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TEL AVIV – Following the release of high school seniors’ final exam results by the Palestinian Authority this week, official Palestinian press clamored to praise those “martyrs” who did not graduate because they were tied up carrying out terror attacks against Israelis but who will nonetheless merit “Paradise.”

TEL AVIV – A Canadian teacher is being investigated after speaking at a rally urging Palestinians to fight back against Israel and praising terrorists, CBC News reported.

TEL AVIV – The European Union (EU) recognizes that anti-Zionism is a term often used to mask anti-Semitism, its newly appointed official tasked with combating the phenomenon said Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Following a $1 billion class-action suit filed against Facebook by American victims of Hamas terror, Israel’s Justice Minister and Public Security Minister presented to the Knesset an unprecedented bill for the forced removal of terror-inciting content from social media platforms.

JERUSALEM – America is responsible for any bombs that kill Muslims in Muslim countries, a Palestinian preacher claimed in his sermon on Friday at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.

TEL AVIV — The family of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli teenager asleep in her bed will receive $350 a month from a Palestinian fund for “martyrs,” prompting Israel to deduct the funds from its tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority.

Jerusalem – Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said on Sunday he had ordered an “examination” into an unspecified affair involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after weeks of media speculation and rumours.

Iran said Saturday it would continue its ballistic missile program after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said the missile tests were not in the spirit of the country’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers.

The deputy commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said the country has over 100,000 missiles in Lebanon alone readied for the “annihilation” of Israel.

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TEL AVIV – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday blamed the U.S., UK and Israel for the spate of Islamic State bombings that took place over the month of Ramadan.

TEL AVIV – Israeli lawmakers called on Facebook to remove posts that incite terror against Israelis following Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan’s statement that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has “blood on his hands.”

TEL AVIV – The German government will increase funding for Holocaust survivors all over the world by $600 million over the next three years, the largest single increase to date.

While pro-Israel Democrats might feel relieved that their Party platform committee rejected language calling for “an end to occupation and illegal settlements” proposed by James Zogby, the committee did vote to express support for Palestinian rights.

TEL AVIV – Haifa District Court on Tuesday sentenced an Israeli-Arab teacher and mother of five to 22 months in prison after being caught in Turkey en route to join the Islamic State group in Syria.

JERUSALEM – Early Islamic teachings show that all Jews are liars, a Palestinian university professor and television host recently said on official PA TV.

Two Swiss Air Force fighter jets were summoned to escort an El Al Israeli passenger plane headed to Israel Tuesday, after the company received an anonymous bomb threat.

TEL AVIV – The families of teenage Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israeli prisons were invited to Jerusalem over the weekend for a special Iftar dinner, the traditional break-fast meal for the Muslim festival of Ramadan, Ynet news reported.

JERUSALEM – Officials from both the Palestinian Authority and its ruling Fatah party held rallies to celebrate the release of a terrorist involved in one of Israel’s most heinous murders – that of Israeli teenager Ofir Rahum, who was killed in 2001 after being lured to the West Bank by a female terrorist he met and fell in love with online.

Pro-Palestine activists turned out in central London today to mark the now traditional end of Ramadan Quds day protest against Israel. Despite the heavy presence of Hezbollah flags, the standard of a banned organisation police allowed the march to go

TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet Saturday night to weigh a series of responses last week’s terrorist attacks which killed two and wounded five.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is refusing to condemn the ongoing wave of Palestinian terrorism, including the murder of a 13-year-old Israeli girl on Thursday and a father of 10 on Friday, and is also eschewing phone calls from world leaders demanding that he denounce the attacks.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement declared a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli-American girl while she was sleeping in her bed to be a “martyr.”

Francis Ben-Hanni cried as he put his hands on the Western Wall, after finally living up to the promise he had made years earlier to one day make aliya.

Nine Jewish Israeli citizens were evacuated from Ramallah unharmed after local residents set their car on fire on Wednesday night, the army said.

Shortly after the Security Cabinet on Wednesday approved the reconciliation deal with Turkey, a senior Hamas official claimed that Turkey is currently mediating a prisoner swap between the Palestinian terror organization and Israel.

“As is the case with every tragedy that happens in the world, the Jewish community is on edge,” Turkish Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Haliva said Wednesday in the aftermath of the terror attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport in which 41 people were killed.

TEL AVIV – The Islamic State has not claimed official responsibility for Tuesday’s deadly Istanbul airport attack as if this writing, but users in an encrypted messaging forum for Islamic State fighters and supporters are praising the triple assaults and hoping IS was behind the carnage that left 41 people dead and wounded more than 239.

Shortly after Turkey and Israel forged a reconciliation deal, six years after the Mavi Marmara incident, senior Hamas officials revealed on Monday their opposition to the deal, claiming that the Palestinian terror organization was not a party to its consolidation.

Police have found evidence of criminal wrongdoing on the part of Perach Lerner, a senior aide of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they said in a statement on Tuesday.

Turkish Airlines check-ins from Tel Aviv were suspended in the wake of the attack.

JERUSALEM – Senior advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Sultan Abu Al-Einein called on Palestinians to behead Israelis they encounter in an article published Monday.

TEL AVIV – The Hamas-run agricultural ministry in Gaza on Monday announced that it was putting an end to a very short stint importing Israeli watermelons into the Strip.

Turkey and Israel have reconciled after a six-year rift, the two nations’ prime ministers announced on Monday at separate press conferences in Rome and Ankara.

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Israel and Turkey reached a deal to restore ties Sunday, ending protracted talks amid years of acrimony following a deadly 2010 raid on an aid flotilla, an Israeli official said.