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TEL AVIV – More than 20 senior officials from the Arab-Israeli party Balad were arrested Sunday on suspicion of the illegal transfer of millions of shekels in donations to the party’s coffers.

TEL AVIV – Israel has begun construction on a new $530 million barrier along the length of its 37-mile border with the Gaza Strip to be built both above and below ground, aimed at preventing Hamas from building underground terror tunnels into the country.

TEL AVIV – The British government has suspended all taxpayer monies from being channeled to U.S.-based Christian charity World Vision after it emerged that the funds for its Gaza branch were being siphoned to Hamas for terror purposes.

TEL AVIV – The indictment of a Hamas operative from Jerusalem accused of funneling funds to the Gaza-based terror group through a foreign agent in Turkey has exposed many aspects of Hamas’ financial finagling, Israeli authorities said on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – A chilling picture of Hamas-run “summer camps” has emerged from the Gaza Strip showing children as young as three-years-old joining terror training recreations designed “to liberate Palestine from the Zionist occupation.”

TEL AVIV – The United Nations Development Program said Tuesday it was “greatly concerned” by Israel’s allegation that one of its employees was assisting the Hamas terror group.

TEL AVIV – The charges that millions of charity dollars were diverted to Hamas is only a tiny example of the immense abuse of humanitarian funds meant for Gaza residents that is instead being used to fund Islamists’ terror activities in the Gaza Strip, a senior Knesset member who is also the former head of the Shin Bet security agency said Monday.

TEL AVIV – Hamas illegally siphoned off tens of millions of dollars of aid money from the U.S. and Europe to build terror tunnels and fund weapons purchases, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday.

TEL AVIV – Islamic Jihad, a Gaza-based terror group, unveiled its newest rocket at the annual family festival “Bond of Blood” festival on Thursday, Palestinian news website Donia al-Watan reported.

TEL AVIV – Hamas digs more than six miles of tunnels leading into Israel each month, a problem for which there is no perfect solution, Israeli officials said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – In the latest act of farce in the Palestinian Authority’s theater of the absurd, the PA’s chief peace negotiator slammed Israel over the death of a Hamas terrorist responsible for murdering a prominent rabbi at the beginning of the month.

TEL AVIV –The interim head of Israel’s National Security Council revealed on Tuesday that the terms of the reconciliation deal with Turkey had been agreed on five years ago. Yaacov Nagel said the agreement to restore diplomatic ties was the

The High Court gave the go-ahead Sunday for the Israel Defense Forces to demolish the homes of the two Palestinian terrorists accused of carrying out a shooting attack in central Tel Aviv last month, killing four people and injuring 41.

TEL AVIV – The IDF is gearing up to defend a multi-pronged attack whereby several Hamas militants will emerge simultaneously from underground tunnels into Israel, Arutz Sheva reported.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman ordered a halt to the practice of returning West Bank Palestinian attackers’ bodies to their families for burial on Thursday, a day after two Palestinian terrorists killed four people and wounded 16 in a shooting attack in central Tel Aviv.

The Times of Israel reports: The umbrella group of French Jewish communities objected to the planned marketing at Cannes of a film it said falsely blames German security forces for the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes held hostage by Palestinian

The Times of Israel reports: The army awarded Staff Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, who was killed in a terror attack earlier this year, one of its highest honors Tuesday for representing a “shining example of IDF values.”

TEL AVIV – Euronews published a misleading headline that read, “Israeli troops shoot dead driver of rammed car,” referring to a Palestinian terrorist who drove his vehicle on Tuesday evening into three soldiers in the West Bank.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week confirmed that the Palestinian Authority is continuing its policy of paying salaries to jailed terrorists, despite having previously claimed that it ceased to do so.

Ynetnews reports: IDF troops shelled Hamas military posts in the Gaza Strip for three times on Wednesday in response to mortar shell fire at forces operating near the border fence.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday drew parallels with Israel’s “labeling” of Palestinians terrorists and Nazi Germany’s similar designation of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising fighters.

Sgt. Elor Azaria, an IDF soldier charged with manslaughter after shooting dead a neutralized Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, was released from detention on Friday morning.

JAFFA, Israel – The Palestinian Authority arrested three men suspected of plotting to carry out an attack in Israel, leading to a backlash on social media. The three suspects, who were reported missing by their families, were arrested after an eight-day manhunt. The

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 – The bodies of Palestinian terrorists will no longer be returned to their families, in accordance with a new policy set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu on Monday ordered Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to halt the transfer of terrorists’

The Times of Israel reports: Top Israeli military officials on Saturday night rejected assertions that a soldier who shot an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the head was right to do so as he feared the man could be wearing an

Two Palestinians who attacked an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday were shot dead by troops at the scene, the military said in a statement. Footage filmed by a bystander moments after the attack

Hamas staged major military exercises Tuesday to test its readiness in the event of another Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has been ravaged by three wars since 2008. The exercises involving 1,000 police and emergency services personnel were

TEL AVIV – Psychological disorders are a recurring phenomenon behind attacks by Palestinian “lone wolf” terrorists – many of whom enter Israel legally using a family reunification law, Israeli security agency Shin Bet said on Wednesday.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The military wing of Islamic Jihad, operating in Gaza, released a propaganda video Tuesday night threatening IDF soldiers in response to the recent “Israeli escalation” in the Gaza Strip. The minute and a half long video, titled

Three Palestinians carried out two attacks — a shooting and a car-ramming — on Israelis in the southern occupied West Bank on Monday before they were shot dead, the Israeli army said. “Two assailants opened fire at pedestrians waiting at

The Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds chose International Women’s Day as the perfect occasion to hail the work of female terrorists. The paper said they should be lauded as examples of the full flowering of Palestinian womenhood.

TEL AVIV – Superintendent Micky Rosenfeld, foreign press spokesman for the Israel Police, says he does not believe there is any connection between the increase in attacks in the last 24 hours and Vice President Joe Biden’s visit here at the same

The Times of Israel reports: Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday night pledged “total, unvarnished commitment” to the security of Israel, having arrived in the country in the midst of a spate of terror attacks. Biden landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in

Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency said Sunday it had arrested a Palestinian for recruiting Palestinians in Egypt who were trained in Gaza before being sent to the West Bank. The agency said Mohammed Nazal, 33, from the northern West

A Palestinian man was arrested Saturday near Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs in possession of a knife. Border Police officers stationed at the religious site were alerted by the 19-year-old and found a blade on his person. The suspect was taken