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TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received approval from President Donald Trump before a massive intelligence mission last year in which some 100,000 documents on Iran’s nuclear program were smuggled out of a warehouse near Tehran by Mossad agents, Israeli television reported Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warned Iran to “get out of Syria” unless it wanted to continue being attacked by Israel.

TEL AVIV — Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has come under fire for posing for a photo with an anti-Israel extremist and staunch supporter of the Hezbollah terror group at a swearing-in ceremony over the weekend.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump threatened Turkey Sunday that he would “devastate it economically” if it attacks Kurdish troops following the US’ withdrawal from Syria.

TEL AVIV – A senior American official said Monday during a visit to Lebanon that the U.S. will ramp up efforts to counter Iran’s “dangerous” activities in the region and that the presence of Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah was “unacceptable.”

TEL AVIV – IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot warned Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ most powerful commander, Qassem Soleimani, that he and his Quds Force were endangering their future by attempting to entrench themselves militarily in Syria.

TEL AVIV – The IDF on Sunday announced the end of its northern operation to find and destroy cross-border tunnels with the discovery of a sixth attack tunnel dug by Lebanon-based terror group, Hezbollah. 

TEL AVIV – The head of the Shin Bet security service warned this week that massive Chinese investments in Israel could pose a danger to the country’s national security, a local news station reported Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that as the world leader in cyber warfare Israel was the best equipped country to deal with potential election hacks.

TEL AVIV – An Arab Israeli man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for planning to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on behalf of a Syria-based terrorist group.

2018 was a banner year for Israel-Africa relations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of a “great change” heralding blossoming ties between the Jewish state and African nations. But while the political elites were enmeshed in a diplomatic drive, another – no less important – effort was being made to forge connections on a cultural level.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to withdraw troops from Syria will not thwart Washington’s plans to fight the threat posed by Iran in the region, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – A foreign country “intends to intervene” in Israeli elections in April using cyberattacks, the Shin Bet chief revealed Tuesday according to Hadashot TV news.

TEL AVIV –  Israeli security forces arrested a Palestinian suspected of killing two IDF soldiers outside the West Bank settlement of Givat Asaf last month, Israel’s Shin Bet security services said Tuesday morning.

TEL AVIV – The new party formed by Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announced on Tuesday that activist Shirley Pinto will be joining the New Right party’s list as the first-ever deaf Knesset candidate.

TEL AVIV – Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), said on Monday that a “significant” number of Democrats in the Senate support the boycott movement against Israel. 

In a self-styled “dramatic” address to the nation Monday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took Israel’s judiciary to task on a number of counts.

TEL AVIV – Three delegations from Iraq have reportedly made trips to Israel in recent months, holding meetings with Israeli officials and academics, visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and meeting with experts in the field of Iraqi Jewish heritage.

TEL AVIV – The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem has slammed the city’s plans to lower the volume of muezzins, or call to prayer, in the capital’s Muslim neighborhoods, saying anyone who doesn’t like it can “leave.” 

TEL AVIV – The Egyptian military destroyed 37 cross-border tunnels between the Sinai Peninsula and the blockaded Gaza Strip over the past year, a statement released by the army said. 

TEL AVIV – Israel is expected to demand $250 billion in compensation from eight Arab countries as well as Iran for assets left by Jews who fled or were expelled from those countries after the State of Israel was founded.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian Authority court in Ramallah on Monday sentenced Issam Akel, a Palestinian-American resident of eastern Jerusalem, to life in prison with hard labor for his involvement in the sale of land to Israeli Jews in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Brazilian Jewish leaders on Sunday that Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro revealed moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was a matter of “when, not if.”

TEL AVIV – Jordan’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday said despite the fact that a Jordanian government spokeswoman was photographed stepping on an Israeli flag, the Hashemite kingdom is committed to respecting its peace agreement with Israel.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to be living it up during a state visit to Brazil, and was caught on camera dining in Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana, being swamped by fans on the beach, and even engaging in an impromptu round of soccer. 

TEL AVIV – Ahead of the withdrawal of American troops in Syria, U.S. commanders have proposed that Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State terror group be allowed to keep U.S.-supplied weapons, U.S. officials told Reuters.

TEL AVIV – Education Minister Naftali Bennett and leader of the Jewish Home and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked on Saturday announced they were quitting the party to set up a new secular-religious platform called HaYamin HeHadash (“The New Right”).

TEL AVIV – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has blamed a tweet praising a Palestinian terrorist as being the result of “brief, unauthorized access” of its official Twitter account. 

TEL AVIV – Roseanne Barr, the eponymous star of the recently nixed TV show, will visit Israel and deliver an address at the Knesset against the BDS movement next month. 

TEL AVIV – Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz turned down an offer from Zionist Union chief Avi Gabbay to take over as head of the opposition, Israeli media reported Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Several senior Hezbollah terror leaders were hit by an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria Tuesday night as they boarded a plane bound for Iran, Newsweek reported Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – Iranian cargo planes linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were reportedly sighted at an airport in Damascus around the time of an alleged Israeli airstrike that may have targeted several senior Hezbollah terror leaders.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have tried in vain to persuade President Donald Trump to walk back his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, a move that was met with significant “disappointment” in Jerusalem, Israeli media reported. 

TEL AVIV – Israel is launching a government-wide initiative to encourage as many as 200,000 French Jews to immigrate to Israel, Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett announced Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – In its 2018 budget, the Palestinian Authority earmarked $340 million — around seven percent of its total budget — for annual payments to security prisoners, terrorist “martyrs” and their families, a new report published by a Jerusalem-based think tank found. 

TEL AVIV – Republican senators Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton proposed a resolution on Tuesday calling for the U.S. to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.