read More ›

Jerusalem – French Immigration To Israel Estimated To Surpass 2015 Record

Jerusalem – French Immigration To Israel Estimated To Surpass 2015 Record

  Jerusalem – The Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs anticipates that ten thousand Jews will immigrate to Israel from France in 2016,… Read More ›

13-year-old girls remanded after stabbing guard in Ramle

13-year-old girls remanded after stabbing guard in Ramle

Girls say assault was ‘revenge for the situation in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,’ and in protest of Israel’s ‘killing of Palestinians’   The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s… Read More ›

After attack, police mull keeping cadets from Damascus Gate

After attack, police mull keeping cadets from Damascus Gate

Hadar Cohen, 19, was still in training when she was killed in Jerusalem Wednesday, but officials say she reacted like a veteran   A day… Read More ›

All eyes on The Boss

All eyes on The Boss

Fans, take note: Bruce Springsteen may be coming over for a concert in July. The contract hasn’t been signed yet, but the venue has been… Read More ›

Arab MKs meet with families of terrorists

Arab MKs meet with families of terrorists

Members of the Balad faction of the Joint Arab List – Haneen Zoabi, Jamal Zahalka, and Basel Ghattas – met the families a day before… Read More ›

Father of slain border police woman: ‘I salute you’

Father of slain border police woman: ‘I salute you’

Hadar Cohen, 19, laid to rest in Yehud’s military cemetery   Seconds before she herserlf was killed, Border police woman Hadar Cohen, 19, saved the life… Read More ›

Deri cancels Israeli residency for father of terrorist

Deri cancels Israeli residency for father of terrorist

Ala Zwid, who had been living in Umm al-Fahm, badly wounded a 19-year-old female soldier and lightly-to-moderately wounded a 14-year-old boy and two men aged… Read More ›