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TEL AVIV – Russia has delivered an S-300 anti-missile system to Syria, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed to President Vladimir Putin during a meeting Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – The daughter of the Israeli consul-general in New York, who is a student at Columbia University, says she does not feel safe on campus amid threats from pro-Palestinian students.

TEL AVIV – The UN agency for Palestinian “refugees” evacuated most of its international senior officials from the Gaza Strip Monday after they received death threats from local employees of the agency following the Trump administration’s to defund it. 

TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that President Donald Trump understands and accepts that under a two-state solution, which the U.S. president endorsed for the first time that day, Israel would still retain security control of the West Bank.

TEL AVIV – Israeli and Russian military officials will meet in a bid to fix fraying ties between the two countries in the wake of the downing of a Russian plane by Syrian air defenses during an Israeli airstrike last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Israeli officials on Tuesday lauded President Donald Trump’s address to the UN General Assembly, with Israel’s envoy to the international body praising Trump for being “on the right side of history.” Palestinians and leftwing American Jews, meanwhile, slammed the speech as harmful.

TEL AVIV – Israel will respond “with full force” to an attack from Iran, Intelligence Minister warned Tuesday after Tehran promised to avenge an explosion on Iranian soil that saw 25 people killed. 

TEL AVIV – A baby from Iraqi Kurdistan who was born with a congenital heart defect is being flown to Israel for life-saving surgery.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that he will host a conference on Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly with the aim of devising a scheme to scuttle the Trump administration’s plan for peace, an Israeli TV report said.

TEL AVIV – New images show the decimation of a weapons factory in Syria by an Israeli strike following the downing of a Russian plane that killed 15 crew members. 

TEL AVIV – More than 2,240 Israelis were treated by paramedics from Magen David Adom over Yom Kippur, the emergency medical service said. MDA treated 228 children and adults who were injured while riding bicycles. On Yom Kippur, secular Israelis head

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration has revoked the visas of the Palestinian envoy and his family, days after shuttering the PLO mission in Washington.  

TEL AVIV – Palestinian terror groups including Hamas praised the fatal stabbing of an American-Israeli father of four on Sunday, saying it was a “natural response to Zionist crimes against the Palestinians.”

TEL AVIV – Thousands of mourners gathered in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion around midnight for the funeral of an Israeli-American father of four who was stabbed in a terror attack Sunday. 

TEL AVIV – The American-Israeli who was murdered in a Palestinian terror stabbing attack on Sunday was “a passionate defender of Israel and an American patriot,” U.S. Ambassador David Friedman said, adding that the dual citizen was “the best of both countries.”

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration will never unveil its peace plan and is instead changing the “terms of reference” to Israel’s favor, senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat claimed Saturday.

TEL AVIV – The Czech Republic on Wednesday endorsed relocating the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, following the U.S.’ move in May of this year.

TEL AVIV – Twenty Palestinian activists on Wednesday stormed a meeting of Palestinians and Israelis who had gathered for a conference at the American Colony Hotel in east Jerusalem to mark the 25th anniversary of the Oslo peace accords.

TEL AVIV – A majority of Palestinians reject outright President Donald Trump’s peace proposal sight unseen, according to a new poll published Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s recent moves vis-à-vis the Palestinians are encouraging terror and violence that will explode in the U.S. and Israel’s face, Palestinian Authority officials reportedly said, adding that Trump is an enemy of the Palestinians and of peace. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hailed President Donald Trump for his “correct” decision to shutter the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington DC citing a Palestinian refusal to advance peace. 

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian envoy to Washington said that he and his staff had been ordered to pack up his office within the month following President Donald Trump’s decision to shutter the local Palestine Liberation Organization mission.

JERUSALEM – Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, President Donald Trump’s envoy to Israel David Friedman released a cute clip wishing Jews around the world a happy new year. 

JERUSALEM – Israel has invented a state-of-the-art method of injuring Palestinians that is undetectable by cameras, according to the latest conspiracy theory touted by an official of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction.

TEL AVIV – Paraguay will move its embassy back to Tel Aviv, the country’s foreign minister announced on Wednesday, less than four months after it followed the U.S.’ lead and and relocated to Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Israeli company ImageSat International published satellite photos of the damage to an Iranian military site in Syria from Tuesday’s airstrike that was attributed to Israel.

TEL AVIV – Israel will not support a tripartite confederation with the Palestinians and Jordan, senior Israeli diplomatic officials said Sunday.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. has “thrown more than $10 billion” in aid to the Palestinians, but despite that we are no closer to peace, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said Tuesday, adding that the Palestinian Authority has used large sums of that money in terrorist payments. 

TEL AVIV – Israel’s population has reached 8.907 million, an increase of 162,000 from a year ago, with close to 90% saying they are happy with their lot, according to data published Tuesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of the Jewish New Year. 

TEL AVIV – The newly passed hot-button Jewish nation-state law is not in violation of the rights of minorities since it does not supersede Israel’s Basic Laws that enshrine equality for all, the country’s Attorney General said Monday.

TEL AVIV – Iran’s civilian airline is being used to smuggle arms to terror group Hezbollah and Iranian weapons factories in Lebanon, Fox news reported Monday citing Western intelligence officials.

TEL AVIV – Colombia’s new president Ivan Duque on Monday said that he would not walk back his predecessor’s decision last month to recognize a Palestinian state. “Damage was done by the fact that there was not more institutional discussion.

TEL AVIV – American Jewish leaders expressed outrage over the place of honor given to virulently antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan at Aretha Franklin’s funeral on Friday.

TEL AVIV – The Jordanian government on Sunday rejected a U.S. peace proposal comprising the creation of a Palestinian-Jordanian confederation that was said to have been presented to the Palestinians.

TEL AVIV – Israel will not agree to a ceasefire deal with the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group if the bodies of the two missing soldiers are not returned, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu on Sunday met with the families

TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the U.S.’s decision to cut off any further financial aid to the “refugee perpetuating” agency UNRWA, which Israeli officials have said is the Trump Administration’s first step to closing it altogether.