Israel on Sunday decided to withhold nearly NIS 600 million ($184 million) worth of taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority over its so-called pay-for-slay policy paying terrorists and their families.
Private space company SpaceIL announced Sunday it had raised $70 million to send a second spacecraft to land on the moon, after its antecedent crash landed last year.
The U.S. on Wednesday condemned the Israeli military’s decision to demolish the home of a Palestinian-American terrorist, saying the act, which Israel says has proved to be a deterrent against future attacks, was a form of collective punishment.
President Joe Biden is due to host Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on July 19, marking the first time during this administration a leader from the Middle East will visit the White House.
Reuven Rivlin, who finished his seven-year term as Israel’s president on Wednesday, was able to walk the streets incognito during his incumbency thanks to a heavy disguise supplied by the Shin Bet security agency.
Israel swore in Isaac Herzog as its 11th president on Wednesday, amid the sounds of a shofar and calls of “long live the president.”
In a first, a Moroccan air force plane touched down in Israel to take part in an exercise involving several countries this week, months after the country signed a Trump-brokered deal to normalize relations.
Iran on Tuesday charged Israel with an attack on a nuclear facility near Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported, walking back its claims made at the time that it had thwarted the sabotage.
Israel on Monday said the Pfizer vaccine was significantly less effective in preventing infections of the Delta variant but confirmed it remained highly effective in preventing serious illness.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday made a rare offer to assist Lebanon as it experiences an unprecedented economic crisis, saying it was his responsibility “as a Jew and as a human” to alleviate suffering.
A Jewish man was subjected to abuse and death threats twice within the space of an hour on London’s public transportation, amid a major rise in antisemitic incidents in the UK.
Several female Palestinian journalists were assaulted by Palestinian security forces while reporting on a demonstration against the brutal killing of a prominent critic of Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas, the Haaretz daily reported over the weekend.
A Guardian article published this week about the death of a Palestinian toddler in Gaza during the recent conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group failed to mention the child died from a Hamas rocket that misfired and landed in Gaza and not from an Israeli airstrike.
Israel, which had all but beaten coronavirus last month with confirmed cases dipping lower than a dozen per day, has hit a three month high with more than 300 daily new infections in a 24-hour period as the delta variant sweeps across the country.
The Israeli Mossad has infiltrated Iran’s leadership and all regime officials are potential targets, a former Iranian intelligence minister said on Tuesday.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid officially inaugurated Israel’s embassy in the UAE on Tuesday, thanking former president Donald Trump as well as former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bringing the two countries to this “historic moment.”
A team of specialist search-and-rescue reservists in the Israeli military arrived on Sunday to help locate survivors and recover bodies at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building.
A sabotage attempt on one of the facilities of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization that Iran claimed to have thwarted caused “major damage,” the Jerusalem Post has reported.
An Israeli startup called Beewise is saving honey bees from extinction with the world’s first automated beehive with a robot that protects against infection, diseases and pests.
A prominent critic of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas died on Thursday morning after being beaten by more than two dozen PA security officers in his home while he was asleep, his family said.
Israel on Friday reinstated an indoor mask requirement only a week and a half after scrapping the mandate, as daily coronavirus cases in the country more than tripled in the space of a few days.
Honduras officially moved its embassy to Jerusalem in an inauguration ceremony attended by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and visiting Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, becoming the fourth country to do so.
Movie director and Tel Aviv resident Quentin Tarantino told Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday of all the countries he could have lived in throughout the pandemic, he was glad to have been in Israel because it “handled COVID the best.”
In its ongoing obsession with Adolf Eichmann, the Palestinian Authority’s official daily has extolled a man for naming his child after the infamous Nazi officer in a bid to “anger Zionism.”
Israel on Wednesday reneged on lifting certain coronavirus restrictions amid an outbreak of the Delta variant, as more than a hundred new cases per day were identified for several days in a row – a morbidity rate not seen in months.
A sabotage attempt on one of the facilities of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization failed Wednesday and there were no casualties or damage, Iranian media reported, adding the event is being investigated.
The Chicago Dyke March, which in 2017 came under fire for kicking out Jewish marchers, is promoting its upcoming gay parade with a cartoon showing a scantily clad woman burning the Israeli and American flags.
Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar warned United Nations envoy Tor Wennesland on Monday the terror group would resume violence if Israel failed to allow $30 million in Qatari donations to be transferred to Gaza, Israel’s public broadcaster reported.
Three countries have reached out to Israel to obtain one million vaccines rejected by the Palestinians, the Haaretz daily reported Sunday.
Following the election of Iranian hardliner Ebrahim Raisi as the next Iranian president, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned Sunday against Iran’s “regime of executioners” obtaining a nuclear bomb, adding Raisi’s election should be a “wake up call” for western powers hoping to resuscitate the tattered nuclear deal.
The Palestinian Authority called off an agreement under which Israel would transfer one million doses of coronavirus vaccines to it, citing the close expiration date of the Pfizer vials, despite the Israel Health Ministry’s insistence the vaccines were “perfectly sound” and identical to those administered to Israelis.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told an Israeli newspaper while President Joe Biden seemed to express the “right words” of support for Israel during the recent war with the Hamas terror group, his actions, including releasing money to the Palestinians, told a different story.
Iran’s failure to answer questions about the discovery of uranium particles at former undeclared sites in the country puts its claims about the “peaceful nature” of its nuclear program into question, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has said.
Israel became the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur to the fashion industry on Wednesday, in a move hailed by animal rights group PETA as a “historic victory.”
The former head of Israel’s space program died on Sunday, succumbing to wounds inflicted when Arab rioters torched the hotel he was staying at in Acre, during deadly rioting that erupted last month in mixed Arab-Jewish cities.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday ordered the family of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered two Israelis be paid $42,000 and gifted new houses after their home was demolished by the Israeli military.
Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden for critiquing Israel even while it was being attacked with thousands of terror rockets from the Hamas terror group in Gaza.
Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar over the weekend said his terror group had only shown half its strength during the recent 11-day war with Israel, but still claimed to turn Tel Aviv “into a rag.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday slammed the new emerging coalition that will unseat him from power as “dangerous and leftwing,” and accused his political rival Naftali Bennett, who will succeed him as prime minister, of “selling out.”
Benjamin Netanyahu’s former aide, Naftali Bennett, is on track to replace him as prime minister after Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid announced the formation of a unity government on Wednesday.
