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Israel’s armoury in the battle against the novel coronavirus includes thermal cameras scanning crowds and algorithms trawling vast medical databanks for real-time indicators of an infection spike.

The sovereignty plan is not just the best deal that Israel will ever get from an American administration. It is also the only deal that can work.

WEST BANK — Palestinians in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley interviewed by Breitbart News overwhelmingly expressed support for the government’s plans to extend Israeli law over areas they are residing in, citing fairer rule under Israel than the Palestinian Authority which many see as corrupt.

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz on Tuesday indicated he could back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to apply sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, citing Palestinian intransigence or what he termed, “their deep shit.”

TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian official Jibril Rajoub on Sunday said while peaceful “popular resistance” is the preferred method for resisting Israel’s plan to annex parts of the West Bank, “our fingers are on the triggers.”

TEL AVIV –  Evacuating Jewish settlements in the West Bank would pose an “immediate existential threat” to Israel, according to a memo sent by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Likud Knesset members on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Senior Trump administration officials will hold a meeting this week on whether or not to approve Israel’s decision to annex parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, Israeli media reported.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he will stop further easing of the coronavirus restrictions — and may even revert to lockdowns – until the upward trend in cases reverses itself.

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Greek counterpart Tuesday he hoped to open Israel’s skies as soon as August after a prolonged closure due to the coronavirus, and that Greece would be among the first destinations for Israeli tourists.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a group of former IDF officials Monday who expressed their support for Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, saying failure to do so would constitute an “existential threat” for the Jewish state.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to iron out the chinks with the United States as well as with Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz over his plans to annex parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, a cabinet minister said on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will announce the annexation of three large Jewish towns in the West Bank in the very near future, but will not make any declarations for now regarding the Jordan Valley or other settlement blocs, top Israeli officials said.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinians will unilaterally declare a state based on the pre-1967 lines if Israel goes ahead with its plan to annex parts of the West Bank, Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh warned Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said Israel was applying the “emergency brakes” on easing coronavirus restrictions, amid an upward trend of cases in the country. 

TEL AVIV – Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, adding the international community must join the U.S. and reimpose crippling sanctions on Tehran.

TEL AVIV – Germany will not censure Israel over its planned annexation of parts of the West Bank, a diplomatic official in Jerusalem said Monday, but added the move would cause ties to fray.

Aaron Klein, editor of Breitbart News’s Jerusalem bureau, is joining Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration as a strategic adviser.

TEL AVIV – Iran has attempted numerous cyberattacks on Israeli water systems in the past, all of which were thwarted, the Hebrew language Walla! News reported Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Eighty-seven schools around Israel have closed over coronavirus cases and nearly 10,000 students and staff members are in quarantine. 

TEL AVIV – Half of Israelis support annexing the Jordan Valley and parts of the West Bank, although that number drops again by half if the step would be taken without U.S. support, a new poll showed on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – An employee at the Prime Minister’s Office has been confirmed with coronavirus, potentially compelling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go into self-quarantine for the third time in as many months.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday offered Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro help and cooperation to combat the coronavirus in the South American country, which is not the epicenter of the pandemic.

TEL AVIV — Israel has a “historic opportunity” to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Israel must jump at the opportunity come July, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday.

TEL AVIV — Israel “should be deeply ashamed” for putting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on trial for trying to obtain favorable media coverage, Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who served on President Donald Trump’s defense team in the impeachment trial, said Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he was being framed in an “attempted political coup” at the start of his corruption trial as he became the first Israeli leader to face criminal indictment while in office.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei commanded Muslims on Friday to continue waging all out war against Israel, repeating his suggestion the Israeli government is a “tumor” that should be excised as an “Islamic duty.”

TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday slammed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s “disgusting and hateful antisemitic remarks” posted a day earlier on Twitter.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said the PA was “absolved” of all agreements with Israel and the United States, including security arrangements, over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to annex Jewish West Bank settlements.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden expressed his opposition to Israel’s plans to extend Israeli law over parts of the West Bank, saying that will “choke off any hope for peace.” 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to apply Israel sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the West Bank ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of Israel’s 35th government, ending nearly 16 months of political deadlock.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi on Monday hailed U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace as a “historic opportunity” to shape the country’s future.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a visit to Jerusalem, accused Iran of “fomenting terror” even as Iranians are battling the coronavirus pandemic. 

TEL AVIV – The new Israeli government, set to be sworn in on Thursday evening, has “the right and the obligation” to decide if and how it wants to apply sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday as he wrapped up a six-hour visit to Jerusalem.

Iran on Thursday rejected any and all charges that it might be involved in sponsoring terror organizations around the globe, instead deflecting the criticism by demanding Washington “must stop its state terrorism.”

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed erstwhile Likud rival Gilad Erdan as Israel’s ambassador both to the United Nations and to the United States, marking only the second time in Israel’s history that one man was tapped for the double role. 

TEL AVIV – Likud MK Yuli Edelstein accepted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appointment as health minister Tuesday evening.