Israel News

Israel has lowest C-section rate in OECD

Israel has lowest C-section rate in OECD

Women’s health ‘discriminated against,’ says report.   The childbirth rate of Israeli women is the highest among the 34 OECD countries, while its rate of… Read More ›

Ending longstanding taboo, IDF pushes for HIV carriers to enlist

Ending longstanding taboo, IDF pushes for HIV carriers to enlist

Army medical officer says move, made possible with advances in medicine, will affect few but send important message   In light of recent medical developments,… Read More ›

Abbas muzzles Hamas’ al-Aqsa TV

Abbas muzzles Hamas’ al-Aqsa TV

Palestinian security services instruct communications companies to stop servicing Hamas’ al- Aqsa TV; in past month, Israel closed two Hebron radio stations. The Palestinian security… Read More ›

Hezbollah: Israel exploded spying device in Lebanon

Hezbollah: Israel exploded spying device in Lebanon

The terrorist organization’s news station, Al-Manar, claims that two demolition devices were exploded in order to destroy an Israeli listening device in the Marge Ayoun… Read More ›

Horrific new details emerge in 1972 Munich Olympics massacre

Horrific new details emerge in 1972 Munich Olympics massacre

More than 40 years after the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Games in Munich, a new documentary film and a New York… Read More ›

Attorney: Lift gag order on ‘breakthrough’ in suspected Jewish terrorism case

Attorney: Lift gag order on ‘breakthrough’ in suspected Jewish terrorism case

“It’s a shame the public can’t know what’s going on.”   A private attorney is pushng to make public details about an apparently dramatic development… Read More ›

Analysis: Not the darling of the ball, but also not the ugly duckling

Analysis: Not the darling of the ball, but also not the ugly duckling

More and more countries want to deal with Israel, even if they disagree with certain aspects of the current government’s policies.   Nearly 150 leaders… Read More ›

Exiled Iranian poet in Israel: This is the best place on Earth

Exiled Iranian poet in Israel: This is the best place on Earth

Payam Feili, sporting a Star of David neck tattoo, arrives in Tel Aviv to launch Hebrew translation of his book, play adaptation   The exiled… Read More ›

Israel, Jordan unveil $800m joint plan for ‘Red-Dead’ canal

Israel, Jordan unveil $800m joint plan for ‘Red-Dead’ canal

As well as rejuvenating the rapidly diminishing Dead Sea, the canal will bring drinking water to both countries   Israel and Jordan are moving ahead… Read More ›

Israel devastating the Palestinian environment, Abbas tells climate summit

Israel devastating the Palestinian environment, Abbas tells climate summit

‘Our trees are being uprooted, our agriculture is being destroyed,’ PA president says in Paris, even as he appeals for fresh peace talks   Palestinian… Read More ›

Ayman Odeh to make diplomatic visit to US

Ayman Odeh to make diplomatic visit to US

Joint List chairperson invited to unprecedented diplomatic visit, which will include meetings at the White House and Congress. “The issues that matter to Israel’s Arab… Read More ›

Netanyahu and Abbas shake hands for first time in five years

Netanyahu and Abbas shake hands for first time in five years

The Israeli PM and Palestinian President met face-to-face for the first time since 2010, at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Prime… Read More ›

NGO: Fire UNRWA staff members that post photos glorying the death of Jews

NGO: Fire UNRWA staff members that post photos glorying the death of Jews

UNRWA employees keep posting anti-Semitic posts despite promises to take the incidents seriously.   UNRWA staff members who post photographs or text glorying the death… Read More ›

Israeli-Russian cooperation has successfully prevented ‘unnecessary accidents,’ says PM

Israeli-Russian cooperation has successfully prevented ‘unnecessary accidents,’ says PM

The meeting came less than a week after a Russian jet was shot down by Turkey after it allegedly entered Turkish airspace.   Israeli Prime… Read More ›

Netanyahu calls for friendly countries to change UN voting pattern on Israel

Netanyahu calls for friendly countries to change UN voting pattern on Israel

“You will hear this [demand] more and more – this is our natural expectation.”   PARIS – Israel will begin asking countries with whom it… Read More ›

Nepalese terror victim: I couldn’t find anyone to help me

Hisouri Tepalya describes staggering across the street after she was stabbed in the back by a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem Hisouri Tepalya, a Nepalese woman… Read More ›

Dozens of Palestinians said injured in clashes with IDF

Dozens of Palestinians said injured in clashes with IDF

Palestinian media reports some 20 protesters hit by live fire in West Bank; Israel confirms two injured in riots   Dozens of Palestinians were injured… Read More ›

Arab teen holding firebomb said shot dead in Jerusalem

Arab teen holding firebomb said shot dead in Jerusalem

Police say security forces were in ‘real life-threatening danger’; would-be assailant identified as 16-year-old from Silwan   Border Police officers shot and killed a Palestinian… Read More ›

The battle over EU settlement labeling has just begun

The battle over EU settlement labeling has just begun

The union’s guidelines are mandatory for all member states, but it’s not all black and white, and Israel can yet try to soften the blow… Read More ›

Ultra-Orthodox rebel against Education Ministry

Ultra-Orthodox rebel against Education Ministry

A message from two of the Councils of the Torah Sages announces that, among other things, there will be no cooperation with the Education Ministry… Read More ›