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MK wants labels on goods from countries that label settlement products

MK wants labels on goods from countries that label settlement products

Legislation seeks to counter new EU guidelines that ban goods manufactured beyond 1967 lines from reading ‘Made in Israel’   The Knesset Committee for Legislation… Read More ›

US historians’ group rejects anti-Israel resolution

US historians’ group rejects anti-Israel resolution

For second year in a row, American Historical Association votes down proposal to condemn Israel by 111 to 50   WASHINGTON — For the second… Read More ›

Hamas set on carrying out attacks from West Bank

Hamas set on carrying out attacks from West Bank

Analysis: The discovery of two major Hamas terror cells in the West Bank over the past month shows the terror organization’s determination in the face… Read More ›

Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

Gov’t promoting legislation benefitting ultra-Orthodox

United Torah Judaism demands state to fund life insurance to yeshiva students, set to cost NIS 36 million, while Bayit Yehudi MK stonewalling reform in… Read More ›

NIS 300 million worth of medications added to health basket

NIS 300 million worth of medications added to health basket

Third of budget for medical services and drugs paid for by the state allocated to cancer treatments; other additions include emergency contraceptive for victims of… Read More ›

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

Israel’s expansion of Gush Etzion settlement bloc harmful to peace, US says

US State Department spokesman John Kirby warned such actions undermine the possibility of a two-state solution.   The expansion of the territorial boundaries of the… Read More ›

France pays tribute to victims of Hyper Cacher attack on one-year anniversary

France pays tribute to victims of Hyper Cacher attack on one-year anniversary

On January 9, 2015 a French Islamic gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, took several people hostage in the grocery store after shooting a police officer in the… Read More ›

Taking the matrimonial bull by the horns for Jewish divorcees

Taking the matrimonial bull by the horns for Jewish divorcees

Laws that already exist can also be utilized to prevent agunot, women chained to their marraiges.   It seems that most of what we hear… Read More ›

PA agrees to cooperate in manhunt for Tel Aviv shooting suspect, says official

PA agrees to cooperate in manhunt for Tel Aviv shooting suspect, says official

PA security official: “He’s an Israeli citizen and if we capture him we will hand him over to the Israeli authorities,”   Israel has asked… Read More ›

When the shoe fit, Shin Bet knew it had found Duma killer

When the shoe fit, Shin Bet knew it had found Duma killer

Investigators say evidence from the scene helped to incriminate Amiram Ben-Uliel, who also knew details of the firebombing that hadn’t been publicized   Investigators revealed… Read More ›

Former US defense secretary reportedly found top Obama national-security aides ‘dangerously naive’  Pamela Engel    4h 	3,686  3

Former US defense secretary reportedly found top Obama national-security aides ‘dangerously naive’ Pamela Engel 4h 3,686 3

  A former US defense secretary who served under four presidents referred the young aides on US President Barack Obama’s national-security and foreign-policy teams as… Read More ›

We just got the latest sign Saudi Arabia is worried about the future

We just got the latest sign Saudi Arabia is worried about the future

  The Economist is reporting in its upcoming January 9 print edition that Saudi Aramco, the Saudi state-owned oil company believed to be the world’s… Read More ›

Wall Street’s nightmare stock crashed 35%

Wall Street’s nightmare stock crashed 35%

SunEdison, a solar-manufacturing company, fell 35% on Thursday after the company announced that it intends to raise money and restructure its debt in order to… Read More ›

Washington – Wild December Pushes US Weather In 2015 To Near Records

Washington – Wild December Pushes US Weather In 2015 To Near Records

  Washington – December’s wild El Nino pushed 2015 in the United States to near-record levels for heat, moisture and downright extreme conditions, federal weather… Read More ›

Tampa, FL – Rare Dime Worth More Than A Million Up For Auction In Tampa

Tampa, FL – Rare Dime Worth More Than A Million Up For Auction In Tampa

  Tampa, FL – Whatever disparaging cliche you’ve heard about the lowly dime—dime a dozen, nickel and dimed, dime’s worth of difference—it’s not true of… Read More ›

Washington – US Recruits Tech Leaders To Help Disrupt Islamic State Group

Washington – US Recruits Tech Leaders To Help Disrupt Islamic State Group

  Washington – With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials to Silicon Valley to seek… Read More ›

Who is the woman behind North Korea’s news?

Who is the woman behind North Korea’s news?

Who else to deliver the news that North Korea had tested a hydrogen bomb than the nation’s most famous anchor, Ri Chun-hee? On Wednesday, appearing… Read More ›

144-year-old Arctic shipwreck discovered; climate change to thank?

144-year-old Arctic shipwreck discovered; climate change to thank?

Archaeologists have discovered parts of two 19th-century whaling ships in the Arctic, thanks to sonar technology, intrepid divers and … climate change? “With less ice… Read More ›

Google Cardboard saves baby’s life

Google Cardboard saves baby’s life

A toy-like cardboard contraption that sells for less than $20 online has helped save the life of a baby who was so sick that doctors… Read More ›

Six Yitzhar settlers jailed for attacks on security forces

Six Yitzhar settlers jailed for attacks on security forces

Two men, four minors get 8-month sentences in plea bargain for crimes including rock-throwing, disrupting police work   Lod District Court on Thursday sentenced six… Read More ›