TEL AVIV – The Arab Parliament on Sunday declared the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah a terrorist organization following the Arab League and Gulf Cooperation Council’s similar announcements last month. Parliament Speaker Ahmed al-Jarwan condemned Hezbollah for “undermining the security of many countries
TEL AVIV – The Iranian daily Resalat published an article claiming that the U.S. is planning to implement a series of additional Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreements aimed at eradicating Iran.
More than 90 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to use U.S. veto power to block any United Nations resolutions seen as biased against Israel, one of the letter’s lead sponsors
The Jerusalem Post reports: A prominent member of the Knesset on Saturday strongly criticized a resolution passed by UNESCO’s Executive Board the previous day, saying if the motion was not overturned it would “lead to the deaths of innocent people”.
The Times of Israel reports: An overwhelming majority of the US House of Representatives signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to reject any actions by the United Nations that are biased against Israel. The letter undersigned by 394 House
Israel National News reports: The United States should not interfere in the Israeli-Palestinian Authority (PA) peace efforts unless both sides invite it to participate, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich told Haaretz in an interview on Thursday. …Asked if he fundamentally
The Jerusalem Post reports: NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League said it was “outrageous” that a debate topic at an inter- university debating competition in Atlanta required participants to justify Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis. At the US Universities Debating
Ted Cruz assailed President Obama and his Iranian nuclear deal, warning “every jihadist on the face of the earth… we are coming to kill you” during a speech at the New York State Republican Gala Thursday evening.
TEL AVIV – An Arab Muslim was appointed Wednesday as Deputy Commissioner of the Israeli police, the second highest rank in the force. Dep.-Ch. Jamal Hakrush, from the Arab town of Kafr Kana north of Nazareth, is to head a special
TEL AVIV – The Obama administration accused Israel of “excessive use of force” against Palestinians during the current wave of Palestinian terrorism. An annual State Department human rights report accused Israeli forces of “arbitrary arrest and associated torture and abuse, often
Bernie Sanders’s recently hired Jewish outreach coordinator reportedly accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of mass murder in an expletive-laden Facebook post.
TEL AVIV – Israel and Saudi Arabia are engaged in covert ties – the result of mutual interests between the countries – according to an analysis in the Jerusalem Post. The article, published Tuesday, cited a series of events that
CASABLANCA – Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal published an article claiming that Hezbollah has morphed from being a resistance organization to a “Frankenstein’s monster” controlled by Iran and an occupier of Arab lands.
CASABLANCA – The New York Times magazine published an article claiming that the Palestinians lost their homeland when Israel was founded.
The latest video from Paul Ryan’s communications team features his trip to Israel and the Middle East, highlighting the House speaker’s foreign policy strengths.
The Jerusalem Post reports: NEW YORK – It might have been the last place you’d expect anger to erupt against the Bernie Sanders campaign. But at a Jews for Bernie brunch in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood on Sunday, the frustration seemed
Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to embarrass himself by making uninformed and false anti-Israel statements that seem to parrot radical left, BDS-style, Palestinian propaganda talking points.
JERUSALEM – Hamad a-Sharifi, a former diplomat at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, arrived on Sunday for a visit to Israel, Israeli paper Ynet reported. The unusual visit by the national of a country with which Israel has no diplomatic relations
Sen. Ted Cruz pitched members of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) for support in his pursuit of the Republican nomination, arguing that Donald Trump as the nominee would ensure an electoral “bloodbath of Walter Mondale-proportions,” a Democratic takeover of the U.S. Congress, economic stagnation and a nuclear-armed Iran.
Contents: Egypt, Saudi Arabia to build a huge bridge where Moses parted the Red Sea; Saudi Arabia will no longer provide ‘free money’ to Egypt
Sen. Bernie Sanders kept up his criticism of the Jewish state, this time accusing Israel of a “disproportionate” response during the 2014 Israel-Gaza War.
Israel National News reports: The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Ambassador to the UN on Friday confirmed reports that the Palestinians are discussing a new draft UN resolution with Arab countries to confront Israel over its construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern
The Times of Israel reports: An Orthodox rabbinic organization in Israel drafted what it said is the country’s first Jewish legal document by such a group on how to regulate the behavior of homosexual members of Orthodox communities. Orthodox rabbinic
The Times of Israel reports: Senior Palestinian officials say that security talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel are currently focused on a proposal to halt all Israeli military activity in West Bank cities, in accordance with a schedule to
Haaretz reports: In an unusually pressing message, the bureau urged Israelis currently in Turkey to stay away from crowded tourist attractions, heed warnings issued by local authorities and media and leave the country as soon as possible. “Immediate risks for
What I wish to say to Mr. Trump is this: You have the deal. It is within your grasp to close it. In the name of your dear father Fred Trump: “Take the lumps out, son!”
The New York Times reports: JERUSALEM — It was a typical day at the shrine around what many believe is the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem’s Old City. A Greek Orthodox choir sang inside a room facing the baroque structure.
JERUSALEM – A Kuwaiti journalist slammed a local imam in a recent column for cursing Jews and Christians who, he wrote, were the ones who discovered the Arab world’s oil and invented the tools necessary to extract it from the
JERUSALEM – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said this week he would urge the Israeli government to pull out of West Bank settlement and accused the Israel Defense Forces of using “disproportionate” force in its war against Hamas in Gaza in 2014.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Tourism Ministry on Tuesday defended its official visitors’ map of Jerusalem’s Old City, which omits numerous historic Arab and Christian landmarks, while featuring dozens of Jewish sites. The map in question, which has the ministry’s logo
JERUSALEM – Israeli restaurateurs are shocked and angry over revelations that a gang of eastern Jerusalem Palestinians sold them smuggled, unsupervised meat for years. Nine people were arrested on allegations of being part of the gang on Monday morning. They allegedly forged expiry dates, slaughtering dates, and kosher certifications for the meat products.
TEL AVIV – A poll found that a majority of Israelis believe “the security situation is more serious today compared to the Second Intifada,” Media Line reported. Half a year after the onset of a wave of Palestinian knife attacks, shootings, and
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ministry of Tourism will invest NIS 11 million ($2.9 million) to promote LGBT tourism to the Jewish state. The campaign will promote Israel as a liberal country that embraces members of the global LGBT community, and is aimed
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been spying on Israel in recent years, specifically the Prime Minister’s Office, German newspaper Der Spiegel reported Saturday. The report noted that other targets of the BND included the US State Department, the British Defense Ministry, NASA, the US Air Force, and the interior ministries of Austria and Belgium.
Contents: N. Korea’s Kim Jong-un gains 70 pounds, tells citizens to ‘eat roots’; Tensions grow in Israel and West Bank over shooting of disabled Palestinian
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel’s navy sunk a suspected smuggling boat that was approaching the coast of the Gaza Strip overnight on Saturday, an army spokesperson said. The IDF spotted a suspicious fishing boat loaded with sacs approaching Gaza from the
The Independent reports: A Holocaust survivor who was told to move seats on a flight so an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man would not have to sit beside a woman has said the rule is “not in the Torah”. Renee Rabinowitz is now suing Israel’s national airline
Hamas on Friday publicly acknowledged for the first time that it was holding four Israelis: two Israeli citizens who crossed into Gaza on their own accord and the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014’s Gaza war. The group published photos of the four: slain soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, 29-year-old Avraham Mengistu, and a Bedouin-Israeli citizen whose name has not been released for publication.
TEL AVIV – Only the most demented of minds could single out the sole democracy in the Middle East, the country that goes much further than any other nation on earth to protect civilians in the battle field, and accuse said nation of possibly committing “gross violations of human rights.”
TEL AVIV – American companies are investing in Israeli medical marijuana R&D in an attempt to bring Israel’s extensive cannabis prowess back home, Reuters reported. The Jewish state has already established itself as a pioneer in high-tech and cutting-edge agriculture, and
