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The Palestinian Authority prime minister on Monday said ensuring President Donald Trump didn’t win reelection is critical for the Palestinians, Europe and the entire world.

Facebook on Monday announced that it was finally banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.

Israeli actress Gal Gadot is teaming up again with “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins in a new film about the legendary Cleopatra, sparking an outcry on social media with calls for the Egyptian queen to be played by a black or Arab actress.

President Donald Trump shared a tweet describing New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio as “an anti-Semite thug,” and seemed to compare the NYPD’s handling of protests by Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn with scenes of historical Jew hatred.

YouTube has removed the channel of the Nation of Islam, the organization led by notorious anti-Semitic demagogue Louis Farrakhan.

Israel and the UAE’s top diplomats visited the Holocaust Memorial in central Berlin on Tuesday, in a “historic” first meeting between the newly allied foreign ministers. Gabi Ashkenazi and Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan joined German Foreign Minister

Palestinian leaders are “failures” who consistently miss opportunities to resolve the conflict with Israel and who align themselves with despots from Hitler to Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief and ambassador to the United States, Bandar bin Sultan, said in an interview with Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV that aired Monday.

Israel’s chief rabbis as well as the U.S. envoy on Monday prayed for President Donald Trump to recover from COVID-19, using his name during the Sukkot prayers at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.

In a rare diplomatic rebuke Sunday, Israel’s defense minister accused Turkey of destabilizing the region and called on the international community to put pressure on Ankara to “pull their hands from direct terrorism.”

U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, on Sunday warned a Joe Biden victory would have serious consequences for Israel and the Gulf states, especially with regards to Iran.

An Israeli couple stacked up multiple fines after breaking coronavirus regulations over the weekend, including being caught having sex on the beach during a nationwide lockdown. (The copulating couple were also in clear violation of Israel’s 2 meter (6.5 feet) social distancing guidelines.)

In near-identical messages, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wished President Donald Trump a speedy recovery after the US president and his wife, Melania Trump, was diagnosed with COVID-19. “Like millions of Israelis, Sara and

Spiritual advisor to President Donald Trump, Pastor Paula White-Cain, topped the first annual list of Israel’s Top 50 Christian Allies, released Thursday by the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) in honor of the upcoming Jewish festival of Sukkot.

Two days after Jewish Democrats released an ad comparing Trump’s America to Nazi Germany, the Republican Jewish Coalition released two 30-second spots warning of the dangers of voting Joe Biden, his “far-left friends” including Senator Bernie Sanders and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar and their “f—n insane” policies.

A new ad by the Jewish Democratic Council of America comparing President Trump’s America to 1930s Nazi Germany has sparked outrage  — and support — from antisemitism watchdog czars.

A senior Iranian chess official who made headlines after saying she was too afraid to return home following an international championship in which she was caught with her hair uncovered, has revealed she has Jewish roots and has just celebrated her first Jewish New Year in the UK.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “lying” to the United Nations when he exposed what he said was a secret arms depot belonging to the Iranian-backed terror group in a residential area near Beirut’s International Airport.

In his address to the United Nations on Tuesday, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposed a secret arms depot belonging to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in a residential area near Beirut’s International Airport, warning of another devastating explosion and calling on the Lebanese people to protest against the terror group.

Star of the progressive left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has come under fire for withdrawing from an event commemorating late-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, including by Rabin’s own granddaughter who accused the Democratic congress woman of surrendering to populism.

As coronavirus cases in Israel soar — and with them, tensions in the Knesset over whether to tighten restrictions on ongoing anti-government protests — a former Israeli director-general of the Health Ministry on Wednesday warned against the demonstrations, citing a U.S. report that showed a significant spike in infections following the George Floyd protests.

Another U.S.-brokered normalization deal between Israel and an Arab country is expected to be signed in the “next day or two,”  US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said in an interview with Al-Arabiya Wednesday.

President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that more peace deals with Israel, like the U.S.-brokered normalization agreements signed with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, were “coming fast.”

A weapons depot belonging to the Hezbollah terror group in southern Lebanon exploded on Tuesday, sending shockwaves through the nation just weeks after a similar explosion decimated the port of Beirut.

The United States and United Arab Emirates hope to reach an initial agreement on the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Abu Dhabi by early December, the Reuters news agency reported Tuesday.

Israel has surpassed the U.S. in coronavirus cases per capita, according to data released Monday from Johns Hopkins University.

Honduras will relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and Israel will open an embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa by the end of 2020, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement released early Monday.

The first country in the world to do so, Israel imposed a second national lockdown hours before the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.

The Palestinian Authority has instructed Muslim clerics throughout the West Bank to deliver a sermon on Friday warning against the deals signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain this week, saying these “alliances with Jews” amounts to “high treason” and are condemned by Allah himself.

Tuesday’s historic peace ceremony at the White House between Israel and the United Arab Emirates went off the rails for a few cringeworthy moments when an Israeli news anchor attempted to “make peace” on live Emirati TV and failed miserably, in a clip that has since gone viral.

A volley of 13 rockets from Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip were fired at southern Israel before dawn on Wednesday, in apparent response to Israel signing peace deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at a White House ceremony earlier in the evening.

Rockets fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip injured six people Tuesday evening, in what appeared to be in protest over the concurrent signing of the peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain which the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group has called an act of “aggression.”

At least five or six countries are ready to make peace with Israel, President Donald Trump said at a press briefing alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the signing of the historic normalization between the Jewish state, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

The peace accords between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will bring an end to the Israeli-Arab conflict once and for all, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the historic White House signing ceremony.

The Palestinians need to want to help themselves and understand that the normalization deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel will aid their cause if they allowed it to, a senior Emirati diplomat told The Times of Israel ahead of the inking of the deal at a White House ceremony on Tuesday.

Iran is plotting to assassinate the U.S. ambassador to South Africa to avenge the killing of senior Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, the Politico news site reported Sunday.

New legislation against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is being advanced at the Knesset, and would allow Israel to use all means necessary in defending U.S. and Israeli troops from the global tribunal.