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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Tuesday with a bipartisan delegation from the US Congress, thanking the lawmakers for their “strong support” of the Jewish state, according to a statement from the Israeli leader’s office.

UNITED NATIONS — The U.S. and Israel are trying to prevent the notoriously anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council from publishing a blacklist of companies who do business in Israeli settlements due out later this year.

Thousands of Iranian-backed fighters in Syria’s central desert region are advancing east, bringing Tehran closer to its goal of securing a corridor from its border, through Iraq and all the way to the Mediterranean and providing it unhindered land access to its allies in Syria and Lebanon for the first time.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces arrested over 170 Islamic State-inspired jihadists last week, senior Gaza-based jihadist Abou Baker al-Maqdesi told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — A book on terrorism endorsed and touted by H.R. McMaster, the embattled White House National Security Adviser, calls Hamas an “Islamist political group” while failing to categorize the deadly organization as a terrorist group, and refers to al-Qaida attacks and anti-Israel terrorism as “resistance.”

The heart of Europe has once again been shaken by a vehicle-ramming terrorist attack that evidences time-tested tactics deployed against Israelis by Palestinian terrorists here in the Jewish state.

Israel’s military army has carried out nearly 100 strikes in the past five years on convoys carrying weapons to Hezbollah and other militant groups in Syria and elsewhere, a general said Thursday.

Israel’s Shin Bet security agency on Tuesday unveiled the discovery of a complex money-transferring scheme run by the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group Hamas.

The Israeli Air Force conducted a test of its aerial defense systems on Tuesday evening, firing multiple interceptor missiles into the air over central Israel, the army said.

Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen will lead an Israeli delegation of defense officials to brief the White House later this week on the security situation in Syria, the Haaretz daily reported Monday.

In a 2014 speech on the Middle East, embattled White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster claimed that Islamic terrorist organizations are “really un-Islamic” and are “really irreligious organizations” who cloak themselves in the “false legitimacy of Islam.”

Comedian Conan O’Brien will go to Israel at the end of August to film a segment for his TBS show. The late-night show host announced the upcoming trip on Twitter, adding he was making the journey to “help Jared Kushner.”

A female Palestinian assailant who carried out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Saturday had attempted to stab an ultra-Orthodox man before stabbing another person, said to be an Arab East Jerusalem resident, injuring him lightly, according to security footage released by police.

Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters intimated this week that a pro-Israel conspiracy controls what can be said about the Jewish state in the US media.

A prominent Saudi columnist recently mocked Arab countries for their refusal to publicize their ties with Israel.

The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf — the Jordanian-funded body which administers the Muslim holy sites on the Temple Mount — said in a statement on Thursday that Israeli security forces did not damage or steal any historical items when they searched the hilltop compound in the days following the July 14 terrorist attack there in which two policemen were killed.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has urged the UN to up its efforts in Lebanon to stop the movement of illegal arms to Hezbollah terrorists — the latest move by Haley as she seeks to crack down on the terrorist group’s movements in the region.

Thousands of Likud supporters gathered Wednesday in Tel Aviv to rally in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been beset by a series graft investigations and scandals surrounding him and his family.

CANBERRA, Australia — A new poll on the attitudes of New Zealanders to Israel shows four times as many Kiwis support Israel as are opposed to the Jewish State.

Staff Sgt. I. — the off-duty Israeli solider who shot the Palestinian terrorist who murdered three members of the Salomon family in Halamish last month — will receive a special commendation for his action, the IDF announced on Wednesday.

A stabbing attack was thwarted this evening (Wednesday) near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron.

The beaches of Israel have been designated as an important habitat for dolphins by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

TEL AVIV — Arab social media users have been divided regarding Israel’s announcement that it intends to close the offices of Qatari television station Al Jazeera while accusing the network of incitement to violence.

Palestinian man Muhammad Harou, who confessed last week to slaying his pregnant Israeli girlfriend, 29-year-old Michal Halimi, was charged with murder on Sunday in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court.

An attack helicopter on a training mission crashed on a base in southern Israel Monday night, killing the pilot and critically injuring a crew member, the army said.

Israeli police say a Palestinian teen stabbed an Israeli man at a supermarket south of Tel Aviv, leaving him severely wounded and hospitalized.

Israelis and Palestinians by a small margin still support a two-state solution but most do not think it can happen in the next five years, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday.

Israel is set to simultaneously launch two new satellites into space for the first time.

TEL AVIV — Jordanian media has increased its criticisms of Israel over a recent shooting incident at the Israeli embassy in Amman, where a young Jordanian who stabbed an embassy guard was shot and killed.

The Islamic Republic of Iran reportedly provided aid to Palestinian protesters demonstrating against new security measures at the Temple Mount last month.

The Military Court of Appeals rejected Sunday both appeals in the Elor Azaria trial, upholding the manslaughter conviction and 18-month sentence given to the former soldier who shot dead a neutralized Palestinian terrorist during his IDF service in Hebron.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s new budget now uses half of all its foreign aid for its Pay-for-Slay program rewarding terrorists and their families for carrying out attacks against Israelis.

A recent study ranked Israel’s health care system as the ninth-best in the world, the UK’s Business Insider reported.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was discharged from hospital on Saturday evening after undergoing “routine medical checks in hospital in Ramallah,” reported the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) is exploring the possibility of denying tax benefits to individuals or organizations that donate funds to the human rights group Amnesty International due to its recent campaign against Israel’s settlements.

Police barred men under the age of 50 from entering the Temple Mount for Friday prayers, saying they had received information extremists were planning violent protests in Jerusalem and the West Bank.