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JERUSALEM – The Knesset is slated to vote on Monday on a bill that would ban entry into the country of supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and other individuals calling for boycotts of the Jewish state or of products made in West Bank settlements.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to the Saudi king that he would enforce the Iranian nuclear deal “rigorously,” changing his tone from the presidential campaign in which he said he would dismantle the deal or walk away from it.

A Saudi journalist in a recent column called on the Palestinians to negotiate in earnest with Israel because their reliance on so-called armed resistance constitutes “political suicide” and the Arab world is losing interest in their cause.

Egypt on Saturday reopened the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and northern Sinai in a move seen as an improvement in relations between Cairo and the Hamas movement that rules Gaza.

The administration of new U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing executive orders that aim to minimize the role the U.S. plays in the UN and other international bodies, including organizations supporting the Palestinians or in which the Palestinian Authority has official representatives.

UNITED NATIONS — The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Wednesday to discuss Israel’s plan to build new settler homes in the West Bank, but did not take any action.

JERUSALEM — Israel will take in children refugees from the Syrian Civil War, Israeli Channel 10 reported on Wednesday evening.

The new Trump administration will “discuss” and “have a conversation” with Israel regarding recently approved construction in West Bank settlements, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a briefing on Tuesday.

Israel will fight its next war “with full force,” Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday, adding that the Israeli army will not stop fighting the next conflict until its enemy surrenders completely.

Israeli Minister for Social Equality Gila Gamliel condemned the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement during a European Union conference on Monday.

France on Monday condemned a decision by the Israeli government to lift limitations from local and municipal planning and construction committees dealing with construction in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority issued a warning on Monday asking Israelis to avoid the waters near Hadera, a city in the center of Israel near the coats of the Mediterranean, because of large populations of sharks infesting the waters there.

The first ever Orthodox rabbi to recite a benediction at a US presidential inauguration said that his quoting a Psalm about the longing of the Jewish people to return to Jerusalem was “absolutely intentional.”

European Union foreign policy czar Federica Mogherini said on Monday that embassies of European countries and of the European Union will remain in Tel Aviv even if US President Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met on Sunday with Jordanian King Abdullah, with the planned US move of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem topping the two leaders’ agenda.

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told members of his security cabinet on Sunday that he decided to remove all political limitation on advancing construction programs for eastern Jerusalem.

A top Iranian nuclear official said that Iran would quickly bring its nuclear program up to speed if US President Donald Trump “tears up” the Iranian nuclear accord, as he said during his presidential campaign.

The Palestinian Authority over the weekend continued its campaign of threats against U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The first Orthodox rabbi to ever give a benediction at an American president’s inauguration chose to recite a psalm stressing Judaism’s bond with the city Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Authority has issued dozens of threats against the planned move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem, warning that such an act would bring war and an end to all previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman this week called on the Palestinian residents of Gaza to overthrow their Hamas rulers, promising that Israeli support and assistance for Gazan civilians will be forthcoming if the terror group is uprooted.

The incoming Trump administration will be “infested” with pro-Israel figures, Palestinian-American academic Rashid Khalidi said this week.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for UN envoy Nikki Haley this week slammed what she called the UN’s bias against Israel and the international body’s failure to address other, more pressing world problems.

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday admitted that Israel conducted “dozens of attacks” to prevent arms from reaching Hezbollah in Syria. Speaking during a visit to reserve soldiers serving along Israel’s northern border, the prime minister’s comments,

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Home Front Command finished development of a new radar system that will give residents time to reach shelter if they are targeted with mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip, according to a radio report broadcast Monday. Existing

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly furious on Monday over indications that an agreement intended to bring peace to Syria might specify that the Golan Heights, including the part held by Israel, is Syrian land.

JERUSALEM – A Kuwaiti writer and media personality called on all Arab and Muslim states to recognize Israel in an article published over the weekend.

JERUSALEM – Hamad a-Sharifi, a former diplomat at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, arrived on Sunday for a visit to Israel, Israeli paper Ynet reported. The unusual visit by the national of a country with which Israel has no diplomatic relations

JERUSALEM – Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Sunday expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself against Palestinian terrorism, setting herself apart from rival Bernie Sanders, who infuriated Jews and Israelis when he wrongly claimed that Israel had probably killed “more than 10,000” Palestinian civilians in the 2014 Gaza war.

JERUSALEM – At least two Hamas terrorists were killed on Sunday when a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian media cited conflicting death tolls, with some reports saying as many as five operatives were killed in the collapse. The

JERUSALEM – Dozens of Israeli rabbis on Sunday called on their communities to act with tolerance and respect toward gay and lesbian congregants.

JERUSALEM – Palestinian security forces arrested on Saturday three Palestinians who they say were planning to carry out a terror attack against Israeli targets. The three men, Basel Muhammad Alkarj (33), Muhammad Abdallah Harb (23), and Hishar Alsiaj (19), have

JERUSALEM – The White House has not yet decided whether it will support a Palestinian initiative for a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank. On Friday, State Department spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters in Washington: “We understand

JERUSALEM – Iran on Sunday rejected an American proposal to negotiate a “new arrangement” on the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program.

JERUSALEM – A senior Hamas official recently issued a strong criticism of his movement, saying it is responsible for the dire conditions of life in the Gaza Strip. Ahmed Yousef, formerly an adviser to Ismail Haniyeh, who served as Hamas

JERUSALEM — Recent comments by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas critical of Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis have caused controversy among journalists and factions in the Palestinian Liberation Organization other than Abbas’s own Fatah party. In the interview with Israel’s Channel