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PM considers canceling residency of 80,000 East Jerusalem Palestinians

PM considers canceling residency of 80,000 East Jerusalem Palestinians

Netanyahu raises possibility in cabinet meeting of canceling residency status of East Jerusalem Palestinians who live on other side of the separation barrier sparking criticism… Read More ›

UN showcases Israeli NGOs bridging social gaps among youth

UN showcases Israeli NGOs bridging social gaps among youth

Teens are working together ‘to achieve a better future’ for Jewish state.   NEW YORK – It was the first time that 17-year-old May Ofir… Read More ›

UN Quartet in Vienna expresses ‘grave concern’ over rising tensions

UN Quartet in Vienna expresses ‘grave concern’ over rising tensions

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: Exercise ‘maximum restraint’   NEW YORK – Representatives of the UN Quartet for the Middle East expressed “grave concern” over the tensions… Read More ›

Possible ‘price tag’ attack suspected in East Jerusalem

Possible ‘price tag’ attack suspected in East Jerusalem

Car torched and words ‘administrative revenge’ found scrawled nearby in neighborhood of Umm Tuba   A car was found torched with racist graffiti daubed nearby… Read More ›

Ramallah – For Palestinians, Social Media Is Source Of News And Anger

Ramallah – For Palestinians, Social Media Is Source Of News And Anger

  Ramallah – Four dailies, eight TV stations, and scores of radio stations report on the current wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Palestinian territories.… Read More ›

Government shelves controversial ‘Jewish state bill’

Government shelves controversial ‘Jewish state bill’

Legislation, which would enshrine Israel’s status as the nation state of the Jewish people, won’t come up for ministerial debate   The Ministerial Committee for… Read More ›

Prominent UK figures call for cultural engagement with Israel instead of boycott

Prominent UK figures call for cultural engagement with Israel instead of boycott

In open letter to liberal UK newspaper, dozens of prominent figures from across the cultural, academic and political spheres in the UK call for cultural… Read More ›

One year later: Israeli wounded in synagogue massacre dies

One year later: Israeli wounded in synagogue massacre dies

Chaim Yechiel Rothman, who was seriously wounded during the Har Nof massacre in November 2014 and had been in hospitalized ever since, died from his… Read More ›

Netanyahu: ‘Muslims pray on the Temple Mount, non-Muslims visit’

Netanyahu: ‘Muslims pray on the Temple Mount, non-Muslims visit’

“Israel has no intention to divide the Temple Mount, and we completely reject any attempt to suggest otherwise,” says Netanyahu   Only Muslims can worship… Read More ›

Yitzhak Rabin: A leader with vision

Yitzhak Rabin: A leader with vision

Shimon Peres reflects on the legacy of Yitzhak Rabin   On July 13, 1992, Yitzhak Rabin presented his government before the 13th Knesset: “Members of… Read More ›

Leading Israeli rabbis warn against Temple Mount visits

Leading Israeli rabbis warn against Temple Mount visits

Jewish visitors risk unwittingly entering site of Holy of Holies and condemning themselves to eternal excommunication, chief rabbi and colleagues say   Dozens of prominent… Read More ›

Most religious Zionists want Arabs out of Israel, study finds

Most religious Zionists want Arabs out of Israel, study finds

Survey finds high levels of anti-Arab sentiment among nationalist religious Jews in Israel, consider minority an existential threat   JTA — During the previous wave… Read More ›

White House pans Netanyahu’s ‘inflammatory’ mufti remarks

White House pans Netanyahu’s ‘inflammatory’ mufti remarks

Obama spokesman says there’s no doubt Germany was behind Holocaust, calls for an end to statements that ‘can feed the violence’   The White House… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s Mufti myth

Netanyahu’s Mufti myth

Analysis: There is historical context to PM’s comment about al-Husseini’s role in the Holocaust, but Hitler didn’t need the Mufti to exterminate the Jews –… Read More ›

Who put a giant bra on a famous Tel Aviv statue?

Who put a giant bra on a famous Tel Aviv statue?

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness month, one of Tel Aviv’s most famous statues, the discs in Habima Square, have been decked out in a… Read More ›

Netanyahu approves urban planning in settlement

Netanyahu approves urban planning in settlement

Following protests in front of his house, the prime minister agrees to an urban building plan for Itamar the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Read More ›

Relative of Abbas has life-saving operation in Israeli hospital

Relative of Abbas has life-saving operation in Israeli hospital

While Prime Minister Netanyahu says Mahmoud Abbas is spreading lies about Israel, the Palestinian president’s brother-in-law has been admitted to Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv… Read More ›

Analysis: Israel quiet over ‘hotline’ with Russia on Syria

Analysis: Israel quiet over ‘hotline’ with Russia on Syria

“A Russian partnership with Iran and Hezbollah to save Assad is not necessarily bad for us,” Netanyahu confidant says.   It speaks volumes that Russia,… Read More ›

Israel to issue ‘start-up visas’ for foreign entrepreneurs

Israel to issue ‘start-up visas’ for foreign entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs who obtain the two-year visas will be able to develop new technological enterprises in Israel and their visas will be extended if they decide… Read More ›

‘Only 4% of Israelis think Kerry, Ban will bring calm’

‘Only 4% of Israelis think Kerry, Ban will bring calm’

Poll finds Likudniks prefer Sa’ar over Netanyahu.   The efforts of US Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon to end… Read More ›