US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner reportedly called Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday in a bid to help end the diplomatic standoff between Amman and Jerusalem over the fatal shooting at Israel’s embassy in the country.
TEL AVIV — Social media users in Jordan and around the Arab world have been actively posting about the security event at the Israeli embassy in Amman, the Jordanian capital, where an Israeli security guard shot and killed a man who tried to stab him.
Israel, the United States and Russia continue to discuss Israeli reservations regarding the ceasefire agreement in southern Syria agreed upon by Jordan, Russia and the U.S., an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
After a day of intense diplomacy, the staff of the Israeli Embassy in Amman — including the security guard who was lightly wounded in an attack near the compound on Sunday — returned home safely to the Jewish state on Monday.
BUDAPEST — Unaware that his remarks were also being transmitted to reporters outside, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the European Union in unusually harsh terms on Wednesday for its treatment of Israel, urging the leaders of four Central European countries to use their influence in the organization to ease its conditions for advancing bilateral ties.
BEIJING — China will host a symposium between Israel and the Palestinians later this year, a Chinese official said Tuesday, as Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to “ceaselessly” contribute towards peace in the region.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud personally intervened to end the closure of the Temple Mount following a terrorist attack at the site, according to an Arab media report on Tuesday.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Hungary for “standing up for Israel time and again” during a historic official visit to Budapest.
The Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki on Monday made ambiguous statements about Palestinian preconditions for reviving peace talks.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that a ceasefire deal in southern Syria brokered by Washington and Moscow took into consideration Israel’s security needs, despite Israeli concerns that it will enable an increased Iranian presence on Israel’s northern border.
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s concerns over Iran’s presence in southern Syria, and is working with Israel to prevent it, a White House official told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday slammed Arab-Israeli leaders for not condemning Friday’s terror attack at the Temple Mount, saying their silence was tantamount to endorsing the shooting.
JERUSALEM – In the aftermath of Friday’s Temple Mount terror attack in which two Israeli policemen were killed by Arab-Israeli gunmen, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction rebroadcast Abbas’ 2014 call to stop the Jews from “defiling” Muslim holy sites using “in any way whatsoever.”
Contents: Muslim leaders express outrage at metal detectors at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque / Temple Mount; Concerns grow of a new round of violence at compound
PARIS – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters after his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday that Israel opposes the cease-fire agreement in southern Syria that the United States and Russia reached because it perpetuates the Iranian presence in the country.
French President Emmanuel Macron hit out at those who deny France’s direct complicity in the Holocaust, choosing French and Israeli commemorations of a mass deportation of French Jews in World War II to make his stand.
TEL AVIV – Israel will gradually reopen the Temple Mount complex to Muslim worshipers on Sunday while adding additional security precautions after the site was closed following the murder of two Israeli police officers by three Arab-Israelis on Friday morning.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for a five-day day trip to Europe late Saturday night that will include his first powwow with new French President Emmanuel Macron and about half a dozen meetings with Hungary’s controversial leader Viktor Orban in Budapest.
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace envoy said Thursday Israel would supply the Palestinians with millions of cubic metres of water annually, as Washington seeks to build confidence for fresh negotiations.
Israel on Wednesday denied that it agreed to a slowdown in settlement construction as part of any future peace talks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming attendance of a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the “Vel’ d’Hiv” Holocaust-era roundup of French Jews is expected to be met with protests in Paris.
Leaders of West Bank communities this week sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inviting him to hold a cabinet meeting at Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs.
Former environmental protection minister Avi Gabbay, who joined Labor only six months ago, swept the party off its feet and emerged victorious in Monday’s close runoff race against veteran MK and former Labor chairman Amir Peretz. Gabbay won 16,080 votes, which was 52% of the vote, while Peretz won 14,734 votes, or 47%.
TEL AVIV – Business executive and former Kulanu minister won Labor’s primary Monday, beating former party leader and defense minister Amir Peretz as the party’s new chairman.
Contents: US, Russia, Jordan agree on ceasefire deal for southwest Syria; Israel OKs ceasefire, but expresses severe misgivings; With ceasefire, American forces become more deeply involved in Syria’s civil war
TEL AVIV – Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s special representative to the Middle East, returned to Israel Sunday night for the second time in a month, a White House official said.
Raging over a decision by a UN body to declare Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs a part of endangered Palestinian heritage, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday recited Biblical verses meant to prove the millennia-old Jewish connection to the West Bank site.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that a ceasefire plan that took effect at noon in southwestern Syria should not allow for a vacuum to be filled by Iran and its proxies in the area near the border with Israel.
Biased coverage by the BBC of a recent attack by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem has been slammed by Lord Michael Grade, a former chairman of the publicly-funded British broadcaster.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accompanied by his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday witnessed a demonstration of sea water purification at a desalination plant here.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has capped a historic three-day visit to Israel with a barefoot stroll along the Mediterranean shore with Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu.
TEL AVIV – The 11-year-old son of Chabad emissaries murdered in a series of Islamist terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008 told visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra that he loves him and his country and wants to come back to India to take the mantle of directing the Chabad house that once belonged to his parents.
TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian official on Wednesday slammed U.S. envoy to the UN Nikki Haley for carrying out a “one-woman crusade” against the Palestinian people.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority expressed surprise and disappointment at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s for failing to include Ramallah as a stop during his three-day trip to Israel.
The Knesset on Wednesday rejected a bill proposed by an opposition lawmaker aimed at enshrining in law plans to build a permanent, pluralistic prayer section at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Thirty years after India became the first non-Muslim state to recognize the “State of Palestine,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed off on a joint statement on Wednesday that mentioned the Palestinian-Israel diplomatic process, but made no reference to a two state solution.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi that he was “deeply moved” by Modi’s “making history” and becoming the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel.
TEL AVIV – Jewish Home head Naftali Bennett and Likud minister Ze’ev Elkin finally agreed Sunday night to collaborate on a bill that would require a two-thirds Knesset majority to give up any part of Jerusalem in a future peace deal with the Palestinians.
TEL AVIV — Reports here on Sunday claimed that pop star Britney Spears cancelled dinner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and child cancer patients after being mobbed by fans at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
TEL AVIV – Pop princess Britney Spears was mobbed by over-enthusiastic crowds while visiting the the Western Wall in Jerusalem during her first visit to the country Sunday.
