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Russian forces in Syria have fired at least twice on Israeli military aircraft, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek improved operational coordination with Moscow, Israel’s top-selling newspaper said on Friday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin at the beginning of their meeting on Thursday that the Golan Heights is a “red line” for Israel and it must remain a part of it.

The orderly world of archives is in tumult in Israel after an effort to enhance transparency has instead led to allegations that access to sensitive documents is being restricted.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday denied that it has postponed its effort to seek a UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to construction in the settlements. The PA said that it was going ahead

The Jerusalem Post reports: The relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Naftali Bennett erupted at Wednesday’s security cabinet meeting, with the premier reportedly threatening to fire Bennett over the Bayit Yehudi leader’s objection to the meeting’s agenda.

Israel provides Jordan and Egypt with intelligence assistance in their fight against Islamic State, a senior Israeli military officer said on Wednesday, describing the U.S.-backed Arab neighbours as stable despite the insurgent threat.

JERUSALEM (AFP) – A young Palestinian died of his wounds from a Jerusalem bus bombing this week, an Israeli hospital said Wednesday.

Israel remains in favour of installing security cameras at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, even after Jordan reneged on the project due to Palestinian reservations, a senior official said Tuesday. “Israel’s support for placing cameras on the Temple Mount

Israeli forces destroyed the home of a Palestinian assailant who stabbed a woman to death in January before being shot dead by a security guard, the army said on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party praised Monday’s bus bomb in Jerusalem even while Abbas himself reacted by denouncing “all forms of terrorism.”

Jerusalem did not receive written assurances from Saudi Arabia regarding Israel’s right of free passage through the Gulf of Aqaba and the Strait of Tiran in the wake of a Saudi-Egyptian deal to swap ownership of two islands, a senior Israeli official indicated Monday.

New footage was released Tuesday showing the view of a firefighter who arrived at the scene shortly after an explosive device blew up on a Jerusalem bus, setting it and other vehicles ablaze and injuring 21.

Ynetnews reports:  A day after a bombing attack on a Jerusalem bus which wounded 21 people, the capital’s residents are once again forced to think twice before using public transport. For most people in Israel the attack is reminiscent of

Thousands of Israelis rallied in a central Tel Aviv square on Tuesday calling for the release of a soldier charged with manslaughter for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant.

Former U.S. official Lawrence Wilkerson, who has reportedly advised Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, used a recent radio interview to claim that Israeli behavior will see it “eliminated by the international community if not the 350 to 400 million people around it who are opposed to it.”

The Jerusalem Post reports: Unlike many members of the Jewish community, Democratic Jewish millennials in New York City fail to see what the fuss surrounding presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ recent Israel comments is about. As New York State voted in its

TEL AVIV – Following the IDF’s discovery of a Hamas attack tunnel, a private Israeli firm hired by Gaza-border communities may have found a second one in Israeli territory.

Pro-Israel groups slammed CNN over a headline which failed to mention that a bus explosion in Jerusalem was a terrorist attack.

The news of the bombing of a Jerusalem bus that left on Monday 21 people injured, including two critically, was met with jubilant responses in the Gaza Strip.

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli authorities on Tuesday were investigating a Jerusalem bus bombing that wounded 21 people and raised fears of a sharp escalation in violence, while police planned tightened security for the Jewish Passover holiday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli man was convicted on Tuesday of murdering a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, as a court rejected his insanity plea for a crime that helped trigger the 2014 Gaza war.

The Jerusalem Post reports: A U.S. Coastguard reports shows that part of the basis of a Mavi Marmara-related lawsuit in California against former defense minister Ehud Barak is fabricated, according to NGO Shurat Hadin – Israel Law Center.

Israel’s Supreme Court denied on Monday a request by firebrand Islamic cleric Raed Salah to appeal his conviction for inciting violence, but cut his prison sentence by two months to nine. Salah leads the radical northern wing of the Islamic

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors engaged in a rare shouting match in the U.N. Security Council on Monday, reflecting Israel’s growing consternation at the upsurge in Palestinian attacks against civilians and Palestinian frustration at the failure

Time reports:  (AMMAN, Jordan) — Jordan’s prime minister on Monday said his government has decided to call off a plan to install surveillance cameras at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, derailing a U.S.-brokered pact to ease tensions at the volatile

Ynetnews reports: Racheli Dadon was desperately looking for her daughter, 15-year-old Eden, after the bombing on bus number 12 in Jerusalem on Monday, “when I found her, I saw that he entire body was burned.” Police investigation found that an explosive

A Hamas official downplayed Israel’s announcement on Monday that an attack tunnel reaching into Israeli territory was discovered and destroyed. “The Israeli statements are motivated by domestic politics,” the official claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem. “It’s an old tunnel that wasn’t part of

JERUSALEM — Israeli rescue service says a bus has exploded in the heart of Jerusalem, wounding at least 10. Monday’s blast comes amid a wave of Palestinian attacks on Israelis, mostly stabbings, and immediately raises fears of a return to

Ynetnews reports:  Sergeant Elor Azaria, 20, from Ramla, the Kfir Brigade soldier who shot dead an already-neutralized terrorist in Hebron, was charged with manslaughter at the Jaffa Military Court on Monday. He was also charged with inappropriate behavior. The Jaffa

GENEVA (AFP) –  Syria’s envoy to the United Nations on Monday denounced as “provocative” an unprecedented Israeli cabinet meeting held in the Golan Heights, which the Jewish state annexed decades ago. “It is an irresponsible provocation committed by Benjamin Netanyahu, the

A Hamas tunnel discovered snaking into Israeli territory is only “a drop in a sea” of what the terrorist group has prepared against the Jewish state, according to an official statement from Hamas’s so-called military wing.

TEL AVIV – In his latest anti-Israel remarks, Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday said that President Barack Obama has been too supportive of Israel and was not sufficiently supportive of the Palestinians. The Democratic candidate, speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, also

The fact that Hamas risked digging a terror tunnel into Israel – as the IDF announced on Monday – shows that Gaza’s Islamist leaders are preparing for the possibility of war with the Jewish state.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The IDF detected a Hamas cross-border tunnel in recent days, stretching from the southern Gaza Strip into Israel. The discovery of the tunnel was kept under a media ban until Monday morning. The tunnel is 30

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday vowed to defend Muslim countries against terrorism and Israel while insisting that its neighbors should not feel threatened.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has not been in full control of his country since the Syrian uprising began in 2011. The dictator has been having trouble securing territory from the Islamic State and the witches brew of moderate and extremist rebels that have set up strongholds throughout the country.