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Three Palestinians suspected of planning attack arrested in West Bank with guns, grenades

Three Palestinians suspected of planning attack arrested in West Bank with guns, grenades

According to Palestinian sources, the three suspects were on their way to carry out a shooting attack against unspecified Israeli targets.   Palestinian sources confirmed… Read More ›

US might support UN resolution against West Bank settlements

US might support UN resolution against West Bank settlements

Netanyahu: Such a move would delay negotiations.   The United States has yet to decide whether or not to support a Palestinian drive to push forward… Read More ›

UN: IDF has razed more Palestinian structures this year than all of 2015

UN: IDF has razed more Palestinian structures this year than all of 2015

Of these, 14 structures, nine of which were residential, were demolished in Beduin encampments in the area of E1, which is within the boundaries of… Read More ›

Sanders tells ADL he knows he got his Gaza death toll number wrong

Sanders tells ADL he knows he got his Gaza death toll number wrong

Candidate notes he immediately accepted correction to much-inflated 10,000 figure in midst of controversial interview; campaign says his words were ‘distorted’   WASHINGTON — Three… Read More ›

United Nations – Palestinians Seek UN Resolution Against Israeli Settlements

United Nations – Palestinians Seek UN Resolution Against Israeli Settlements

  United Nations –  The Palestinian U.N. Mission says it has circulated a proposed Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements to Arab nations. The draft… Read More ›

Wounded security personnel receive trip to Nepal

Wounded security personnel receive trip to Nepal

The Friends of Nechei Tzahal organization is providing an all expense paid trip to Nepal for 20 security services personnel who were wounded in the… Read More ›

1300 Ethiopian Jews to make aliyah

1300 Ethiopian Jews to make aliyah

Likud party decision puts end to coalition crisis after MKs David Amsalem and Avraham Neguise refused to vote with the coalition due to PM Netanyahu’s… Read More ›

The rule of fear

The rule of fear

Op-ed: Fear and the manner in which it is leveraged by leaders in the US, Europe and Israel threatens democracy. The common denominator of what… Read More ›

‘Ties with Romania won’t be hurt by arrest of Israelis’

‘Ties with Romania won’t be hurt by arrest of Israelis’

According to the official, the Romanian government understands that the Israelis are private citizens and were acting in a private capacity.   Israel and Romania… Read More ›

Danon on Palestinian Security Council move: There are no shortcuts to peace

Danon on Palestinian Security Council move: There are no shortcuts to peace

“The only way to promote negotiations starts by them condemning terrorism and stopping the incitement, and ends with direct negotiations between the two sides,” says… Read More ›

PM: Abbas move to condemn settlements at UN will push negotiations further away

PM: Abbas move to condemn settlements at UN will push negotiations further away

“The only way to advance peace is by direct negotiations and Abu Mazen is avoiding this,” Netanyahu says.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a… Read More ›

Sanders yet to correct false claim Israel killed ‘over 10,000’ Palestinian innocents

Sanders yet to correct false claim Israel killed ‘over 10,000’ Palestinian innocents

Despite two days of ToI questions, and an ADL plea that he correct his misstatement, Democratic presidential hopeful stays silent   WASHINGTON — Two days… Read More ›

Head of Israeli Democrats defends Sanders: Foreign policy is not his forte

Head of Israeli Democrats defends Sanders: Foreign policy is not his forte

When presidential hopeful suggested Israel killed over 10,000 innocents in last Gaza war, he was referring to the wounded, Hillel Schenker argues   Foreign policy… Read More ›

Who is Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner?

Who is Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner?

The 35-year-old scion of a philanthropic family and successful real estate executive has become a key adviser to the Republican frontrunner’s campaign   NEW YORK… Read More ›

Bayit Yehudi MK calls for maternity ward segregation

Bayit Yehudi MK calls for maternity ward segregation

Jewish and Arab MKs resoundly condemn Bayit Yehudi MK Betzalel Smotrich for racist remarks; Israeli commentator Ben Caspit says Smotrich and his supporters are akin… Read More ›

Foreign Ministry and PLO engage in Twitter battle

Foreign Ministry and PLO engage in Twitter battle

The Israeli Foreign Ministry tweeted at the PLO Negotiation Affairs Department, extending PM Netanyahu’s invitation to meet with President Abbas; PLO-NAD responded, ‘Negotiate what exactly?’… Read More ›

Michael Oren’s peace plan

Michael Oren’s peace plan

Kulanu MK Oren has a plan to lay groundwork for two-state solution, one that he believes will ‘take the air out of BDS.’ However, political… Read More ›

‘Building laws in West Bank equally enforced against Israelis, Palestinians’

‘Building laws in West Bank equally enforced against Israelis, Palestinians’

Coordinator of Israel’s activities in the territories says his office works according to the decisions and policy laid out by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and… Read More ›

Meet the ‘intensely neurotic’ Jew saving the world’s refugees

Meet the ‘intensely neurotic’ Jew saving the world’s refugees

Rebecca Heller awarded Charles Bronfman Prize for work providing free legal services to those fleeing war, persecution   JTA — John Oliver was in the… Read More ›

New York – New York Politician’s Anti-BDS Law Would Penalize German/Austrian Banks

New York – New York Politician’s Anti-BDS Law Would Penalize German/Austrian Banks

New York – A prominent Democratic New York state assemblyman, who introduced an anti-Boycott Israel bill in the state legislature, urged on Tuesday a group… Read More ›