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West Bank – Iconoclast Muslim Woman Aligned With Hard-Line Settler Movement Runs For Parliament

West Bank – Iconoclast Muslim Woman Aligned With Hard-Line Settler Movement Runs For Parliament

Kinbutz Yehiam, Israel – An Arab-Israeli Muslim woman is running for a parliament seat as a member of a hard-line religious Jewish party that opposes… Read More ›

Israel – Military Threatened To Be Torn Apart From Within By IDF War Crimes Probe

Israel – Military Threatened To Be Torn Apart From Within By IDF War Crimes Probe

Israel – A bombshell has fallen within the ranks, turning military commanders and lawyers against each other on a possibly unprecedented level over the Office… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Netanyahu Routs Danon In Party Primary To Retain Likud Chairmanship

Jerusalem – Netanyahu Routs Danon In Party Primary To Retain Likud Chairmanship

Jerusalem – Israeli media reported Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won the backing of his hard-line Likud party in its primary and will lead… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Court Rejects Greek Appeal To Gain Holocaust Funds Held By Israel

Tel Aviv – Court Rejects Greek Appeal To Gain Holocaust Funds Held By Israel

Tel Aviv – In a contentious case pitting two bodies engaged in Holocaust restitution against one another, a court rejected a demand by the Greek… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Court Rejects Petition To Declare Home Of Terrorists’ Demolitions Illegal

Jerusalem – Court Rejects Petition To Declare Home Of Terrorists’ Demolitions Illegal

Jerusalem – The High Court of Justice on Wednesday rejected a petition to ban all demolitions of terrorists’ houses as well as a petition to… Read More ›

New York rising minimum wage

New York rising minimum wage

New York’s minimum wage will rise from $8 to $8.75 an hour on Wednesday, giving a boost in pay to some 700,000 workers. The state… Read More ›

China to begin free trade with Israel in 2015

China to begin free trade with Israel in 2015

China will begin trade negotiations with Israel this year. China and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the… Read More ›

Man armed with an automatic weapon and a bomb detained outside Istanbul palace

Man armed with an automatic weapon and a bomb detained outside Istanbul palace

A man carrying an automatic weapon and a bomb was captured in front of İstanbul’s historic Dolmabahçe Palace on Thursday, according to the Turkish newspaper… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Netanyahu Thanks US And Australia For Rejecting Palestinian UN Bid

Jerusalem – Netanyahu Thanks US And Australia For Rejecting Palestinian UN Bid

Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the UN Security Council vote, thanking  the US and Australia for voting against the motion, and praising Rwanda… Read More ›

West Bank – Palestinians To Apply To Join International Criminal Court After UN Setback

West Bank – Palestinians To Apply To Join International Criminal Court After UN Setback

West Bank – Officials said on Wednesday that the Palestinian leadership is meeting to plan its next steps after a resolution to end Israel’s occupation… Read More ›

West Bank – Suspected Hate Crime Attack On Palestinian House Being Investigated By Police

West Bank – Suspected Hate Crime Attack On Palestinian House Being Investigated By Police

West Bank – Police were investigating a suspected ‘price tag’ hate crime attack in the West Bank village of al-Dirat after a firebomb was thrown… Read More ›

Israel –  Mastermind In June Kidnap, Murder Of 3 Israeli Teens, Has Been Convicted By Hamas Court

Israel – Mastermind In June Kidnap, Murder Of 3 Israeli Teens, Has Been Convicted By Hamas Court

Israel – On Wednesday, the IDF military court convicted Hussam Hassan Kawasme of being the mastermind behind the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens… Read More ›

Riyadh – Saudi Arabia Says It Is Open To Jewish Workers

Riyadh – Saudi Arabia Says It Is Open To Jewish Workers

Riyadh – A Labor Ministry source in Riyadh was quoted as saying in a Saudi newspaper on Tuesday that Jews and foreigners with other religions are… Read More ›

Libya –  Up To 1.8 Million Barrels Of Crude Destroyed At Oil Port Fire

Libya – Up To 1.8 Million Barrels Of Crude Destroyed At Oil Port Fire

Libya – A top oil official said on Tuesday, a fire raging for almost a week at Libya’s biggest oil port of Es Sider has destroyed… Read More ›

Israel – Authorities Recover Jewelry Stolen By Beit Shemesh Man, 800 Ancient Coins

Israel – Authorities Recover Jewelry Stolen By Beit Shemesh Man, 800 Ancient Coins

Beit Shemesh – The Israel Antiquities Authority discovered during a  routine security check a veritable treasure hunt. A Beit Shemesh man had stolen hundreds of… Read More ›

Jakarta – Official: No Victim From Crashed AirAsia Plane Was Found With Life Jacket On

Jakarta – Official: No Victim From Crashed AirAsia Plane Was Found With Life Jacket On

Jakarta – On Wednesday, an Indonesian search and rescue official said that none of the bodies recovered so far from the crashed AirAsia jet had… Read More ›

Russia – Putin Sends Magnanimous New Year’s Message To Obama

Russia – Putin Sends Magnanimous New Year’s Message To Obama

Moscow – In a New Year’s message to U.S. President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said  that Moscow is looking for equality in… Read More ›

Ramallah – Abbas: Palestinians To Join International Criminal Court

Ramallah – Abbas: Palestinians To Join International Criminal Court

Ramallah – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinians will join the International Criminal Court — a move that sets the stage for filing a… Read More ›

Berlin – Germans Are Told Not To Attend Anti-Islam Rallies By Merkel

Berlin – Germans Are Told Not To Attend Anti-Islam Rallies By Merkel

Germany – On Wednesday German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the country’s citizens not to participate in weekly anti-Islam rallies that have attracted growing numbers of… Read More ›

Cargo ship carrying hundreds of migrants heads to Italy after earlier fears of armed people on board

A passenger on board the Moldovan-flagged Blue Sky M called emergency services in Greece earlier in the day when it was sailing off the coast… Read More ›