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Netanyahu: ‘Muslims pray on the Temple Mount, non-Muslims visit’

Netanyahu: ‘Muslims pray on the Temple Mount, non-Muslims visit’

“Israel has no intention to divide the Temple Mount, and we completely reject any attempt to suggest otherwise,” says Netanyahu   Only Muslims can worship… Read More ›

Yitzhak Rabin: A leader with vision

Yitzhak Rabin: A leader with vision

Shimon Peres reflects on the legacy of Yitzhak Rabin   On July 13, 1992, Yitzhak Rabin presented his government before the 13th Knesset: “Members of… Read More ›

Islamic State threatens Israel in new Hebrew video

Islamic State threatens Israel in new Hebrew video

In its first-ever Hebrew-language video, which was posted online this week, the Islamic State terror group addressed an Israeli audience, warning that “no Jew will… Read More ›

Leading Israeli rabbis warn against Temple Mount visits

Leading Israeli rabbis warn against Temple Mount visits

Jewish visitors risk unwittingly entering site of Holy of Holies and condemning themselves to eternal excommunication, chief rabbi and colleagues say   Dozens of prominent… Read More ›

Most religious Zionists want Arabs out of Israel, study finds

Most religious Zionists want Arabs out of Israel, study finds

Survey finds high levels of anti-Arab sentiment among nationalist religious Jews in Israel, consider minority an existential threat   JTA — During the previous wave… Read More ›

White House pans Netanyahu’s ‘inflammatory’ mufti remarks

White House pans Netanyahu’s ‘inflammatory’ mufti remarks

Obama spokesman says there’s no doubt Germany was behind Holocaust, calls for an end to statements that ‘can feed the violence’   The White House… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s Mufti myth

Netanyahu’s Mufti myth

Analysis: There is historical context to PM’s comment about al-Husseini’s role in the Holocaust, but Hitler didn’t need the Mufti to exterminate the Jews –… Read More ›

Who put a giant bra on a famous Tel Aviv statue?

Who put a giant bra on a famous Tel Aviv statue?

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness month, one of Tel Aviv’s most famous statues, the discs in Habima Square, have been decked out in a… Read More ›

Netanyahu approves urban planning in settlement

Netanyahu approves urban planning in settlement

Following protests in front of his house, the prime minister agrees to an urban building plan for Itamar the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Read More ›

Relative of Abbas has life-saving operation in Israeli hospital

Relative of Abbas has life-saving operation in Israeli hospital

While Prime Minister Netanyahu says Mahmoud Abbas is spreading lies about Israel, the Palestinian president’s brother-in-law has been admitted to Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv… Read More ›

Analysis: Israel quiet over ‘hotline’ with Russia on Syria

Analysis: Israel quiet over ‘hotline’ with Russia on Syria

“A Russian partnership with Iran and Hezbollah to save Assad is not necessarily bad for us,” Netanyahu confidant says.   It speaks volumes that Russia,… Read More ›

Israel to issue ‘start-up visas’ for foreign entrepreneurs

Israel to issue ‘start-up visas’ for foreign entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs who obtain the two-year visas will be able to develop new technological enterprises in Israel and their visas will be extended if they decide… Read More ›

‘Only 4% of Israelis think Kerry, Ban will bring calm’

‘Only 4% of Israelis think Kerry, Ban will bring calm’

Poll finds Likudniks prefer Sa’ar over Netanyahu.   The efforts of US Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon to end… Read More ›

Bennett calls to ‘truly unite Jerusalem’

Bennett calls to ‘truly unite Jerusalem’

Education minister advocates mass investment in Arab neighborhoods.   The current Palestinian violence should be seen as not only a crisis but also an opportunity,… Read More ›

US official: Anti-Semitism cannot be eradicated, must be diminished

US official: Anti-Semitism cannot be eradicated, must be diminished

State Department office says combating phenonemon is a ‘major issue’ and that primary focus is on Europe, but PA has also come under scrutiny  … Read More ›

Netanyahu criticized for saying Holocaust was mufti’s idea, not Hitler’s

Netanyahu criticized for saying Holocaust was mufti’s idea, not Hitler’s

There’s no question Adolf Hitler led Nazi Germany when it implemented the “final solution” in an effort to kill all Jews. But, in a speech… Read More ›

Family of American-Turkish Mavi Marmara victim sue Ehud Barak

Family of American-Turkish Mavi Marmara victim sue Ehud Barak

Former defense minister served with lawsuit while attending conference in US; Furkan Dogan was among 9 killed in 2010 commando raid on Gaza-bound vessel  … Read More ›

Female soldier severely wounded in West Bank stabbing

Female soldier severely wounded in West Bank stabbing

Doctors battle to save her life; attacker shot and killed by security forces at the scene, near Adam junction north of Jerusalem   An Israeli… Read More ›

Five soldiers hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack

Five soldiers hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack

One victim in serious condition with head injury after car rams into group near Beit Ummar south of Jerusalem, driver shot by forces on scene… Read More ›

‘No circumcision for my son – it’s not moral’

‘No circumcision for my son – it’s not moral’

Rani Kasher decided not to circumcise his third son after conducting research; he is now an anti-circumcision activist and plans on writing a book on… Read More ›