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Kosher hip-hop fighting anti-Semitism

Kosher hip-hop fighting anti-Semitism

Kosha Dillz, an Israeli-American rapper who has become a household name in the US, is appearing at the Tune in Tel Aviv festival. Rapper Kosha… Read More ›

Three-quarters of British Jews believe settlements are ‘major’ obstacle to peace

Three-quarters of British Jews believe settlements are ‘major’ obstacle to peace

New report issued by British pro-peace outfit Yachad finds 24% of British Jews would be willing to ‘support some sanctions against Israel’ if they thought… Read More ›

CC issues first report on war crimes in Palestinian- Israeli conflict

CC issues first report on war crimes in Palestinian- Israeli conflict

The report comes after the preliminary investigation was launched in January 2015.   The International Criminal Court released its first preliminary report on Thursday regarding alleged… Read More ›

The secret weapon in the fight for the labeling of Israeli settlement goods

The secret weapon in the fight for the labeling of Israeli settlement goods

Meet the non-governmental organizations behind the European labeling lobby.   “The European Union cannot be expected to make exceptions in the law for the occupied territories,”… Read More ›

Jerusalem business owners hard hit by terror wave demand emergency government aid

Jerusalem business owners hard hit by terror wave demand emergency government aid

“It’s bad, really bad,” he said. “All the stores need help.” Walking down the normally bustling Ben-Yehuda Street, one finds the heart of Jerusalem uncannily… Read More ›

Nasrallah ‘proud’ that Netanyahu and Obama discussed Hezbollah in White House meeting

Nasrallah ‘proud’ that Netanyahu and Obama discussed Hezbollah in White House meeting

Hezbollah leader: Israel can take measures against resistance factions, but it cannot thwart individual attacks.   Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech on… Read More ›

Jewish man with Nazi-raised identical twin dies at age 82

Jewish man with Nazi-raised identical twin dies at age 82

Jack Yufe and Oskar Stohr were separated at birth and grew up in radically different environments, yet shared similar habits and mannerisms   A Jewish… Read More ›

Seventy-five percent of U.S. foreign military financing goes to two countries

Seventy-five percent of U.S. foreign military financing goes to two countries

American taxpayers doled out $5.9 billion in foreign military financing in 2014, according to the government’s Foreign Assistance report — that’s roughly the GDP of… Read More ›

Israel suspends talks with EU amid settlement tagging scrap

Israel suspends talks with EU amid settlement tagging scrap

European envoy formally rebuked; deputy FM says there will be no dialogue with Europeans about Israeli-Palestinian conflict   Israel on Wednesday suspended dialogue with the… Read More ›

Culture minister calls A-G ‘garbage’ in leaked recording

Culture minister calls A-G ‘garbage’ in leaked recording

In audio clip, Regev also refers to Weinstein’s staff as ‘scumbags’ over theater funding spat; she says she called him to apologize   Culture and… Read More ›

Bloody October: 11 killed in 609 attacks

Bloody October: 11 killed in 609 attacks

Statistics published by the Shin Bet show the increase in terror throughout the last month. Ten Israelis and one foreign citizen paid with their lives,… Read More ›

Report: Air force struck near Damascus airport

Report: Air force struck near Damascus airport

Syrian opposition media outlets claim Israel bombed targets about two weeks after prior report of Israeli airstrikes; both reports remain unconfirmed. Israel’s air force conducted… Read More ›

European hypocrisy: Why single Israel out?

European hypocrisy: Why single Israel out?

Op-ed: There are thousands of conflict areas around the world, and hundreds of areas in which the EU doesn’t recognize the sovereign government, yet Europe… Read More ›

Local branch of Physicians for Human Rights slams country’s wartime mental health services

Local branch of Physicians for Human Rights slams country’s wartime mental health services

Ze’ev Weiner, a member of the PHR-I ethics committee, said many southern residents not only suffered acutely, but sometimes their emotional problems became chronic and… Read More ›

Soldier, accomplice arrested for Sunday vigilante attack at Beersheba shopping mall

Soldier, accomplice arrested for Sunday vigilante attack at Beersheba shopping mall

Negev police said Tuesday night the Beduin man had not tried to enter the mall; he was passing through the parking lot when the security… Read More ›

Judge to state: Could PM be all of the ministers at once?

Judge to state: Could PM be all of the ministers at once?

There is no Foreign Ministry because there is no foreign minister, says Lapid.   The High Court of Justice on Tuesday appeared to rebuke Prime… Read More ›

Labeling products is the ‘opposite of a boycott,’ European official says

Labeling products is the ‘opposite of a boycott,’ European official says

Countries that ignore EU’s instructions to mark settlement goods won’t be sanctioned, official claims as contested measure about to become official   The European Union’s… Read More ›

Netanyahu: Israel, US must work together on Iran

Netanyahu: Israel, US must work together on Iran

PM tells US Jews peace will come when a Palestinian leader ‘is willing to bury the past and makes no more claims on the Jewish… Read More ›

PM: Unilateral W. Bank pullout ‘possible, I suppose’ if security conditions met

PM: Unilateral W. Bank pullout ‘possible, I suppose’ if security conditions met

At leftist US think tank, PM says Jerusalem must remain under Israeli sovereignty; Israel to maintain security control over areas ceded in any deal  … Read More ›

3 Jews, 2 of them Israeli, charged in ‘breathtaking’ theft of hundreds of millions

3 Jews, 2 of them Israeli, charged in ‘breathtaking’ theft of hundreds of millions

Trio allegedly hacked website of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in largest ever theft of customer data from US financial institution   NEW YORK — Three… Read More ›