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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the likely next Speaker of the House, is trying to reassure Jewish groups after several newly-elected Democrats have vowed openly to support “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” (BDS) against Israel.

The Shin Bet security service on Thursday said it recently uncovered a Hamas terror network in the West Bank that was acting on orders from the group’s leaders in Gaza, with plans to conduct large-scale bombing attacks against targets in the West Bank and Israel.

Four attorneys filed a class action suit against Airbnb in Jerusalem District Court on Thursday to protest the US-based company’s decision to drop listings in West Bank settlements from its vacation rental website that hosts ads from 191 countries.

TEL AVIV – A song called “Delete Airbnb” composed by a Jerusalem-based band in protest over the vacation rental giant’s decision to delist Israeli-owned properties in the West Bank went viral before being removed by Facebook without an explanation, the band has claimed.

Airbnb has fueled the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement when the company announced on Monday that it will cease to list Israeli homes in the West Bank.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — A local Palestinian police chief has been suspended for helping Israeli soldiers fix a flat tire in the West Bank.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his vow Saturday to thwart President Donald Trump’s upcoming peace proposal and pledged to continue paying convicted terrorists and their families.

An Israeli soldier was lightly injured in an apparent stabbing attack in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday morning, the army said.

Prosecutors filed an indictment Monday against a Palestinian teen who stabbed to death an Israeli-American father of four outside a West Bank supermarket last month, the army said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has frozen plans to demolish a strategically located Bedouin village in the West Bank that has drawn the world’s attention, his office said Sunday.

The State Department announced Thursday that it would bring its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians under the auspices of the US Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, marking an implicit downgrading of the facility’s status and a fresh blow to its already strained ties with the Palestinians.

An American citizen has reportedly been arrested by the Palestinian Authority over suspicion he was involved in selling property to Jews in eastern Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – In another departure from past policy, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attended a business forum in an official capacity in the West Bank settlement town of Ariel, the first such visit from a U.S. government representative.

A government study shared with Washington argues that Palestinian refugees number in the thousands, not the millions designated by a UN aid agency whose funding has been slashed by the Trump administration, an Israeli official said on Friday.

The suspect in the stabbing of an army reservist outside an Israel Defense Forces base in the northern West Bank has been arrested following a manhunt, the Shin Bet security service announced Thursday night, hours after the attack.

TEL AVIV – Hundreds of mourners gathered Sunday night for the funeral of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, an Israeli mother of a toddler, who was tied up and shot at close range in a terror attack earlier in the day.

Eyewitnesses to Sunday’s terror attack at a factory in the Barkan industrial area near the West Bank city of Ariel described the scene to the Israeli media, including a man who fired at the fleeing suspect.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will reportedly cut financial aid to the beleaguered Gaza Strip in protest over Qatar’s decision to circumvent the PA and send funds directly to the Hamas-run coastal enclave.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli army has launched a large-scale manhunt for the Palestinian terrorist who shot two Israelis dead at close range at an industrial park in the West Bank on Sunday.

Three people were shot and wounded Sunday morning, two of them critically, in a terror attack at the Barkan Industrial Park in the northern West Bank.

An 8-year-old Palestinian boy threw a knife at an IDF soldier at a checkpoint near Route 443 in the West Bank before fleeing the scene on Thursday afternoon. No injuries were reported and the IDF troops searched the area to locate the child.

TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that President Donald Trump understands and accepts that under a two-state solution, which the U.S. president endorsed for the first time that day, Israel would still retain security control of the West Bank.

Israel will deduct tax revenues it collects for the Palestinian Authority by the amount paid to a Palestinian teenager who stabbed an Israeli man to death, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said Friday.

TEL AVIV – Thousands of mourners gathered in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion around midnight for the funeral of an Israeli-American father of four who was stabbed in a terror attack Sunday.

Ari Fuld, a popular U.S.-born activist and outspoken Israel advocate, has been identified as the victim of a Palestinian terror attack Sunday.

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian attacker stabbed an Israeli civilian to death Sunday at a busy mall in the West Bank.

A new poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research revealed that one-third of all Palestinians and one-half of Gazans want to emigrate.

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has downplayed the chances that a future president could reverse Washington’s decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the city as capital.

TEL AVIV – The Jordanian government on Sunday rejected a U.S. peace proposal comprising the creation of a Palestinian-Jordanian confederation that was said to have been presented to the Palestinians.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Friday it is cutting nearly $300 million in planned funding for the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees, and that it would no longer fund the agency after decades of support. Instead, it said it would seek other channels by which to aid the Palestinians.

TEL AVIV – Money funneled to the Palestinian Authority “does not provide value to the U.S. taxpayer,” a State Department spokesperson said Tuesday, following a decision to cut more than $200 million in aid to the government in Ramallah.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is calling on Middle Eastern nations to increase aid to Palestinian refugees.

In a dramatic move vastly expanding previously announced foreign aid cuts, the Trump administration has reportedly decided to end all funding to UNRWA, the international body’s agency responsible for Palestinian humanitarian assistance.

TEL AVIV – The IDF on Tuesday razed the home of a Palestinian terrorist who killed an Israeli man in a stabbing attack last month, the Defense Ministry said, adding that rioting Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs at soldiers involved in the demolition.

Palestinian security forces this week thwarted a West Bank bombing attack against Israeli soldiers intended to hamper ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the Ynet news site reported Friday.

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday re-floated a controversial idea to transfer jurisdiction of certain Arab-Israeli towns to a future Palestinian state.