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TEL AVIV – Two Israeli Jews have converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State in Syria, the Shin Bet security agency reported.

Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett accused Joint List lawmakers of supporting and inciting terrorism in a speech to the Knesset on Wednesday.

The Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, called for a “Day of Rage” on Wednesday to protest new security measures installed at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem starting Sunday, two days after a terror attack by three Israeli-Arabs killed two Israeli police officers.

TEL AVIV – With the endorsement of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, lawmakers on Sunday submitted a proposal to strip Arab Israeli terrorists of their citizenship in response to Friday’s terror attack in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Following the Knesset’s initial approval of the “muezzin bill,” a piece of legislation prohibiting loud noise at places of worship, a Druze Israeli-Arab came out in support of the bill, saying that mosque muezzin speakers disturbs the Arab and Muslim public as well.

TEL AVIV – An Israeli bus company will no longer be making announcements in Arabic on the buses’ PA system in the southern city of Beersheba, following several complaints from Jewish commuters.

TEL AVIV – One-third of the fires raging across the country are suspected to have been caused by arson, Israel police said Sunday.

Amid signs that the wave of wildfires that have blighted Israel since Tuesday was being brought under control, Israeli security officials on Saturday night gave preliminary indications that weather was the prime cause of the initial blazes but that arsonists increasingly jumped on the bandwagon increasingly from Wednesday and into the weekend.

TEL AVIV – An all-Arab unit in the Israeli army is the subject of a controversial new documentary by BBC Arabic, titled “Israel’s Arab Warriors.”

Four people were arrested Tuesday night after they rammed a security barrier at Ben Gurion Airport and two of them then attempted to flee on foot, prompting a chase by security personnel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Tuesday to send “a message to Israeli Arabs: We will respond to every aggression with force. No one will be immune.”

“Sometime after the Six Day War the settlement enterprise began to develop. In your opinion, from a perspective of 50 years later, has the settlement enterprise contributed to or damaged Israel’s national interest?” was one of the opening questions in a June survey comparing the attitudes of Israeli Jews and Arabs on the liberated territories.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Sunday took steps to revoke citizenship from two Arab residents of Jerusalem over their involvement with the Islamic State terror group.

TEL AVIV – Microsoft has launched its latest R&D center in the predominantly Arab Israeli city of Nazareth, 25 years after it opened its doors to the first non-US R&D center in the Jewish state.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli Arab owner of the Columbus, Ohio, restaurant attacked by a machete-wielding Muslim immigrant from West Africa in February expressed his frustration during an interview in Israel this week that U.S. authorities have not labeled the attack an act of Islamic terrorism.

TEL AVIV – Arab MK Haneen Zoabi called on Palestinians to revolt against the Palestinian Authority over its security cooperation with Israel, the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported Monday.

JERUSALEM – Two Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem were charged on Monday with planning an attack on security forces in the city under the banner of the Islamic State. The Jerusalem State Attorney’s Office filed the indictment against Mu’asab Alian, 23, and Samir Abd Rabo, 38, who face charges including, conspiracy to aid an enemy in time of war, membership in a terrorist organization and contact with a foreign agent.

A bill that would bar mosques from broadcasting the call to prayer on loudspeaker systems is set to come before Israel’s Knesset. The Ministerial Committee on Legislation will vote on the bill Sunday, Reuters reported.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The most senior Arab lawmaker in the Knesset told a Saudi-owned satellite television station on Friday that “it’s not my place to tell the Palestinian people how they should resist” Israel. Ayman Odeh, the chairman of the

A Sudanese migrant who stabbed and wounded a soldier in Israel two weeks ago was motivated by Islamic State ideology, the Shin Bet internal security service said on Thursday.It was the first such attack by an African migrant during five

Arutz Sheva reports: The head of the Israeli Fund for UNICEF (The UN Children’s Fund) has condemned the culture of incitement which encourages children to carry out terrorist attacks, as “child abuse.”Jonny Cline, Executive Director of UNICEF’s Israeli Fund, made his

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Interior Ministry has proposed an amendment to the citizenship law that would allow the revocation of the citizenship of Israelis who have “violated their loyalty to the country,” even if they are not located within

USA Today writes: JALJULIA, Israel — Israeli authorities are increasing security measures in Arab communities as a growing number of Muslims are signing up to fight for the Islamic State across Israel’s northern border with Syria.The Shin Bet, Israel’s security agency, estimates that 50 Israeli

TEL AVIV – The New York Times  published an article on Sunday about a revolution taking place in the port city of Haifa that is forging a young, hip, and progressive Arab society.Secular, feminist, and gay-friendly, these Israeli Arabs have found freedom from

The Israeli government on Wednesday approved a plan worth several billion dollars to improve the economic situation of the Arab minority, officials said.Details on how the money will be spent were not immediately available. But a statement from Prime Minister

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Joint (Arab) List MK Ayman Odeh (pictured) refused to address the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Thursday, protesting the fact that the New York offices in which the meeting was to

Sources told The Times of Israel that a Muslim former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier has joined the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group.

TEL AVIV – According to an expert on Arab opinion, 17% of Israeli-Arabs support ISIS, while 57% believe that the Islamic Movement represents them, the Jerusalem Post reported.

TEL AVIV – A ring of Islamic State (IS) supporters were arrested in the Israeli Arab town of Jaljulia, the Shin Bet security forces reported on Wednesday.Their plans to join IS were uncovered when one of them, 23-year-old Nadaal Salah,

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonoough earned raucous cheers from the left-wing activists gathered at J Street’s fifth annual conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday when he attacked Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. “An occupation that has lasted almost 50 years must end,” he said. J Street was founded to disrupt the close U.S.-Israel alliance and to serve as an alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel group.