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Pentagon takes computer system offline

Pentagon takes computer system offline

Washington – The unclassified email network used by Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and hundreds of military and civilian personnel was… Read More ›

Fresh clashes erupt at Beit El; state appeals demolition order

Fresh clashes erupt at Beit El; state appeals demolition order

Settlers hurl stones at police; education minister hails protesters’ efforts to prevent removal of illegal Beit El structures   Clashes between settlers and security forces… Read More ›

Netanyahu said to bitterly attack Kerry for placing Israel ‘on the menu’ of Iran deal

Netanyahu said to bitterly attack Kerry for placing Israel ‘on the menu’ of Iran deal

Responding to secretary’s decision to skip Israel on Mideast trip next week, PM reportedly snipes ‘he has no reason to come here’   Depicting Israel… Read More ›

Key committee okays bill allowing ministers to resign from Knesset

Key committee okays bill allowing ministers to resign from Knesset

So-called ‘Norwegian Law’ will enable Shuli Moalem-Refaeli, no. 9 on Jewish Home’s slate, to enter parliament   The so-called “Norwegian Law” allowing one minister from… Read More ›

Israeli court rejects child’s plea to end chemo

Israeli court rejects child’s plea to end chemo

16-year-old boy from a religious family fled his treatments at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, and was forced back against his parents’ wishes following… Read More ›

Teaming up with Arab states for Israel’s security

Teaming up with Arab states for Israel’s security

Op-ed: Combining intelligence abilities and coordinating preventive activity is the only way to restraint Iran, both in terms of nuclear deal violations and its further… Read More ›

Officials: Iran may take own samples at alleged nuclear site

Officials: Iran may take own samples at alleged nuclear site

Tehran insists on conducting its own soil sampling at Parchin military site, while IAEA inspectors would supervise collection and analyze samples; Kerry tells House committee:… Read More ›

Jonathan Pollard on forthcoming release: ‘I’m looking forward to being reunited with my wife’

Jonathan Pollard on forthcoming release: ‘I’m looking forward to being reunited with my wife’

Pollard has been serving a life sentence in a US prison since 1987.   Israeli agent Jonathan Polard will be released from prison after serving… Read More ›

Budget deal to give NIS 18,000 ‘piggy bank’ to 18-year-olds

Budget deal to give NIS 18,000 ‘piggy bank’ to 18-year-olds

This gift doesn’t differentiate between religion, race or nationality, says Kahlon   Soon enough, turning 18 wil not only be a time to celebrate, legally… Read More ›

Netanyahu, Abbas may address the EU in bid to reinvigorate peace process

Netanyahu, Abbas may address the EU in bid to reinvigorate peace process

Palestinian leadership to convene over secret meetings with Israelis.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas could address European heads of… Read More ›

Right-wing activist Glick praises gov’t over Temple Mount policing

Right-wing activist Glick praises gov’t over Temple Mount policing

Glick, head of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation, said, however, that much more work remains to be done by the authorities to reverse decades of… Read More ›

Fabius trip to Tehran a ‘key test,’ French president says

Fabius trip to Tehran a ‘key test,’ French president says

Iran’s reception of most hawkish world power’s foreign minister on Wednesday will serve as litmus, according to Hollande   French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius’s upcoming… Read More ›

Top-notch colleges in the US are dropping a major admissions requirement

Top-notch colleges in the US are dropping a major admissions requirement

  Conversations about SAT and ACT scores are ubiquitous for high school students applying to college. Increasingly, however, colleges and universities have begun to eschew… Read More ›

Chinese stocks are getting hosed again

Chinese stocks are getting hosed again

  Having been hammered yesterday, Chinese stocks have opened Tuesday’s session significantly lower. The benchmark Shanghai Composite index, fresh from falling 8.48% yesterday, has lost… Read More ›

A new $4 billion LaGuardia Airport is coming

A new $4 billion LaGuardia Airport is coming

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday a massive $US4 billion overhaul of LaGuardia Airport, set to kick off next year. “New York had… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Chasidic Girl’s Viral Poem Circles The Globe

Brooklyn, NY – Chasidic Girl’s Viral Poem Circles The Globe

Brooklyn, NY – The 21 line poem written by a Chasidic girl from Crown Heights that has literally taken the world by storm continues its… Read More ›

New York – New York’s Chief Administrative Judge To Step Down

New York – New York’s Chief Administrative Judge To Step Down

  New York – New York Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti on Monday said she was resigning from her post to take a job… Read More ›

Washington – NSA Will Stop Looking At Old US Phone Records

Washington – NSA Will Stop Looking At Old US Phone Records

  Washington – The Obama administration has decided that the National Security Agency will soon stop examining — and will ultimately destroy — millions of… Read More ›

Wedding shootout in Afghanistan kills 21 people

Wedding shootout in Afghanistan kills 21 people

  Kabul, Afghanistan – A wedding in Afghanistan turned deadly Sunday night when a gunfight broke out, killing 21 people, an Afghan official said. Two armed… Read More ›

Young Nepalese boy slain in human sacrifice ritual

Young Nepalese boy slain in human sacrifice ritual

  A Nepalese man has confessed to the murder of a young boy after saying a local holy man advised him that a human sacrifice… Read More ›