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Kuwait Airways drops New York-London route to avoid selling tickets to Israelis

Kuwait Airways drops New York-London route to avoid selling tickets to Israelis

The incident revolves around the company’s refusal in 2013 to sell a ticket to an Israeli citizen who wanted to fly from New York’s JFK… Read More ›

Home Front Command prepares for increased rocket threat from Syria

Home Front Command prepares for increased rocket threat from Syria

“I encourage individuals and families to prioritize investing in safe rooms,” senior officer tells the ‘Post.’   The IDF Home Front Command is in the process… Read More ›

Breakthrough program to enable Arab youth to serve communities may become national model

Breakthrough program to enable Arab youth to serve communities may become national model

Project is designed for Arab youth ages 18-21 who want to volunteer in their communities in educational institutions and social services 4 days a week… Read More ›

45 held as undercover cop busts ultra-Orthodox drugs, weapons ring

45 held as undercover cop busts ultra-Orthodox drugs, weapons ring

Officer, himself Haredi, buys pot, ecstasy, stolen cars, illegal firearms in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim, Ramat Beit Shemesh   The work of an undercover police agent… Read More ›

Three soldiers lightly wounded in West Bank operation

Three soldiers lightly wounded in West Bank operation

IDF says troops in Qalandiya may have been hit by friendly fire, as Palestinian assailant tries to ram soldiers with car   Three soldiers were… Read More ›

Breaking the silence? No, distorting reality

Breaking the silence? No, distorting reality

Op-ed: The organization of IDF soldiers and veterans isn’t publishing anonymous testimonies about individual cases, but a false testimony about an unbalanced army, an unbalanced… Read More ›

Israeli satellite is a ‘total loss’

Israeli satellite is a ‘total loss’

Commercial satellite valued at $158 million declared completely destroyed after four years in service; communication was lost last month. Israel’s Amos-5 commercial satellite has lost… Read More ›

Egyptian warplanes using Israeli airspace

Egyptian warplanes using Israeli airspace

Egyptian Air Force makes unprecedented flights over Israeli territory, likely with IDF permission, en route to bombing Islamic State targets in the Sinai. Egyptian Air… Read More ›

Terrorist who rammed infant, 10 others in capital, affiliated with Hamas

Terrorist who rammed infant, 10 others in capital, affiliated with Hamas

Report that leg of toddler was amputated unconfirmed by family and hospital; female Border Police officer thwarts attempted downtown attack.   Less than 24 hour… Read More ›

High Court grants state more time to solve Duma terrorist attack

High Court grants state more time to solve Duma terrorist attack

Justice defers to state’s judgment that arrests will soon lead to indictments.   The High Court of Justice on Tuesday gave the state more time… Read More ›

Official: Israel to meet Quartet delegations that include EU reps

Official: Israel to meet Quartet delegations that include EU reps

Government says it does not want to “punish” US, Russia and UN for EU’s move on labeling settlement products.   Israel will continue to hod… Read More ›

Analysis: Senior Eritrean Church official stuck in bureaucratic limbo over detention

Analysis: Senior Eritrean Church official stuck in bureaucratic limbo over detention

Father Semere summoned to Holot detention center.   The Holot detention center for illegal African migrants may soon have a celebrity “resident.” Father Semere, the… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israeli-American Violinist Perlman Wins ‘Jewish Nobel’ Share Tweet Share Mail

Jerusalem – Israeli-American Violinist Perlman Wins ‘Jewish Nobel’ Share Tweet Share Mail

  Jerusalem – Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman has been awarded this year’s “Jewish Nobel” for his accomplishments as a musician, teacher and advocate for the… Read More ›

Netanyahu: Israel to do its part in ‘important’ climate deal

Netanyahu: Israel to do its part in ‘important’ climate deal

Agreement reached this weekend would actually entail increasing Israel’s greenhouse gas output by 2030, due to population growth   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday… Read More ›

After accord, activists hope Israel finally warms to climate change fight

After accord, activists hope Israel finally warms to climate change fight

But environmentalists say Jerusalem’s plan to battle global warming falls short of what other countries have vowed to do, and might not be implemented at… Read More ›

Netanyahu instructs to fortify bus stops in Jerusalem

Netanyahu instructs to fortify bus stops in Jerusalem

Following vehicular attack that left 11 wounded, concrete barriers to be placed in front of 300 bus stations in the capital, after the measure proved… Read More ›

Abbas calls terror attacks ‘justified popular uprising’

Abbas calls terror attacks ‘justified popular uprising’

Polls finds two-thirds of Palestinians support knife attacks and say intifada would ‘serve Palestinian national interests in ways that negotiations could not,’ while three-quarters oppose… Read More ›

Analysis: Turkey’s Israel charm offensive is all about Russia

Analysis: Turkey’s Israel charm offensive is all about Russia

Skepticism remains if Erdogan wants rapprochement.   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest charm offensive toward Israel and his country’s Jews seems to show how… Read More ›

Two Palestinian families in capital’s Silwan neighborhood served with eviction notices

Two Palestinian families in capital’s Silwan neighborhood served with eviction notices

Court finds for NGO that homes were illegally inhabited via ‘absentee property.’   Government officials served two Palestinian families residing in east Jerusalem’s Silwan with… Read More ›

Reporters notebook: ‘I struggled to believe it was actually gunfire’

Reporters notebook: ‘I struggled to believe it was actually gunfire’

A Jerusalem Post intern recounts his experience at the scene of Monday’s car ramming attack.   En route to a doctor’s appointment in Har Nof… Read More ›