Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly acknowledged the U.S. was the reason he has failed to carry out his plans to apply Israeli law over parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley.
The Vatican issued a statement Wednesday warning Israel that “unilateral actions” in the West Bank and Jordan Valley would seriously compromise peace efforts in the area.
TEL AVIV — Lawmakers from 20 different countries in Europe, Africa and Latin America signed a letter on Wednesday endorsing Israel’s plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the West Bank, The Jerusalem Post reported.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Israel on Wednesday it should drop plans to extend Israeli law over parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley, cautioning that London would not recognise any changes to existing boundaries.
TEL AVIV — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are among four House progressives calling for the U.S. to cut aid to Israel over its plan to apply sovereignty over parts of the West Bank.
TEL AVIV — Only 200 Palestinians showed up for what was supposed to be a massive demonstration in Ramallah against Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, AFP reported Monday. The Palestinian Authority invested a lot of resources
WEST BANK — Palestinians in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley interviewed by Breitbart News overwhelmingly expressed support for the government’s plans to extend Israeli law over areas they are residing in, citing fairer rule under Israel than the Palestinian Authority which many see as corrupt.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Israel on Tuesday to drop plans to apply sovereignty over parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, saying it would be a “most serious violation of international law.”
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is set to make a final decision on Tuesday as to Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley, The Jerusalem Post reported.
TEL AVIV – Prominent Evangelist leader Pastor John Hagee has called on the Trump administration to keep its word and allow Israel to go ahead with its plans to apply Israeli law to parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a group of former IDF officials Monday who expressed their support for Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, saying failure to do so would constitute an “existential threat” for the Jewish state.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to iron out the chinks with the United States as well as with Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz over his plans to annex parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, a cabinet minister said on Thursday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will announce the annexation of three large Jewish towns in the West Bank in the very near future, but will not make any declarations for now regarding the Jordan Valley or other settlement blocs, top Israeli officials said.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinians will unilaterally declare a state based on the pre-1967 lines if Israel goes ahead with its plan to annex parts of the West Bank, Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh warned Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Half of Israelis support annexing the Jordan Valley and parts of the West Bank, although that number drops again by half if the step would be taken without U.S. support, a new poll showed on Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – The U.S. on Monday said it was ready to recognize Israel’s annexation of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, but asked Israel’s newly formed unity government to also negotiate with the Palestinians.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced he was cutting all ties with both the U.S. and Israel in response to President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled peace plan, including security coordination in the West Bank.
TEL AVIV – On the heels of President Donald Trump’s unveiled peace plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would make a decision regarding the annexation of the Jordan Valley and West Bank settlements as early as Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday said with the help of the Trump administration, he would extend Israeli sovereignty over all settlements in the West Bank settlements.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas used an address at the United Nations on Thursday to condemn what he called Israel’s “arrogance and aggression” while promising to keep paying stipends to the families of slain Palestinian terrorists. He also urged the world
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority will remunerate Palestinian university graduates who are prepared to live in the Jordan Valley, PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said on Monday. The Jerusalem Post cited Shtayyeh as saying at the start of the weekly PA
TEL AVIV — Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah announced the Palestinian Authority’s 2018 budget on Monday, which will stand at a total of $5.8 billion.
An IDF soldier was lightly wounded in an attempted car-ramming attack in the Jordan Valley on Friday, the army said.
The Algemeiner reports: JNS.org – A 7,200-year-old pottery vessel recently unearthed at the prehistoric site of Tel Tsaf in Israel’s Jordan Valley is the first evidence of the ritualistic and political significance of large-scale food storage in the ancient Near East, the University of Haifa reported on Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel must retain military control of the Jordan Valley if it is to protect itself, a former national security chief said in a new video.
In a recently-launched project, IDF soldiers from the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps, including spotters, will help protect Israel’s wildlife and nature.
Contents: Israel and Syria have unprecedented missile clash over Jordan; Russia summons Israeli envoy to demand an explanation; Jordan has to live with increasing threats from Syria and Israel
Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missile launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six years ago.
TEL AVIV – Israel is set to double its annual water supply to Jordan as the country suffers from a deepening water crisis, made worse by the influx of refugees flooding its borders since the Syrian civil war broke out.
In the sleepy hillside town in al-Balqa, not far from the Jordan Valley, a grand project is taking shape. The Middle East’s new particle accelerator – the Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications, or Sesame – is being built.
TEL AVIV – Seven-thousand-year-old olive pits discovered in northern Israel’s Tel Beit She’an Valley are likely the result of an ancient artificial irrigation technique, archeologists said on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – The U.S. on Tuesday accused Israel of “expropriating land” in the Jordan Valley after Israel reclassified 2,342 dunams (578 acres) near the Palestinian city of Jericho as state land, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The recently established IDF Commando Brigade completed its first full combat drill, held on a hilltop in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday. In recent days, units in the brigade practiced a number of wartime command operations
The Israeli Meteorological Service (IMS) said 2015 was Israel’s third-hottest year on record. August and September were among the steamiest months ever recorded, the Walla news site reported. Still, 2015’s temperatures were significantly below those recorded during 2010 — the greatest
