TEL AVIV – Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid called Saturday for Israel to make the Palestinians “disappear” by building a “high wall,” and added that he is the only viable alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
TEL AVIV – Fanaticism has accompanied Arab societies throughout Islamic history and is not a new phenomenon but today the media, the left and Islamic preachers are blaming its rise on wild conspiracy theories, a Qatari law professor said.
TEL AVIV – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party on Wednesday passed a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, labeling anti-Israel activism as anti-Semitic and comparing BDS to Nazi boycotts.
TEL AVIV – In a first, Israel denied entry to a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement activist who arrived at Ben-Gurion airport Monday on a tourist visa.
A battalion of soldiers crawls across the desert sand with assault rifles cocked. It’s a routine exercise, but these are no ordinary troops – they are Arabs who have chosen to fight for the Jewish state.
JERUSALEM – The New York Times magazine published an in-depth article condemning Israel’s treatment of the Shuafat refugee camp – the only Palestinian refugee camp within the 1967 borders – but failed to mention that the author was sent to the camp at the behest of controversial NGO Breaking the Silence (BtS).
TEL AVIV – Following the Knesset’s initial approval of the “muezzin bill,” a piece of legislation prohibiting loud noise at places of worship, a Druze Israeli-Arab came out in support of the bill, saying that mosque muezzin speakers disturbs the Arab and Muslim public as well.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed hope that Donald Trump would support the quest for an independent Palestinian state, despite his declaration that Palestinians “know nothing about” the president-elect.
TEL AVIV – Fires in nine localities across Israel have been deemed acts of arson and possibly terrorism, rendering victims eligible to receive compensation from state emergency funds for victims of terror.
TEL AVIV – The car-ramming and stabbing attack at Ohio State University on Monday looked eerily familiar to Israelis who have fallen victim to the exact same terror tactics since the recent wave of Palestinian violence began last fall.
TEL AVIV – One-third of the fires raging across the country are suspected to have been caused by arson, Israel police said Sunday.
Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting brush fires have confessed to the crimes, police reportedly told ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday
TEL AVIV – Palestinian leaders mourned the death of Cuban President Fidel Castro, hailing the revolutionary leader as a “comrade” to the Palestinian cause who supported the battle against “Zionist imperialism.”
Amid signs that the wave of wildfires that have blighted Israel since Tuesday was being brought under control, Israeli security officials on Saturday night gave preliminary indications that weather was the prime cause of the initial blazes but that arsonists increasingly jumped on the bandwagon increasingly from Wednesday and into the weekend.
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian Authority TV children’s program told its young viewers that Israel murdered late leader Yasser Arafat along with “many of our people.” “They killed Yasser Arafat, because until his final breath he defended the children of his
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that there was “evidence of arson” relating to the wildfires sweeping across Israel. “Our first goal is saving lives and I ask residents to do exactly what the authorities ask of
TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump might be Jewish, a co-founder of Gaza-based terror group Hamas told Al Jazeera in an interview following the U.S. elections.
TEL AVIV – For the first time, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) will conduct a live online chat session in Arabic on Tuesday to answer Palestinians’ questions as part of the government’s wider initiative to directly engage the Palestinian public.
TEL AVIV – The Lebanese army has begun construction of a cement wall replete with watchtowers around the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the country following clashes between Palestinians inside the camp and the military. The wall, which will take 15
Two Palestinians were caught crossing the border fence from Gaza into Israel in southern Gaza Thursday night, according to the IDF.
TEL AVIV – An Arab Israeli supporter of the terror group Hezbollah was sentenced to eight months in prison on Thursday for inciting violence against Israeli Jews on Facebook.
TEL AVIV – Organizers of a Holocaust remembrance ceremony in Germany attempted to “remove with physical violence” a Jewish man for marching with the Israeli flag while allowing anti-Israel activists and those sporting the Palestinian scarf, or keffiyeh, to participate.
TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump should cut off U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority over its policy of paying millions of dollars in reward money to terrorists and their families, the Wall Street Journal urged on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – While one critic has called Donald Trump’s election victory “the greatest win for anti-Semitism” since World War II, senior Palestinian officials are dubbing the president-elect a “Zionist” and “racist.”
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian ambassador to the UN on Friday warned President-elect Donald Trump that if he dared move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, the Palestinians would “make life miserable” for the United States at the United Nations.
TEL AVIV – An all-Arab unit in the Israeli army is the subject of a controversial new documentary by BBC Arabic, titled “Israel’s Arab Warriors.”
TEL AVIV – The Israeli military is pursuing legal action against event halls in the West Bank that allow celebratory gunfire at Palestinian occasions following a series of near-fatal accidents.
Thousands of Israelis are gathering at the Tel Aviv square where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated to mark the 21st anniversary of the former prime minister’s death and remember his call for peace.
Increasing numbers of British people are opposed to economic boycotts of Israel, according to new polling.
The commanders of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah’s military wing, have been mulling recommissioning to turn their guns against Israel and the Palestinian Authority’s “despots,” a top militant told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Public Security Minister has demanded that Google and Apple remove a “false and aggressive” game app which he claims endangers the lives of IDF soldiers by encouraging players to kill them.
The Observer describes a decade-old audiotape that might come back to haunt Hillary Clinton, in which she seems to suggest rigging the 2006 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council.
TEL AVIV – Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) has urged the Vatican to assist in preventing future anti-Israel UNESCO resolutions following Wednesday’s vote denying Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – The niece of a senior official in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and a close confidant of the late leader Yasser Arafat said she loves the State of Israel so much she had the word “Israel” in Hebrew tattooed on her shoulder.
Roger Waters is planning his most spectacular and expensive tour yet — but the Pink Floyd legend is facing backlash from some big-name sponsors over his views on Israel.
TEL AVIV – Israel Police’s most recent security assessment may allow Israeli lawmakers and cabinet ministers to resume visits to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem a year after a ban was implemented, although no final decision has been made.
JERUSALEM – One week after UNESCO’s executive board ratified a resolution ignoring Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount, the body’s World Heritage Committee is slated to vote on another controversial resolution this Wednesday.
A Palestinian woman approached Israeli border police with a knife in the northern West Bank on Wednesday and was shot dead by officers, police said.
As emails hacked from the account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta continue to trickle into the public eye, major revelations regarding Hillary Clinton’s policy preferences on handling foreign policy, particularly rogue states, have come to the fore.
TEL AVIV – The latest leaked emails reveal that Hillary Clinton believes a facade of a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is better than nothing.