The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel and China are set to sign an agreement Tuesday instituting a 10-year, multi-visit visa that will facilitate business and tourist travel between the two countries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will sign the agreement with Chinese Vice
JERUSALEM – Information obtained by intelligence officials and cited by Sky News indicates Islamic State terrorists are in the advanced stages of an active plot to murder Jewish children in Turkey, including with attacks on kindergartens, schools and youth centres.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were “difficulties” implementing the historic agreement that would allow egalitarian prayers to take place at the Western Wall, fueling condemnation from leaders of the Reform and Conservative denominations of Judaism. The statement comes less
Israel urged its citizens in Turkey on Monday to leave “as soon as possible” in an upgraded travel advisory predicting possible follow-up attacks to the March 19 suicide bombing in Istanbul blamed on Islamic State. Three Israeli tourists and an
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan will get a cheap $100 million loan to help create 100,000 jobs for Syrian refugees and its own citizens, the World Bank president said Sunday. The long-term loan, almost interest free, is part of an
The Jerusalem Post reports: The High Court of Justice on Sunday struck down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flagship natural gas policy, but suspended formally striking the law for a year so he and the Knesset can adjust the 10-year freeze
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the Israeli army Sunday as controversy gripped the country over a soldier caught on video shooting a Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground. The incident on Thursday led
TEL AVIV – The family of a soldier accused of murdering a “neutralized” Palestinian terrorist charged that the IDF has abandoned him and expressed fears that the soldier will not receive a fair trial. In an unprecedented televised press conference, the sister of
The Times of Israel reports: The soldier who was arrested Thursday after he was filmed shooting a disarmed Palestinian assailant in the head in the West Bank city of Hebron said he shot the man as he believed him to be
The Jerusalem Post reports: The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday created a blacklist of companies that are either located in West Bank settlements or have any economic connection with those communities. The decision was part of a sweeping resolution designed
TEL AVIV – Earlier this week, Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign released the text of the speech he would have given had he attended this week’s annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Sanders, the sole Jewish candidate in this year’s presidential elections and the first Jewish politician to ever win a presidential primary, was also the only presidential candidate not to speak at AIPAC’s conference.
TEL AVIV – Liberals slammed Hillary Clinton for being a “pandering Neocon” in her speech at AIPAC’s annual confab in Washington this week. Clinton reasserted her support for Israel at the conference and vowed to step up U.S.-Israeli ties if she becomes
TEL AVIV – The terrorist attacks in Brussels, Paris, San Bernardino, Istanbul and the daily attacks by Palestinians in Israel are part of the same assault, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – An overwhelming majority of American Democrats living in Israel voted for Bernie Sanders in the Democrats Abroad global primary. Sanders received 60.8 percent of the vote in Israel, while Hillary Clinton earned 39.1 percent, the Associated Press reported. The
TEL AVIV – The immigration of Yemenite Jewry to Israel ended this week with the country’s last 19 Jews smuggled into the Jewish state over the past few days, the Jewish Agency announced. The organization’s spokesman Avi Mayer said that this
TEL AVIV – Here are the five most important aspects of Donald Trump’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, on Monday.
The international nuclear accord signed with Iran should be abrogated due to Iran’s recent provocative moves, posited John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton was being interviewed for “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM.
The Times of Israel reports: The “V 15” bill, which would limit political organizations’ ability to raise funds in an election year, received approval from the Ministerial Committee for Legislation Sunday. The coalition will vote in favor of the bill in
A suicide bomb attack struck a busy shopping district in Istanbul on Saturday, killing 5 and wounding 36 at the time of this writing. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack as of yet, but Turkish officials say the most likely suspects would be either Kurdish militants aligned with the separatist PKK party, or minions of the Islamic State.
TEL AVIV – Israeli victims gave harrowing accounts of Saturday’s Istanbul terror attack that killed four people, including three Israelis, and wounded another 36. “We were a group of Israelis on a tour; he just exploded on us,” Naama Peled, who
TEL AVIV – Israel is investigating whether the suicide bombing that killed three Israeli tourists in Istanbul specifically targeted the Israelis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday night. “We are of course trying to get intelligence on whether the terror attack
TEL AVIV – A Turkish government official was reportedly fired after saying she hoped Israeli tourists wounded in Saturday’s suicide bombing in Istanbul were dead. Irem Atkas (pictured), a member of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, took to Twitter to say, “I wish the Israeli tourists were not wounded but were dead.”
The Jerusalem Post reports: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu communicated his condolences to the Israeli victims of Saturday’s suicide bombing in the heart of Istanbul’s shopping and tourist district. In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Davutoglu wrote that
Ynetnews reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published his pay stub in a rare move earlier this week, showing citizens that he makes NIS 48,815 every month, which, after taxes and other expenses, amounts to a net income of NIS 17,645 ($4,583).
Haaretz reports: Meir Dagan, a former general in the Israeli army and longtime director of the Mossad espionage agency, died on Thursday at the age of 71. “Former Mossad head Meir Dagan passed away this morning,” the Mossad said in a
Russian President Vladimir Putin told visiting President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday he had agreed to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu soon to discuss the security situation in the Middle East. The two leaders met in Moscow and an Israeli official,
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will ask Russia on Wednesday to ensure that its partial pullout from Syria does not embolden Iranian and Hezbollah forces there, an Israeli official said. Rivlin is in Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose
Israel said it was struggling to “understand the logic” of a French peace initiative favored by the Palestinians after Israeli foreign ministry officials met with a French envoy in Jerusalem on Monday. France is lobbying for an international peace conference
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called on world powers to punish Iran after the country test-fired two ballistic missiles emblazoned with the phrase “Israel must be wiped out” in Hebrew. Netanyahu said he instructed Israel’s Foreign
The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement on Sunday night expressed solidarity with the people of Turkey and condemned terrorism in the wake of the bombing attack on Ankara that occurred earlier in the day. “The
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called for world powers to take “immediate punitive steps” against Iran, following its ballistic missile tests last week. A series of tests conducted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards caused international concern,
The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israeli diplomats to demand that world powers punish Iran for its recent ballistic missile launches, his office said on Saturday. Netanyahu “instructed the foreign ministry to contact the P5+1
A hold-up over a new U.S. defense package for Israel was behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to forgo a meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington this month, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party praised the murder of an American tourist in Jaffa on Tuesday, calling the terrorist a “heroic martyr,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. On its official Facebook page, Fatah posted a sketch
JERUSALEM, March 9 (UPI) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called violent attacks like the one that killed an American tourist “intolerable” and condemned Palestinians’ praise for the attacker as a “martyr” ahead of a Wednesday meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
TEL AVIV – With U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visiting Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Wednesday that the Jewish state will complete construction of the country’s security barrier in Jerusalem and the southern West Bank.
Politico reports: The White House chided Israel on Tuesday for the way it canceled a meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it would have been “good manners” for Israeli officials to tell the White House directly.
NBC News reports: Israel on Tuesday refuted a White House claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “surprised” the Obama administration by cancelling a planned visit to Washington, saying that the White House knew Netanyahu was considering not coming. Netanyahu had been
A global Muslim body called for a ban on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and pledged full support for the “inalienable rights” of the Palestinians. The demand came at the end of an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
Ynetnews reports: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will land in Israel on Tuesday afternoon, six years after his last visit. Biden’s main objective for the visit is working to convince Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sign a new Memorandum of Understanding
