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Nine Months Pregnant Woman Suffers Stroke, Undergoes Emergency Birth At Shaare Tzedek

Nine Months Pregnant Woman Suffers Stroke, Undergoes Emergency Birth At Shaare Tzedek

JERUSALEM — The Shaarei Tzedek Stroke Unit fought for hours for the life of a pregnant woman in her ninth month who had undergone a… Read More ›

Ben-Gvir extremely unlikely to lower crime in the Arab sector

Ben-Gvir extremely unlikely to lower crime in the Arab sector

Opinion: The Arab sector’s crime problem is an outgrowth of decades of discrimination and neglect, and the incoming national security minister’s brute-force approach is unlikely… Read More ›

Blinken Vows Us Support For Israel Despite Unease Over Gov’t

Blinken Vows Us Support For Israel Despite Unease Over Gov’t

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday the U.S. will not shrink from its unwavering support for Israel despite stark differences… Read More ›

Qatar warns Hamas, PIJ against firing rockets at Israel during World Cup – report

Qatar warns Hamas, PIJ against firing rockets at Israel during World Cup – report

The report comes amid concerns within Israel’s defense establishment that PIJ may fire rockets at Israel in the coming days.   Qatar has reportedly been… Read More ›

Religious parties’ demand for gender segregation will only amplify sex

Religious parties’ demand for gender segregation will only amplify sex

Opinion: United Torah Judaism and far-right Religious Zionist parties’ demand for legislation permitting gender segregation at publicly funded events takes us back to primitive habits… Read More ›

Netanyahu gives Smotrich broad powers over settlements, Palestinian construction

Netanyahu gives Smotrich broad powers over settlements, Palestinian construction

Under coalition deal, Religious Zionism chief will be finance minister for two years, with party also granted influential position to advance controversial judicial reform  … Read More ›

Like Cristiano Ronaldo, Benjamin Netanyahu plays only for himself

Like Cristiano Ronaldo, Benjamin Netanyahu plays only for himself

Opinion: Much like the Portuguese soccer icon, Netanyahu cares more about how history will look back on him, and don’t expect to see any beautiful… Read More ›

Netanyahu gives Smotrich broad powers over settlements, Palestinian construction

Netanyahu gives Smotrich broad powers over settlements, Palestinian construction

Under coalition deal, Religious Zionism chief will be finance minister for two years, with party also granted influential position to advance controversial judicial reform  … Read More ›

Israel’s public relations failures come home to roost in Qatar

Israel’s public relations failures come home to roost in Qatar

Opinion: Government must appoint a professional team with extensive understanding of media, backing of a ministry and budget, to communicate in multiple languages the Israeli… Read More ›

2 terror group fighters killed in clashes with IDF during raid of Jenin refugee camp

2 terror group fighters killed in clashes with IDF during raid of Jenin refugee camp

Casualties identified as Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members; Jenin hospital declares state of emergency due to large number of wounded in raid  … Read More ›

Lapid: New gov’t ‘turning IDF soldiers against their commanders’

Lapid: New gov’t ‘turning IDF soldiers against their commanders’

Commander of Tzabar battalion hit with a wave of threats following the sentencing of Givati soldiers over Hebron incident.   IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen.Aviv… Read More ›

Netanyahu to ask Herzog for extension to form government, report says

Netanyahu to ask Herzog for extension to form government, report says

As deadline of December 11 looms, Herzog is authorized to give the prime minister-designate 14 additional days to finalize coalition deals – extension which is… Read More ›

PM, IDF chief slam lawmakers for targeting officer who jailed Hebron soldier

PM, IDF chief slam lawmakers for targeting officer who jailed Hebron soldier

Lapid: ‘Dangerous’ rhetoric; Kohavi: ‘Political interference in commanders’ decisions unacceptable’; IDF weighing punishment of soldier who warned Ben Gvir will ‘sort things out’   Prime… Read More ›

55% of Israelis want IDF to kill terrorists who are no longer a threat – poll

55% of Israelis want IDF to kill terrorists who are no longer a threat – poll

In addition, just under half (45.5%) of Israelis support targeting civilian populations in Gaza to deter rockets being fired into Israel, which marks a jump… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s new government is a threat to Israel’s institutions

Netanyahu’s new government is a threat to Israel’s institutions

Opinion: After the courts and the police have been handed over to far-right, aiming to destroy them, Netanyahu allies are now aiming for the military… Read More ›

Amid troop violence toward civilians, army warns of repercussions for ‘immoral’ acts

Amid troop violence toward civilians, army warns of repercussions for ‘immoral’ acts

Citing recent beating and taunting of activists, top general denounces ‘grave violence that is not in line with the IDF’s values’   A senior military… Read More ›

We’re on the brink of civil war between Jews and Arabs, warns Acre mayor

We’re on the brink of civil war between Jews and Arabs, warns Acre mayor

The conference proposed an NIS 110 billion plan to fight crime and restore governance in the periphery.   The State of Israel is “on the… Read More ›

Soldiers must be reminded their enemy is not those with opposing political views

Soldiers must be reminded their enemy is not those with opposing political views

Opinion: The punch to the face that IDF soldier gave the left-wing activist in West Bank city says a lot more about the Israeli political… Read More ›

Netanyahu puts extremist homophobic politician in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity

Netanyahu puts extremist homophobic politician in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity

Presumed PM-elect signs coalition deal with Avi Maoz, who holds radical views on non-Orthodox Judaism, LGBT Israelis, Arabs and women   One of the Knesset’s… Read More ›

Canadian Lawmaker Vows To Defend Israel, Jews

Canadian Lawmaker Vows To Defend Israel, Jews

  OTTAWA (JNS) – She’s a Jamaican-born lawyer who immigrated to Canada with her family at age five. She made history by becoming the first… Read More ›