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French prime minister arrives in Israel to promote peace initiative, economic ties

French prime minister arrives in Israel to promote peace initiative, economic ties

Valls will meet with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.… Read More ›

Expat Israelis cultivate ‘kibbutz’ vibe in Hawaiian paradise

Expat Israelis cultivate ‘kibbutz’ vibe in Hawaiian paradise

On the Big Island, organic farming and a desire to return to nature draws an unexpectedly close Jewish community   KONA, Hawaii — About halfway… Read More ›

Knesset Speaker finds new love

Knesset Speaker finds new love

He’s a religious widower politician who lives in the settlements; she’s a secular divorcée who heads a Tel Aviv museum; in their first joint interview… Read More ›

Amendment introduced to tackle anti-Israel bias in US Navy security clearances

Amendment introduced to tackle anti-Israel bias in US Navy security clearances

Dr. Gershon Pincus had been accepted to work at a naval clinic in Saratoga Springs, but was denied his security clearance because his mother and… Read More ›

Israeli woman, 19, becomes longest jailed military objector

Israeli woman, 19, becomes longest jailed military objector

Kaminer, who has served 111 days inside, says she is ready to serve the country, but not in a military capacity   JERUSALEM (AP) —… Read More ›

Assad must go

Assad must go

Op-ed: It’s time for Israel to take a stand on the war in Syria: Moral and strategic concerns dictate that we must oppose Assad and… Read More ›

Is a fear of unilateral Palestinian moves behind Sisi’s peace push?

Is a fear of unilateral Palestinian moves behind Sisi’s peace push?

The motivation for the Egyptian president’s appeal for peace may be fear the Abbas’s moves could destabilize the region.   A theory about what drove… Read More ›

90% of Israeli Jews call themselves Zionists, Herzl Day poll finds

90% of Israeli Jews call themselves Zionists, Herzl Day poll finds

The vast majority of Israeli Jews – 82% – said the idea of Zionism is still relevant.   The vast majority of Israelis say Zionism… Read More ›

Abbas welcomes Egyptian president’s peace push

Abbas welcomes Egyptian president’s peace push

Hamas terror group hails call for Palestinian unity, makes no mention of appeal for negotiations   Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday welcomed Egyptian… Read More ›

Adelson implores Republican Jewish leaders to support Trump

Adelson implores Republican Jewish leaders to support Trump

Casino magnate ‘convinced’ presumptive nominee will be a ‘tremendous president when it comes to the safety and security of Israel’   WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire… Read More ›

Egypt president backs French proposal for Mideast talks

Egypt president backs French proposal for Mideast talks

In an impromptu speech, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi calls on Israelis and Palestinians to reach a peace agreement; he promises warmer ties with Israel, if Palestinian… Read More ›

‘We decided to throw a grenade at a Palestinian home’

‘We decided to throw a grenade at a Palestinian home’

Excerpts from the interrogation of the Jewish terror cell from Nahliel in the West Bank shed light on their motives and how they planned their… Read More ›

Netanyahu and Ya’alon: To be continued

Netanyahu and Ya’alon: To be continued

Analysis: The Prime Minister and Defense Minister have supposedly put their differences to rest, but the divide between them is deeper than it may seem.… Read More ›

Analysis: Jewish terrorism has been clipped

Analysis: Jewish terrorism has been clipped

Shin Bet believes the pursuit after the suspected Jewish terrorists – their arrest, interrogations, detentions, indictments and detentions – set a major blow to the… Read More ›

Jerusalem doctors help Palestinian child with rare foot defect

Jerusalem doctors help Palestinian child with rare foot defect

AVM can appear in various parts of the body, but in the foot area it is especially painful and debilitating.   An eight-year-old Palestinian boy… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Chicken Pox Outbreak Has DOH Issuing Alert To NYC Medical Community

Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Chicken Pox Outbreak Has DOH Issuing Alert To NYC Medical Community

Brooklyn, NY- A chicken pox outbreak that has swept through Williamsburg’s Jewish community has prompted the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene… Read More ›

Rafael unveils 1,500-meter-range infantry missile

Rafael unveils 1,500-meter-range infantry missile

Defense company declines to comment whether Spike has been purchased.   Rafael Advanced Defense Systems plans to unveil its Spike, short-range (SR) shoulder- fired (man… Read More ›

Outrage over German university’s dismissal of anti-Semitism expert

Outrage over German university’s dismissal of anti-Semitism expert

The contract of Dr. Samuel Salzborn – one of the most prominent academic experts in German anti-Semitism – will not be renewed by the University… Read More ›

Deputy IDF chief denies likening Israel to Germany in Remembrance Day speech

Deputy IDF chief denies likening Israel to Germany in Remembrance Day speech

Yair Golan had warned of growing callousness, indifference to others, says he saw examples of pre-Holocaust sentiments ‘in our midst, today’   Deputy Chief of… Read More ›

Ya’alon to IDF brass: Army’s values under attack by ‘extremist minority’

Ya’alon to IDF brass: Army’s values under attack by ‘extremist minority’

Amid row over deputy IDF chief, who appeared to liken trends in Israel to pre-Nazi Germany, defense minister tells generals to speak out ‘courageously’  … Read More ›