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UN envoy decries soldier’s killing of disarmed stabber

UN envoy decries soldier’s killing of disarmed stabber

Mladenov blasts ‘gruesome, immoral’ act, commends defense minister for his condemnation and urges ‘swift’ justice   The United Nations’ special coordinator for the peace process… Read More ›

Israelis’ penchant for holiday-related names

Israelis’ penchant for holiday-related names

The Population and Immigration Authority has released its annual report on (sometimes irregular) first names, with a focus on Purim-related names, including Haman. To mark… Read More ›

Geneva – US, Israel Denounce UN ‘Blacklist’ Of Companies Working In Settlements Share Tweet Share Mail

Geneva – US, Israel Denounce UN ‘Blacklist’ Of Companies Working In Settlements Share Tweet Share Mail

  Geneva –  The U.S. government is decrying a resolution passed by the Human Rights Council that calls on the U.N. human rights chief to… Read More ›

San Francisco – University Of California OKs Statement Against Anti-Semitism

San Francisco – University Of California OKs Statement Against Anti-Semitism

  San Francisco – The University of California’s governing board adopted a statement condemning anti-Semitic behavior on Thursday, becoming the first public university system to… Read More ›

Purim party canceled, Haredi rockers give Belgian Jews a private show

Purim party canceled, Haredi rockers give Belgian Jews a private show

After terror attacks, instead of performing to 1,000 spectators, Gat brothers set up an intimate concert at a local Jewish family’s living room   JTA… Read More ›

BDS leaders call on EU to boycott Yedioth Ahronoth conference

BDS leaders call on EU to boycott Yedioth Ahronoth conference

Boycott movement leaders urge EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini to forbid the union’s ambassador to Israel from attending Yedioth Ahronoth’s anti-BDS conference, set to… Read More ›

UN body to compile blacklist of settlement businesses

UN body to compile blacklist of settlement businesses

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva approved a resolution to compile an updated list of all companies, Israeli and foreign, operating in any… Read More ›

Volunteer IDF soldiers with special needs exhibit special spirit at Rivlin meeting

Volunteer IDF soldiers with special needs exhibit special spirit at Rivlin meeting

Rabbi Mendy Blinitzky, CEO of Lend a Hand to a Special Child, said the IDF is the only army in the world that accepts volunteer… Read More ›

Soldier who shot subdued terrorist: ‘I did the right thing, at the right time’

Soldier who shot subdued terrorist: ‘I did the right thing, at the right time’

After human rights NGO B’Tselem uploaded a video showing a medic from the Kfir Brigade shooting a terrorist who was already neutralized, the soldier has… Read More ›

Obama admits defeat, but Kerry says Mideast peace is still on the agenda

Obama admits defeat, but Kerry says Mideast peace is still on the agenda

US officials tell The Jerusalem Post there is a general gap in interest between Obama and Kerry on whether to proceed with any process at… Read More ›

Obama: No Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in my presidency

Obama: No Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in my presidency

In meeting with Argentine counterpart, US president dismisses idea of bi-national state, reiterates support for two-state solution   US President Barack Obama on Wednesday said… Read More ›

Netanyahu links Palestinians and IS, says all terrorism has same goal

Netanyahu links Palestinians and IS, says all terrorism has same goal

If there is one people that can sympathize with Belgium, it’s terror-struck Israel, PM says at Jerusalem press conference   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made… Read More ›

Reports: Yemeni Jewish exit aided by bribes to Houthis

Reports: Yemeni Jewish exit aided by bribes to Houthis

According to reports from Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, Houthi rebel militias were bribed in order to ensure the safe passage of 17 Yemeni Jews to… Read More ›

Turkey-Israel relations warm, presidents speak by phone

Turkey-Israel relations warm, presidents speak by phone

On Wednesday, Presidents Rivlin and Erdogan spoke, expressing their condolences and mutual appreciation. Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold visited the scene of the attack… Read More ›

Netanyahu: World looks to Israel to defeat terror

Netanyahu: World looks to Israel to defeat terror

“If anyone in the world knows what the people of (Brussles) are going through its Israel and the Israeli citizens, who have stood valiantly and… Read More ›

Shas MK compares Reform Jewry to Haman and its leadership to the mafia

Shas MK compares Reform Jewry to Haman and its leadership to the mafia

“Haman thought he could destroy, slay and exterminate the Jews for only one reason, because Jews were spread and divided among the nations. That separation… Read More ›

‘Europe must sacrifice some personal rights to save lives’ says expert

‘Europe must sacrifice some personal rights to save lives’ says expert

Dina Lisnyansky: France is racially profiling without talking about it.   European countries must sacrifice some rights in order to improve security and save lives,… Read More ›

Former PA diplomat accuses Abbas of helping with aliya of Yemenite Jews

Former PA diplomat accuses Abbas of helping with aliya of Yemenite Jews

Abdel Rahim noted in his letter that he had always opposed Abbas’s contacts with “Zionist figures.”   A former Palestinian diplomat claimed on Tuesday that… Read More ›

Minister: Boycott movement a threat to the whole world

Minister: Boycott movement a threat to the whole world

BDS a ‘threat to each and every one of you,’ Gilad Erdan tells foreign ambassadors, later admits Israelis talk too much about it   The… Read More ›

New Polish historical policy could silence Holocaust debates

New Polish historical policy could silence Holocaust debates

Governing party launches effort to ‘historical policy offensive’, which some say is nothing but revisionism preventing Poles from reckoning with anti-Jewish incidents during WWII. Poland’s… Read More ›