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Israeli TV: Kerry set to come to Israel to try to restart peace bid

Israeli TV: Kerry set to come to Israel to try to restart peace bid

If all else fails, Channel 2 says, Obama administration may seek in its final months to impose an accord; Herzog: US hasn’t given up on… Read More ›

Arson suspected in prayer tent fire

Arson suspected in prayer tent fire

Law enforcement investigating locals’ suspicions that a fire that burned several Torah books was deliberately started by a Palestinian Anonymous individuals on Saturday night set… Read More ›

Arab stabs Jew, flees in southern Israel

Arab stabs Jew, flees in southern Israel

Witnesses say young Arab man stabbed Jewish woman in her 60s, moderately wounding her, at street market in Rahat; police searching for suspect. A young… Read More ›

Fear of knowledge: What the ultra-Orthodox and secular share

Fear of knowledge: What the ultra-Orthodox and secular share

Op-ed: While the ultra-Orthodox public is intentionally ignorant about general matters, the secular public seems to be choosing its own brand of ignorance when it… Read More ›

‘The Kotel compromise defused a strategic threat to US-Israel relationship’

‘The Kotel compromise defused a strategic threat to US-Israel relationship’

Former ambassador to the US MK Michael Oren looks at this week’s agreement to build an egalitarian section of the Western Wall with satisfaction.  … Read More ›

Ban Ki-Moon speaks at NY Holocaust remembrance ceremony after Israel row

Ban Ki-Moon speaks at NY Holocaust remembrance ceremony after Israel row

The Secretary-General pointed out that the UN organized over 120 Holocaust remembrance events in 36 countries in the past year.   NEW YORK – “Only… Read More ›

Analysis: Bernie’s socialist kibbutz

Analysis: Bernie’s socialist kibbutz

Unlike today, Israel was then the darling of the world with its fresh, young, pioneering spirit and adored idealism. Those days are gone.   Thursday… Read More ›

Jerusalem – French Immigration To Israel Estimated To Surpass 2015 Record

Jerusalem – French Immigration To Israel Estimated To Surpass 2015 Record

  Jerusalem – The Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs anticipates that ten thousand Jews will immigrate to Israel from France in 2016,… Read More ›

Italian student who went missing in Cairo found battered and dead

Italian student who went missing in Cairo found battered and dead

  Cairo – An Italian student who disappeared on his way to a party in Cairo was found battered, bruised and dead, Egyptian authorities said Thursday,… Read More ›

13-year-old girls remanded after stabbing guard in Ramle

13-year-old girls remanded after stabbing guard in Ramle

Girls say assault was ‘revenge for the situation in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,’ and in protest of Israel’s ‘killing of Palestinians’   The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s… Read More ›

After attack, police mull keeping cadets from Damascus Gate

After attack, police mull keeping cadets from Damascus Gate

Hadar Cohen, 19, was still in training when she was killed in Jerusalem Wednesday, but officials say she reacted like a veteran   A day… Read More ›

How a New Hampshire rabbi opened Hillary Clinton’s heart – in his own words

How a New Hampshire rabbi opened Hillary Clinton’s heart – in his own words

Rabbi Jonathan Spira-Savett invoked saying of 18th century Hasidic rabbi at televised town hall meeting to ask Democratic presidential candidate about humility   JTA —… Read More ›

Arab MKs meet with families of terrorists

Arab MKs meet with families of terrorists

Members of the Balad faction of the Joint Arab List – Haneen Zoabi, Jamal Zahalka, and Basel Ghattas – met the families a day before… Read More ›

Father of slain border police woman: ‘I salute you’

Father of slain border police woman: ‘I salute you’

Hadar Cohen, 19, laid to rest in Yehud’s military cemetery   Seconds before she herserlf was killed, Border police woman Hadar Cohen, 19, saved the life… Read More ›

Deri cancels Israeli residency for father of terrorist

Deri cancels Israeli residency for father of terrorist

Ala Zwid, who had been living in Umm al-Fahm, badly wounded a 19-year-old female soldier and lightly-to-moderately wounded a 14-year-old boy and two men aged… Read More ›

While Brazil rejects Israeli envoy, it inaugurates Palestinian embassy

While Brazil rejects Israeli envoy, it inaugurates Palestinian embassy

The inauguration of the embassy comes as Brazil and Israel tussle over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nominee to fill the vacant Israeli envoy position.  … Read More ›

On the streets of Haifa, anger and fear mar a sunny exterior

On the streets of Haifa, anger and fear mar a sunny exterior

“I’m afraid to wake up in the morning and find out that I have cancer,” said Etti Ben-Adiva, who works at a cafe along the… Read More ›

Israel helping coalition battle Islamic State, general says

Israel helping coalition battle Islamic State, general says

Nitzan Alon says Jewish state is essentially part of the international group fighting terror group   A top Israeli general said Wednesday that the Islamic… Read More ›

Army surrounds killers’ West Bank town after Jerusalem attack

Army surrounds killers’ West Bank town after Jerusalem attack

IDF raids seek possible accomplices of 3 terrorists who killed Border Police officer Hadar Cohen outside Old City   The IDF surrounded the northern West… Read More ›

Hamas official brags, then denies, tunnels reach into Israel

Hamas official brags, then denies, tunnels reach into Israel

Mahmoud al-Zahar issues conflicting statements about the purpose of tunnels built under Gaza Strip   Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said Wednesday that the Islamist… Read More ›