|  | | World leaders and entertainment stars praised and serenaded Israeli President Shimon Peres in honor of his upcoming 90th birthday. | | | | | |  | First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin amid tight security. Also on the visit was Auma Obama, President Obama's half-sister.
| | | | | |  | Just one day after the G8 Summit ended in the failure of Western leaders to overcome Russian resistance to a resolution mandating President Bashar Assad's ouster, Moscow announced Wednesday the dispatch to Syria of two warships carrying 600 Russian marines "to protect Russian citizens."
| | | | | |  | An early morning attack intended for southern Israel following President Shimon Peres's birthday bash fizzled with at least one - and possibly two - of the rockets intended to kill Jewish civilians exploding instead inside Gaza.
| | | | | |  | Terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza fired three Qassam rockets at southern Israel early Wednesday morning.
| | | | | |  | | Youngsters wearing military fatigues and the movement's black insignia capture a fellow camper posing as an Israeli soldier and drag him away - all part of being trained to "resist" the enemy. | | | | | |  | Iran's President-elect Hassan Rohani said he would strive for transparency in his country’s nuclear program but would not stop enriching uranium.
| | | | | |  | | Hamas on Monday called on Hizbullah to withdraw from Syria and to keep its weapons aimed at Israel, according to the Ma'an news agency. | | | | | |  | The Egyptian government has declared a high alert in the Sinai Peninsula following a high level of Al Qaeda terrorist activity in the region. The terrorists have set up a military base in central Sinai.
| | | | | | | | Some 170 troops from Fiji will join the United Nations peacekeeping force on the Golan Heights in the wake of the withdrawal of Austrian troops.
| | | | | |  | Iran's new president will find a partner in the United States if he comes clean on the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program, a senior White House official said Sunday, according to the AFP news agency.
| | | | | |  | Speaking in his first public reaction to the election of Hassan Rohani as the new Iranian president, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned the world not to be deceived by the leader’s "moderate" credentials.
| | | | | |  | The Associated Press has uncovered that a top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit, accused of burning villages filled with women and children, lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States.
| | | | | |  | Sweden will reduce its aid to the Palestinians by 28 percent unless progress is made in peace talks with Israel, a Swedish minister said.
| | | | | |  | The White House said early Friday said the US would provide "direct military support" for the first time to the Syrian opposition after obtaining proof that the Syrian government had used the chemical weapon sarin against rebel forces.
| | | | | |  | A new movement has proposed a radical solution to the problem of unequal IDF enlistment in Israel: making military service completely voluntary for all Israelis.
| | | | | |  | | The Obama administration confirmed that the Syrian army used chemical weapons against rebel forces. | | | | | |  | The British Broadcasting Company, known for its blatant bias against Israel, this week insisted that "no offence was intended" after it reported that Tel Aviv is the capital of the Jewish state
| | | | | |  | | An IDF unit arrested a Palestinian Authority Arab man on Thursday in the village of Qud, located near the PA city of Jenin, in Shomron. | | | | | |  | Almost 93,000 people have been killed thus far in the Syrian civil war, according to a report presented Thursday by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pllay.
| | | | | |  | America's National Security Agency chief says "dozens" of terror attacks were prevented in recent years through its surveillance programs, which have come under fire in the wake of a leak last week by American technical contractor and former CIA worker Edward Snowden.
| | | | | |  | Lebanon's army warned it will hit back against any new attacks from Syria after a helicopter gunship struck an eastern town on Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions ahead of US-British talks on the conflict.
| | | | | |  | Iran's Russian-built nuclear power plant has had an electric generator malfunction, an Iranian official admitted on Monday, according to the Israel Hayom daily.
| | | | | |  | | Gaza needs to bring back public hangings, senior court official Khaled el-Batash argued this week in an interview with the local media outlet Filistine. | | | | | |  | Iran has claimed that it has launched a 50-year-old destroyer on the Persian Gulf after repairing it and rearming with modern missiles, Fox News reported.
| | | | | |  | The Gulf Cooperation Council will take action against Hizbullah loyalists living in the GCC countries, a statement issued by the council said on Monday.
| | | | | |  | U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is postponing a trip to Israel, reportedly to attend strategy sessions on Syria in Washington.
| | | | | |  | A restaurant in Montreal has been targeted by a firebombing attack for the second time in three nights, local news site CTV reported.
| | | | | |  | Moscow is not ready to give up on getting Russian troops posted on the divided Golan as part of the UN force policing the Israeli-Syrian separation sector, even after rejections by the UN and Israel.
| | | | | | | | In a message to U.S. citizens abroad, the American Embassy in Tel Aviv advised U.S. citizens to stay away from Road 98, one of the two main north-south roads on the Golan Heights.
| | | | | |  | | UNHRC official calls for investigation of watchdog after it condemned his comments blaming Boston bombings on "Tel Aviv." | | | | | |  | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Russia’s President Vladimir Putin over the weekend that Israel will hold its fire against Syria – as long as Syria holds its fire against Israel.
| | | | | |  | United States President Barack Obama is close to approving arms for the rebels fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, officials told the Associated Press on Sunday.
| | | | | |  | Israel has allegedly reiterated its warnings to Syria over activity in the Golan Heights, threatening in a document sent to the United Nations the IDF will attack Syrian tanks on its border.
| | | | | |  | | The frequent communications between the Russian and Israeli leaders speak volumes about who calls the shots for the Syrian war arena - and the wider Middle East as well - since the Obama administration opted out. | | | | | |  | Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of trying to "destroy" the Al-Aqsa Mosque by allowing Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.
| | | | | |  | Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday that his country's peacekeepers replace departing Austrian troops which monitor the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line in the Golan Heights.
| | | | | |  | A Paris museum subsidized by the French government opened an exhibition of photos of Palestinian suicide bombers, which the museum calls freedom fighters.
| | | | | |  | | A security source told AFP that Israel is worried by the latest developments on the border, which could lead to a situation in which Israel faces Hizbullah on the Syrian front as well as the Lebanese one. | | | | | |  | | McCain was quoted as having said in a speech that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will make no effort to end the country's civil war as long as he is winning on the battle field. | | | | | |  | Aspiring entrepreneurs get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to present the "next big thing" in person to a panel of wealthy investors at the nation's first-ever, large-scale Jewish business and entrepreneur conference.
| | | | | | | | | Syrian regime forces on Thursday retook the Quneitra crossing, the only crossing along the Israel-Syria ceasefire line in the Golan Heights, after it was seized earlier by rebels, an Israeli security source said. | | | | | |  | President Obama extended for six months a waiver on a 1990s law that would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
| | | | | |  | | Austria is pulling its United Nations peacekeeping force from the Golan Heights, the government said in a statement released Thursday. Austria accounts for about 380 of the 1,000-strong UN force monitoring the Israel-Syria ceasefire line in the Golan Heights. | | | | | |  | The IDF verified reports Thursday morning that Syrian rebel forces had conquered parts of the Golan city of Kuneitra, placing them directly on the border with Israel.
| | | | | |  | President Obama's nominee for United States ambassador to the United Nations gave a provocative interview in 2002 in which she said that "external intervention" may be necessary to prevent "genocide" and "major human rights abuses" in the "Palestine/Israeli situation".
| | | | | |  | | The government has announced a plan to solve the shortage of teachers in Jewish schools by hiring 500 teachers from the Arab sector. Former Education Minister Rabbi Yitzchak Levy lauded the plan. | | | | | |  | | Stanley Fischer told a farewell event held by the Finance Committee that defense spending was a burden on the economy and that Israel needed to make peace. | | | | | |  | An Israeli judge sparked an outcry during the hearing of a 19-year-old Israeli woman who was raped by four Palestinians when she was 13.
| | | | | |  | A large American military force disembarked Tuesday, June 4, at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba - ready for deployment on the kingdom’s Syrian border, military sources report
| | | | | |  | Female soldiers serving at a base near Hadera reported Tuesday night that two Arab men attempted to kidnap them.
| | | | | |  | The U.S. government published on a federal website details of a top-secret base in Israel to house the Arrow 3 missile defense system.
| | | | | |  | The United States will send a Patriot missile battery and F-16 fighters to Jordan for a military drill and may keep the weapons there to counter the threat posed by Syria's civil war.
| | | | | |  | Germany has given its support to a plan by the European Union to label products manufactured in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. "In our view," the document states, "products should be labeled 'Made in Israel' only if they are manufactured within the [pre-]1967 borders."
| | | | | |  | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed British-educated political independent Rami Hamdallah as his new Prime Minister. The Islamist Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, called the decision "illegal."
| | | | | | | | Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised U.S. unhappiness with Israel's announcement of new building in eastern Jerusalem.
| | | | | |  | | Israeli security personnel announced Monday that they had arrested Bachar Attalah Samiach Sa'ad, a Hamas terrorists who planned several terror attacks against Israelis. | | | | | |  | | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attended a Home Front Command exercise simulating a chemical weapons attack on Israel at week's end. | | | | | |  | The British Daily Telegraph reports that Hamas, which rules Gaza, is paying a heavy price in lost aid over its assistance to the rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
| | | | | |  | Israeli warplanes flew over much of Lebanon on Sunday morning, including the capital city of Beirut, Lebanese officials have claimed.
| | | | | |  | Literally, with the wink of an eye, notifications flash when it’s time to pray. Nearby synagogues or kosher restaurants are instantly located. Important Jewish dates such as yahrtzeits and holidays are never forgotten.
| | | | | | | | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hinted in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that if Russia sends S-300 missiles to Syria, Israel will destroy them before they become operational.
| | | | | |  | | Netanyahu's order comes in the wake of reports that chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian civil war and the recent escalation along Israel's northern border. | | | | | |  | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday there was "popular pressure" to open a military front against Israel on the Golan Heights, and warned his country would bomb Israel if it attacks Syria again.
| | | | | |  | Senior Israeli intelligence sources emphasized on Thursday May 30 that Syria had still not received the first consignment of Russian S-300 anti-missile batteries, contrary to Syrian President Bashar Assad's claim.
| | | | | |  | Low cost air carrier easyJet plc announced today that it will begin operating flights from Tel Aviv to Rome, starting September.
| | | | | |  | | The site provides lessons on selected topics related to Jewish genetic health conditions, including specific diseases, treatment technologies and bioethical issues. | | | | | |  | | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that Syria has already begun acquiring the S-300 missile system from Moscow | | | | | |  | The United States reiterated on Wednesday that Israel has the right to defend itself, even if Russia goes ahead with the sale of advanced missiles to Syria.
| | | | | | | | Although no one has officially said that a war is imminent, or even on the horizon, the tension in Syria and the reports of missiles launched at northern Israel in recent days has caused a significant increase in requests for gas mask kits.
| | | | | |  | Israel is gearing up for a deterioration in the regional situation, with a growing number of new threats facing the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, the AFP news agency reports.
| | | | | |  | Minister of Finance Yair Lapid today sent a conciliatory message to the ultra-orthodox, whom he called "brother" telling them that the equal sharing of the burden law would benefit them and give them a sense of participation and dignity in Israel.
| | | | | |  | Forebodings were voiced Wednesday, May 29, by senior Israeli military officers in the face of the widening military intervention in the Syria civil war by Russia, Iran, Hizballah and latterly Iraq too.
| | | | | |  | Jerusalem woman describes daily Arab terror. "The situation gets worse from day to day."
| | | | | |  | Israel "will know what to do" if Russia delivers highly advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Tuesday.
| | | | | |  | Israelis took part in an annual nationwide drill preparing them for conventional or chemical rocket attacks.
| | | | | |  | European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to lift an arms embargo in order to supply weapons to Syrian rebels, British Foreign Secretary William Hague announced, according to AFP.
| | | | | |  | Residents of Israel's northernmost town of Metula were roused before dawn Monday, May 27 by an exploding rocket fired from the Lebanese town of Marjayoun about 10 kilometers north of the border.
| | | | | |  | One of the suspects in the Woolwich murder case was arrested in Kenya in 2010, and deported to Britain, the British Foreign Office has confirmed.
| | | | | |  | The fight against terrorism in Judea and Samaria is complicated by the young age of the attackers, IDF Colonel Yaniv Alaluf said Saturday evening.
| | | | | |  | | Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed Saturday night, May 25, to expand his movement’s military role in the Syrian civil war. "With just two words, I can muster tens of thousands of volunteers to fight for Bashar Assad," he said. | | | | | |  | British police made two further arrests on Thursday and raided houses across London, following the brutal murder of 25-year-old Lee Rigby, a serving soldier who survived a tour of duty in Afghanistan, AFP reported.
| | | | | |  | British Foreign Secretary William Hague, in a visit to Israel, said settlements have cost the country support in Britain and Europe.
| | | | | |  | Syria, which consistently violates the human rights of its own citizens, has slammed Israel over what it says is the "deterioration of the health conditions of the Syrian population in the occupied Golan as a result of the suppressive practices of the Israeli occupation."
| | | | | |  | A bipartisan group of United Sates lawmakers introduced a bill that would facilitate assistance for Holocaust survivors.
| | | | | |  | Israel would require security guards to leave their weapons at work under gun reforms unveiled in the aftermath of a Beersheva bank attack that killed four.
| | | | | |  | | The two Islamist terrorists who hacked a British soldier to death on a London street Wednesday, May 22, chanting Allahu Akbar, were born in Britain of Nigerian descent and known to British security authorities. One of the terrorists was identified as Michael Adebolajo, 28, a convert to Islam and self-styled Muslim preacher. | | | | | |  | At a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday morning, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that Israel was very interested in reopening negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
| | | | | |  | The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee's Subcommittee on Judea and Samaria was told Wednesday that Arab rock attacks on Jews were 2.5 times more frequent in 2012 than in 2011, and that the numbers for 2013 are 3.5 times larger than those of 2011.
| | | | | |  | Two as yet unidentified Muslim terrorists chanting Allahu Akbar assaulted a British soldier on a street close to the Royal Barracks at Woolwich in southeast London, shot him, hacked him with knives and a machete and finally beheaded him. This happened in broad daylight Wednesday afternoon, May 22, in the presence of dozens of witnesses.
| | | | | |  | Eric Garcetti, a veteran city councilman, became the first elected Jewish mayor of Los Angeles.
| | | | | |  | | Maj. Gen. Eshel explained, "Assad has invested billions in buying the best weapons systems Russia can offer, including the S-300, which is en route to Syria. And he is not the only one; everybody is busy acquiring such capabilities." | | | | | |  | The mayor of Paterson, New Jersey, had designated Sunday, May 19 as “Palestinian-American Day” in the city, as he hoisted a Palestinian flag hoisted over City Hall.
| | | | | |  | Israel has restored the fishing zone off the coast of Gaza to six nautical miles, after reducing it to three in March after terrorists fired rockets into the Jewish state, the army said on Tuesday.
| | | | | | | | | An IDF soldier was killed Tuesday night in a training exercise when a mine he was handling exploded. | | | | | |  | Syria and Israel crossed verbal swords Tuesday, May 21, after an overnight exchange of fire on the Golan. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said: "Our policy is clear – we don’t interfere in Syria’s civil war, but neither will we let the fire spill over onto our territory."
| | | | | |  | | Hamas student group posts cartoon with ‘Palestine’ throwing Star of David in the trash. | | | | | |  | Israeli soldiers patrolling the Golan Heights along the border with Syria fired back after coming under fire overnight, an Israeli Defense Forces statement said Tuesday.
| | | | | |  | | Knesset discusses security measures at holy site, will consider building a roof over the compound. | | | | | |  | | The government on Monday informed UNESCO that a delegation that planned to visit Jerusalem was not welcome. | | | | | |  | The shooting at a Beersheva bank Monday in which four people were killed was committed by a 40 year old former IDF officer who owed the bank money.
| | | | | |  | Shortly after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday, May 19, to maintain Israeli operations in Syria against the passage of advanced Iranian weapons to the Lebanese Hizballah, Syrian troops and their Hizballah comrades stormed Al-Qasayr.
| | | | | |  | Hundreds of residents of Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, were astounded Monday morning to see an oversized Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Arab town of Beit Omar.
| | | | | |  | IDF assesses that the gunfire is spillover from fighting in Syria. No one is hurt.
| | | | | |  | Egyptian police closed a commercial passage with Israel on Sunday in support of colleagues who shut down a crossing with Gaza to protest the abduction of policemen, according to the AFP news agency.
| | | | | |  | A Dutch group monitoring rights in Iran urged the Netherlands and other European nations to join the United States and Canada in boycotting a U.N. forum on disarmament that will be chaired by Tehran.
| | | | | |  | Russia's decision to send S-300 missile systems to Syria is, in part, a message to the United States, according to the head of the Russian parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Alexei Pushkov.
| | | | | |  | Russia clarified on Thursday that it would go ahead with selling S-300 advanced missile systems to Syria, despite a request by Israel to cancel the deal.
| | | | | |  | | Israel Police barred Israeli Jews and tourists from the Temple Mount following threats of Muslim violence. | | | | | |  | A Syrian group took responsibility for the firing of two mortar shells at Israel Thursday morning. The rockets were fired at the Hermon ski site.
| | | | | |  | Arab terrorists fired a Kassam rocket from Gaza Wednesday, marking Nakba Day – the day of the establishment of the state of Israel despite Arab efforts to annihilate it. Two mortar shells also fell on the Israel-Syria border near Mount Hermon.
| | | | | |  | Rebels fighting against Syrian strongman Bashar Assad's forces have published a shock video showingFarouq Brigade leader cutting heart out of Assad soldier's body posted online. one of them eating the heart of a dead rival.
| | | | | |  | | In Moscow's view, Washington must be brought to give up its threat of Western military intervention in Syria, of which the Israeli air strikes appeared to Putin as the harbinger. | | | | | |  | In an apparent break with the European Union position, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said he has "no criticism" of Israel over its alleged strikes in Syria.
| | | | | |  | Several days after a stabbing attack was foiled at the last minute at Joseph's Tomb, the IDF has issued a reminder to Jews not to visit the tomb without prior coordination with the military.
| | | | | |  | The organs of Itay Rabinovich, 3, who died of drowning last week, have saved three children, reports Israel Hayom.
| | | | | |  | | Rabbi Dov Lipman, American-born Rabbi and Knesset member says he wants to help. | | | | | |  | | A group of Arab and Jewish students protested against the "nakba" at Tel Aviv University, and were countered by pro-Israel protesters | | | | | |  | Families of the Turkish nationals injured in Israel's raid on the Mavi Marmara said they will sue Israeli soldiers and their commanders despite an agreement between Turkey and Israel.
| | | | | |  | | A commander in the Syrian opposition said on Sunday that President Bashar al-Assad's regime has been defeated, but accused Israel of collaborating to keep Assad in power. | | | | | |  | Russian Navy Admiral Viktor Chirkov said Sunday, May 12, that the process is underway for creating a permanent staff to run Russian fleet operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
| | | | | | | | Syria's Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, warned Israel on Sunday that his country had a right to launch an operation against the Jewish State from the Golan Heights.
| | | | | |  | | Moscow sources report that Netanyahu asked to meet Putin without delay for a last-ditch attempt to persuade him to call off the sale to Syria of advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. | | | | | |  | | The main obstacle blocking 4G is now the Communications Ministry, which has not completed its work on how to allocate the frequencies to carriers. | | | | | |  | The Obama administration's slowcoach policy on Syria has given Iran and Hizballah unfettered access for military intervention in the Syrian civil war.
| | | | | |  | Israel has no right to exist, a radical Muslim cleric visiting Gaza declared on Thursday, encouraging rocket attacks on the Jewish State.
| | | | | |  | U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said reinforcing Israel's edge and bolstering security relationships with neighbors like Egypt were both U.S. priorities.
| | | | | |  | Syria will supply Lebanese terror group Hizbullah with "game-changing weapons" despite air strikes reportedly aimed at cutting off the flow of arms to the Lebanese Shiite terror group, Hizbullah's leader said on Thursday.
| | | | | |  | | "The two leaders discussed regional security issues and Middle East peace," a brief White House statement said of the call Wednesday. "They agreed to continue the close coordination between the United States and Israel on a range of security issues." | | | | | |  | Syria will "give Hizbullah everything" in recognition of its support and will follow the terrorist group's model of "resistance" against Israel, a Lebanese newspaper on Thursday quoted President Bashar al-Assad as saying.
| | | | | |  | | The rocky Golan plateau split between Syria and Israel by a demilitarized zone is beginning to move onto center stage. | | | | | |  | | An at-times angry discussion took place in the Knesset Wednesday on the rights of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount | | | | | |  | Negative diplomatic ricochets are pursuing Israel in the aftermath of its air force attacks on Syria.
| | | | | |  | The United Nations has called on Israel to halt military air patrols over Lebanon amid heightened tensions after air raids on targets in Syria, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.
| | | | | | | | A mortar shell fired from Syria exploded in the Israeli Golan Heights on Tuesday, hitting an open field. It was the third incident of fire from the civil war in neighboring Syria straying across the ceasefire line in 24 hours.
| | | | | |  | In what may be a warning to Iran, the U.S. Navy said on Monday that envoys from 41 nations had gathered in Bahrain to begin anti-mine drills in the Persian Gulf.
| | | | | |  | Two rockets fired from Syrian territory exploded on the Golan Heights on Monday, without causing casualties or damage, an IDF spokesperson said. The rockets exploded in a field near the ceasefire line in the southern Golan.
| | | | | |  | Israel did not provide advance warning to the United States on its alleged Israeli airstrikes on Syria, an unnamed U.S. intelligence official said.
| | | | | |  | | Without officially confirming those strikes ever took place, Israel insisted that its air force and rockets singled out the advanced Iranian weapons waiting in Syria for transfer to Hizballah - and Hizballah itself. | | | | | | | | | Bombs hit Republican Guard bases, long-range missile storehouses, and chemical weapons research center. | | | | | |  | Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said Sunday, May 5, that the strike at Syria overnight represented a "declaration of war" by Israel. Russian and Iranian media earlier predicted full-scale Middle East hostilities involving Israel erupting in the coming hours.
| | | | | | | | The Syrian foreign ministry statement said Sunday that three military sites had been hit in an Israeli nighttime aerial raid: a "research center" at Jamraya, a "paragliding airport" in the al-Dimas area of Damascus, and a site in Maysaloun.
| | | | | |  | Israeli rockets early Sunday, May 5, reportedly struck the Jamraya military research center just north of Damascus, the same facility which Israeli planes attacked in January, causing powerful explosions and shooting columns of fire
| | | | | |  | Google has changed the title on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine."
| | | | | |  | U.S. officials reportedly told Israel that the United States has improved weapons capable of destroying Iran's underground nuclear site in Fordow.
| | | | | |  | | General Haggai Mordechai, former commander of the IDF in Judea and Samaria, says the security situation in the region remains fragile, even though he does not believe there will be a third intifada. | | | | | |  | Arab organizations in Israel and neighboring countries are planning a "Global March to Jerusalem" for early June. Arabs in Judea and Samaria will attempt to reach Jerusalem "or to the nearest point to it" that they can reach.
| | | | | |  | The relatives of Salam al-Zaghal, the terrorist who murdered a young Israeli father-of-five in Samaria on Tuesday, say they are proud of him. "This was his destiny, and we are proud," his father, Assad al-Zaghal said.
| | | | | |  | Senior Fatah member Jabril Rajoub has suggested that Fatah seek closer ties with Iran, according to Iran's IRNA news agency.
| | | | | |  | | The number of Lebanese troops in the southern border district, near Israel, has been decreasing and leading to an increase in standoffs between UNIFIL and suspected members of Hizbullah. | | | | | |  | The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is not over land, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, speaking in a meeting with senior officials in the Foreign Ministry.
| | | | | |  | Police have arrested three more suspects as part of the investigation into the Boston marathon bomb attack that left three dead and more than 260 wounded.
| | | | | |  | An Iranian leader with close ties to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei recently accused the Jews of engaging in sorcery and employing it against Iran, the Middle East Media Research Institute reported.
| | | | | |  | In a statement to Al Manar TV, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave his clearest admission to date that the Shi'ite Islamist group is offering active support to Syrian government troops and other pro-regime forces.
| | | | | |  | Evyatar Borovsky, 31, father to five children, was laid to rest Tuesday evening. He was murdered by a Palestinian Authority resident terrorist, who stabbed him to death while he waited for a ride at the Tapuach Junction.
| | | | | |  | | The Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo will perform a concert in Monaco featuring instruments of Jewish Holocaust victims. | | | | | |  | Israel's armed forces launched a snap division-scale drill along the full length of the Syrian and Lebanese borders Tuesday, April 30, with call-up orders for thousands of reservists.
| | | | | |  | | An Arab terrorist armed with a knife stabbed an Israeli at the Tapuach junction in Shomron on Tuesday morning. | | | | | |  | A rocket fired from Gaza struck Israel for the second time in two days. The rocket landed in an open area of southern Israel near Ashkelon.
| | | | | |  | Hizballah's elite Al Qods Brigade suffered a grinding defeat - its gravest since first intervening in the Syrian civil war - and heavy losses in the battle for al Qusayr in the Homs sector of northern Syria Monday, April 29.
| | | | | | | | Israel is keeping a close eye on the situation in southern Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at a meeting of the Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu faction Monday.
| | | | | |  | Syria's civil war is slowly but surely "leaking" out to Lebanon, a result of the direct participation by Hizbullah terrorists in the war, assisting Bashar al-Assad's government forces against Syrian rebels.
| | | | | |  | IAF aircraft struck a terror facility and a weapons storage site in southern Gaza on Saturday night. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement that direct hits at the targets were identified.
| | | | | |  | A planned visit to Iran by several European Parliament members was canceled amid protests that it would undermine efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program and human rights violations.
| | | | | |  | | Dutch newspaper depicts "Israel as lying hooked-nosed hassidic Jew commiserating with a North Korean counterpart on nuclear capabilities." | | | | | |  | | The mother of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings launched an impassioned attack on the U.S. authorities on Thursday over the death of one of her sons, AFP reported. | | | | | |  | Disgraced fashion designer John Galliano, who has kept a low profile since his 2011 conviction in France over an anti-Semitic tirade, has been invited to give classes at a top New York school.
| | | | | |  | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was in a helicopter flight on the way to a tour of northern Israel, when the IAF spotted and shot down what is believed to have been a Hizbullah UAV in the skies of Haifa Thursday. [VIDEO included.]
| | | | | | | | An unmanned aerial vehicle penetrated Israeli air space from Lebanon Thursday, and was shot down. "I view with utmost gravity this attempt to violate our border," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said following the incident.
| | | | | |  | | Israel has a presence in Syria and it is thus logical that it would know if chemical weapons had been used in the civil war, a Syrian rebel leader has claimed. | | | | | |  | | The Anti-Defamation League denounced comments by Richard Falk, a top official on the United Nations Human Rights Council, which attempted to explain the Boston Marathon bombings as a reaction to United States policy in the Middle East and Tel Aviv. | | | | | |  | Susan Rice said a major part of her work as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is defending Israel's legitimacy. She likened the volume of work to her efforts to coordinate Syria’s isolation and contain violence and abuses in Sudan.
| | | | | |  | Israel has reached a deal with a Palestinian Authority Arab terrorist prisoner who has been on a long-term hunger strike, officials in the PA said.
| | | | | |  | | Surviving suspect in Boston bombing says his older brother led the attack, "wanted to defend Islam." | | | | | |  | Iran has crossed the last red line that Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu laid down before the UN Assembly last September, said the well-informed former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin.
| | | | | |  | Arabs carried out a rock terror ambush against a bus carrying children to school in Samaria Tuesday morning, not far from where a toddler, Adelle Biton, suffered grave wounds in a rock ambush five weeks ago.
| | | | | |  | | US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said in Tel Aviv that the new weapons that the US is selling Israel will ensure its air superiority. | | | | | |  | Canadian authorities, in an operation coordinated closely with the FBI announced the arrest of two men, suspected of plotting a massive, Al Qaeda inspired terrorist attack on a passenger train.
| | | | | |  | Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on Monday implicitly confirmed that Israel was behind a January strike on a weapons convoy in Syria, saying the Jewish state had acted to stop advanced weaponry reaching Hizbullah terrorists.
| | | | | |  | Turkey dismissed on Sunday evening a news report suggesting that an Israeli delegation set to arrive in Ankara on Monday would hold talks about Israel using a Turkish airbase to train for a possible attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
| | | | | |  | Israel will "extract a price" from those who launched the terror attack against the Red Sea resort town of Eilat last week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Sunday.
| | | | | | | | U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrives in Israel on Sunday, where he will kick off a trip to the Middle East, his first since taking office.
| | | | | |  | A massive police operation in Boston ended Friday night, April 19, with the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, suspected of the twin bombing Monday, April 15, at the Boston Marathon which left three dead and 180 injured and the death of a police officer in a shootout out at MIT.
| | | | | |  | The Boston Marathon bombings suspect who was killed in a police shootout features a YouTube page listing links to men he identified as "terrorists" and Islamic teachers, AFP reports.
| | | | | |  | A student senate at the University of California, Berkeley narrowly passed a measure calling on the school to divest from three companies with dealings in the West Bank.
| | | | | | | | Terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza fired two rockets at southern Israel on Thursday evening. The rockets exploded in an open area of the Eshkol Regional Council.
| | | | | |  | | Two Chechen brothers from Dagestan, members of a Wahhabi cell funded by Saudi al Qaeda, were identified as the terrorists who detonated two bombs at the Boston Marathon last Monday and carried out a bombing-shooting spree at the MIT campus in Waterton outside Boston, Friday, April 19. | | | | | |  | Boston police report one of the two wanted Boston Marathon bombers was shot and taken into custody during their getaway flight after carrying out a shooting attack at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Watertown near Boston early Friday, April 19.
| | | | | |  | Ahead of US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's visit to Israel next week, "AFP" reports that the US will invest an additional $400 million in Israel's Iron Dome short-range missile defense system over the next few years.
| | | | | |  | | President Barack Obama headed to Boston on Thursday to mourn victims of the deadly marathon attacks, as investigators study surveillance footage they are hoping will lead them to identify those responsible. | | | | | |  | Israeli officials on Thursday announced that they had nabbed a gang of Arab terrorists who were planning a terror attack against Israelis or tourists who visited the Temple Mount.
| | | | | |  | US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Wednesday, April 17, that 200 troops of the US 1st Armored Division had been ordered to deploy in Jordan. Military sources report that they are ranged on the Jordanian-Syrian border.
| | | | | |  | A Salafi Muslim jihadist group has claimed responsibility for Wednesday morning's rocket attack on the Israeli Red Sea resort city of Eilat.
| | | | | |  | | While the FBI reports no leads 18 hours after two explosions blew up at the annual Boston Marathon, counter-terrorism sources disclose that the investigation has in fact homed in on a suspected terror cell of three Saudi nationals, very possibly tied to Al Qaeda. | | | | | |  | "The War of Independence did not end," Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Tuesday, speaking at the traditional Independence Day gathering of senior defense officials.
| | | | | | | | | Yeshiva students were strip-searched Tuesday when visiting the Temple Mount, Temple Mount activists have reported. They were asked to remove clothing and their bodies were searched for an Israeli flag. | | | | | |  | | A senior Iranian military commander repeated on Monday the threats that the Iranian Armed Forces are capable of razing Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground. | | | | | |  | | The Boston police advised people to stay home after closing the city's airspace and also the mobile phone service to prevent the detonation of explosives. Air links between Boston and New York were suspended. The Secret Service closed the pedestrian walkway in front of the White House in Washington and the Pentagon was placed on heightened terror alert. | | | | | |  | At least two people were killed and 23 others wounded when two explosions struck near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, police said, according to AFP.
| | | | | |  | Turkey has become the first state with an ambassador recognized by Palestine, according to a headline in a Turkish newspaper.
| | | | | |  | "Since our inception as a people, we had to fight for our freedom and our existence," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at a Sunday afternoon ceremony at Beit Yad Labanim in Jerusalem, marking the start of Memorial Day for the IDF's Fallen Soldiers.
| | | | | |  | President Shimon Peres said that he believes that U.S. President Barack Obama will attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if diplomatic efforts fail.
| | | | | |  | | "We are in a period of dramatic changes that present the Military Intelligence Directorate with unprecedented challenges, which create both opportunities and dangers - and it is important to identify both," Defense Minister Yaalon said. | | | | | |  | Tehran is planning to launch its own 3D mapping service after Iranian authorities have long accused Google Earth of being a spying tool used by western agencies.
| | | | | |  | | Social progress is defined as "the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives." | | | | | |  | Former President Jimmy Carter accepted an award from the Yeshiva University law school's journal, despite protests from pro-Israel supporters.
| | | | | |  | Increasing aggressive North Korean rhetoric has prompted the Pentagon to decide to deploy a high-profile missile-defense system on the island of Guam.
| | | | | |  | | A United Nations panel says weaponry from Libya is spreading across North Africa to Gaza and Syria "at an alarming rate." | | | | | |  | An Israeli Arab man from Taibe has been arrested for illegally entering Syria and fighting with the Global Jihad rebel group.
| | | | | |  | Jewish author and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel has said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be arrested and indicted for intent to commit a crime against humanity.
| | | | | |  | Syria's government has withdrawn a significant number of troops from the Golan Heights, raising Western concerns.
| | | | | |  | An explosive charge blew up Tuesday morning near an IDF force operating next to the perimeter security fence at southern Gaza. No one was hurt. A bulldozer was slightly damaged.
| | | | | |  | In their three-hour meeting Tuesday, the last day of Kerry's three-day visit to Israel, the two leaders also discussed the Iranian nuclear threat and the dangers of the civil war in Syria.
| | | | | |  | | According to IDF Radio, the subject of Iran will likely top the agenda of the visit, as will the deterioration in Syria. Hagel will likely use the visit to try and shake free of his anti-Israel image. | | | | | |  | | No Israeli government and defense sites appear to have been brought down by hackers in the organized "OpIsrael" attack, but some reportedly were affected for brief periods. | | | | | |  | Dozens of Arab youths in the National Service, who serve as counselors in the No'ar Oved Ve'lomed youth group, participated in a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony on Sunday night.
| | | | | |  | | Hamas terrorists, who declare openly their wish to commit genocide against the Jewish people, marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a salvo of rockets fired at Jewish civilians. | | | | | |  | When US Secretary of State John Kerry meets Mahmoud Abbas Monday, April 8, after flying in from Turkey, he will try and talk him out of launching what Abbas is calling in briefings to Palestinian activists a "civil intifada" against Israel without guns.
| | | | | |  | Former British PM Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to head the UK government, has died at the age of 87.
| | | | | |  | President Barack Obama will host leaders from key US allies Jordan, Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in the coming weeks amid turmoil in Syria, the White House said Friday.
| | | | | | | | | Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has demanded that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu present a map for a future Palestinian state before any peace talks can resume, an aide told AFP on Friday. | | | | | |  | Tehran's intercession in the Korean crisis on the side of its ally in Pyongyang was predictable, even though the US prefers to ignore the close interrelations between the two allies.
| | | | | |  | The UN is hiking its estimates of people trapped in Syria after fleeing their homes, saying Wednesday some four million are now displaced inside the country and in dire need of international help.
| | | | | |  | | Ahead of the Ku Klux Klan rally, leaders from every Memphis Jewish institution receive a crash course in security training. | | | | | |  | In the wake of Prime Minister Netanyahu's apology to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the flotilla fatalities, Israeli defense systems manufacturers have been trying to renew their lucrative cooperation with the Turkey military.
| | | | | |  | Israel is out shopping for new warships to protect the new Tamar gas field that has just come online to supply natural gas to the nation.
| | | | | |
|  | Abbas condemned Israel in a statement issued from his office in the PA capital of Ramallah in which he referred to the death of Maissah Abu Hamdiyeh and two PA Arab teens who were killed as they launched a firebomb attack on an IDF army post.
| | | | | |  | Egypt has demanded explanations from Hamas as to how it is allowing terror groups to fire rockets into southern Israel, months after the truce that ended Operation Pillar of Defense last November.
| | | | | |  | Incoming intelligence of Al Qaeda groups in the Sinai Peninsula winding up preparations for a multiple attack on an Israeli location, such as Eilat, and a US military target in the Negev, has put southern Israel and US forces posted there on high terror alert.
| | | | | |  | The United Nations' nuclear agency reluctantly has reported that Iran appears to be working on an atomic weapon of mass destruction.
| | | | | |  | In fierce battles with Syrian troops, Al Qaeda's al-Nusra front is spearheading the rebels' advance on the two Syrian army's biggest chemical weapons depots.
| | | | | |  | Soldiers and police in Judea and Samaria will be on alert Wednesday as Palestinian Authority residents continue to protest the death from cancer of a terrorist who was imprisoned in Israel.
| | | | | |  | | Amsterdam fined hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors for failing to pay city taxes while they were in hiding or in concentration camps. | | | | | | | | Gaza terrorists attacked for a second time in 24 hours on Wednesday morning, firing two rockets at the city of Sderot in southern Israel. The Color Red rocket alert siren warned of the incoming attack.
| | | | | |  | Israel launched its first airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday since the Egyptian-mediated truce ended November’s eight-day bout of fighting. The airstrike came in response to the firing of a projectile from Gaza.
| | | | | |  | A law banning "normalizing ties with the Zionist occupation" as well as co-education schooling in the Gaza Strip has entered into force, the education minister for Hamas, said on Monday.
| | | | | |  | March 2013 was the bloodiest month yet in the course of the two year-long civil war ravaging Syria, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
| | | | | |  | Jordan's King Abdullah II and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas signed an agreement on Sunday confirming their "common goal to defending" Jerusalem and their opposition to efforts to "Judaize" the eternal capital of Israel.
| | | | | |  | Gilad Shalit's capture was the result of operational failures on his part and on the part of other members of his tank crew, interviews with Shalit have revealed.
| | | | | |  | The number of Israelis who view President Obama as pro-Palestinian dropped by 20 percent following his first presidential visit to Israel, according to a new poll.
| | | | | |  | Iran, North Korea and Syria twice blocked attempts at the United Nations on Thursday to agree on the first treaty on the conventional arms trade.
| | | | | |  | Police are on high alert in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria as Arabs prepare to mark Land Day. This year, it overlaps with Passover, leading to extra cause for concern.
| | | | | |  | Israel wants to pay $100,000 compensation for each Turk killed when Israeli commandos boarded the Marmara in May 2010.
| | | | | | | | The IDF has built a military field hospital in the Golan Heights, according to international media reports. At least 11 Syrian fighters have been treated in Israel over the past month for wounds sustained in battle from the savage civil war taking place.
| | | | | |  | Bulgaria has more evidence that Hizbullah was behind the terror attack at Burgas last year, and it will soon present that evidence to the world, Bulgarian Prime Minister Marin Raikov said.
| | | | | |  | The IDF has brought more wounded Syrians into Israel, after several appeared at the northern border early Wednesday morning.
| | | | | |  | The IDF imposed a general closure on the Palestinian Authority-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria ahead of the holiday of Passover. During the closure, entry from the PA into Israel will be allowed only in humanitarian, medical and other exceptional cases.
| | | | | |  | The United Nations is moving about half of its 100 international staff still in Syria out of the country due to the growing danger, diplomats said Monday.
| | | | | | | | The highly strategic intersection of the Syrian, Israeli and Jordan borders, just east of the Golan, was captured by the Al Musanna Brigade of al Qaeda's Syrian arm, Jabhat al-Nusra on Passover Eve, Monday, March 25, debkafile's exclusive sources report.
| | | | | |  | U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has begun to push for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority after meetings with the two sides, PA officials told AFP on Sunday.
| | | | | |  | Syrian gunmen opened fire on an IDF position in the Golan on Sunday morning in the second attack of its kind in 24 hours.
| | | | | |  | Israel does not owe its existence to the Holocaust, but its existence prevents another one from happening, President Obama said on the third and final day of his visit to Israel.
| | | | | | | | Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday apologized to his Turkish counterpart for the deaths of nine Turks in a 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, a senior US official said.
| | | | | |  | An Israeli man was kidnapped Friday in the Sinai Peninsula along with a Norwegian woman, AFP reports.
| | | | | |  | President Barack Obama persuaded Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in their talks in Jerusalem this week to give Tehran three more months to work through nuclear diplomacy with the P5+1 group of world powers.
| | | | | |  | | In the main public event of his visit, the US president called on young Israelis to pressure their leaders to make peace with the Palestinians. | | | | | |  | | A rocket fired at Israel from Gaza caused heavy damage to a house in Sderot Thursday morning. A second rocket hit an open area near the Gaza border, and two other rockets aimed at Israel fell on the Gaza side of the border fence. | | | | | |  | Iran will "annihilate" the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if it comes under attack by the Jewish state, "supreme leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Thursday.
| | | | | | | | President Obama implied during a news conference in Ramallah that a settlement freeze should not be a precondition for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
| | | | | |  | PA Arabs are not happy that U.S. President Barack H. Obama is paying Ramallah a visit Thursday. Throughout the week, PA Arabs have torn down posters with Obama's image and scrawled anti-American graffiti throughout Ramallah and Bethlehem.
| | | | | | | | About 500 Palestinians erected an outpost in the controversial E-1 area to focus President Obama's attention on the plight of their people.
| | | | | | | | Netanyahu said that Israel "will never hand over the right to defend ourselves, even to our best friend - and we have no better friend than the United States." He added, "Sanctions on Iran have not succeeded in stopping the nuclear move, and you know that a credible military threat must be added to the sanctions."
| | | | | |  | The Syrians approached the border Wednesday and were treated near the fence there, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
| | | | | |  | | "The greatest danger is a nuclear Iran," and "You have made it clear that your intention is not to contain but to prevent" a nuclear-armed Iran, President Shimon Peres told his visiting counterpart, President Barack Obama. | | | | | |  | "Peace must come to the Holy Land," proclaimed US President Barack Obama on Wednesday after stepping down on to the tarmac at Ben Gurion Int'l Airport.
| | | | | |  | U.S. President Barack Obama departed late Tuesday en route to Israel for a four-day trip to the Middle East, a journalist traveling with the U.S. president said.
| | | | | |  | Pakistani security officials captured a former terrorist leader who is believed to have planned the 2002 kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.
| | | | | |  | The European Union signed an aid deal Tuesday with the Palestinian Authority to reportedly bolster ties and promote economic development.
| | | | | |  | Extensive preparations by Syrian army units for launching chemical weapons against rebel forces have been sighted in the northern town of Homs, Western intelligence agencies told debkafile’s military sources Tuesday, March 19.
| | | | | | | | | New poll finds that 48% of Americans say the U.S. should increase pressure on the PA to compromise for peace, rather than on Israel. | | | | | |  | Biocancell is in talks with several big pharma companies over further development and commercialization of BC-819.
| | | | | |  | | In presenting Israel's 33rd government, Netanyahu on Monday afternoon called on the new government to work together with the same spirit of cooperation as the last government, which he also led. | | | | | |  | The United Nations has demanded that Israel immediately freeze all construction in Judea, Samaria and parts of Jerusalem restored to the city in the 1967 Six Day War, including those in the Israeli capital's Old City.
| | | | | |  | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will hold three working meetings with U.S. President Barack Obama during Obama's three-day visit to Israel this week, two more than originally planned.
| | | | | |  | Israel has rewarded a hunger striking terrorist prisoner with freedom, as well as a ten-year exile to Gaza.
| | | | | |  | A top Iranian military commander on Saturday told U.S. President Barack Obama that Tehran also had all of its "options on the table," echoing a warning to the Islamic Republic by the American leader.
| | | | | |  | President Obama said he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have "a terrific, businesslike relationship."
| | | | | | | | After weeks of tough haggling, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's third government was in the bag Friday, March 15, having finally signed deals with two political newcomers, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett.
| | | | | |  | One of Pope Francis' first acts as head of the Roman Catholic church was to send a personal message to Rome’s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, underscoring his desire to foster Catholic-Jewish relations.
| | | | | |  | Israel’s Veterinary Services will not authorize the planned public ritual sacrifice of a goat in honor of Passover this year, Veterinary Services representative Zohar Dvorkin said Thursday.
| | | | | |  | An Iranian fighter jet tried to intercept a U.S. Predator drone over the Gulf but backed off after encountering two American military aircraft, the Pentagon said Thursday, according to AFP.
| | | | | |  | With less than a week left until U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Israel for a visit, the Israel Police are preparing a huge force to keep him safe.
| | | | | |  | A mother and her baby are in serious or critical condition following a collision that may have been caused by a terror attack near Ariel.
| | | | | |  | Al Qaeda's Syrian wing, Jabhat al-Nusra, led a Syrian rebel operation Wednesday, March 13, to occupy Golan and cleanse it of every last Syrian troop loyal to Bashar Assad.
| | | | | |  | Britain's Labor Party suspended Pakistan-born Muslim peer Nazir Ahmed on Thursday over reports that he blamed a Jewish conspiracy for his imprisonment over a fatal car crash.
| | | | | |  | With all the kinks finally worked out, the new government is set to be sworn in on Monday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will preside over a government of 22 ministers, including him.
| | | | | | | | The Roman College of Cardinals on Monday evening elected Jorge Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, as its new Pope.
| | | | | |  | The coalition agreement that will send Israel's 33rd government on its way is to be signed Wednesday night, sources in the Likud/Yisrael Beiteinu said.
| | | | | |  | Lt. Col. (res.) Noam Ron, who was killed Tuesday when his Cobra helicopter crashed near Revadim, was buried Wednesday at the civilian cemetery at Morasha. He left behind a widow and three daughters.
| | | | | | | | US President Barack Obama's first engagement upon landing in Israel on March 20 will be a quick tour of the Iron Dome missile interceptor stationed at Ben Gurion international airport. The innovative counter-missile weapon is to be deployed there out of necessity for his safety.
| | | | | |  | Controversy has been re-ignited this week as a series of new ads containing quotes used by terrorists have appeared on San Francisco Muni buses.
| | | | | |  | Israel's Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz rated war as a "low risk" for the foreseeable future, but credited the risk of escalation as "very high" in a lecture he delivered Monday, March 11.
| | | | | |  | Gaza's ruling Hamas terrorist group said on Monday that the group's removal from the U.S. and European countries' lists of terrorism organizations "has become a matter of time."
| | | | | |  | Two IAF pilots were killed in a tragic helicopter crash at around 1:00 a.m. tonight. Their next of kin have been informed.
| | | | | |  | A Palestinian rocket killed the 11-month-old son of a BBC employee during Israel's November operation in Gaza, the United Nations determined.
| | | | | |  | The shape of the next government that is emerging is that it will comprise 23 ministers and 5-6 deputy ministers.
| | | | | |  | | More and more young people are choosing to serve, and each one often convinces several friends to join as well | | | | | |  | An updated schedule for U.S. President Barak H. Obama's visit to Israel next week indicates that he will visit Palestinian Authority-controlled areas twice – but that he will apparently not visit an Iron Dome installation in the field.
| | | | | | | | Gilad Schalit, who was held in captivity by Hamas for five years, called on Israelis to sign the petition calling upon U.S. President Barack Obama to free Jonathan Pollard.
| | | | | |  | The flight of hundreds of UN Disengagement and Observers Force soldiers in trucks and APCs from the Syrian side of Golan into Israel was in full swing early Monday, March 11.
| | | | | |  | | Worshippers started throwing rocks at security forces, Friday afternoon, at the end of Muslim prayers at Temple Mount mosques in Jerusalem's Old City.vPolice stationed at the Mughrabi gate broke in and began to throw stun grenades to disperse the stone throwers. | | | | | |  | Israel has approached the UN and UNDOF, requesting that the forces' activity not be impaired due to the kidnapping of 21 peacekeepers by Syrian rebels.
| | | | | |  | The Government Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza announced Wednesday that Israel had approved the transfer of three trucks of food supplied by the Turkish government and the Red Crescent to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing.
| | | | | |  | Although the cuts will be lower than expected, Israel will nevertheless feel the sting of the axe as America slashes its budget for fiscal 2013, sources said Thursday in an as-yet unconfirmed report.
| | | | | |  | U.S., Canadian and Australian officials walked out of a meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency when the Iranian envoy accused Israel of genocide.
| | | | | | | | The United Nations Security Council condemned on Wednesday evening the seizure of 20 UN peacekeepers by Syrian rebels and demanded their immediate release.
| | | | | |  | Syrian state media paid tribute to late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Wednesday, saying he had taken an "honorable" position on the two-year-old uprising against the Damascus regime.
| | | | | | | | The UN has confirmed that 20 peacekeepers have been captured near the Golan heights by armed Syrian rebel fighters who call themselves the "Martyrs of Yarmouk" brigade.
| | | | | |  | For the first time in many years, voices in the US administration were criticizing the Israeli defense forces for under-reacting and, in this case, also underestimating the chemical weapons threat emanating from Syria and neglecting to pursue counter-measures.
| | | | | |  | Scores of violent Arab students forced the British consul general to make a hasty departure from a university in Ramallah on Tuesday, according to witness reports.
| | | | | | | | Obama is due to leave for his trip to Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Jordan on March 19, three days after the expiration of Netanyahu's chance to form a government, and there are no signs of a breakthrough in the negotiations.
| | | | | |  | The Vatican, Iran and other religious states are resisting efforts by a UN conference, which started Monday, to demand tougher global standards to prevent violence against women and children.
| | | | | |  | More than 70 flatbed trucks of foodstuffs and other goods are sitting at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza, locked out by Hamas.
| | | | | |  | At UN Center in New York, Israeli and Russian delegates separately warned Monday, March 4, of a dangerous situation developing in the area of separation on the Golan captured by Israel in the 1967 war.
| | | | | |  | A relatively small swarm of locusts has arrived in Israel, according to Agriculture Ministry officials. By sunrise Tuesday, they'll be dead, officials vowed.
| | | | | |  | "We've stood shoulder to shoulder over the past 40 years defending the legitimate interests of Israel," Biden told an enthusiastic audience at the AIPAC conference Monday, "but no administration, no President has done as much to physically secure the State of Israel as Barack Obama."
| | | | | |  | | While Turkey's prime minister made headlines by calling Zionism a "crime against humanity" at a United Nations conference in Europe, Israeli and Palestinian Authority lawmakers were quietly meeting in Istanbul to find ways to re-start the peace process. | | | | | |  | Iran is adding thousands of advanced centrifuges to further enrich uranium into nuclear fuel, Tehran's state-run media reported Sunday. Some 3,000 centrifuges are being built.
| | | | | |  | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad referred Saturday to a reported Israeli airstrike in January on Syrian soil, which had allegedly damaged a chemical weapons site, vowing to hit back the Jewish State.
| | | | | |  | For the first since the end of the IDF's Pillar of Defense counterterrorism operation, Gaza-based terrorists opened fire on Friday afternoon towards the Shaar Hanegev region in southern Israel.
| | | | | |  | Iran's negotiations with world powers over Tehran's nuclear program reached "a turning point" this week, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Thursday.
| | | | | |  | One-fourth of terrorists from Gaza, Judea and Samaria serving time in Israeli prisons are getting an education through Hamas, according to a report by the Hamas government in Gaza.
| | | | | |  | Israel is making feverish efforts to save part of the US military aid from the sequester, which will come into effect tomorrow.
| | | | | |  | Croatia said Thursday it will withdraw its soldiers stationed on the Golan Heights as part of a UN force after reports said that Syrian rebels battling the regime of Bashar al-Assad were receiving weapons from the Balkan country.
| | | | | |  | Two people were killed Thursday morning when a car bomb exploded in Rishon Lezion. The incident occurred in the center of the town next to the city's court building.
| | | | | |  | The U.S. Senate confirmed Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense largely along party lines.
| | | | | |  | The Iron Dome anti-missile defense system was tested near the city of Modi'in, located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
| | | | | |  | A shell fired from Syria hit Israel on Wednesday. The shell was found after residents of a Golan town reported hearing the whistle of incoming fire near their community.
| | | | | |  | The European Union has formally recommended its 27 member states "prevent" Israeli activity in Judea and Samaria through an economic boycott of Jewish communities in those regions.
| | | | | |  | Next week's annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington may be as notable for what - and who - is missing as what's planned.
| | | | | | | | In her first speech as a Knesset member Tuesday, MK Orit Strook insisted that U.S. President Barack H. Obama be brought to Hevron when he visits Israel next month
| | | | | |  | The Canadian and Israeli navies participated in joint training exercises in the Gulf of Aqaba.
| | | | | | | | An Iron Dome rocket defense installation positioned in northern Israel was out of service for six weeks, Army Radio reported Tuesday.
| | | | | |  | Gaza terrorists fired on southern Israel on Tuesday morning for the first time since the Pillar of Defense counter-terror operation in late 2012.
| | | | | | | | Rocket attacks on Sderot significantly increased the number of miscarriages that occurred in women from the southern Israeli city, according to a new study.
| | | | | |  | The defense establishment is on alert today for the funeral of the young Palestinian, Arafat Jaradat, who died at Megiddo Prison.
| | | | | |  | | Day by day, Palestinian fury on the West Bank is stoked by one charge against Israel after another. | | | | | | | | An Iron Dome anti-missile defense system battery will be placed in the Dan Bloc, or greater Tel Aviv region, for several days, beginning Monday, the IDF Spokesman's Unit said.
| | | | | |  | | The IDF is ready to take on all cyber-challenges, and would survive any hacking attack directed at it, said the army's top computer officer Sunday. | | | | | | | | Political and religious leaders in the Palestinian Authority on Sunday stressed that U.S. President Barack Obama should not visit the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem in a way that might compromise what they called its "Muslim sovereignty."
| | | | | |  | Iran announced Saturday that it downed and captured another "enemy drone." The incident reportedly took place during Iranian military maneuvers in southern Iran.
| | | | | |  | | Thousands of Palestinian Authority Arabs continued to riot and clash with security forces on Friday, following prayer services at mosques in Judea and Samaria as well as on the Temple Mount. | | | | | |  | The Hezbollah operative on trial for plotting against Israeli tourists in Cyprus acknowledged passing on Israeli aircraft landing times to his terrorist handlers.
| | | | | |  | "The IDF has prepared for the new reality that will be in the Golan," Brigadier-General Kobi Marom said. "There are fears of an escalation, and serious concern that if there is violence [in the region] the target will not be Assad."
| | | | | |  | A Palestinian prisoner said to be near death from a hunger strike in an Israeli jail will be released early next month.
| | | | | | | | An Israeli Arab group, "The Al-Aqsa Heritage Institute," says, Israel is "defiling the holiness" of the Western Wall site by conducting Jewish prayers there.
| | | | | |  | | Hizballah forces went on alert Thursday, Feb. 21, upon the expiry of a 48-hour ultimatum slapped down by Syrian rebels to halt the Lebanese group's military support for Bashar Assad. | | | | | |  | | Hamas is not impressed by the coalition agreement signed this week by MK Tzipi Livni, leader of the centrist Hatnua party, and PM Netanyahu. | | | | | | | | A month before US President Barack Obama is due to visit Israel, the Israeli government has awarded the first license to drill for oil on the Golan Heights.
| | | | | |  | Nigerian authorities arrested three men suspected of staking out U.S and Israeli targets on behalf of Iran.
| | | | | |  | Members of Congress have gone to Cuba in an attempt to free imprisoned American Jewish social worker Alan Gross, age 63.
| | | | | |  | The Syrian opposition fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad has added another target to its hit list: the Lebanon-based, Iranian-funded Hizbullah terrorist organization.
| | | | | |  | Former Mossad spy Ben Zygier, aka "Prisoner X," hanged himself with a bedsheet in his prison cell, according to an Israel Prisons Services inquiry report quoted in Maariv Tuesday.
| | | | | | | | US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit nine countries in Europe and the Middle East starting Sunday as he undertakes his first foreign trip as top diplomat, the State Department said Tuesday. However, he will be skipping Israel.
| | | | | |  | President Bashar Assad has evacuated most of the troops of his 5th Army Division from their permanent bases on the Golan opposite Israeli forces and transferred the unit along with its artillery to Damascus.
| | | | | |  | | The Israeli importer of Dodge Trucks has won a NIS 700 million ($180 million) to supply heavy vehicles to the IDF. | | | | | |  | Hamas denied over the weekend that it was holding secret talks with Israel regarding opening the Rafiah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
| | | | | |  | Israeli submarines have allegedly been spotted cruising off the coast of Lebanon between Sidon and Nakura, according to a report in Lebanese media.
| | | | | |  | Reports Monday, Feb. 18, that Hizballah has transferred 1,000 fighters to the Syrian district of Homs are a red herring to distract attention from six new major developments in the Syrian civil conflict.
| | | | | |  | U.S. President Barack Obama will receive the Presidential Medal of Honor from his Israeli counterpart, President Shimon Peres during his visit to the Jewish State next month.
| | | | | |  | Israel will maintain close tabs on its border with Syria and only let people to cross in "exceptional circumstances" Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday.
| | | | | |  | Egypt's interior ministry announced Saturday that police arrested 60 people across the country during violent protests the night before targeting government and police buildings.
| | | | | |  | A Jerusalem district court judge on Thursday convicted two top Hamas terrorists of security violations. The two were convicted of participating in a terrorist activities against Israel.
| | | | | |  | A four-man Israeli security delegation arrived in Cairo on Thursday afternoon, the Jordanian-based Al Bawaba website reported.
| | | | | | | | | In connection to Ben Zygier, straw companies, like "the European front company," where he was sighted, are an extremely important tool for spy agencies in the performance of three basic undercover functions. | | | | | | | | | President Barack Obama on Wednesday extended his 2011 declaration of emergency with regard to Libya, maintaining that the situation in the country "continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States." | | | | | |  | The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch organization says Israel violated the laws of war during its counter terror Pillar of Defense offensive last November.
| | | | | |  | | Iranian news media on Thursday were full of reports that Israeli forces have killed a senior Iranian official | | | | | | | | | President Obama in a State of the Union speech focused mostly on domestic issues pledged to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb and to "stand steadfast" with Israel. | | | | | |  | Ben Zygier, Australian citizen and Mossad agent, was not the first Prisoner X to be held secretly in an Israeli jail.
| | | | | |  | Four Israeli war planes were seen flying in the skies of Lebanon on Tuesday, according to that country's official news agency. Israel Air Force aircraft were reportedly seen flying in the afternoon.
| | | | | |  | A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived early Wednesday in Tehran for new talks on Iran's disputed nuclear program, the ISNA news agency reported.
| | | | | | | | President Obama is scheduled to deliver an address directly to the Israeli people during his two-day visit to Israel.
| | | | | |  | Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection strenuously opposes the plan to build a pipeline between the Red Sea and Dead Sea which the World Bank is promoting.
| | | | | |  | Police, paramedics and security personnel in Jerusalem are on high alert following a concrete warning of a planned terrorist attack.
| | | | | |  | The Hamas terror movement, which rules Gaza, has set up its own news agency, called Al Rai (Opinion), the Hamas government announced on Monday.
| | | | | |  | | Twice last week official Palestinian Authority TV broadcast a music video honoring several terrorist murderers, including Ibrahim Hamed who is serving 54 life sentences for planning many suicide bombings in Jerusalem, killing dozens. | | | | | |  | "It appears that Operation Pillar of Defense and the worsening geopolitical conditions in the region are affecting incoming tourism," Minister of Tourism Stas Misezhnikov said today.
| | | | | |  | Drivers through roads in Samaria are likely to come across a new road sign, one that they are unlikely to see on roads in other parts of Israel.
| | | | | |  | Iran and Hizbullah, its Lebanese terror proxy, are building a network of militias inside Syria to preserve and protect their interests in the event that President Bashar al-Assad's government falls or is forced to retreat from Damascus.
| | | | | |  | The upcoming visit to Israel by U.S. President Barack Obama was first on the list of items mentioned by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the opening of the weekly Sunday morning Cabinet meeting.
| | | | | |  | The IDF was able to foil on Saturday yet another attempt by Palestinian Authority Arabs to set up an illegal outpost in Judea and Samaria.
| | | | | |  | Katyusha rockets fired on a camp housing Iranian dissidents near Baghdad killed five members of the Iranian Mujahedeen-e-Khalq opposition, Iraqi security officials said Saturday.
| | | | | |  | The Air Force spent this week rehearsing for an unusual and highly dangerous scenario: the rescue of a pilot from behind enemy lines.
| | | | | |  | Syria's ambassador to the United Nations has claimed there is "no truth" to reports that an alleged Israeli airstrike last week had targeted a convoy heading to neighboring Lebanon.
| | | | | | | | Hezbollah denied it was involved in a terrorist attack in Bulgaria that killed six, including five Israelis.
| | | | | |  | Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei turned down the US offer of one-on-one talks on its nuclear program Thursday, Feb. 7, just 24 hours after US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that due to budgetary constraints, the US could only keep one, not two, US aircraft carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf.
| | | | | |  | Iran has claimed that it has decoded and released footage on state television allegedly extracted from a CIA drone captured in 2011 after it entered Iranian airspace near the Afghan-Iran border.
| | | | | |  | | Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is always touted by the West as a peace partner for Israel, met on Wednesday with the man that has constantly called for Israel's destruction. | | | | | |  | United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke by phone with his Egyptian counterpart to discuss the tense political situation in Cairo and the "role" of the army amid recent street demonstrations, a Pentagon spokesman said.
| | | | | |  | The Iranian people are ready to march on Israel to "wipe it out" if the Jewish state attacks the Islamic republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in his latest anti-Semitic diatribe.
| | | | | |  | | The 19th Knesset began work Tuesday with much fanfare. Media coverage of the emotional scenes from the end of the day, as the national anthem Hatikva played, missed one important detail: that many Arab MKs were no longer present. | | | | | |  | | The weapons, including RPG anti-tank missiles, rockets, grenades and bullets, also were found in a kindergarten and a drainage ditch in Abu Sinan. | | | | | |  | United States President Barack Obama is planning his first trip to Israel as president, the Reuters news agency reports. Obama did not visit Israel during his first term.
| | | | | | | | Two men with links to the terrorist organization Hezbollah were implicated in a terrorist attack in Bulgaria that killed six, including five Israelis, a Bulgarian official has said.
| | | | | |  | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Tuesday, marking the first visit of an Iranian president to Egypt in over thirty years.
| | | | | | | | John Kerry, freshly installed as secretary of state, spoke with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders. Also over the weekend, two top State Department officials dealing with Iran's alleged nuclear threat said they would be stopping in Israel during overseas visits.
| | | | | |  | The Shabak and IDF, it was revealed Monday, have arrested members of a terror gang who were involved in a shooting attack near the Binyamin community of Neve Tzuf in December 2012.
| | | | | | | | | In the study, BC-819 is being administered in conjunction with the standard chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, gemcitabine. The results reaffirm the positive safety and efficacy results of the previous trials of the drug for this indication. | | | | | |  | Syrian ruler Bashar Assad has ordered the resumption of weapons transfers to the Lebanese Hizballah, debkafile's exclusive military and intelligence sources report.
| | | | | | | | | "I am ready to be the first human to be sent to space by Iranian scientists," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday, adding that he is willing to sacrifice his life for the country's space program. | | | | | |  | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel on Sunday of waging "state terrorism" as he condemned the alleged Israeli air strike on Syria as an unacceptable violation of international law.
| | | | | |  | Israel intends to declare a buffer zone inside the Syrian border to prevent terrorists from getting too close to its territory when the embattled Damascus regime topples, security sources quoted by the AFP news agency said on Sunday.
| | | | | |  | The White House condemned Friday's suicide bombing outside the U.S. embassy in Ankara as a "terrorist attack."
| | | | | |  | Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu criticized the Syrian government over the weekend, for failing to respond to an alleged attack by Israel inside Syria earlier this week, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reports.
| | | | | |  | Turkish interior minister Moammer Guler identified the suicide bomber who detonated an explosive Friday, Feb. 1 at the US embassy in Ankara killing a Turkish security guard as Ecevit Sanli, 31, a member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front.
| | | | | |  | | Syria will respond to the "Zionist aggression" at the appropriate time which it will decide, the Syrian army's chief of staff threatened on Thursday night. | | | | | |  | Ten years after the death of Ilan Ramon on the space shuttle Columbia, Israel is ready to train a new astronaut.
| | | | | | | | The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria.
| | | | | |  | After Syria and Lebanon, Iran too has reacted sharply to the reports of an Israeli attack on Syria. The Iranian deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said this afternoon that his country "condemns the Zionist action on Syrian territory" and that "the Israeli attack will have serious consequences in Tel Aviv."
| | | | | |  | | The White House on Thursday warned Syria not to transfer weapons to Hizbullah, as tensions mounted following reported Israeli raids on a military research center and a weapons convoy. | | | | | |  | The Syrian announcement of an Israeli air strike on a military site near Damascus Wednesday, Jan. 30, drew strong condemnation from Moscow the next day.
| | | | | | | | In recently revealed comments, President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of defense Chuck Hagel made staggering accusations against Israel, alleging that the Jewish state is keeping the "Palestinians caged up like animals."
| | | | | |  | The Syrian government, by admitting that the Israel Air Force attacked the Jamaraya "Military Research Institute" (a euphemism for an arms deport), near Damascus, broke the barrier of silence the Israeli government had clamped down on its initial involvement in the Syrian conflict.
| | | | | |  | The arms convoy that Israel reportedly attacked last night along the Syria-Lebanon border carried SA-17 missiles, among other things, according to foreign sources. The SA-17 is a Russian-made anti-aircraft missile.
| | | | | | | | According to reports, Israeli warplanes carried out a surveillance mission over Lebanon Tuesday night which possibly included a strike on an alleged weapons convoy located near the Syrian-Lebanon border.
| | | | | |  | Israel's Foreign Ministry summoned the Argentinian ambassador over his country's agreement with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires JCC.
| | | | | |  | Israel boycotted a United Nations review of its human rights practices, becoming the first country to do so.
| | | | | |  | Israeli Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel warned on Jan. 29, that Syria is falling apart and no one knows what the next day may bring: "War may not break out tomorrow," he said, "but we stand ready for any eventuality."
| | | | | |  | | Families displaced in Gaza Disengagement were given urgent evacuation orders to leave the Nitzan caravan site. | | | | | | | | Tensions along Israel's northern border are rising. Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom warned yesterday that Israel might respond with a military strike to any sign that Syria's chemical weapons might end up in the wrong hands.
| | | | | |  | President Obama congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on winning the most seats in the next Knesset and said he looked forward to working with the new government.
| | | | | | | | An Israeli intelligence source has confirmed Iran's Fordow underground nuclear uranium enrichment facility sustained major damage in a "mega explosion" that occurred last week.
| | | | | |  | Tehran is looking seriously at a limited Syrian-Lebanese clash of arms with Israel, possibly using Bashar Assad's chemical weapons as a trigger, debkafile's military and intelligence sources disclose.
| | | | | |  | At least eight officers were killed in a mysterious twin-car bomb explosion Friday, Jan. 25 at Syrian regional intelligence headquarters in Quneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
| | | | | |  | A Liberal Democrat MP in Britain faces expulsion from the party for saying Jews had not learned from the murder of six million in the Holocaust in their treatment of Palestinian Authority Arabs.
| | | | | |  | A federal judge in Chicago sentenced an American citizen to 35 years in prison for helping Islamist terrorists kill 160 people in India in 2008.
| | | | | |  | | Terrorists fail to cause death in Israel, switch to attacking Jews and Israelis worldwide with attacks in Bulgaria, India, and elsewhere. | | | | | |  | Iran asserted on Thursday that the United States has no other options to pressure the regime over its nuclear program, other than war, and it is chooses to embark upon such a path, Tehran would have no qualms about closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
| | | | | |  | Rabbi Dov Lipman, a dual American-Israeli citizen who was elected to the Knesset, will give up his American citizenship when he takes office.
| | | | | |  | | Thursday's order by a Grand Instance Court judge in Paris came in response to a lawsuit by the Union of French Jewish Students that sought to limit the impunity with which Twitter users may disseminate anti-Semitic incitement. | | | | | |  | World powers hope to resume talks with Iran "as soon as possible" and are "very flexible" on a venue, an EU spokesman said Wednesday.
| | | | | | | | Participation in United Nations forums that refer to a "State of Palestine" does not constitute U.S. recognition of Palestinian statehood, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said.
| | | | | |  | In highly anticipated testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
| | | | | |  | A few observations about the Israeli election results.
| | | | | | | | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who will head a large but weaker Likud party in the new Knesset, gave a victory speech at his party's headquarters on Tuesday night.
| | | | | |  | | Despite Netanyahu's significant lead over rival parties, the right-wing and left-wing blocs are now evenly matched with 60 seats each. | | | | | |  | Binyamin Netanyahu will continue to serve as Prime Minister, but his power has been diminished, according to exit polls published Tuesday evening as the polls closed.
| | | | | |  | The trends emerging shortly before the exit polls is of a grave setback for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's chances of gathering a majority for forming a stable government coalition amid the meteoric rise of a new face in Israeli politics.
| | | | | |  | Voter turnout for Israel's elections was high Tuesday morning, with 38.3% of voters exercising their right to vote by 2:00 p.m.
| | | | | |  | Months of aggressive campaigning, political spins and endless polls come to an end on Tuesday, as Israelis elect their representatives for the 19th Knesset.
| | | | | |  | Haredi Orthodox Jews reportedly pushed and verbally attacked Naftali Bennett, the head of the Jewish Home party, at the Western Wall.
| | | | | |  | | The Russian emergency ministry said Monday, Jan. 21 that it is sending two planes to Beirut to evacuate 100 Russians from Syria - the first such effort since the uprising against Bashar Assad began in March 2011. | | | | | |  | Israel goes to the polls on Tuesday with 10,132 ballot station open around the country from 7 am to 10 pm. 5,656,705 citizens have the right to vote and choose between 34 party lists challenging for Knesset seats.
| | | | | |  | The bodies of two Canadian Islamist terrorists were found Monday at the remote gas complex which played host this past week to a four-day hostage crisis that has left at least 81 people dead.
| | | | | |  | President Obama in his second inaugural address spoke of U.S. involvement throughout the world and Americans working together at home.
| | | | | | | | The Israel Air Force on Monday conducted a successful test of an upgraded Iron Dome rocket system. The Defense Ministry said in a statement that the new, upgraded system would enable the placement of Iron Dome systems in more parts of the country.
| | | | | |  | Jewish Immigration to Israel registered a two-percent drop last year, a trend bucked by new arrivals from Europe and the former Soviet Union.
| | | | | |  | There has been a surge in the death toll in the attack by Al Qaeda-linked terrorists on a gas installation in southern Algeria, authorities say.
| | | | | |  | "History will not forgive those who do not stop Iran's nuclear program," was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's message during a meeting with top U.S. senators on Saturday evening.
| | | | | |  | After being endorsed by American billionaire Donald Trump, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday received another surprising endorsement - this time from famed actor Chuck Norris.
| | | | | |  | The White House said on Thursday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's latest warnings on the state of Iran's economy, proved the "profound impact" of nuclear sanctions, AFP reports.
| | | | | |  | | The Ethiopian community in Israel faces challenges at every turn: Language barriers, cultural gaps, unemployment, poverty and most of all public education that does not meet the needs of their children. | | | | |
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