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Gov’t approves plan to improve law enforcement in Arab sector

Gov’t approves plan to improve law enforcement in Arab sector

Plan includes construction of 10 new police stations and renovation of 10 existing ones in Arab or mixed cities, and adding 2,600 new officers to… Read More ›

Former Iraqi diplomat in Israel

Former Iraqi diplomat in Israel

Hamad Al-Sharifi, who served as an Iraqi diplomat in Kuwait and Jordan, arrives in Israel on Sunday for a visit; he will be an official… Read More ›

Egyptian-Saudi ties come to the forefront

Egyptian-Saudi ties come to the forefront

Analysis: Saudi King Salman visited Egypt and signed a plethora of deals with the Egyptian government, including plans to build a bridge between the two… Read More ›

Group of Israeli Orthodox rabbis urges greater acceptance of homosexuals

Group of Israeli Orthodox rabbis urges greater acceptance of homosexuals

Rabbis from the nonprofit Beit Hillel present a document urging greater acceptance of LGBT members within the Orthodox realm.   Im unsual move, a body of… Read More ›

Analysis: Palestinian attacks now under control, but could resume full-force

Analysis: Palestinian attacks now under control, but could resume full-force

Defense establishment has employed sound judgment to bring attacks under control; but core problems remain and situation could escalate again in a flash.   The recent… Read More ›

Rare 150-year-old Jerusalem maps sell for NIS 13,000 at auction

Rare 150-year-old Jerusalem maps sell for NIS 13,000 at auction

First modern maps of Jerusalem from Ottoman era composed by British Army contractor sold.   Rare, 150-year-old maps of Jerusalem from a British Army operative during… Read More ›

Analysis: Panama Papers deal a harsh blow to corruption, but also to privacy

Analysis: Panama Papers deal a harsh blow to corruption, but also to privacy

It is becoming harder for the real power brokers to hide behind straw people even in foreign lands.   Defense lawyer and co-chairwoman of the… Read More ›

Tzipi Livni rejects national unity government with Likud

Tzipi Livni rejects national unity government with Likud

‘Secret coalition talks’ between Netanyahu, Herzog said frozen after Labor head hit by graft probe   Zionist Union no. 2 MK Tzipi Livni has said… Read More ›

NASCAR pre-race prayer on FOX asked for ‘a Jesus man’ to be elected to the White House

NASCAR pre-race prayer on FOX asked for ‘a Jesus man’ to be elected to the White House

  Phil Robertson, star of “Duck Dynasty,” performed the invocation prior to NASCAR’s Duck Commander 500 in Texas. Robertson started the prayer by saying “we… Read More ›

New drugs that could save the US billions just got an approval that will change the face of Big Pharma

New drugs that could save the US billions just got an approval that will change the face of Big Pharma

  The US pharmaceutical industry is on the brink of an entirely new ecosystem. Until recently, branded biologic drugs made from living cells haven’t faced… Read More ›

‘DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN’: Boston Globe plans provocative anti-Trump cover

‘DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN’: Boston Globe plans provocative anti-Trump cover

The Boston Globe is apparently planning a newspaper editorialthat opposes Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy. In The Globe’s Sunday edition, the newspaper’s editorial board calls Trump’s… Read More ›

Manhattan, NY – Surveillance Cameras Capture Subway Struggle Between Slasher And Lost Chasidic Tourist

Manhattan, NY – Surveillance Cameras Capture Subway Struggle Between Slasher And Lost Chasidic Tourist

Manhattan, NY – Video footage released by the NYPD shows a Chasidic man trying to fight off his attacker at a Greenwich Village subway station… Read More ›

Honolulu – 3 Rescued From Deserted Island After Writing ‘Help’ On Beach

Honolulu – 3 Rescued From Deserted Island After Writing ‘Help’ On Beach

  Honolulu – The men rescued in this tale of three castaways were not named Tom Hanks, or Gilligan, or Robinson Crusoe. Though they might… Read More ›

San Francisco – Obama Says Trump, Cruz Doing Democrats A ‘Favor’

San Francisco – Obama Says Trump, Cruz Doing Democrats A ‘Favor’

  San Francisco – President Barack Obama on Friday told donors that Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were doing Democrats a “favor”… Read More ›

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert abused 4 boys, prosecutors say

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert abused 4 boys, prosecutors say

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert sexually abused at least four boys when he worked as a wrestling coach at a high school in Illinois decades… Read More ›

‘Man in the hat’: Brussels airport suspect in custody

‘Man in the hat’: Brussels airport suspect in custody

The third suspect in the Brussels Airport attack — the “man in the hat” — has been positively identified as Mohamed Abrini, according to the… Read More ›

Wyoming Democratic caucuses: Bernie Sanders picks up another win

Wyoming Democratic caucuses: Bernie Sanders picks up another win

Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, providing his campaign with one more jolt of momentum before the race against Hillary Clinton heads east.… Read More ›

Cruz gets all delegates in Colorado, Sanders wins Wyoming

Cruz gets all delegates in Colorado, Sanders wins Wyoming

All eyes turn to April 19 primary in delegate-rich New York, where a campaigning Clinton says Democrats are better for the economy   COLORADO SPRINGS,… Read More ›

Sanders invokes Judaism as a root cause for his sense of racial justice

Sanders invokes Judaism as a root cause for his sense of racial justice

Campaigning ahead of April 19 New York primary, front-runner Clinton says she needs to ‘win big’ in her home state   Campaigning in New York… Read More ›

Cruz rails against Trump at Republican Jewish gathering

Cruz rails against Trump at Republican Jewish gathering

Presidential hopeful warns of ‘absolute disaster’ and ‘bloodbath’ for Republicans if front-runner Trump is their nominee   LAS VEGAS (AP) — His presidential rivals thousands… Read More ›