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Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

United Torah Judaism demands state to fund life insurance to yeshiva students, set to cost NIS 36 million, while Bayit Yehudi MK stonewalling reform in… Read More ›

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

US State Department spokesman John Kirby warned such actions undermine the possibility of a two-state solution.   The expansion of the territorial boundaries of the… Read More ›

France pays tribute to victims of Hyper Cacher attack on one-year anniversary

France pays tribute to victims of Hyper Cacher attack on one-year anniversary

On January 9, 2015 a French Islamic gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, took several people hostage in the grocery store after shooting a police officer in the… Read More ›

Taking the matrimonial bull by the horns for Jewish divorcees

Taking the matrimonial bull by the horns for Jewish divorcees

Laws that already exist can also be utilized to prevent agunot, women chained to their marraiges.   It seems that most of what we hear… Read More ›

PA agrees to cooperate in manhunt for Tel Aviv shooting suspect, says official

PA agrees to cooperate in manhunt for Tel Aviv shooting suspect, says official

PA security official: “He’s an Israeli citizen and if we capture him we will hand him over to the Israeli authorities,”   Israel has asked… Read More ›

When the shoe fit, Shin Bet knew it had found Duma killer

When the shoe fit, Shin Bet knew it had found Duma killer

Investigators say evidence from the scene helped to incriminate Amiram Ben-Uliel, who also knew details of the firebombing that hadn’t been publicized   Investigators revealed… Read More ›

Six Yitzhar settlers jailed for attacks on security forces

Six Yitzhar settlers jailed for attacks on security forces

Two men, four minors get 8-month sentences in plea bargain for crimes including rock-throwing, disrupting police work   Lod District Court on Thursday sentenced six… Read More ›

Bennett: Authorities looking at ‘one or two rabbis’ who helped radicalize ‘hilltop youth’

Bennett: Authorities looking at ‘one or two rabbis’ who helped radicalize ‘hilltop youth’

Education minister says he’s launched programs to rehabilitate young Jewish extremists; insists Israel must control West Bank ‘forever’; rules out change to status quo on… Read More ›

Radical Israeli rabbis come under fire amid settler violence

Radical Israeli rabbis come under fire amid settler violence

Recent attacks against Arabs have brought the teachings of extremists into the spotlight   JERUSALEM (AP) — A small group of extremist Israeli rabbis who… Read More ›

Bereaved mother of Tel Aviv attack: Declare my son’s murder terrorism

Bereaved mother of Tel Aviv attack: Declare my son’s murder terrorism

Iris Ruimi, mother of Shimon, who was murdered at the Simta Bar in Tel Aviv last week, implores President Reuven Rivlin to recognize her son… Read More ›

The ‘incitement doll’ center of British Parliamentary debate

The ‘incitement doll’ center of British Parliamentary debate

During debate on ‘child prisoners of the Occupied Palestinian Territories’, pro-Israel MK Andrew Percy displays the rock-throwing ‘incitement dolls’ seized by Israel last month as… Read More ›

North Korea teaching Iran how to extort the West

North Korea teaching Iran how to extort the West

Analysis: Kim Jong-un is repeatedly implementing his father’s ‘nuclear extortion’ trick, serving as a role model for Tehran’s conservative leaders. If Pyongyang indeed conducted a… Read More ›

Palestinians attempt to stab Israeli forces in 2 West Bank incidents; 4 assialants killed

Palestinians attempt to stab Israeli forces in 2 West Bank incidents; 4 assialants killed

Assailant attempts stabbing near Hebron shortly after three Palestinian attempt attack at Gush Etzion junction.   Security forces shot and killed a Palestinian assailant attempting… Read More ›

‘There will be an empty chair for you at the table every Shabbat’

‘There will be an empty chair for you at the table every Shabbat’

Father of soldier killed in training accident saluted his son after giving a moving eulogy.   The first and last letter Aharon Rosales ever wrote… Read More ›

Analysis: Fatah, Hamas pledge more violence against Israel in 2016

Analysis: Fatah, Hamas pledge more violence against Israel in 2016

Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza for almost 10 years, is reported to be preparing for a new wave of suicide bombings against… Read More ›

Cheerful Olmert dines out in Tel Aviv: Nothing is over until it’s over

Cheerful Olmert dines out in Tel Aviv: Nothing is over until it’s over

Spotted at fancy restaurant weeks before jail term begins, ex-PM insists he’s not fazed at prospect of doing time, says ‘I’m not spoiled’   With… Read More ›

Hundreds pay last respects to IDF officer killed in accident

Hundreds pay last respects to IDF officer killed in accident

Over 1,000 mourners attend funeral of Cpt. Yishai Rosales at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem   Several hundred people attended the funeral of an… Read More ›

Suspected Tel Aviv gunman thought hiding in West Bank

Suspected Tel Aviv gunman thought hiding in West Bank

Mother of Nashat Milhem says security forces threatening to demolish their home; police officially accuse him of killing Lod cabbie   A manhunt for a… Read More ›

Abbas denies concern of Palestinian Authority collapse

Abbas denies concern of Palestinian Authority collapse

‘Don’t even dream of the PA collapsing,’ Palestinian leader says, adding the Authority would exist until a Palestinian state is formed to replace it. Palestinian… Read More ›

When the left turns into a radical right

When the left turns into a radical right

Op-ed: When it comes to hate crimes committed by Jewish individuals, everything the radical right says about Arabs is said by part of the left… Read More ›