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Israel hopes to coordinate Temple Mount camera installation ‘as soon as possible’

Israel hopes to coordinate Temple Mount camera installation ‘as soon as possible’

Ban: I hope security steps can demonstrate restraint, respect for sanctity of area, Wakf yet to decide on camera proposal   Israel is interested in… Read More ›

Washington is on the verge of a massive budget deal — here’s what it would tackle

Washington is on the verge of a massive budget deal — here’s what it would tackle

  The contours of an emerging budget deal would provide Congress with a way out of most of the coming landmines ahead of the 2016… Read More ›

We’ve never seen anything like this $5.2 billion energy deal

We’ve never seen anything like this $5.2 billion energy deal

  I wrote this summer about record amounts of investment capital being raised for natural resources. And this week we got some big news about where… Read More ›

The first politician has come out and said she’s not done with Valeant

The first politician has come out and said she’s not done with Valeant

  US Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) is not done with Valeant Pharmaceuticals. The company has been under pressure the past few weeks, first facing questions… Read More ›

Newark, NJ – AP-GfK Poll: Trump Is Hard Sell For Hispanics

Newark, NJ – AP-GfK Poll: Trump Is Hard Sell For Hispanics

  Newark, NJ – Republican front-runner Donald Trump is widely unpopular among the nation’s Hispanics, a new AP-GfK poll finds, challenging the billionaire’s oft-repeated assertion… Read More ›

New York – Gun Recovery In River Offers Window Into NYPD Scuba Unit

New York – Gun Recovery In River Offers Window Into NYPD Scuba Unit

  New York – For five days, police scuba divers, working in pairs, combed 67,000 square feet of riverbed while on their stomachs in search… Read More ›

Chicago, IL – U.S. Police Chiefs Call For Background Checks For All Gun Purchases

Chicago, IL – U.S. Police Chiefs Call For Background Checks For All Gun Purchases

  Chicago, IL –  Police chiefs from across the United States called on Monday for universal background checks for firearms purchases, saying opinion polls consistently… Read More ›

New video shows scenes from raid to free hostages from ISIS

New video shows scenes from raid to free hostages from ISIS

Amid the incessant crackle of gunfire, the soldiers usher the cowering men through darkened rooms. The men are barefoot, most of them wearing long robes,… Read More ›

Poland edges further right in election

Poland edges further right in election

  Poland’s parliamentary election has seen the Eastern European nation edge further to the right, an election official announced Monday. Wojciech Hermelinski, head of the… Read More ›

If meat causes cancer, what can we eat?

If meat causes cancer, what can we eat?

  You may have just learned that processed meat such as bacon, sausage and ham may cause cancer and unprocessed meat may be “probably carcinogenic… Read More ›

20,000 Israelis sue Facebook for ignoring Palestinian incitement

20,000 Israelis sue Facebook for ignoring Palestinian incitement

Class-action suit filed in Brooklyn requires social network to immediately remove all posts ‘containing incitement to murder Jews’   NEW YORK — A class-action lawsuit… Read More ›

At Rabin memorial, Netanyahu blames PA for failed peace efforts

At Rabin memorial, Netanyahu blames PA for failed peace efforts

PM says there’s no peace because Palestinians refuse to recognize Jewish state; Herzog pans him for 10 years of failure   Addressing the Knesset during… Read More ›

Clinton: I really loved Rabin, and he would have made peace

Clinton: I really loved Rabin, and he would have made peace

In interview aired 20 years after assassination of PM, former president recalls how Arafat said Rabin’s word was better than any contract   Had he… Read More ›

Peace education programs thrive amid violence

Peace education programs thrive amid violence

Peres Center for Peace reports increase in demand for joint Jewish and Arab educational programs amid concerns that recent wave of terror may lead to… Read More ›

US warns Netanyahu against unilateral steps in East Jerusalem

US warns Netanyahu against unilateral steps in East Jerusalem

After PM raises possibility of revoking benefits from Palestinians living on other side of separation wall, Washington says such a movie would ‘be of concern.’… Read More ›

Who was the real Rabin and what is left of Oslo

Who was the real Rabin and what is left of Oslo

Op-ed: No one knows what would have happened had Israel’s prime minister survived his assassination attempt, but 20 years of failure indicate that a peace… Read More ›

Study: 20 years later, Rabin assassination conspiracy theories have risen dramatically online

Study: 20 years later, Rabin assassination conspiracy theories have risen dramatically online

Some say Shin Bet, Shimon Peres responsible for assassination, others believe that former prime minister is still alive.   Support for conspiracy theories around the… Read More ›

Grand mufti: There was never a Jewish Temple on Temple Mount

Grand mufti: There was never a Jewish Temple on Temple Mount

Palestinian Media Watch says Hussein’s‘revision of history’ is nothing new   Strong criticism was leveled on Monday at Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the grand mufti… Read More ›

Iranian general: Israel’s collapse may come in less than a quarter of a century

Iranian general: Israel’s collapse may come in less than a quarter of a century

Foreign minister says nuclear agreement to be implemented only on supreme leader’s terms   The commander of Iran’s ground forces vowed that their long-range missiles… Read More ›

Temple Mount activists: Prayer ban for Jews is discrimination

Temple Mount activists: Prayer ban for Jews is discrimination

Worship by Jews at site cannot be prevented by force, says Yehudah Glick.   Temple  Mount activist groups denounced on Sunday the recent diplomatic efforts… Read More ›