TEL AVIV – The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Presidency delivered a speech this week on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas extolling the Palestinian people for “loving death more than life” and promising that the Israeli “tyrants” and “aggressors will end up in the trash bin of history.”
TEL AVIV – A Spanish constitutional tribunal recommended annulling a municipality’s motion calling for a boycott against Israel and declaring itself “a space free of Israeli apartheid,” The Times of Israel reported.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his rejection of the French peace initiative but told his French counterpart that he was ready to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the coming days.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Egyptians view President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s speech this week calling for a new effort to reach an Israeli-Palestinian agreement as not such a big deal, a Cairo-based columnist for the Al-Arabiya News website told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
TEL AVIV – On Saturday, Israeli jets struck Hamas targets after rockets were fired last night and early this morning from the Gaza Strip aimed at Israeli civilian population zones. “Earlier today… a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip
JAFFA, Israel – Protesting the economic conditions in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, university graduates in the territory on Sunday launched a campaign protesting rampant unemployment and their inability to find jobs, setting up a tent encampment in the city center and starting a hunger strike in protest of their “uncertain future.”
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The Palestinian president and Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations traded barbs on Friday during a signing ceremony for the Paris climate accord, in the latest example of continuing Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who
The Hamas Ministry of the Interior in Gaza on Monday announced that five men have been sentenced to death for collaborating with Israel, as the Islamist organization was reeling from an Israeli announcement that one of its attack tunnels had been discovered and destroyed.
At least 21 people were injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion on a bus in Jerusalem that police say was caused by an explosive device. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labeled the event a terrorist incident: “This afternoon in Jerusalem two buses exploded in a terrorist incident.”
More than 90 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to use U.S. veto power to block any United Nations resolutions seen as biased against Israel, one of the letter’s lead sponsors
The Jerusalem Post reports: NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League said it was “outrageous” that a debate topic at an inter- university debating competition in Atlanta required participants to justify Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis. At the US Universities Debating
Sen. Bernie Sanders kept up his criticism of the Jewish state, this time accusing Israel of a “disproportionate” response during the 2014 Israel-Gaza War.
The Jerusalem Post reports: NEW YORK CITY — Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan put a number of German banks on notice that they could face penalties for enabling anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) groups to raise money through their financial
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinian UN Mission says it has circulated a proposed Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements to Arab nations. The draft was condemned Thursday by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
The Jerusalem Post reports: Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the best way to combat the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, US and EU ambassadors said on Monday at a conference on the subject in Jerusalem sponsored by the Hebrew daily
The Jerusalem Post reports: Islamic Jihad master hacker Maagad Ben Juwad Oydeh was indicted in the Beersheba District Court on Wednesday for compromising IDF drones hovering over Gaza, enabling commanders in the Strip to view their video feeds. The indictment
Ynetnews reports: A Border Police soldier was lightly wounded on Saturday morning when a 17-year-old from Hebron stabbed him in the head. The attacker was shot and killed. The terrorist came to a checkpoint near the Cave of the Patriarchs,
Haaretz reports: Meir Dagan, a former general in the Israeli army and longtime director of the Mossad espionage agency, died on Thursday at the age of 71. “Former Mossad head Meir Dagan passed away this morning,” the Mossad said in a
Ynetnews reports: Poles imagine Israel as a kind of Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe before World War II, they argue that it’s a dangerous and aggressive country, and they don’t believe that it’s democratic, according to an opinion poll conducted
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague announced on Tuesday that the State of Palestine has joined it, becoming its 118th member state. It is unclear how significant an achievement joining the PCA is with
TEL AVIV — Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon criticized the Iran nuclear deal on Monday, saying it will pave the way for Iranian dominance of the Middle East, and slammed President Barack Obama’s mishandling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Times of Israel reports: Israeli jets struck the northern Gaza Strip early Saturday morning in response to rocket fire at the southern city of Sderot hours earlier. Officials in the Hamas-run enclave said a 10-year-old boy was killed. The
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Israeli military confirmed late Friday that at least two rockets fired by Palestinians in Gaza landed in communities near the border. Just moments earlier, rocket sirens sounded in Israeli towns adjacent to the border with
Israel Hayom reports: An Islamic Jihad-affiliated media outlet urging Palestinians to carry out terrorist attack has been taken off the air, a Shin Bet security agency statement revealed Friday The order to shut down the Ramallah-based Falastin al-Yom outlet, which
Citing defense officials here, the Jerusalem Post reported Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel “may have served as the trigger for Palestinian assailants to commit attacks against Israelis on Tuesday.” The Post provided no further information on the matter. An
The Times of Israel reports: A co-chairman of the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) resigned Monday night in protest over the society’s endorsement of Israel Apartheid Week. In a sharply worded statement, Alex Chalmers claimed that “a large proportion of
During a radio interview on Sunday, the Israeli Arab owner of the Columbus, Ohio, restaurant attacked by a machete-wielding Muslim immigrant from West Africa said he “most definitely” believes the incident was a terrorist act.
TEL AVIV – Veteran U.S. Jewish leader Malcolm Hoenlein said that young American Jews are ignorant of Israel and Jewish history and do not fare better than their non-Jewish counterparts when asked questions about the Jewish state.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Less than 48 hours after Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog presented a diplomatic plan at the Jerusalem Conference to relinquish Arab neighborhoods in the capital to increase security, a cross-section of Israelis expressed conflicting opinions about the
Ynetnews reports: A Palestinian woman attempted to stab an IDF soldier in Hebron on Saturday afternoon, near the Cave of the Patriarchs. Reports indicate that the soldiers from the IDF Kfir Brigade approached the woman, who seemed suspicious, and asked
TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly concerned that the Obama administration may attempt to impose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before Obama leaves office. Citing an Army Radio report on Sunday, the Times of Israel writes
Thousands of Palestinian residents of Qabatiya, in the northern West Bank, attended the funerals Friday of three terrorists who killed a border policewoman in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday.
The Jerusalem Post reported: Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Saturday that Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered the flooding of several Hamas tunnels linking Egypt to the Gaza Strip, to a certain extent, “due to Israel’s request.” The minister affirmed
TEL AVIV – Islamic State supporters welcomed Wednesday’s attack in Jerusalem, calling the three terrorist perpetrators of the mayhem “martyrs” who acted in the name of Islam despite their Western looks and behavior.
JERUSALEM – A 17-year-old stabbed in the back and lightly wounded in Jerusalem on Saturday has been identified as an American Israeli who immigrated to the Jewish state from Brooklyn six weeks ago in order to join the Israel Defense Forces.
The Times of Israel reports: Israelis are worried for the future of world Jewry, a new poll has found, with a quarter of respondents believing another Holocaust could take place and almost a third agreeing that European Jews should move
The Jerusalem Post reports: Hamas affiliated media sources reported on Saturday that one of the group’s naval operatives died overnight during a mission at sea opposite the Gaza coast, Israel Radio reported. Palestinian media initially reported that the deceased was
TEL AVIV – Hamas has been having a difficult two days. First seven of its fighters were killed two days ago while reconstructing a terror tunnel that collapsed in the northeast section of Gaza City.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday renewed his criticism of Israel’s “stifling occupation of Palestinian territories”, a day after similar hard-hitting remarks by the UN Secretary-General angered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief made clear
TEL AVIV – Billions of dollars in aid money to the Palestinian Authority (PA) are being used to fund terrorism against Israel, the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister claimed in an oped for The Wall Street Journal on Monday. “Large amounts
