The Times of Israel reports: At a rapturously received show in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Thursday night, Elton John semi-dedicated his first hit, “Your Song,” to Israel and told the crowd there could have been “no nicer place” for him to open his eight-week European tour.
Israel on Friday night returned to the Palestinian Authority the bodies of two terrorists, one belonging to a West Bank man who killed an American tourist during a stabbing spree in Jaffa two months ago. Bashar Massalha, 22, from Qalqilya, murdered US citizen Taylor Force and injured 10 others in a rampage along the Jaffa boardwalk on March 8. He was killed by security forces at the scene of the attack, which coincided with a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden, who was meeting with Shimon Peres minutes away from the scene.
The Times of Israel reports: The Rocket Man is on his way to Tel Aviv. Sir Elton John will be the bloke in shades sitting onstage behind a grand piano in Yarkon Park next Thursday, May 26, for his fourth concert in Israel and his first in six years.
The Daily Beast has an excerpt from The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski. Jack Higgins, The Bormann Testament, a novel that was originally published in 1962 with a different title: The Testament of Caspar Schultz. Sitting in his comfortable living room
A $10 billion venture capital (VC) firm from China is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Israeli technology to use it directly to help China develop its own “smart cities.”
Haaretz reports: Sadiq Khan, who was sworn in as London’s first Muslim mayor last week, reiterated plans to lead a trade delegation to Israel.
The Times of Israel reports: Police in the Tel Aviv area are bracing for a surge in violence between rival organized crime groups following a Saturday night shooting that killed the son of a top crime boss.
Two Israelis were injured in a shooting on Saturday evening, after police arrived on the scene and discovered two people sitting in a car with bullet wounds to their person.The incident occurred in the north Tel Aviv neighborhood of HaMishtalah.
Mohamed Abrini, who claims to be “the man in the hat” seen in footage walking into the Brussels airport alongside two suicide bombers, said during recent investigations that his accomplices had made plans to attack travelers at the hub in Belgium who were flying to Tel Aviv among other destinations.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Singer-songwriter and producer Barry Manilow announced on Wednesday that he is planning to perform in Israel in June of 2016. In a photo appearing on his Facebook page, Manilow wrote, “Manilow. Israel. June. Will you be
The Times of Israel reports: Two pilots were lightly injured when a light plane made an emergency landing in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tel Aviv coast Sunday afternoon, police said. According to initial reports, the pilot crash-landed the plane
The Independent reports: A Holocaust survivor who was told to move seats on a flight so an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man would not have to sit beside a woman has said the rule is “not in the Torah”. Renee Rabinowitz is now suing Israel’s national airline
TEL AVIV – Despite the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s best efforts, a star-studded lineup of musicians are refusing to give in to the pressure not to perform in Israel. For the first time ever, rock icon Alice Cooper will perform
The Jerusalem Post reports: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Carlos Santana has announced a performance with his band at Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park on July 30. Santana, who rose to fame after an incendiary performance at the Woodstock Festival
The Jerusalem Post reports: A report of a suspected stabbing attack on an IDF soldier sent police and Shin Bet agents tearing across north Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon, until police determined there was no terror attack, and the so-called
The Times of Israel reports: A soldier said he narrowly escaped a stabbing attempt at the entrance to an airport in northern Tel Aviv on Tuesday, according to police. The alleged stabber is said to have escaped the scene in
TEL AVIV – U.S. citizens visiting Israel should maintain a heightened sense of alert, the U.S. diplomatic missions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem warned in a statement “During the last few months, and in particular over the past several days,
Reporting live from Tel Aviv, Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter Aaron Klein stated in a radio interview on Wednesday that stabbings have become the “new normal” in Israel. “Stabbing is the new normal,” stated Klein, an American citizen based in Israel as a foreign reporter.
The Times of Israel reports: Heavy metal rocker Alice Cooper Tuesday announced his “first ever” concert in Israel as part of his “Raise the Dead” 2016 tour. While the June 16 date at Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium is not listed
The Jerusalem Post reports: Vanderbilt graduate student Taylor Force, 29, was killed Tuesday evening by a Palestinian terrorist who went on a stabbing rampage in Jaffa in which 12 other people were wounded. “This horrific act of violence has robbed
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 Jerusalem Post reports: Tel Aviv police questioned an artist who inserted an Israeli flag into his rear end during a performance at the Haaretz Culture Conference on Sunday in Tel Aviv. Police said artist Ariel Bronz was released after questioning. The
The Independent reports: An 81-year-old retired lawyer whose family came to Israel after fleeing the Nazis during the Second World War is suing Israel’s national airline after staff moved her to another seat because an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man refused to sit
Ynetnews reports: Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took advantage of the unusually warm weather on Saturday to go out to nature and enjoy the bloom. Atop the Hermon Mountain, visitors enjoyed excellent conditions for skiing. About 120,000 Israelis visited parks and
Jennifer Lopez is facing a fierce Twitter backlash over her plan to perform in Israel this summer with pro-Palestinian activists attacking her on social media and demanding she cancel her concert tour.
Ynetnews reports: A young Arab man on Saturday afternoon stabbed and moderately wounded a 65-year-old woman at the street market in Rahat, a Bedouin-majority city in southern Israel. The attacker quickly fled. Police announced that the stabbing was likely a
Megastar singer and actress Jennifer Lopez will perform in Israel this summer, Ynet news reported. The 46-year-old songstress will perform a single show in Tel Aviv, marking her first concert for Israeli fans. J.Lo is joining other international pop stars
A passenger aboard a flight from Eilat to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on Friday attempted to open the door of the aircraft while it was in the air, Israel’s Channel 2 reported.
The Shin Bet on Wednesday released the full details of its investigation into Nashat Melhem, a terrorist who murdered three people in Tel Aviv this month, revealing recreational drug use, support for ISIS, and a bizarre message calling on US President Barack Obama to convert to Islam.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres was making an “excellent” recovery on Friday after treatment for a heart problem, his surgeon said. “His condition is excellent, the widening of the artery was successful,” professor
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel is facing conventional and unconventional combat challenges, which include missile and rocket threats of various ranges, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said during a meeting with visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Rob Work in Tel Aviv
The Times of Israel reports: Citing security fears, veteran rock ban Manfred Mann canceled its Israel concert, planned for Tel Aviv next Tuesday. Announcing the cancellation in a letter to the Tel Aviv show’s promoter, the band cited “ongoing problems
Start-Up Israel reports: One of the worst-kept secrets in the business world is the growing business and tech ties between Israel and the biggest Muslim country in the world – Indonesia. “There’s already a great deal of business going on between
The Jerusalem Post reports: Legendary pop crooner Pat Boone has been to Israel many times as an evangelical supporter of the country. But on March 1, the 81-year-old American icon will put his mouth where his money is, when he makes
The Jerusalem Post reports: Yehiyeh Ayash, the man known as “The Engineer,” was one of the founders of the Izzadin Kassam Brigades, which is the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. He was also one of the masterminds
An online pamphlet of unknown origin purporting to represent the Islamic State surfaced Saturday on numerous social media accounts belonging to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.
Ynetnews reports: A day after the week-long manhunt for Nashat Melhem ended with his death in Arara, details began to emerge about where he hid during that time and who may have helped him. Alongside the operation to catch Melhem,
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and other Palestinian groups declared Nashat Milhem a shaheed (martyr). The PA Ministry of Health initially added Milhem, who is an Israeli citizen, to its list of “martyrs” who were killed by Israelis
Ynetnews reports: “It’s our only solace, and the happy thing is that none of our own were scratched in the raid. I had no doubt that they’d reach him.” So said Dudu Bakal, whose son Alon Bakal was murdered by
TEL AVIV – One week after carrying out a deadly shooting attack at a Tel Aviv pub, the suspected gunmen, Nashat Melhem, was killed after raising a weapon to police forces in his hometown in northern Israel on Friday.