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Washington – Kerry To Meet Israeli, Palestinian Leaders On Ending Violence

Washington – Kerry To Meet Israeli, Palestinian Leaders On Ending Violence

  Washington – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet next week with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the region to try to stop… Read More ›

Troops foil stabbing attack at Cave of the Patriarchs

Troops foil stabbing attack at Cave of the Patriarchs

Palestinian woman walking towards checkpoint ignored security forces’ instructions to stop and was arrested; search of her possession uncovered large kitchen knife she allegedly planned… Read More ›

De Klerk, Rabin: Real leaders

De Klerk, Rabin: Real leaders

Op-ed: True leadership requires that politics be put aside for a greater good; Netanyahu knows it, but isn’t prepared to make personal sacrafices. What motivated… Read More ›

US academic association votes to boycott Israel

US academic association votes to boycott Israel

American Anthropological Association passes resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions in landslide vote; Pro BDS groups praise ‘historic result.’ A major American Academic association, the… Read More ›

More Israelis prefer Gantz than Netanyahu as PM, poll finds

More Israelis prefer Gantz than Netanyahu as PM, poll finds

Margin significantly decreases if Gantz were to run as head of center-left party.   If former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz ran for prime… Read More ›

UK’s Labor Party boycotts security firm with business ties to Israel

UK’s Labor Party boycotts security firm with business ties to Israel

The company has come under fire in recent years due to what pro-Palestinian activists say is its role in facilitating Israel’s control over the Palestinian… Read More ›

Terrorism victim’s wife: ‘What was will never be again’

Terrorism victim’s wife: ‘What was will never be again’

Beloved educator and father of four, Yaakov Don, laid to rest in Kfar Etzion.   Yaakov Don, 49, died on his way to do one… Read More ›

Jerusalem 2015: 264 streets are closed off on Shabbat

Jerusalem 2015: 264 streets are closed off on Shabbat

Entire neighborhoods in the capital are completely blocked to traffic during the Jewish day of rest and on Jewish holidays, in addition to roads which… Read More ›

Israel emigration to UK outstrips aliya, says report

Israel emigration to UK outstrips aliya, says report

Around 20% of Israelis in England hold only an Israeli passport; 21% hold dual citizenship, and 23% are dual citizens who were born outside of… Read More ›

ADL reports rise in anti-Israel activity on US campuses

ADL reports rise in anti-Israel activity on US campuses

Group documents 30 percent rise in events, amid efforts by BDS and others to delegitimize Jewish state   A report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)… Read More ›

Tel Aviv terrorist’s mother ‘proud’ of her son’s actions

Tel Aviv terrorist’s mother ‘proud’ of her son’s actions

Raid Halil bin Mahmoud, a father of five from a town near Hebron, says Palestinians’ plight motivated him to stab Israelis   The mother of… Read More ›

3 killed, several wounded in Etzion Bloc shooting attack

3 killed, several wounded in Etzion Bloc shooting attack

US citizen, Palestinian among dead in attack, bringing day’s toll to 5 — the highest in a single day in latest terror wave   Three… Read More ›

Slain US youth was bringing food to soldiers in West Bank

Slain US youth was bringing food to soldiers in West Bank

18-year-old Ezra Schwartz was youngest of Thursday’s 5 terror victims — the bloodiest day in recent wave of Palestinian attacks   Ezra Schwartz, the American… Read More ›

Charity boxes stolen from West Bank synagogues

Charity boxes stolen from West Bank synagogues

Police arrest suspects in theft of donations; suspect turns in partner, who leads police to a forest next to Rosh HaAyin where the money had… Read More ›

Jonathan Pollard to leave jail on Friday

Jonathan Pollard to leave jail on Friday

Israeli spy ends 30-year imprisonment, will have to live in New York for 5 years and will be banned from internet. Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan… Read More ›

PM hints ground forces needed to defeat militant Islam

PM hints ground forces needed to defeat militant Islam

Netanyahu says Hamas ‘foment’ and ‘direct’ attacks against Israel from Turkey   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intimated during his comments at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic… Read More ›

ADL: American terror victim perished on “bloodiest day since violence began”

ADL: American terror victim perished on “bloodiest day since violence began”

“While there are differences between this wave of terror in Israel and the attacks carried out by ISIS, both are carried out by individuals who… Read More ›

Abbas admits he rejected 2008 peace offer from Olmert

Abbas admits he rejected 2008 peace offer from Olmert

PA president says he declined proposal — which included near-total withdrawal from the West Bank and relinquishing Israeli control of Jerusalem’s Old City — because… Read More ›

Netanyahu urges ‘global solution to terror’ in call with Hollande

Netanyahu urges ‘global solution to terror’ in call with Hollande

PM expresses Israel’s solidarity with France in fight against terrorism after Friday’s deadly Paris attacks that killed 129   Paris, France — Israeli Prime Minister… Read More ›

War against EU settlement products labeling begins

War against EU settlement products labeling begins

A week after European Union’s decision to label goods produced in the settlements, Israel announces gloves are off and that it is taking steps against… Read More ›