TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday charged political rival and former prime minister Ehud Barak with having ties to Jeffrey Epstein a day after the billionaire was arrested in New York on allegations of child sex trafficking.
TEL AVIV – Former president Bill Clinton confessed that he tried to help Shimon Peres win Israel’s general elections in 1996 against Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview on Channel 10 news that aired Tuesday.
The suggestion by Prince Charles that an “influx of foreign, European Jews” was a cause of turmoil in the Middle East has been challenged by a host of dissenting voices.
Israel begins marking one year since the death of former president Shimon Peres this week with memorial events, while the respected statesman’s memoir is also being released.
Actress and singer Barbra Streisand will appear alongside former President Barack Obama in Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres, a forthcoming documentary about the late president and prime minister of Israel.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a meeting of officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” the organization said.
The British royal family has been invited to visit Israel to help mark centenary commemorations of the Balfour Declaration that formally outlined the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
A former top official at Israel’s Foreign Ministry revealed an anecdote from the relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former US President Barack Obama which demonstrates the depth of the antipathy between the two men, in a recent interview.
TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump might be Jewish, a co-founder of Gaza-based terror group Hamas told Al Jazeera in an interview following the U.S. elections.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is looking forward to working with President-elect Donald Trump on “the twin interests of peace and security.”
US Vice President Joe Biden eulogized former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres Thursday as “the conscience and the soul” of Israel.
Washington D.C. — The State Department on Wednesday used the memory of late Israeli President Shimon Peres to condemn an Israeli government decision to build new Jewish homes in the strategic West Bank. The construction plans include a new neighborhood
President Barack Obama on Sunday wished the Jewish people a Shana Tova (Happy New Year) on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, for the final time as President of the United States.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party published a cartoon of late president Shimon Peres heading for hell a day before his funeral, which was attended by Abbas.
A top Hamas official said Saturday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was tantamount to “a Jew” for his participation in the funeral of former president Shimon Peres, Channel 2 News reported.
The White House press office on Friday struck out “Israel” as the country in which Jerusalem is located when distributing a transcript of President Obama’s remarks at the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. An image of the
Barack Obama disparaged the “cynics” who worked by soundbites and polls, praising Shimon Peres for pursuing the arc of history, instead of the politics of the moment.
If not for Shimon Peres’s intervention, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was planning to bomb Iran, the former president revealed confidentially to The Jerusalem Post over two years ago.
TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama has ordered all U.S. flags at the White House and all federal property across the country and abroad to be flown at half-mast memory of late statesman Shimon Peres.
TEL AVIV – A day and a half after the death of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres and not a single Arab leader has said they would join countless world leaders – including President Barack Obama – to attend his funeral.
TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas urged Palestinians to hold a “Day of Rage” on Friday, during the time that former statesman Shimon Peres will be buried in Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Jerusalem band The Portnoy Brothers dedicated a chilling rendition of Dire Straits’ hit “Brothers In Arms” to the memory of late Israeli statesman, Shimon Peres.
TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama and other world leaders will arrive in Israel for the funeral of former prime minister Shimon Peres on Friday, a spokesman for Israel’s foreign ministry said Wednesday.
Israel awakens Wednesday to the sad news that Shimon Peres, a pioneer and president, passed away at the age of 93 after a recent stroke.
Former Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres has passed away at the age of 93 in Israel.
Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres has seen a serious deterioration in his health and was “fighting for his life” Tuesday after suffering a stroke earlier this month, a source close to him said.
President Reuven Rivlin visited the family of his predecessor, Shimon Peres, in the Sheba Medical Center on Saturday night where Peres has remained since his stroke on Tuesday.
Former Israeli president Shimon Peres remained stable Friday morning three days after a major stroke, a spokesman for the 93-year-old said, after the Pope and Donald Trump offered their best wishes.
An Arab Israeli lawmaker has caused an uproar after describing ailing Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres as covered “head to toe” in Palestinian blood.
TEL AVIV – Former President Shimon Peres’ condition remains serious but saw “real improvement” Thursday morning, his physician and son-in-law said.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Doctors treating former Israeli President Shimon Peres for a stroke say his condition has slightly improved. Hospital director Yitzhak Kreiss said Peres’ condition remained serious on Wednesday, 24 hours after he was rushed in for treatment. But he says there has been a “certain improvement” in his neurological functions.
President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and political leaders from across the spectrum united Tuesday in wishing a speedy recovery to former president Shimon Peres, who was hospitalized in serious condition following a massive stroke.
The son of Shimon Peres confirmed Tuesday night that his father was in grave condition after suffering a stroke, asked for prayers on his behalf, and said the coming few hours would be critical.
Israel’s 93-year old former president, Shimon Peres, is reportedly in a medically-induced coma after suffering a severe stroke with internal bleeding.
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Techies are in Israel ahead of a Wednesday event to participate in the TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch Off in Tel Aviv, where some of the best technological minds from Silicon Valley will merge their brainpower with one of the world’s leading nations in innovation and tech.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli ex-president Moshe Katsav, in prison for rape and other sexual offences, has asked the current head of state for a pardon, President Reuven Rivlin’s office said on Sunday.
The Jerusalem Post reports: In June 2014, just prior to the conclusion of his tenure as president, Shimon Peres flew to Rome where he joined Pope Francis and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a united prayer service for peace.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Thursday that the deadly bombings in Brussels are evidence of a new world war, which the Jewish state and other countries must fight together. “We’re in the same boat,” he told Israeli army radio
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
