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Russia approves ban on ‘foreign agents’

Russia approves ban on ‘foreign agents’

Several rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, called for the initiative to be dropped as it was being approved by lawmakers.   Russia’s new laws… Read More ›

Israel’s public relations failures come home to roost in Qatar

Israel’s public relations failures come home to roost in Qatar

Opinion: Government must appoint a professional team with extensive understanding of media, backing of a ministry and budget, to communicate in multiple languages the Israeli… Read More ›

2 terror group fighters killed in clashes with IDF during raid of Jenin refugee camp

2 terror group fighters killed in clashes with IDF during raid of Jenin refugee camp

Casualties identified as Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members; Jenin hospital declares state of emergency due to large number of wounded in raid  … Read More ›

Jewish Passengers Booted Off Lufthansa Flight In May Are Getting $20,000 Payouts

Jewish Passengers Booted Off Lufthansa Flight In May Are Getting $20,000 Payouts

  BERLIN (JTA) – Nearly seven months after they were denied boarding in Frankfurt, a group of more than 100 Hasidic Lufthansa passengers are getting… Read More ›

House committee receives Donald Trump’s federal tax returns from IRS

House committee receives Donald Trump’s federal tax returns from IRS

  The House Ways and Means Committee now has six years of Donald Trump’s federal tax returns, ending a yearslong pursuit by Democrats to dig… Read More ›

Lapid: New gov’t ‘turning IDF soldiers against their commanders’

Lapid: New gov’t ‘turning IDF soldiers against their commanders’

Commander of Tzabar battalion hit with a wave of threats following the sentencing of Givati soldiers over Hebron incident.   IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen.Aviv… Read More ›

Netanyahu to ask Herzog for extension to form government, report says

Netanyahu to ask Herzog for extension to form government, report says

As deadline of December 11 looms, Herzog is authorized to give the prime minister-designate 14 additional days to finalize coalition deals – extension which is… Read More ›

PM, IDF chief slam lawmakers for targeting officer who jailed Hebron soldier

PM, IDF chief slam lawmakers for targeting officer who jailed Hebron soldier

Lapid: ‘Dangerous’ rhetoric; Kohavi: ‘Political interference in commanders’ decisions unacceptable’; IDF weighing punishment of soldier who warned Ben Gvir will ‘sort things out’   Prime… Read More ›

Hasidic Man Harassed On NYC Train, Attacker Brags That NYPD Won’t Do Anything (VIDEO)

Hasidic Man Harassed On NYC Train, Attacker Brags That NYPD Won’t Do Anything (VIDEO)

BROOKLYN — A Hasidic man was harassed on the J train heading from Brooklyn to Manhattan on Monday. The incident was tweeted out by another… Read More ›

How Ukraine is innovating Soviet-era weapons for a 21st century battleground

How Ukraine is innovating Soviet-era weapons for a 21st century battleground

Bakhmut, Ukraine — In a basement in eastern Ukraine, young men sit at a long table strewn with laptops, their eyes glued to a television screen an… Read More ›

55% of Israelis want IDF to kill terrorists who are no longer a threat – poll

55% of Israelis want IDF to kill terrorists who are no longer a threat – poll

In addition, just under half (45.5%) of Israelis support targeting civilian populations in Gaza to deter rockets being fired into Israel, which marks a jump… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s new government is a threat to Israel’s institutions

Netanyahu’s new government is a threat to Israel’s institutions

Opinion: After the courts and the police have been handed over to far-right, aiming to destroy them, Netanyahu allies are now aiming for the military… Read More ›

Amid troop violence toward civilians, army warns of repercussions for ‘immoral’ acts

Amid troop violence toward civilians, army warns of repercussions for ‘immoral’ acts

Citing recent beating and taunting of activists, top general denounces ‘grave violence that is not in line with the IDF’s values’   A senior military… Read More ›

Pence Calls On Trump To Apologize For Dinner With Antisemite

Pence Calls On Trump To Apologize For Dinner With Antisemite

  NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday said Donald Trump “demonstrated profoundly poor judgment” and called on him to apologize… Read More ›

Iran threatened families of national soccer team, according to security source

Iran threatened families of national soccer team, according to security source

  The families of Iran’s World Cup soccer team have been threatened with imprisonment and torture if the players fail to “behave” ahead of the match against… Read More ›

We’re on the brink of civil war between Jews and Arabs, warns Acre mayor

We’re on the brink of civil war between Jews and Arabs, warns Acre mayor

The conference proposed an NIS 110 billion plan to fight crime and restore governance in the periphery.   The State of Israel is “on the… Read More ›

Soldiers must be reminded their enemy is not those with opposing political views

Soldiers must be reminded their enemy is not those with opposing political views

Opinion: The punch to the face that IDF soldier gave the left-wing activist in West Bank city says a lot more about the Israeli political… Read More ›

Netanyahu puts extremist homophobic politician in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity

Netanyahu puts extremist homophobic politician in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity

Presumed PM-elect signs coalition deal with Avi Maoz, who holds radical views on non-Orthodox Judaism, LGBT Israelis, Arabs and women   One of the Knesset’s… Read More ›

Canadian Lawmaker Vows To Defend Israel, Jews

Canadian Lawmaker Vows To Defend Israel, Jews

  OTTAWA (JNS) – She’s a Jamaican-born lawyer who immigrated to Canada with her family at age five. She made history by becoming the first… Read More ›

One of Ukraine’s largest hospitals nearly evacuated patients after Russian strikes cut water supply

One of Ukraine’s largest hospitals nearly evacuated patients after Russian strikes cut water supply

One of Ukraine’s largest state hospitals was “on the verge of evacuating” some patients after it lost water supply because of Russian air strikes on Wednesday, a regional official… Read More ›