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MK Glick: I believe COGAT's Arab demographic figures like I believe Peres is still leading in the polls.
The only thing the police did not say in their angry response, was how much they actually spent on the investigations so far.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman authorized IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim to sell all the IDF's Chametz to a non-Jew.
American Jewish organizations had high hopes for the United Nations and actively promoted its establishment in 1945. It was not long, however, before its limitations and biases began to emerge.
The failure by the social media networks to enforce the prevention of terror-related content on their sites is, in fact, a direct violation of the Antiterrorism Act
Barkat announced he won't be running for a third term as Jerusalem's mayor.
By Bennett Ruda
Tsvi Misinai, a former hi-tech pioneer who has researched what he claims are the Jewish roots of the Palestinian Arabs. Who knows, maybe they will claim Israeli citizenship under the 'Law of Return'
By JNi.Media
Prime Minister Netanyahu was more amused than angry in his response tweet: "The time has come to change its name to the Council for Decisions against the Only Democracy in the Middle East."
By BESA CENTER
he multidimensional complexity with which national leaders must contend is a necessary condition for effective strategic decision-making. On many occasions, it requires that those leaders ignore, or even act in contravention of, the advice of the professional echelon.
Military drills simulate what the Israel Defense Forces will face in a new kind of ground combat in Gaza – a kind that will inevitably involve civilians amid general chaos.
By JNi.Media
Only one tenth of one percent of Poles turned millions of Jews into the hands of the Nazis, robbed them, took their homes and murdered them in well documented pogroms, during and after the war.
Former Defense Minister MK Amir Peretz tells his part in the story leading up to the attack...
The operation to destroy the reactor, code-named “Operation Out Of The Box” was carried out by fighter jets following an intensive intelligence operation over a continued period of time, and removed a nuclear threat from Israel and the entire region.
Israel is ranked as the world’s eleventh most happy nation. It is also one of the most powerful and innovative countries in the world. When you know the Israeli People you know why
Many observers have said that Israel would be better off with a fully volunteer, professional army. Paradoxically, some of the best things in Israeli life come from the years of compulsory servitude dictated by universal conscription
Modern-day anti-Semites channel their Jew-hatred into the more politically correct avenue of so-called anti-Zionism. By conflating Zionism with racism and alleged human rights abuses, they attempt to delegitimize the very existence of the state of Israel.
The victim was stabbed in the upper body by an Arab terrorist, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on Sunday afternoon.
The terrorist is dead. The victim is seriously wounded.
If the U.S. president doesn’t do anything more than declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the embassy, the Israelis would deem it sufficient.
By JNi.Media
"We're living in a topsy-turvy world. Instead of arresting the Arabs, the Hebron police arrests the victim and confiscates his weapon."
Five people were hit by the terrorist...
Zionism does not want the Old City of Jerusalem. Trump understands that and now we are beginning to hear hints of his Peace Plan. What does his plan include? The internationalization of Jerusalem--We get the embassy and we lose Jerusalem, G-d forbid. That is the danger.
Naftali Bennett surprised Miriam Peretz at home, and surprised her again when he informed her that she is receiving the Israel Prize.
The U.S. military said the drill served as a dress rehearsal for a joint response to an Iranian missile attack on Israel.
The embassy issue shared an important structural similarity with the Iran deal: The president must sign periodic waivers to keep either deal alive. Consequently, moving the embassy to Jerusalem turned out to be the perfect issue to show that Trump really would defy the world and nix the Iran deal
It’s a dangerous game: Iran wants to force Israel into a state of perpetual check; in other words, paralysis before death.
Palestinian statehood & a secure Israel are mutually exclusive goals. This was always the accepted wisdom in Israel - until the discourse was hijacked by the tyrannical diktats of politically correct dogma
During the 2016-17 school year, 18 percent of Israeli elementary school age children were obese.
By BESA CENTER
The Eastern Mediterranean has entered a new period of high volatility, with Israel and Greece in the eye of the storm. Both countries are facing an upgraded strategic challenge from Turkey and Iran. This is not simply an interstate problem but a broader crisis that will influence the future geostrategic physiognomy of the Eastern Med.
Israel integrated its brothers and sisters from the Arab and Muslim world. The Arab world put its Palestinian brothers and sisters in refugee camps, treating them as political pawns — and festering sores —in its persistent war against the Jewish state.
By JNi.Media
If the Gerrer Rebbe sticks to his guns about running the full vote on the bill to end before ever tending to the budget bill, it would effectively spell the end of Netanyahu's coalition government.
By JNi.Media
Putin claimed Russia did not possess the tools nor the will to meddle in elections.
By JNi.Media
Villa, along with Cecil Skotnes, Cecily Sash, Giuseppe Cattaneo and Sydney Kumalo, made up the artist group “Amadlozi” (Zulu for “ancestors”) for the conscious appropriation of African sculptural traditions.
The State of Israel’s identification with Jewish nationhood is under attack from large parts of the international community, and from Israeli Arabs, Palestinians, post-Zionist Jews, and anti-Jewish Jews. The “Jewish” side of the formulation “a Jewish and democratic state” is under internal assault as well.
The first reason that so many deal-makers have failed is that peace is never negotiated and is always imposed by the side that wins a war. There is not any instance in history, which is primarily a narrative of countless wars, in which an outsider has imposed peace on unwilling belligerents.
Negotiating with his security detail, Bibi said, "What the heck, I'm the Prime Minister!" and stepped out from behind the podium and took control of the entire stage to a loudly cheering audience.
By JNi.Media
Orly Levy-Abekasis, 45, is the daughter of former Likud Minister and kingmaker David Levy, who championed the downtrodden Jews from Arab countries.
Everyone thinks war is unavoidable, and most people understand, at least on an intellectual level, that this war is going to be one of the toughest in Israel’s history.
Israel is approaching a point when it must decide to destroy enemy capabilities, rather than attempting to deter the enemy from using them.
4 people have been wounded.
By Harold Rhode
The Israelis and Americans should stop worrying about who will lead the Palestinians, and instead spend time thinking about how Israel and America can address the civilizational war engulfing the entire region.
By JNi.Media
It appears that Poles are convinced the world owes them an apology for their collaboration with the Nazis as well as for murders of Jews they initiated themselves.
The Palestinian Authority leadership promised, in the Oslo accords, to disband all terrorist groups, seize their weapons, and outlaw them – in short, to put them out of business. How can it be that, 23 years after the PA took over sole control of Bethlehem, Islamic Jihad still has active terrorist cells in and around the city?
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WAFA reports: Hundreds of fanatic Jewish settlers walked around the old town of Hebron, where they are concentrated, banging drums and shouting anti-Palestinian slogans.
When it comes to the issue of Polish anti-Semitism, Europe is suddenly at a loss for words. This suggests that it is not merely ineptitude at work.
By JNi.Media
The soldiers were found to be suitable for the course and have been approached by their commanders to become tank commanders, but gave up the opportunity for fear of degrading their religious standards.
By Bassam Tawil
It is time to listen carefully to what the Palestinians are saying -- in Arabic -- to understand that the conflict is not about Jerusalem and not about settlements. They want Israel removed from the planet.
The unrelenting drive to bring an indictment—any indictment—against Netanyahu has long exceeded the bounds of reasonable law enforcement
"The professor proposed he apply for a position at the Turkish defense ministry, but his CV was rejected because he is a Jew."
Netanyahu’s Munich speech in which he gives Iran a warning was denounced as a provocation. But the real alert is to a Trump administration still asleep at the wheel on Syria.
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The Trump administration is considering an offer from pro-Republican billionaire Sheldon Adelson to pay for part of a new embassy in Jerusalem. Rumors put at the size of Adelson's donation at half a billion dollars.
By JNi.Media
When she became Justice Minister, in 2015, Shaked set out to reverse the judicial revolution of former Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak.
By JNi.Media
“It's hard for me to see how they would want” a single state, which is why both sides "are pushing toward a two-state” solution.
By BESA CENTER
A creative solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must start with appreciating the advantages of the hybrid spatial model that has emerged in the West Bank, notably the governmental powers granted to the Palestinian Authority as far back as January 1996 in Areas A and B, and discarding the stillborn paradigm of total separation.
By JNi.Media
Another explanation to the Russians' decision to transfer the SU-57 to the Middle East might be their concern, even panic, over the US Air Force bombing of a Russian convoy which killed hundreds of mercenaries.
What exactly are American celebrities endorsing with the embrace of Palestinian teen terror supporter Ahed Tamimi?
No US peace plan would comply with Palestinian demands. Abbas wants 100% of the territories Israel secured in 1967-- the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.; Hamas is demanding 100% of everything, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Recently, Pres. Trump has repeatedly indicated he intends to pressure Israel to make yet more concessions to the Palestinian Authority. I wonder why pro-Israel voices have not been expressing concern about this development.
By JNi.Media
The experiment was carried out Monday morning in cooperation with the US Missile Defense Agency. In light of Monday's success, an interception test using a real target will be carried out this year.
Mr. Zarif, do you recognize this? You should. It's yours. You can take back with you a message to the tyrants of Tehran: Do not test Israel's resolve.
The rocket alerts that began at 2:30 AM, may have been set off by the Gazans shooting at the IAF aircraft.
Following the surgery, two are still in serious condition and are now in the ICU, and two are in moderate condition.
When Lori Alhadeff screamed at a camera from CNN and demanded that President Trump, “Please do something, do something, action, we need it now,” Americans instinctively sympathized with the grieving parent.
The rocket alert sounded at least 8 times in the space of a half-hour...
By JNi.Media
Of Netanyahu's three other partners, the only real threat is posed by Bennett. Kahlon is constantly shown by the polls to be losing seats in the next elections, and Liberman cannot rise above his faction's current six seats if his life depended on it.
By JNi.Media
The bill offsetting terrorist salaries would deduct those hundreds of millions of dollars from the money due the PA, and, if Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) gets his way, move these funds to Israeli terror victims.
Mention the word “Jerusalem,” which is derived from the word “peace,” and anything but peace comes to mind. Yet the city of Jerusalem is safer by far than San Francisco, thanks to good policing and traditional life among both the Jewish and Arab populations.
"We need capital punishment, or at least radically more difficult prison conditions, and to prevent them from receiving anything above the bare minimum."
By JNi.Media
This is the second prime minister in a row to become entangled in corruption charges, the first one, Ehud Olmert (Kadima) ended up serving time.
Genuine progress in the Arab-Israeli conflict will not come about by the amount of land Israel cedes, but by the degree Israel’s neighbors embrace education for peace with Israel
The court said that since Tamimi is a minor, a trial behind closed doors is “in her best interests.”
“Today, nobody remembers President Reagan’s sanctions, but we are left with full Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.”
By BESA CENTER
Abbas’s blatantly skewed account of the nature of Zionism and the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict should bring Israel’s policymakers and opinion shapers to enunciate anew the story they tell their own people and the world at large.
By JNi.Media
"The imposition of legal sanctions is proportionate when the state is interested in defending itself against a boycott of civilians," the justice said.
According to Israeli military assessments, the LAF is increasingly coming under the sway of the Iranian-backed terror organization Hezbollah, which dominates Lebanon politically and militarily.
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Russian Ambassador to Iran said a visiting delegation is discussing "certain practical aspects of the project to reconfigure the Fordow reactor."
Israel’s plan to deport illegal infiltrators hit a nerve in America where Jews sacralized the immigrant experience. The analogies to Jewish refugees and the Holocaust are resonating with American Jews.
By JNi.Media
Sending in the drone may have been a planned Iranian provocation, expecting that shooting this many rockets at the incoming Israeli planes would hit at least one.
By JNi.Media
On Wednesday and Thursday, the PM's office has reportedly been applying severe pressure on Kisch to take his bill off the committee's agenda for Sunday.
The notion that Arab states can be relied upon to safeguard Israel’s security in a theoretical peace deal is a a pipe dream. Far from the Arabs protecting Israel, the reality is that Israel protects them.
By JNi.Media
Since the Met itself did not send out its own thugs to bargain down terrified Jewish refugees out of their dwindling riches, it is OK for the museum to continue to display the million dollar artwork.
By Bennett Ruda
If being neutral is the equivalent of being anti-Israel, it could be that being openly pro-Israel--like Trump-- could be the only way to be that "honest broker" for peace
The terrorist stabbed one of the guards in the arm at the entrance to the town...
By Mida
The bill, to be signed into law by Poland's President, will make Poland a mockery in Europe and place it closer to the provinces of Putin and Erdogan and create a completely unnecessary crisis with Israel.
Jarar was the last remaining member of the Jenin-based terror cell who had not yet been captured or killed.
By Bennett Ruda
Palestinian Arabs need to face the consequences of losing a war. Well, what about facing the consequences of losing an election, or of not even having one. Here too, an artificial situation is being propped up by the EU and others in the West.
The security footage from the Ariel terror attack in which Itamar Ben-Gal was murdered has been released.
Itamar Ben-Gal, from Har Bracha was a father of four.
Work is currently being carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which has been contracted to establish the foundation for the new plaza.
"Returning to the Mountain" hopes that if enough people file complaints the Waqf can be deterred.
Ever wonder why polls consistently show that a large portion of the Israeli public supports creating a Palestinian state?
Netanyahu: Whoever thinks that through the reprehensible murder of a resident of Havat Gilad, a father of six, that he can break our spirit and weaken us, is making a bitter mistake.
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According to an IDF source, in addition to the soldiers, IAF planes will be dropping heavy equipment, vehicles, ammunition, and supplies.
Trump must put the Palestinians on notice - there will be no more weakness, no more concessions.
By JNi.Media
The new Egyptian dependence on Israel to maintain the integrity of their borders is diminishing Egypt's role as independent broker in the Middle East peace negotiations.
By JNi.Media
"Let the state will indemnify us and return the money earmarked for the development of the city, or we will collect it as required by law."
By JNi.Media
"This basic law seeks to anchor the right of those who wish to dedicate themselves to a meaningful period of Torah study to the removal of other obligations ... such as security service and voluntary national service.
By Mida
Israel, like any sovereign country in the world, has the right to determine who may enter its borders and is authorized to remove unwanted violators of its borders from its territory