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Washington – Kerry To Meet Israeli, Palestinian Leaders On Ending Violence

Washington – Kerry To Meet Israeli, Palestinian Leaders On Ending Violence

  Washington – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet next week with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the region to try to stop… Read More ›

US academic association votes to boycott Israel

US academic association votes to boycott Israel

American Anthropological Association passes resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions in landslide vote; Pro BDS groups praise ‘historic result.’ A major American Academic association, the… Read More ›

More Israelis prefer Gantz than Netanyahu as PM, poll finds

More Israelis prefer Gantz than Netanyahu as PM, poll finds

Margin significantly decreases if Gantz were to run as head of center-left party.   If former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz ran for prime… Read More ›

UK’s Labor Party boycotts security firm with business ties to Israel

UK’s Labor Party boycotts security firm with business ties to Israel

The company has come under fire in recent years due to what pro-Palestinian activists say is its role in facilitating Israel’s control over the Palestinian… Read More ›

Terrorism victim’s wife: ‘What was will never be again’

Terrorism victim’s wife: ‘What was will never be again’

Beloved educator and father of four, Yaakov Don, laid to rest in Kfar Etzion.   Yaakov Don, 49, died on his way to do one… Read More ›

Jerusalem 2015: 264 streets are closed off on Shabbat

Jerusalem 2015: 264 streets are closed off on Shabbat

Entire neighborhoods in the capital are completely blocked to traffic during the Jewish day of rest and on Jewish holidays, in addition to roads which… Read More ›

Israel emigration to UK outstrips aliya, says report

Israel emigration to UK outstrips aliya, says report

Around 20% of Israelis in England hold only an Israeli passport; 21% hold dual citizenship, and 23% are dual citizens who were born outside of… Read More ›

ADL reports rise in anti-Israel activity on US campuses

ADL reports rise in anti-Israel activity on US campuses

Group documents 30 percent rise in events, amid efforts by BDS and others to delegitimize Jewish state   A report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)… Read More ›

Tel Aviv terrorist’s mother ‘proud’ of her son’s actions

Tel Aviv terrorist’s mother ‘proud’ of her son’s actions

Raid Halil bin Mahmoud, a father of five from a town near Hebron, says Palestinians’ plight motivated him to stab Israelis   The mother of… Read More ›

3 killed, several wounded in Etzion Bloc shooting attack

3 killed, several wounded in Etzion Bloc shooting attack

US citizen, Palestinian among dead in attack, bringing day’s toll to 5 — the highest in a single day in latest terror wave   Three… Read More ›

Slain US youth was bringing food to soldiers in West Bank

Slain US youth was bringing food to soldiers in West Bank

18-year-old Ezra Schwartz was youngest of Thursday’s 5 terror victims — the bloodiest day in recent wave of Palestinian attacks   Ezra Schwartz, the American… Read More ›

Charity boxes stolen from West Bank synagogues

Charity boxes stolen from West Bank synagogues

Police arrest suspects in theft of donations; suspect turns in partner, who leads police to a forest next to Rosh HaAyin where the money had… Read More ›

ADL: American terror victim perished on “bloodiest day since violence began”

ADL: American terror victim perished on “bloodiest day since violence began”

“While there are differences between this wave of terror in Israel and the attacks carried out by ISIS, both are carried out by individuals who… Read More ›

Abbas admits he rejected 2008 peace offer from Olmert

Abbas admits he rejected 2008 peace offer from Olmert

PA president says he declined proposal — which included near-total withdrawal from the West Bank and relinquishing Israeli control of Jerusalem’s Old City — because… Read More ›

Paris rabbi: Terrorists will not affect Jewish life here

Paris rabbi: Terrorists will not affect Jewish life here

Local Chabad leader says community undeterred by police raid on attackers believed responsible for killing 129 people last week   PARIS — The presence of… Read More ›

Netanyahu urges ‘global solution to terror’ in call with Hollande

Netanyahu urges ‘global solution to terror’ in call with Hollande

PM expresses Israel’s solidarity with France in fight against terrorism after Friday’s deadly Paris attacks that killed 129   Paris, France — Israeli Prime Minister… Read More ›

‘IS sympathizers stabbed Marseille Jewish teacher in the face’

‘IS sympathizers stabbed Marseille Jewish teacher in the face’

Chabad emissary and Judaic-studies instructor, Tzion Saadoun, 56, sustains serious injuries but is in stable condition   The three people believed to be Islamic State… Read More ›

War against EU settlement products labeling begins

War against EU settlement products labeling begins

A week after European Union’s decision to label goods produced in the settlements, Israel announces gloves are off and that it is taking steps against… Read More ›

Rabbi of Western Wall refuses lawmakers’ request for women’s public menorah

Rabbi of Western Wall refuses lawmakers’ request for women’s public menorah

Rabinowitz says including women in a public Hannuka lighting ceremony could be done when a pluralist section at the holy site is opened.   The… Read More ›

Member of prominent Hasidic family from Brooklyn comes out as transgender

Member of prominent Hasidic family from Brooklyn comes out as transgender

Abby Stein says she hopes the Orthodox community becomes more accepting of transgender people and that her story will inspire transgender Orthodox teens.   NEW… Read More ›