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Netanyahu said ‘settlements can no longer be developed,’ West Bank local council chiefs claim   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told West Bank Jewish leaders Monday… Read More ›

Conflicting reports on whether announcement will be made pre-dawn Tuesday, as sides wrap up years of tortuous negotiations   An Iran nuclear agreement appeared likely within… Read More ›

In new Twitter account, PM explains that ‘the more the regime feels strong and impervious to foreign pressure, the more it increases domestic oppression’. In… Read More ›

Netanyahu views Congress as ‘last line of defense against a bad deal,’ but US lawmakers have yet to be briefed on details of agreement; ‘There’s… Read More ›

Arriving in Israel for a wedding celebration, the two were turned away on suspicion of belonging to the Black Hebrew Community.   An American convert… Read More ›

However, he decided against it because he realized that his resignation would not help and he would be dubbed Israel’s “first conscientious objector,” Ya’alon said.… Read More ›

In 2007, a senior Israeli cabinet minister told senior military officials that if a country wants nuclear weapons nothing will stop it.   In 2007,… Read More ›

During the last nearly 30 years the world – with varying degrees of seriousness and intensity – has tried to block this path.   Iran… Read More ›

New arrivals to be greeted at airport Tuesday by Minister of Immigrant Absorption Ze’ev Elkin   Some 221 new immigrants from the United States and… Read More ›

Relative of first lady nominated unanimously to serve as ‘titular head of a worldwide community of Black Jews’   Rabbi Capers Funnye of Chicago was… Read More ›

IDF vet Gill Rosenberg back in Israel after 6 months in Iraq, Syria battling Islamic State; released after questioning by authorities   An Israeli-Canadian woman who… Read More ›

Great Egyptian actor, who died Friday, told Yedioth Ahronoth correspondent Smadar Perry about his Jewish and Israeli ties during a casual 1980s meeting at a… Read More ›

Pavel Postovoit’s stunning artwork imagines a time in which conflict has not abated and Star-Wars-like creations patrol the land. Pavel Postovoit imagines and illustrates the… Read More ›

Op-ed: Why are so many people struck by such incredible blindness when the facts are so obvious? Iran will become more dangerous if an agreement… Read More ›

The Torah scroll dedicated in Max’s honor will ideally be used by other soldiers in the army.   A year after lone soldier St.- Sgt.… Read More ›

United Torah Judaism’s Gafni says coalition agreement to restore child welfare benefits cannot be broken   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition faced a potential… Read More ›

Health Ministry statistics indicate that in 2011, 64 children came to hospitals after swallowing cigarette butts they found in parks or ashtrays at home.  … Read More ›

Bill sponsored by opposition Yisrael Beytenu party garners support of ministers in Likud and Jewish Home   A key cabinet committee is set to consider… Read More ›

  Tel Aviv – A new documentary has set off an uproar in Israel for its peek into the family life of the country’s most… Read More ›

Deputy chief of staff Jazzayeri suggests negotiators ‘avoid stepping into this realm’   Foreigners will never be allowed access to Iran’s military sites, the deputy… Read More ›