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Jerusalem – Nespresso Sues Israeli Coffee Company Over Clooney Lookalike

Jerusalem – Nespresso Sues Israeli Coffee Company Over Clooney Lookalike

Jerusalem – A George Clooney doppelganger is brewing up tensions between two coffee companies in Israel. Nespresso is suing the Israeli Espresso Club for using… Read More ›

Israel ‘enables’ PA economy to curb radicals, Netanyahu says

Israel ‘enables’ PA economy to curb radicals, Netanyahu says

US-Israel alliance is ‘rock-solid’ despite differences on Iran, PM says in Switzerland; adds Islamic State ‘can be defeated’   Israel is working to prevent Palestinian… Read More ›

Treat Israel like moderate Arab states do, PM tells EU’s Mogherini

Treat Israel like moderate Arab states do, PM tells EU’s Mogherini

Netanyahu slams European ‘double standards’; says more Swedes joined IS than Arab Israelis   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday told the European Union’s foreign… Read More ›

Fraud and Breach of Trust Law to be amended

Fraud and Breach of Trust Law to be amended

The law, which led to the convictions of multiple public figures, has been criticized for years, with complaints accusing it of being too vague. After… Read More ›

Abbas: I agreed to meet Netanyahu, he didn’t respond

Abbas: I agreed to meet Netanyahu, he didn’t respond

Speaking to Israeli reporters, the Palestinian president claimed that his office in Ramallah communicated with the PM’s office several times, sans American mediation, even trying… Read More ›

‘I’m breaking the silence because I’m Zionist, Israeli and a patriot’

‘I’m breaking the silence because I’m Zionist, Israeli and a patriot’

He is the ‘star’ of the aggressive Im Tirzu campaign against Breaking the Silence, but has so far preferred to keep quiet. Now, Avner Gvaryahu… Read More ›

Jerusalemites pitch in to help find diamond ring accidentally thrown in trash

Jerusalemites pitch in to help find diamond ring accidentally thrown in trash

Dozens of Jerusalemites answered the requests of a woman who lost her engagement ring to help her search through a vast pile of garbage.  … Read More ›

‘I begged her to keep breathing and not to stop’

‘I begged her to keep breathing and not to stop’

Renana Meir recalls terrorist attack in Otniel that killed her mother.   As Dafna Meir, 38, lay on the floor of her home with a knife… Read More ›

Palestinian Authority hard-liners blast security cooperation with Israel

Palestinian Authority hard-liners blast security cooperation with Israel

PA security commander unveils that PA security forces have prevented some 200 terrorist attacks against Israel since October 2015.   Palestinian factions on Wednesday strongly… Read More ›

US condemns Israel’s Jordan Valley land expropriation

US condemns Israel’s Jordan Valley land expropriation

Government declares 370 acres near West Bank settlement south of Jericho as state land, in largest such appropriation since 2014   Washington on Wednesday condemned… Read More ›

US academic group reaffirms opposition to Israel boycott

US academic group reaffirms opposition to Israel boycott

Association of American Universities re-releases statement calling academic boycotts of Israel a violation of academic freedom   WASHINGTON — After members of the American Anthropological… Read More ›

New English collection opens the doors to Yehuda Amichai’s unforgettable poetry

New English collection opens the doors to Yehuda Amichai’s unforgettable poetry

Israel’s greatest modern poet is revealed in all his diversity, sensuality and universality   Yehuda Amichai arrived in the land of Israel, as he noted… Read More ›

‘Hezbollah is getting the most sophisticated Russian weapons’

‘Hezbollah is getting the most sophisticated Russian weapons’

Advanced weapons are going from Russia to Syria and then into Hezbollah’s hands, according to an IDF reserve officer. These deliveries likely include Onyx missiles,… Read More ›

Goodbye Iran, hello Israel? Sudan changes its approach

Goodbye Iran, hello Israel? Sudan changes its approach

While Jerusalem and Khartoum are a long way from normalized relations, the last few months have seen Sudan edge closer to the moderate Sunni camp… Read More ›

Explaining a non-existent policy

Explaining a non-existent policy

Op-ed: Something that is often conspicuously absent from the discussions of Israeli PR problems is the country’s clear lack of a consistent and clear policy… Read More ›

Reform may allow physicians to prescribe medical marijuana

Reform may allow physicians to prescribe medical marijuana

At present, only a small number of doctors authorized by the ministry can prescribe it, and the drug is obtainable only from a limited number… Read More ›

Rivlin: ISIS already present in Israel with support growing

Rivlin: ISIS already present in Israel with support growing

According to the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority, there are currently close to a dozen Israeli citizens who are fighting with ISIS, with growing concerns… Read More ›

Swedish opposition lawmakers to call Wallström out over Palestinian incitement

Swedish opposition lawmakers to call Wallström out over Palestinian incitement

MK Lipman: Swedish FM answering difficult questions in a public setting is huge diplomatic success.   Swedish opposition MPs said Tuesday evening that they would… Read More ›

Second Jewish left-wing activist said detained by Israeli police

Second Jewish left-wing activist said detained by Israeli police

Suspect linked to man previously arrested for allegedly informing on Palestinians who sold West Bank land to Jews   Israeli police have detained a Jewish… Read More ›

Israel to announce major land seizure in Jordan Valley

Israel to announce major land seizure in Jordan Valley

Government to declare 370 acres near West Bank settlement south of Jericho as state land in largest appropriation since 2014   The Israeli government will… Read More ›