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TEL AVIV – A carnival troupe danced through the streets of a Spanish town dressed like Nazis and Jewish concentration camp prisoners next to a float made to look like crematoria, sparking outrage from Israel’s embassy in Madrid and Jewish groups. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed Israel would do whatever is needed to prevent an economic crisis spurred by the coronavirus outbreak.

TEL AVIV – A Republican Jewish group has announced its intention to air an anti-Bernie Sanders ad during the next Democratic debate on Tuesday describing a vote in favor of the presidential hopeful as “insane.” 

TEL AVIV – The coronavirus could cause up to a one percent drop in Israel’s GDP, according to Finance Ministry estimates released Monday, as the epidemic starts to pummel the global economy.

TEL AVIV – Amid fresh rocket barrages from Gaza on Monday, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned terror groups the IDF has new “surprises” in store if the rocket fire continues.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday told media personality Mark Levin his political rival Benny Gantz was putting on “one big con” when he expressed support for Donald Trump’s peace plan, citing the Blue and White leader’s

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned against attempts to tamper with the electoral process ahead of next week’s poll through the dissemination of false reports about coronavirus. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday challenged his main political rival, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, to a rare election debate ahead of the March 2 elections. 

TEL AVIV – The Gaza-based Hamas terror group has warned Israel it would respond to any assassination attempts against its leaders by sending barrages of rockets towards Tel Aviv, Hebrew media reported Thursday.

TEL AVIV – Israeli businesses appealed to the government to set up a “financial safety net” for enterprises negatively impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, an industry representative body said.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli government is “rightwing and racist” and the U.S. cannot just support the Jewish state while ignoring the Palestinians, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Tuesday during a CNN town hall event in Las Vegas.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that an Israeli plane made a historic first flight over Sudan only two weeks after he met with the Arab state’s leader in Uganda.

TEL AVIV – Several Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sites in Syria have sustained massive damage or else have been destroyed entirely by airstrikes last week attributed to Israel, new images released Monday by satellite imagery firm ImageSat International (ISI) show.

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his newly tapped candidate for finance minister, Likud MK Nir Barkat, on Sunday unveiled a wide-ranging financial plan that includes more hospitals and cheaper housing and food, set to be put into place if Likud wins next month’s elections. 

TEL AVIV – The IDF foiled a honeypot network with false social media profiles of attractive young women created by the Hamas terror group and designed to dupe IDF soldiers, the third such operation in as many years. 

TEL AVIV – A delegation of 55 major U.S. Jewish leaders traveled to Saudi Arabia last week in what was hailed as a “big step forward” in the kingdom’s warming ties with Israel. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish

TEL AVIV – Hundreds of worshipers gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday to pray for the recovery of people afflicted by coronavirus and to ask God to stop the outbreak of the disease.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas once again had the opportunity to show off his polished skills in the art of double-speak in his address to the United Nations Wednesday. It was, to wit, classic Abbas: brimming with non-sequiturs, misinformation and outright lies.

TEL AVIV – The United Nations on Wednesday published its long-anticipated blacklist of more than 100 Israeli businesses that operate in West Bank settlements.

TEL AVIV – Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets Tuesday to protest President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled peace plan amid a failed bid by the Palestinians to pass a UN resolution opposing the plan. 

TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian official who was the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned that Iran is just looking for an excuse to “raze Tel Aviv to the ground,” accusing Israel of helping the U.S. in its assassination of top commander Qassem Soleimani.

TEL AVIV – The map featured in President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled peace plan for a Palestinian state side by side with Israel is nothing more than “Swiss cheese,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday in a damning condemnation of the proposal which he said obliterated Palestinian rights. 

TEL AVIV – Israel and the U.S. will work together to combat Iranian terror in the Middle East, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said following a trip to the U.S., with the task being divvied up so that Jerusalem will work to curb Iran’s entrenchment in Syria while Washington will combat the Islamic Republic’s presence in Iraq.

TEL AVIV – Rabble-rousing Arab Al Jazeera presenter Faisal al-Qassem told his millions of Twitter followers Israel is the most successful project of the 20th and 21st centuries, sparking an uproar on the social media platform.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called on main political rival Blue and White leader Benny Gantz to fire two senior advisers for past comments comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Sunday expressed his opposition to any “unilateral” decision by Israel to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank, saying such a move would endanger the recently unveiled peace plan. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned Gaza-based terror groups that Israel would take “crushing action” if the rocket and incendiary balloon attacks continue.

JERUSALEM – An animated video mimicking real-life murders by Palestinian terrorists is making the rounds on a social network popular with children, watchdog Palestinian Media Watch reported.

TEL AVIV – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s “foolish” peace plan will “die” before the American leader does.

TEL AVIV – In a bid to curb the coronavirus outbreak, Israel’s health ministry on Monday said anyone returning from a trip to China must self-impose a 14-day quarantine. Employers would also be penalized if they attempted to force people to come back to work during that time. 

TEL AVIV – Israel and the Muslim-Arab country of Sudan will begin normalizing ties, Israeli officials said after leaders of both countries met in Uganda, in a move that has been denounced as a “stab in the back” by the Palestinians. 

TEL AVIV – The European Union has announced it will not accept any Israeli attempt to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank, following President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled peace plan which supports Israeli sovereignty in those areas. 

TEL AVIV – Avigdor Liberman, who single-handedly led the country to the voting booths three times within a year over his vehement opposition to draft exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox, was the subject of an exposé published Monday that found he had issued hundreds of exemptions to yeshiva students while serving as defense minister.

TEL AVIV – The Arab League on Saturday unanimously rejected President Donald Trump’s unveiled peace plan, prompting a senior White House official to predict the Palestinians’ fate will never change.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced he was cutting all ties with both the U.S. and Israel in response to President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled peace plan, including security coordination in the West Bank. 

TEL AVIV  – Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat on Thursday charged the Trump administration’s peace proposal with being a “copy paste” of a deal offered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2012, and added that the recently unveiled plan is essentially President Donald Trump’s and Netanyahu’s saying “you lost, we won.”