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Second Jewish left-wing activist said detained by Israeli police

Second Jewish left-wing activist said detained by Israeli police

Suspect linked to man previously arrested for allegedly informing on Palestinians who sold West Bank land to Jews   Israeli police have detained a Jewish… Read More ›

Israel to announce major land seizure in Jordan Valley

Israel to announce major land seizure in Jordan Valley

Government to declare 370 acres near West Bank settlement south of Jericho as state land in largest appropriation since 2014   The Israeli government will… Read More ›

Egypt revokes citizenship of Jewish woman – because she joined the IDF

Egypt revokes citizenship of Jewish woman – because she joined the IDF

Born as Rouleen Abdullah in Alexandria, Dina Ovadia didn’t even know she was Jewish until the age of 15; she moved to Jerusalem with her… Read More ›

Slovenia’s biggest supermarket chain takes Israeli products off shelves

Slovenia’s biggest supermarket chain takes Israeli products off shelves

Pressure from BDS activists leads to Mercator removing Israeli produce, including pomelos, dates and avocados, from its stores. Mercator, Slovenia’s largest supermarket chain, has removed… Read More ›

Former Mideast peace negotiators slam past failures

Former Mideast peace negotiators slam past failures

Beilin: PM may still withdraw from parts of West Bank; Arens: Negotiation advocates in fantasy land.   Arange of former Israeli, Palestinian, and US peace process… Read More ›

Poll: 43% of French Jews interested in aliya

Poll: 43% of French Jews interested in aliya

More than 7,900 French Jews made aliya in 2015, up 10% from the previous year, when the western European nation became the leading source of… Read More ›

Red Cross: Palestinian paramedics did not refuse to treat Israelis after terror attack

Red Cross: Palestinian paramedics did not refuse to treat Israelis after terror attack

Rabbi Ya’akov Litman, 40, and his son Netanel, 18, were shot to death by Palestinian terrorists outside Otniel south of Hebron on November 13 while… Read More ›

EU softens statement, but lays line between Israel and settlements

EU softens statement, but lays line between Israel and settlements

Jerusalem successfully lobbies for slightly less hostile resolution – which still strongly criticizes West Bank activity – but blasts ‘double standard’   The European Union… Read More ›

American officials condemn ‘barbaric’ attacks on Israeli civilians

American officials condemn ‘barbaric’ attacks on Israeli civilians

State Department calls stabbings ‘horrific’; UN envoy ‘increasingly alarmed’ by near daily terror attacks, calls on leaders to work against violence   The US State… Read More ›

Israel employs double legal standard in West Bank, US envoy charges

Israel employs double legal standard in West Bank, US envoy charges

Furious Netanyahu calls critique from Dan Shapiro, on a day when murdered mother-of-six laid to rest, ‘unacceptable and incorrect’   US ambassador to Israel Dan… Read More ›

Bush slams Clinton, Slaughter over proposal to ‘shame Israel’

Bush slams Clinton, Slaughter over proposal to ‘shame Israel’

While GOP presidential hopeful castigates rival, veteran US diplomats say former secretary of state unlikely to have considered idea   WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate… Read More ›

Eizenkot: Iran deal is an opportunity

Eizenkot: Iran deal is an opportunity

At a convention on Monday the IDF chief of staff discusses a range of issues relating to Israel’s security, including the potential increased threat from… Read More ›

Cartel suspected of price-fixing Israeli high school trips to Poland

Cartel suspected of price-fixing Israeli high school trips to Poland

Nine officials at tourism companies are arrested on suspicion of fixing prices for Israeli high school students’ trips to Poland to learn about the Holocaust.… Read More ›

Hebron has become ‘terror central’

Hebron has become ‘terror central’

55 out of the 150 attacks carried out so far in the current terror wave orignated in Hebron; the Otniel attack marks an escalation in… Read More ›

Daughter of terrorist victim Dafna Meir: I’m sorry I couldn’t help you

Daughter of terrorist victim Dafna Meir: I’m sorry I couldn’t help you

The mother of six who always told people that life was as “good as honey” was killed on Sunday evening, as she stood just inside… Read More ›

Hebron-area settlements nix Palestinian workers following attack

Hebron-area settlements nix Palestinian workers following attack

Jewish residents take to the streets, block off West Bank highway; local leader bemoans ‘more orphans in family of terror victims’   Palestinian workers will… Read More ›

Netanyahu vows killer of Otniel mother will be caught

Netanyahu vows killer of Otniel mother will be caught

Politicians from across spectrum express horror over killing of Dafna Meir in front of her children in her West Bank home   Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

Living in a dream world: Obama’s Hollywood vision of the Mideast

Living in a dream world: Obama’s Hollywood vision of the Mideast

Analysis: The Americans may think the lifting of sanctions will lead to a utopian vision, but what’s in store for Israel right now is increased… Read More ›

Woman murdered at West Bank home, manhunt after terrorist

Woman murdered at West Bank home, manhunt after terrorist

Terrorist murders Dafna Meir outside her house south of Hebron and flees; one of Meir’s six children witnessed murder; security forces searching area for knife-wielding… Read More ›

‘Jewish terrorists more harmful to world Jewry than Arab counterparts’

‘Jewish terrorists more harmful to world Jewry than Arab counterparts’

‘I’m worried about the Jewish people all over the world,’ says former Shin Bet head about surge of Jewish extremism.   Jewish terrorists in Israel pose… Read More ›