An interfaith group from Bahrain which is paying an unprecedented public visit to Israel this week has received a warm welcome in the Jewish state, but is generating uproar across the Arab world.
During their talks in Paris, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told French President Emmanuel Macron that he would be prepared to make “compromises and concessions” to the Palestinians within the framework of US President Donald Trump’s much-touted Middle East peace plan, Israel’s Channel 10 TV news reported on Tuesday.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned Europe that Iran is establishing bases and sending troops to Syria.
TEL AVIV – In the wake of attacks against European Jews following President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Sunday condemned “well-rooted” anti-semitism in his own country, adding that “the ideology of hate” was “alive” and causing French Jews to immigrate to Israel out of fear.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s “historic” recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “makes peace possible,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
The Facebook page belonging to the Palestinian terrorist who stabbed and critically wounded a security guard in the chest in Jerusalem on Sunday was full of angry posts condemning President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu expects European countries to follow the U.S. and recognise Jerusalem as his country’s capital.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that he asked for “courageous gestures” from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to restart the Middle East peace process.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a sharp rebuttal to the most recent anti-Israel tirade by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
BRUSSELS – The EU’s diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini on Monday condemned “all attacks on Jews everywhere in the world” as she met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Brussels.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed European “hypocrisy” and “double standards,” saying EU leaders were quick to condemn President Donald Trump for his recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital but remained silent in the face of retaliatory rocket attacks into Israel from Gaza.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian rioters used an ambulance as a human shield during violent clashes in Ramallah on Saturday, the IDF said.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during the latter’s visit to the region later this month in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
TEL AVIV – Any Palestinian violence resulting from President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital will be short-lived, a former senior White House official said on Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Thursday that he is conducting preliminary talks with several countries that may follow President Donald Trump’s lead in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian journalist has criticized the outcry from his brethren surrounding President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, saying their rage, while justified, is futile.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem had nothing to do with the peace process that he is still hoping to resume in the coming months, White House officials said on Thursday, adding that the Palestinians’ “short-term
Palestinian protests erupted across the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip on Thursday, as Palestinian raged against US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in a speech the previous day.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief has slammed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to officially recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, warning the move could take the region “backwards to even darker times.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his “profound gratitude” to President Donald Trump for declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel and for announcing that the U.S. embassy would move there from its current location in Tel Aviv.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared that “it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” calling the move “a long overdue step to advance the peace process.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a response within minutes of U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Israelis celebrated President Donald Trump’s decision Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as their capital city and to begin to move the U.S. embassy there.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a double-digit lead over his top potential challengers in a new Israeli general election, according to a poll released Monday.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides have been “active partners” working in “total coordination” with US President Donald Trump and his administration in the lead-up to the president’s anticipated speech Wednesday recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and declaring his intended relocation of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel’s Hadashot TV said Tuesday evening.
President Donald Trump held separate phone calls with several Middle Eastern leaders on Tuesday during which he reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and potential decisions regarding Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday compared Iran to Nazi Germany, pointing to Iran’s “commitment to murder Jews.” At the same time, Netanyahu said Israel would be the first country to re-establish ties with Iran once the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei falls.
Amid reports of an alleged Israeli aircraft attack on an Iranian base outside of Damascus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that an Iranian presence in Syria will not become a reality.
Israel is opening a new embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, and is weighing direct commercial flights to the East African country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel and Egypt pushed the U.S. to bomb Iran ahead of the signing of the 2015 nuclear deal, then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been challenged to “repudiate anti-Israel hate and rejectionism” in his organization when he speaks in Geneva to mark the 70th anniversary of the partitioning of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo on Thursday confirmed recent reports that the country is in talks to take in illegal African migrants currently residing in Israel.
Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida revealed on Sunday that an Israeli source disclosed a promise from Jerusalem to destroy all Iranian facilities within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of Israel’s Golan Heights.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi pledged to use “brute force against that small band of extremist terrorists” following a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the Northern Sinai region on Friday which left 235 worshipers dead and over 100 injured.
US Vice President Mike Pence will speak before the Knesset when he visits Israel in mid-December, Channel 10 news reported Wednesday. Top Israeli officials told the TV station that Pence had been the one to suggest an address to the Israeli parliament, an offer that was immediately accepted.
TEL AVIV – Forty years after Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat made his historic trip to Jerusalem, Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat on Tuesday addressed the Knesset and urged Israeli leaders to pursue a framework for peace with the Palestinians based on the Arab Peace Initiative.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone Tuesday for half an hour. The Prime Minister’s Office said that the phone conversation dealt with Syria and Iran’s attempts to establish itself in Syrian territory, with the PMO stating that “Prime Minister Netanyahu insisted on Israel’s security principles.”
TEL AVIV – An Israeli report claiming that the Trump administration had formulated a peace plan recognizing a Palestinian state without evacuating existing West Bank settlements is untrue, American and Israeli officials said.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that Iran will not spread its military influence in Syria as a means to attack Israel, despite Russia’s earlier statement that the Iranian presence in the war-torn country is “legitimate.”
TEL AVIV – The Iranian regime cares more about hating Israel then taking care of its own people which is why the Jewish state offered assistance in the wake of the earthquake, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.
