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TEL AVIV – Senior Likud official Gideon Sa’ar is the latest Israeli political figure to have his phone hacked, according to a report by the Kan public broadcaster on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft finally entered lunar orbit over the weekend, and the SpaceIL team celebrated by releasing jaw-dropping photographs captured by the spacecraft of the far side of the moon. The images were taken about 470 km

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed over the weekend to annex West Bank settlements if he is reelected in Tuesday’s elections. The incumbent prime minister also said he had told President Donald Trump that would not evacuate “a single person” from the 400,000 or so Jews residing in the West Bank. 

TEL AVIV – Thirty-seven years after he was killed, an Israeli soldier whose body was found after a decades-long intelligence mission was due to be buried in Jerusalem on Thursday evening. 

TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin’s wife Nechama was in stable condition Wednesday morning but remained sedated and on a respirator after a sudden deterioration in her condition the previous evening.

TEL AVIV – Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Tuesday said there was not enough evidence to prove unsubstantiated claims that a network of pro-Netanyahu social media accounts were funded by the ruling Likud party.

TEL AVIV – The leader of the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group said Tuesday that three rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into central Israel were a “mistake,” but added that they demonstrated what Hamas would do intentionally in a future conflict.

TEL AVIV – With Iran’s aid, Lebanese-based terror group Hezbollah has built a new missile manufacturing facility in Beirut, Israeli intelligence sources said according to a report by Israel’s Channel 13 aired Monday.

TEL AVIV – Pink Floyd front man and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions fiend Roger Waters was furious when he found out Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry had punked him with an April Fools joke announcing a summer gig in Tel Aviv. 

TEL AVIV – The mud-slinging between the two main parties vying for election victory next week continued Monday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Blue and White party of seeing Likud voters as “bots” rather than “real people,” amid reports of fake pro-Netanyahu Twitter accounts.

TEL AVIV – Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main election rival said he is “not sure” about any of the three senior partners in his party, in a bombshell recording leaked to the Israeli press.

TEL AVIV – A majority of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will beat his main political rival Benny Gantz in April’s elections and serve another term, tie David Ben-Gurion and become the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history, a new poll aired Monday showed.

TEL AVIV – A 2,600 bulla (seal impression) and a stamp dating back to the First Temple era bearing Hebrew inscriptions have been uncovered as part of archaeological excavations at the City of David’s Givati Parking Lot in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro professed his love for Israel in Hebrew as he was greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, at Ben-Gurion airport Sunday after landing in the country for a two day visit. 

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is slated to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Washington on April 9 to discuss “strengthening the strategic partnership between the United States and Egypt, and building on our robust military, economic and counter-terrorism cooperation,” a statement from the White House said. 

TEL AVIV – Israeli officials slammed the European Union over its “shameful” rejection of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights, despite President Donald Trump signing an order of recognition earlier this week.

TEL AVIV –  At least seven Iran-affiliated militia fighters are said to have been killed in an airstrike attributed to Israel on an Iranian base near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Thursday. 

JERUSALEM –  Despite initially claiming that the rocket launched from Gaza that leveled a private home in central Israel on Monday was a “mistake” and that Hamas had “no interest” in firing projectiles at Israel, the terror group’s official TV station continued to air calls to murder Israelis, telling Palestinians to “scatter the enemies’ body parts, make the skulls fly in the sky.”

TEL AVIV – The IDF poked fun at Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, urging him not to forget to update the Israeli military as to the location of his new headquarters after an IAF strike saw the terror leader’s current offices leveled. 

TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted the rise of global anti-Semitism, saying the brand of Jew-hatred tolerated by the UK’s Labour Party was a “national disgrace” while the anti-Semitism occuring in the Middle East was a “cancer metastasizing.” He also said anti-Zionism is tantamount to Jew-hatred.

TEL AVIV – More than 60 rockets were fired at Israel’s south overnight Tuesday from the Gaza Strip, despite an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, with Israel retaliating by striking dozens of terror targets in the coastal enclave. 

TEL AVIV – Hamas is to blame for the rocket attack on central Israel that injured seven civilians, the IDF said, even as the Gaza-ruling terror group flatly denied the charge. 

TEL AVIV – Three children — a year-and-a-half, three-years-old and twelve-year-old — were among the seven injured in Monday morning’s rocket attack on a residential building in central Israel which saw the building leveled. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut his trip to the United States short on Monday after a rocket fired from Gaza hit a private home in central Israel earlier that day, injuring seven people including two infants. 

TEL AVIV – An Iranian ayatollah who is a close ally of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei claimed that the Islamic Republic has managed to hack the cellphones of Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu’s “family,” according to a report by Radio Farda. 

TEL AVIV – Romania on Sunday announced its plans to follow the U.S. and move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – The Likud party is predicted to win the most seats in Israel’s upcoming elections, a poll published Sunday showed, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling party narrowly beating the newcomer Blue and White party by a margin of 31-30.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian teenage girl who tried to sneak a knife into the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday was detained by security forces, police said.

TEL AVIV – Former prime minister Ehud Barak is the latest victim to have his phone hacked by Iran, the head of the Shin Bet said. 

TEL AVIV – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “twist the ear” of his son Yair to punish him for calling Istanbul by its former name of Constantinople. “You should twist the

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has claimed that Iran is meddling in the upcoming Israeli elections by pushing for the ouster of the current government in favor of one run by the newcomer Blue and White party. 

TEL AVIV – The President of California’s Pitzer College said he ignore a motion voted on by staff last week in favor of suspending a study abroad program in Israel.

TEL AVIV – Former NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire was granted Israeli citizenship on Wednesday. 

TEL AVIV –  Convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh has been given entry into Germany in order to speak at a BDS event in Berlin on Friday, drawing ire from Israel’s ambassador to Germany.

TEL AVIV — A bill that would define anti-Semitism as racism, bar religion-based discrimination at schools and universities as well the demonization of Israel was unanimously approved by the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump retweeted a post by model Elizabeth Pipko, a spokesperson from Jexodus — the group that bills itself as encouraging young Jews to abandon the Democratic party.