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French olim despair over work barriers in Israel

French olim despair over work barriers in Israel

Prime Minister Netanyahu promised to welcome them with open arms, but French doctors and dentists are hardpressed to have their diplomas recognized and so have… Read More ›

End to separate burial for fallen soldiers whose Jewishness is in doubt

End to separate burial for fallen soldiers whose Jewishness is in doubt

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has signed off on an amendment according to which fallen soldiers whose Jewishness is in question will no longer be buried… Read More ›

Suspected arson at B’Tselem offices in Jerusalem

Suspected arson at B’Tselem offices in Jerusalem

Fire Department says source of fire at the left-wing NGO’s offices; one man taken to hospital in very light condition suffering from smoke inhalation. A… Read More ›

Ariel calls for annexation of West Bank’s Area C

Ariel calls for annexation of West Bank’s Area C

Ariel also called for building E1, where there are plans for 3,500 apartments.   Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel called on the government to annex Area… Read More ›

Galant initiates plan for increased land subsidies for Druse IDF veterans

Galant initiates plan for increased land subsidies for Druse IDF veterans

The new approach would raise the ceiling of the subsidy from NIS 190,000 to NIS 300,000.   Construction Minister Yoav Galant on Sunday announced a plan… Read More ›

Far-right protesters slam alleged Shin Bet torture

Far-right protesters slam alleged Shin Bet torture

In rally outside agency chief Yoram Cohen’s home, a Jewish terror suspect’s mother accuses him of ‘crimes against humanity’   Some 200 far-right activists protested… Read More ›

MK wants labels on goods from countries that label settlement products

MK wants labels on goods from countries that label settlement products

Legislation seeks to counter new EU guidelines that ban goods manufactured beyond 1967 lines from reading ‘Made in Israel’   The Knesset Committee for Legislation… Read More ›

US historians’ group rejects anti-Israel resolution

US historians’ group rejects anti-Israel resolution

For second year in a row, American Historical Association votes down proposal to condemn Israel by 111 to 50   WASHINGTON — For the second… Read More ›

Hamas set on carrying out attacks from West Bank

Hamas set on carrying out attacks from West Bank

Analysis: The discovery of two major Hamas terror cells in the West Bank over the past month shows the terror organization’s determination in the face… Read More ›

Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

United Torah Judaism demands state to fund life insurance to yeshiva students, set to cost NIS 36 million, while Bayit Yehudi MK stonewalling reform in… Read More ›

NIS 300 million worth of medications added to health basket

NIS 300 million worth of medications added to health basket

Third of budget for medical services and drugs paid for by the state allocated to cancer treatments; other additions include emergency contraceptive for victims of… Read More ›

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

US State Department spokesman John Kirby warned such actions undermine the possibility of a two-state solution.   The expansion of the territorial boundaries of the… Read More ›

PA agrees to cooperate in manhunt for Tel Aviv shooting suspect, says official

PA agrees to cooperate in manhunt for Tel Aviv shooting suspect, says official

PA security official: “He’s an Israeli citizen and if we capture him we will hand him over to the Israeli authorities,”   Israel has asked… Read More ›

When the shoe fit, Shin Bet knew it had found Duma killer

When the shoe fit, Shin Bet knew it had found Duma killer

Investigators say evidence from the scene helped to incriminate Amiram Ben-Uliel, who also knew details of the firebombing that hadn’t been publicized   Investigators revealed… Read More ›

Six Yitzhar settlers jailed for attacks on security forces

Six Yitzhar settlers jailed for attacks on security forces

Two men, four minors get 8-month sentences in plea bargain for crimes including rock-throwing, disrupting police work   Lod District Court on Thursday sentenced six… Read More ›

Bennett: Authorities looking at ‘one or two rabbis’ who helped radicalize ‘hilltop youth’

Bennett: Authorities looking at ‘one or two rabbis’ who helped radicalize ‘hilltop youth’

Education minister says he’s launched programs to rehabilitate young Jewish extremists; insists Israel must control West Bank ‘forever’; rules out change to status quo on… Read More ›

Radical Israeli rabbis come under fire amid settler violence

Radical Israeli rabbis come under fire amid settler violence

Recent attacks against Arabs have brought the teachings of extremists into the spotlight   JERUSALEM (AP) — A small group of extremist Israeli rabbis who… Read More ›

Bereaved mother of Tel Aviv attack: Declare my son’s murder terrorism

Bereaved mother of Tel Aviv attack: Declare my son’s murder terrorism

Iris Ruimi, mother of Shimon, who was murdered at the Simta Bar in Tel Aviv last week, implores President Reuven Rivlin to recognize her son… Read More ›

The ‘incitement doll’ center of British Parliamentary debate

The ‘incitement doll’ center of British Parliamentary debate

During debate on ‘child prisoners of the Occupied Palestinian Territories’, pro-Israel MK Andrew Percy displays the rock-throwing ‘incitement dolls’ seized by Israel last month as… Read More ›

North Korea teaching Iran how to extort the West

North Korea teaching Iran how to extort the West

Analysis: Kim Jong-un is repeatedly implementing his father’s ‘nuclear extortion’ trick, serving as a role model for Tehran’s conservative leaders. If Pyongyang indeed conducted a… Read More ›