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Israeli stabbed and wounded in Jerusalem

Israeli stabbed and wounded in Jerusalem

A 17-year-old was stabbed in the back and lightly wounded next to Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Security forces are searching for the two attackers, who… Read More ›

German paper uses Nazi language to blame Israel for Palestinian terrorism

German paper uses Nazi language to blame Israel for Palestinian terrorism

Some German Jews have canceled their SZ subscriptions over the years because of its alleged contemporary anti-Semitism.   BERLIN – An article in the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung… Read More ›

Israel not surprised by US/UK spying but says changes needed

Israel not surprised by US/UK spying but says changes needed

In Israel, it’s a given that foreign intelligence agencies active in the Middle East monitor Israeli military activities.   Israel’s defense establishment will probably not… Read More ›

Defense Ministry unveils first Namer APC with Trophy anti-missile system

Defense Ministry unveils first Namer APC with Trophy anti-missile system

Rafael-produced system will enable troop transporter to move across battlefields rife with anti-tank and RPG threats.   The Defense Ministry unveiled on Thursday the first… Read More ›

Coca Cola to open Gaza factory ‘within weeks’

Coca Cola to open Gaza factory ‘within weeks’

$20 million manufacturing plant will provide more than 1,000 jobs to unemployment-ridden Strip   Coca Cola is to open a factory in the Gaza Strip… Read More ›

5 Palestinians jailed for 15 years for stoning that led to toddler’s death

5 Palestinians jailed for 15 years for stoning that led to toddler’s death

Military court strikes plea bargain with stone-throwers, which stipulates they will compensate family of four-year-old Adele Bitton   Five Palestinian youths were sentenced to 15… Read More ›

MK’s car pelted with rocks after visiting family of terror victim

MK’s car pelted with rocks after visiting family of terror victim

Yesh Atid’s Haim Yellin was on his way back from paying a condolence visit to family of Shlomit Krigman, stabbed to death earlier this week,… Read More ›

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 ›