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TEL AVIV – A Palestinian man who received death threats because he saved the children of a West Bank rabbi after the latter had been killed in a terror attack was awarded Israeli residency Tuesday. 

TEL AVIV – Israel on Sunday unveiled three prototypes of its “tanks of the future” that may eventually replace Merkavas

TEL AVIV – A delegation of some 41 House Democrats led by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer flew to Israel Monday, defying efforts by radical left-wing groups to persuade the lawmakers to nix the AIPAC-linked trip. 

TEL AVIV – Palestinian rioters raised a Nazi swastika along with a Palestinian flag during the weekly Gaza border riots on Friday, where some 6,000 protesters gathered — many of whom threw rocks, firebombs and explosive devices at IDF forces.

TEL AVIV – A majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza oppose the Palestinian leadership’s sight-unseen rejection of the Trump-administration’s peace plan and would prefer a “wait-and-see” approach, according to a new poll by the Palestine Center for Public Opinion led by Dr. Nabil Kukali.

TEL AVIV – Legendary singer Lionel Richie is in the crosshairs of radical leftist group Code Pink after he blocked the organization on Twitter over its campaign calling on him to cancel his upcoming concert in “apartheid” Israel.

TEL AVIV – The next war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip will be shorter but harsher than 2014’s Operation Protective Edge, and will deal a “massive blow” to terror groups in the coastal enclave, the military said Thursday.  

TEL AVIV – While not explicitly endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Tuesday said the Trump administration’s long-anticipated peace proposal promotes “Palestinian autonomy” and “civilian self governance.”

TEL AVIV – Switzerland and the Netherlands have suspended payments the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees after a leaked internal report alleged corruption, sexual misconduct and mismanagement at the agency’s highest levels. 

TEL AVIV – In a move that has been blasted as illegal by critics, Canada’s Federal Court on Monday ruled that Israeli wines from West Bank settlements can no longer be labeled “Made in Israel.”

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s Special Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt has demanded a full UN investigation into its agency for Palestinian refugees after an internal ethics report leaked Monday alleged corruption, sexual misconduct and mismanagement at the highest levels of the agency. 

TEL AVIV – In a case that has roiled Israel, a British tourist was remanded in custody Monday after being arrested the day before on suspicion of falsely accusing 12 Israeli teenagers of gang-rape in Cyprus. 

TEL AVIV – A day after a CNN photojournalist resigned over a tweet referring to “Zionist pigs,” another CNN staffer issued an apology for offensive tweets, including one that said, “I love you Hitler.”

TEL AVIV – Israel, the only country in the Middle East where women have full and equal rights, was the only country singled out for allegedly violating women’s and human rights in two resolutions voted on at the United Nations.

TEL AVIV — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said over the weekend that his country would oppose anyone who supports Israel. 

TEL AVIV – The Palestinians pose a “greater existential threat to the Jewish state of Israel than Iran and Syria,” the director of a Philadelphia-based think tank told Breitbart in a wide-ranging interview on the heels of a new poll that shows the overwhelming majority of Israelis (78%) do not see an end to the conflict in sight. 

TEL AVIV – The U.S. on Wednesday blocked an attempt to call on the UN Security Council to issue a formal condemnation of Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes constructed illegally near Jerusalem earlier this week, diplomats said. 

TEL AVIV – A large 3,500-year-old staircase has been discovered in Israel’s Upper Galilee region at the Tel Hazor excavation site and is believed to have been part of the Canaanite Hazor kingdom that was famously conquered by the Israelites, as recounted in the book of Joshua. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday met with a delegation of journalists from Arab countries, including a well-known Saudi blogger who was attacked by Palestinians in Jerusalem the day before. 

TEL AVIV – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday opposing boycotts of Israel after some Democrats expressed concern last week that the measure could cause infighting within the party leading up to the 2020 election.

TEL AVIV – Israeli commuters on the Tel Aviv highway were greeted on Monday by a giant billboard of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a pair of Speedos, wearing a lei and carrying a suitcase full of cash. 

TEL AVIV – A well-known Saudi blogger who is in Israel at the behest of its Foreign Ministry was attacked, cursed and spat on by Palestinians during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday.

TEL AVIV – Former NBA star Lamar Odom visited the New York burial site of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, along with his two children. 

TEL AVIV – A senior Likud minister on Sunday boasted that Israel is the only country in the world that has been “killing Iranians.”

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump on Sunday congratulated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for David Ben-Gurion as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister.

TEL AVIV – Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri said in Tehran on Sunday that Hamas and Iran are on “the same path” in fighting Israel, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer said Israel would allow BDS-supporting Representatives, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, to visit “out of respect for Congress.” 

TEL AVIV – Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that a delegation of senior officials from the terror group had arrived in Tehran for an unspecified purpose that would lead to “important results.”

TEL AVIV – Forty-four percent of young Europeans Jews have been the victim of anti-Semitic incidents in the past year and almost half of them choose not to wear items of clothing identified with Judaism out of fear for their safety, a new European Union report found.

TEL AVIV – The parents of a 15-year-old girl who was killed in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem in 2001 are calling on Congress to investigate why the terrorist behind the attack – Hamas’ first ever female jihadist – remains free in Jordan with her family and has not been extradited to the U.S.

TEL AVIV – Amid condemnation against Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s pro-BDS resolution in Congress, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will need to decide whether to allow the two congresswomen to enter Israel and the West Bank next month, Haaretz reported Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The IDF on Wednesday wrapped up a large-scale exercise simulating war in the Gaza Strip days after the ruling Hamas terror group launched a snap drill simulating the capture of Israeli special forces. 

TEL AVIV – A Likud minister close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of Jew-hatred amid continuing probes into the British opposition party over its failure to deal with antisemitism. 

TEL AVIV – Justice Minister Amir Ohana, who is the Knesset’s first openly gay minister, slammed Luxembourg’s prime minister, who is also gay, for boycotting an Israeli event in protest over an anti-gay comment made by Israel’s education minister while at the same time welcoming Iran’s foreign minister who has defended the execution of gay Iranians. 

TEL AVIV – Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has acknowledged that he visited disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan residences and private Caribbean island but insisted that he never attended sex parties and was never with Epstein in the presence of women or young girls. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said European leaders will only wake up to the Iranian threat when a nuclear bomb lands on them.