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TEL AVIV – Two Palestinians were sentenced to 15 years of hard labour after a Palestinian Authority court on Wednesday found them guilty of selling land to Jews.

TEL AVIV – A song called “Delete Airbnb” composed by a Jerusalem-based band in protest over the vacation rental giant’s decision to delist Israeli-owned properties in the West Bank went viral before being removed by Facebook without an explanation, the band has claimed.

TEL AVIV – Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour released a statement Tuesday apologizing on behalf of her organization for “causing a lot of harm and pain” to its Jewish members and for not expressing the movement’s commitment to fighting anti-Semitism.

TEL AVIV – The old adage “Football is life. The rest is mere details” clearly doesn’t ring true for one rabbi who was caught on a stadium camera at an Israel-Scotland game in Glasgow deep in Talmudic study just after the away team scored a goal. 

TEL AVIV – Airbnb could find itself sanctioned with a special tax over its decision remove all of its 200 listings located in Israeli settlements, Israel’s Tourism Minister said Tuesday. 

TEL AVIV – Women’s March co-founder Teresa Shook called on the movement’s co-leaders, including Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, to resign Monday, saying they perpetuate anti-Semitism.

TEL AVIV – UN Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed Security Council members Monday for drawing a moral equivalence between the Hamas terror group and the State of Israel.

TEL AVIV – Germany is taking far too long returning works of art confiscated by the Nazis to their rightful owners and not doing enough to combat a surge in antisemitism in recent years, the head of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder said Sunday. 

TEL AVIV – Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour issued an underhanded condemnation of American Jews for “masquerading as progressives” while putting Israel above democracy, free speech and the right to boycott the Jewish state. 

TEL AVIV – Education Minister and head of the Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett on Monday walked back on a promise to quit the coalition if he is not made defense minister, saying he would back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the role and ensure Israel goes back to “winning” its wars.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will remain defense minister and there will be no early elections at a time when Israel finds itself in a sensitive security situation, the premier said in a highly anticipated speech Sunday night.

TEL AVIV – The chief rabbi of Jerusalem approved the burial of a Palestinian Muslim in a Jewish cemetery after Imams refused to bury him over suspicions that he sold real estate to Jews, a capital offense in Palestinian society.   

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian move to join United Nations agencies as an independent nation is “counterproductive,” a US State Department official said over the weekend.

TEL AVIV – Two Jewish ninth graders from a school in Cape Town, South Africa that bills itself as Zionist were disciplined for “taking a knee” in solidarity with Palestinians while Israel’s national anthem, “Hatikvah,” was played at a ceremony. 

TEL AVIV – UCLA will allow a conference by Students for Justice in Palestine to take place this weekend, despite an appeal from a coalition of Jewish organizations requesting that the event be cancelled over the anti-Israel campus group’s “violence” and anti-Semitism. 

TEL AVIV – Zionist Union chairman Avi Gabbay and Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni joined the chorus calling for new elections in the wake of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s snap resignation over the government’s “capitulation to terror” by reaching a ceasefire deal with

TEL AVIV – The coalition hung in the balance Wednesday in the wake of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s announcement that he was resigning over Israel’s “capitulation to terror” in agreeing to a ceasefire agreement with Gaza and his subsequent call for new elections.

TEL AVIV – Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal Tuesday evening, Arab media reported, after nearly 500 rockets and mortars pounded the Jewish state over the course of 24 hours.

TEL AVIV – Despite reports of a ceasefire, projectiles continued being launched at Israel from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon. 

TEL AVIV – Israel is “shielding” Europe from the terror spreading from the Middle East and European nations should thus show more gratitude and less “hostility” to the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday in Paris.

TEL AVIV – Citing the anti-semitic “blood libel-esque” views of  Linda Sarsour as well as Tamika Mallory’s association with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, an NGO associated Germany’s left-of-center Social Democratic Party has cancelled a plan to honor the U.S. Women’s March movement with a human rights award

TEL AVIV – Israel’s south was pounded with a barrage of more than 80 rockets launched from the Hamas-ruling Gaza Strip Monday afternoon, injuring one man seriously and another two moderately. 

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his vow Saturday to thwart President Donald Trump’s upcoming peace proposal and pledged to continue paying convicted terrorists and their families.

TEL AVIV – Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday warned that the IDF will not be able to withstand the number of missiles the terror group has in its possession. He also told the Palestinians not to make a deal with Israel.

TEL AVIV – A coalition of 31 student groups has called on UCLA to cancel an event hosted by “hate group” Students for Justice in Palestine for being “violent” and posing a “threat to the physical safety of the Jewish community.”

TEL AVIV – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday issued a formal apology on behalf of his country for its refusal to accept Jewish people fleeing the Holocaust in 1939.

TEL AVIV – A professor who claimed “Israelis blew up Twin Towers” has prompted a Jewish group to demand the University of Sussex in England strip him of his emeritus status. 

TEL AVIV – The newly appointed ambassadors from Jordan and Egypt on Thursday praised their countries’ peace agreements with Israel in a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin Thursday, but said that Israel must also come to an agreement with the Palestinians. 

TEL AVIV – The occupation of the Palestinians is baloney, empires have conquered and replaced entire populations and no one ever bats an eyelid, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a faction meeting for his Likud party on Monday. 

TEL AVIV – The Shin Bet thwarted 480 Palestinian terror attacks over the last year, the security agency’s director told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Russia on Monday accused Israel of putting its military in danger by violating a tacit agreement to give advanced warning before conducting airstrikes in Syria, prompting Moscow to respond in a “firm but contained manner.”

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday lauded President Donald Trump’s “courageous, determined and important decision” to reimpose sanctions on Iran, saying the move was a direct result of his own efforts against the deal.

TEL AVIV – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on a visit to Tehran described President Donald Trump as a lying Satan and urged Iranians to resist American “plots” against Iran and other Muslim countries, according to a report by the state-affiliated Islamic Republic News Agency.

TEL AVIV – Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz traveled to Oman overnight Sunday to present a plan to his Omani counterpart that includes a rail link between Israel and the Gulf.

TEL AVIV – Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger wore special cleats with the Star of David and the words “Stronger Than Hate” during Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens, in honor of the 11 victims of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre. 

TEL AVIV – The United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash on Saturday said that Iran’s “aggressive policies” were “largely responsible” for the US decision to reenact sanctions against Tehran, Reuters reported.