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IDF recommends Israel bolster Palestinian Authority to prevent further security deterioration

IDF recommends Israel bolster Palestinian Authority to prevent further security deterioration

Recommendations include enabling PA security forces to acquire more firearms and armored vehicles, and releasing Palestinian prisoners with light security offenses.     The IDF… Read More ›

European press infantilizes Palestinians, says visiting delegation of journalists

European press infantilizes Palestinians, says visiting delegation of journalists

Tour of country organized by the Europe Israel Press Association.   European press coverage of Israel can be problematic, several members of a delegation of continental… Read More ›

Obama calls Ezra Schwartz’s parents to express condolences

Obama calls Ezra Schwartz’s parents to express condolences

After facing criticism for not condemning killing of US teenager in a terror attack, president speaks to bereaved Mass. family   WASHINGTON — President Barack… Read More ›

Terror shakes suburban normalcy of Gush Etzion

Terror shakes suburban normalcy of Gush Etzion

Residents of suburban communities halfway between Jerusalem and Hebron demand security after being hit hard by string of attacks   A soldier stands inside a… Read More ›

Britney Spears, Madonna in talks to perform in Israel

Britney Spears, Madonna in talks to perform in Israel

As talks with the ‘princess of pop’ have reached the advanced pricing stage, the ‘queen of pop’ may also include Tel Aviv in her world… Read More ›

Equality of burden activist: ‘I’ll tear my daughter’s draft notice to pieces’

Equality of burden activist: ‘I’ll tear my daughter’s draft notice to pieces’

Miri Baron, head of the Forum for Equality in the National Burden, will resign after Knesset vote rejecting equality of military service: ‘either everyone serves… Read More ›

Government considering expelling terrorists’ families to Gaza

Government considering expelling terrorists’ families to Gaza

Top echelon decides that family members’ Israeli work parents would be cancelled and to carry out administrative detentions of Hamas activists in the West Bank.… Read More ›

OECD: Israelis among highest educated in the developed world

OECD: Israelis among highest educated in the developed world

Country still faces large gender gaps in education, shows report.   Israelis are among the highest educated in the developed world, but the country still… Read More ›

Netanyahu to Kerry: Green light for Palestinian building projects dependent on end to terror

Netanyahu to Kerry: Green light for Palestinian building projects dependent on end to terror

US secretary of state slammed in Ramallah for condemning ‘terrorism’; Netanyahu: Palestinians must recognize our right to build in settlement blocs.   Israel will not… Read More ›

Jonathan Pollard loses his job due to parole conditions

Jonathan Pollard loses his job due to parole conditions

Former spy for Israel, who was released from an American prison last week after 30 years, received an offer to become a research analyst.  … Read More ›

UN lambasts Israel on Palestinian Solidarity Day

UN lambasts Israel on Palestinian Solidarity Day

Israeli envoy Danny Danon slams General Assembly, reads out names and shows photos of Israeli terror victims over past 2 months   The United Nations… Read More ›

Netanyahu: IDF has free rein to fight terror in West Bank

Netanyahu: IDF has free rein to fight terror in West Bank

At site of fatal Sunday attack, PM says new measures include revocation of work permits for terrorists’ relatives, tighter security checks   The Israel Defense… Read More ›

Israel plans series of restrictions on Palestinians in bid to quell terror surge

Israel plans series of restrictions on Palestinians in bid to quell terror surge

Arab workers to be banned from Etzion settlement bloc; extended family of terrorists to be barred from Israel; mass Hamas arrests expected   Amid an… Read More ›

Despite terror surge, Mourinho says Chelsea had no fears about Israel trip

Despite terror surge, Mourinho says Chelsea had no fears about Israel trip

Coach upbeat before Tuesday night’s European clash with Maccabi Tel Aviv, says all his players ‘wanted to come’ to Israel   Chelsea soccer coach Jose… Read More ›

Kerry: ‘No mood for concessions’ in Israel, West Bank

Kerry: ‘No mood for concessions’ in Israel, West Bank

US secretary of state lays out goals for Israel visit to ‘calm things down a bit,’ but warns that neither Israelis or Palestinians want to… Read More ›

‘They’ve taken Ziv from me’

‘They’ve taken Ziv from me’

18-year-old soldier Ziv Mizrahi, killed in stabbing attack, becomes second victim of terror in family after Alon Mizrahi was killed in 2003 suicide bombing. Private… Read More ›

IAF jets strike in Gaza

IAF jets strike in Gaza

Israeli strikes target Hamas affiliated positions in the central Gaza Strip in retaliation for morning rocket fire on Eshkol Regional Council.   Local reports in… Read More ›

Netanyahu fumes at Bennett’s ‘I put a bullet between his eyes’ comment

Netanyahu fumes at Bennett’s ‘I put a bullet between his eyes’ comment

Bayit Yehudi chief said that he had managed to get Netanyahu to back down from previous public statements indicating that he would consider “unilateral measures.”… Read More ›

S. African president links Paris attacks to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

S. African president links Paris attacks to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Terror, wherever it occurs, highlights imperative for Middle East peace, Jacob Zuma tells local Jews; Israel’s ambassador calls remark ‘unfair’ and a misunderstanding of Islamic… Read More ›

Hamas, Fatah threaten ex-settler leader who thwarted terror attack

Hamas, Fatah threaten ex-settler leader who thwarted terror attack

Image posted to Twitter depicts ‘child killer’ Gershon Mesika with a target and blood splatter over his face   Hours after a former local politician… Read More ›