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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has changed the name of his government to the State of Palestine, attempting to play on his new status as a non-observer state to get international recognition of his regional authority as a State of Palestine.
David HaIvri, spokesman for the Shomron Regional Council, reporting that wintry weather has wrought havoc in the biblical heartland of Samaria, knocking down construction projects and causing damage to buildings.
The North American and English aliyah organization Nefesh B’Nefesh, the Jewish Agency, and the Jewish National Fund have teamed up with the Ort Braude Academic College of Engineering in Karmiel to feature the artwork of immigrants from English-speaking countries to northern Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who issued a bold statement in support of construction of the E1 area next to Maale Adumim has now backtracked.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced his plans to build a massive 43-mile cement barrier between the picturesque Golan Heights and the Syrian border.
Rumors that Apple wants to acquire Israeli social navigation app developer Waze are false, according to a report by CNET.
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The Israeli documentary "The Gatekeepers" was named the best nonfiction film of 2012 by the National Society of Film Critics in the United States. The film, which features interviews with six former directors of Israel's Shin Bet security service, received the award on Saturday. The film critics' society is made up of 60 newspaper critics […]
A statement released by State Dept. spokesperson Victoria Nuland following Bashar al-Asad’s speech on Sunday said the speech was "yet another attempt by the regime to cling to power and does nothing to advance the Syrian people’s goal of a political transition. His initiative is detached from reality, undermines the efforts of Joint Special Representative […]
Storms and floods hit Israel, as the Kinneret rises.
EMET focuses its attention on educating members of Congress about issues crucial to Jews and to Israel.
Bennett turns the tables on a political ambush.
On Sunday afternoon, IDF forces arrested three suspicious Arabs at the Gush Etzion junction, averting a terror attack. All three were carrying knives, and during their interrogation admitted that they were planning on committing a terror attack when the IDF caught them. Speaking in a closed forum to his soldiers, Etzion brigade commander, Colonel Yani […]
The Jerusalem District Attorney's office decided on Sunday to close the file against the 13 year old boy who was their final suspect in the throwing of a firebomb that hit a Palestinian taxi in Gush Etzion in August. The prosecutor closed the case due to lack of evidence that the boy or his friends, whom they […]
Marking the 200th anniversary of the yartzeit of the Alter Rebbe - Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi who founded the Chabad movement - the Jewish Press' Yishai Fleisher interviewed one of the special emmissaries who have become the hallmark of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to talk about the man who started it all, what his passions were, and where Chabad is headed.
Palestinians attack Migdal Oz again with firebombs.
But the next Quartet meeting will be held in Cairo, where president. Morsi has close ties with Hamas.
Following the disturbances, about 30 residents arrived from the entire Shilo area to Esh Kodesh.
Arab rioters injured 11 Israelis and destroyed numerous farms over Shabbat inside the Aish Kadosh settlement.
Al Gore, former politician, "founder" of the Internet, and Global Warming Guru has just traded entree into 40 million U.S. homes for $100 million from the Qatari-Royal-Family-Owned Arab media conglomerate Al Jazeera. The operation will be called Al JazeeraAmerica. The deal has left many questioning its kosher bona fides. Perhaps the most traif aspect of […]
Hagel once told an employee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that she was a "[expletive] tool from AIPAC."
IDF to begin mass draft of Chareidim in August.
JERUSALEM – High-ranking Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu ministers, as well as Knesset members and political activists, are furious with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman for the flailing election campaign strategy orchestrated by Arthur J. Finkelstein, the noted New York Republican Party strategist.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Two major U.S. Jewish groups are at odds over the prospect of penalties for the Palestinians in the wake of their enhanced UN status.
City of Gold kept a perfect record and the top spot in the Red and Dr. Murrays Israel Basketball League, earning a 75-69 victory over BMT Alumni. Reigning MVP Yisrael Feld led City of Gold, with a combination of pin-point location assists and slashing drives to the hoop, to pace a 10-point halftime lead. BMT […]
The poll comes on the heels of another set of polls which claimed that Israelis supported the two-state solution by a two-thirds margin.
The poll numbers are shaky, but if they held until elections, even with the Likud-Beytenu's drop in seats, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would still most likely form Israel's next government.
Fatah’s new logo depicting Palestinian control over the entire area of the State of Israel is continuing to concern and outrage Jews around the world and in Israel, illustrating to many a lack of interest on the part of the PA in reaching a two state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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An 11-year-old New York girl was disqualified from the 2012 U.S. National Table Tennis Championships when she opted not to play her final match, which fell on Shabbat.
The Arab news network Al-Jazeera has acquired former US Vice President Al Gore’s Current TV.
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Israel's military prosecutor filed an indictment against the head of a Palestinian terrorist cell who organized the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv.
The Supervisor of Banks revealed Israel's highest and lowest-charging banks.
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A Dutch governmental agency advised a security firm to hire a Sabbath-observing intern after ruling that employers may not reject Jewish candidates on the basis of their refusal to work on the Jewish day of rest.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“I’ve come to sing here tonight to show my gratitude to all the Israeli soldiers who work so hard to defend the Jewish state.”
He soon realized that the plaintiff had taken advantage of him, spending the bulk of her time visiting relatives rather than with him.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The first IDF resolution was, naturally, to provide security for the people of Israel.
Pro-Palestinian activists recently called on Dutch musician Yuri Honing to refrain from playing at Israel's upcoming Red Sea Jazz Festival. In their letter, the anti-Israel group stressed such a move would be "in solidarity with the Palestinian civil society boycott call" of Israeli government-sponsored events aimed at "masking Israeli human rights violations by art and […]
The bounty is intended "to encourage our Muslim Ummah (nation), and to expand the circle of the jihad (holy war) by the masses."
A Press Statement from Philippe Reines, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State: Secretary Clinton was discharged from the hospital this evening. Her medical team advised her that she is making good progress on all fronts, and they are confident she will make a full recovery. She's eager to get back to the office, and we will keep you […]
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Talk of a two-state solution, while widely prevalent, is largely irrelevant.
Lower Court said he purchased "nonkosher" food items including cookies, soft drinks, coffee, tuna, and candy.
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe "Boogie" Yaalon, during a visit to the Mount of Olives Jewish community of Maale HaZeitim to discuss Likud’s plans for the future of Israel, sat down with the Jewish Press's Yishai Fleisher to talk about the state of Israeli security.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, makers of the Iron Dome short range missile defesne and Wind Jacket tank protection systems will hire 150 students from Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, according to a report by Globes online business magazine. Approximately 1,000 applications for the positions are anticipated. Chosen students will learn defense-specific engineering skills […]
By JTA
A law to ban the import or sale of animal-tested products went into effect in Israel.
By JTA
More than 2,000 people have donated funds to plant a grove of more than 3,000 trees in Israel in memory of the victims of the Newtown shooting.
By JTA
An Israeli restaurant opened in the heart of the old Jewish quarter of Krakow. Hamsa Hummus and Happiness Restobar opened recently in a historic building on Szeroka, the main square of the Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, in the Polish city. Hamsa is being called the first Israeli-themed restaurant in Krakow, and unlike most of the other […]
From the Prime Minister's Facebook profile, posted at approximately 8:20 Jerusalem time on January 1:
Arab rock attackers have entered their fifth day of targeting Jewish vehicles just a 3 minute drive from Jerusalem's Old City, using local minors to alert them as to which cars contain Jews so they can pelt them with stones and cinder blocks.
Police on Tuesday freed without restricting conditions Likud Knesset candidate Moshe Feiglin, after he was arrested in the morning on the Temple Mount, Israel's Reshet Bet radio reported. According to police, Feiglin prostrated himself on the ground and tried to pray. The police will recommend that he be charged for breaking the rules governing the […]
Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Friedman, the Sadagora Rebbe, who was the eldest rebbe of the Rizhin court, passed away on Tuesday morning, after complaining of not feeling well. After attempting CPR for about an hour, the rebbe's pulse came back and he was rushed to Ma'ayney Ha'Yeshua hospital in Bnei Brak. But in the hospital his […]
A special dedication ceremony culminated in a friendly basketball game between kids from New York and from the neighborhood.
Following a brutal rape, Tel Aviv residents demand the illegal aliens be expelled.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, a Nobel Prize winning biologist and centenarian who survived Nazi oppression in Italy, passed away in Rome.
Jerusalem police refused to provide protection after days of consecutive rock attacks on Jewish.
Israeli Professor Penelope Ur received a title of nobility from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of her work as a teacher of English and her efforts to promote friendship between Britain and Israel.
By JTA
The education minister of Israel responded to British condemnation of planned construction in eastern Jerusalem and accreditation of Ariel University Center.
By JTA
Federal prosecutors charged a New York woman with lying to federal agents during an investigation into an alleged scheme soliciting donations in the name of Newtown rampage victim Noah Pozner.
In the course of a follow-up exam today, Secretary Clinton's doctors discovered a blood clot had formed, stemming from the concussion she sustained several weeks ago. She is being treated with anti-coagulants and is at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital so that they can monitor the medication over the next 48 hours. Her doctors will continue to assess […]
"I am going to start an Intifada. They want me to betray the Palestinian cause. They want me to give up on our principles, and I will not do so."
By JTA
The Israel Free Loan Association has provided $1.5 million in interest-free loans to over 50 small businesses in southern Israel affected by the recent Gaza conflict.
By JTA
A Muslim Brotherhood official called on Egyptian Jews to return to Egypt and leave Israel to the Palestinians.
Formerly Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu participated in a candid interview with CNN, discussing his departure from observant Jewish life and his connection to his religion.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Waqf, a Jordanian Muslim religious body entrusted with the management of the Temple Mount, has been renovating the site for years.
Israeli former Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman was formally indicted on Sunday on charges of breach of trust and fraud, and could also be charged with moral turpitude.
At least 19 Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims were killed in a terrorist bombing of a convoy of three buses in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province.
A New York City man who was pushed in front of a NYC subway train has died, the second such fatality this month.
Emanuel Sheffer, the soccer coach who led Israel to the only World Cup finals in which it has ever participated, died on Friday at the age of 88.
The leaders of the Power Israel party, MKs Aryeh Eldad and Michael Ben Ari on Sunday sharply attacked the Supreme Court's decision to revoke the decision of the Knesset Election Committee and to approve the candidacy of MK Haneen Zoabi. Power to israel issued the following statement: "The High Court has become the home court […]
Israel's Supreme Court on Sunday ruled unanimously that MK Hanin Zoabi from the Balad party will be able to run to the 19th Knesset, despite the decision of the Knesset Elections Committee to disqualify her. Zoabi’s name became infamous in Israel after she took part in the attempted illegal invasion of secure waters by the […]
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The Israeli embassy in Washington described as baseless an Israeli newspaper report that Ron Dermer, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu, is set to replace Michael Oren as Israel's ambassador to the United States. The daily Makor Rishon on Friday reported that Oren has requested to end his tenure in the spring of […]
Press Statement Patrick Ventrell, Acting Deputy Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson We deeply regret Russia’s passage of a law ending inter-country adoptions between the United States and Russia and restricting Russian civil society organizations that work with American partners. American families have adopted over 60,000 Russian children over the past 20 years, and the vast majority of […]
Since the outbreak a few weeks ago within the Palestinian Authority, 190 arabs have been infected with swine flu also known as H1N1, and 9 have died so far.
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A Belgian court ordered a Jewish school for girls to admit two boys or face heavy fines. If the Benoth Jeruzalem school in Antwerp fails to admit the boys, it will have to pay $2,600 for every day that the two boys are not allowed to study there, a Belgian judge ruled on Dec. 21, […]
By JTA
Federal prosecutors charged a New York woman with lying to federal agents during an investigation into an alleged scheme soliciting donations in the name of Newtown rampage victim Noah Pozner. In an interview with NBC’s "Today" show, Nouel Alba, 37, of the Bronx, denied posing as an aunt of Noah and sending messages requesting donations. […]
By JTA
Ron Dermer, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to replace Michael Oren as Israel's ambassador to the United States, an Israeli newspaper reported. The daily Makor Rishon on Friday reported that Oren has requested to end his tenure in the spring of 2013, when he will have completed a four-year tenure. […]
Yesterday the activists clashed with security forces and prevented the evacuation of the Oz Zion residents.
According to IndexMundi.com, "home of the Internet's most complete country profiles," which contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources, the share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector has reached 49.5 of the overall sector. This compares to 48.3 in the United States, and only 46.9 in the United […]
Due to the overwhelming huge response and registration for the January 1 conference, it has been moved to a much larger venue.
The highly decorated Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf died in his home in Tampa, Florida. The cause of death was not immediately known. Known to his soldiers as "Stormin' Norman," General Schwarzkopf led some 540,000 U.S. and 200,000 allied troops in the first Gulf war that forced Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's army out of Kuwait in 1991. […]
By JTA
A Brooklyn fishmonger was indicted for throwing a cup of bleach in the face of a Chasidic rabbi who advocates for victims of sexual abuse in the haredi Orthodox community.
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Hawaii's governor named his Jewish lieutenant governor, Brian Schatz, to replace the late Daniel Inouye in the U.S. Senate.
A representative of the southern Iranian seaport of Bushehr is complaining that Russian women working at the nuclear development plan there are corrupting local Iranians with their immodest dress.
After 10 years of marriage, with 2 children, the wife began an affair with her female boss.
Syria’s Nadine Fahad has been named Miss Arab World 2012, according to a report in al-Arabiya. The beauty pageant was held in Cairo on Sunday.
Shouts and slurs erupted between Zoabi and MK Michael Ben-Ari of the new Otzma LeYisrael party and other nationalists who called her a terrorist and a traitor.
PA leader Rajoub: "The greatest Palestinian in history since Jesus is Yasser Arafat."
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
In the Middle East and North Africa, 21 regional leaders have Twitter accounts.
On Wednesday evening, a fire broke out in the Spa Center near Herzliya's Arena Mall which is in the Marina area. Five people were trapped in the building and rescued by firefighters. Three of the people rescued are in critical condition. Firefighters now have the fire under control.
JERUSALEM – Emboldened by Hamas claims of victory against Israeli forces in Gaza during Operation Pillar of Cloud, Hamas strongman Khalid Meshaal has ordered pro-Hamas militias across the West Bank to prepare for a military takeover of the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority under the guise of a “popular uprising” against Israel.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – On a wintry day at a small Iowa shul in November of 2003, John Kerry got all verklempt.
An industrial partnership between Chinese auto manufacturer Chery and the Israel Corporation – Qoros Auto Company – has manufactured its first automobile for market, the upscale compact sedan Qoros GQ3.
A suicide bomber detonated himself on Wednesday near the US army base Camp Chapman in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least three Afghans and injuring more.
Israel’s internal security service has arrested ten Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists for plotting to kidnap Israelis, according to a report by the AFP.
New National Health Basket Adds 88 Medicines and Treatments Covered by Insurance
The IDF, defenders of the Jewish state and flag, are finally going blue and white.
Professor Gideon Dagan, 80, professor Emeritus of Hydrology at the School of Mechanical Engineering in Tel Aviv University, was named the recipient of the Israel Prize in the field of Earth and Atmosphere Science for 2012 for his work in the field of hydraulics.
Likud-Beytenu punished for bad behavior, while inadvertently helping HaBayit HaYehudi again.
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Britain’s Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations reportedly has severed ties with a synagogue whose rabbi has been accused of inappropriate conduct with women. To date, no official charge has been filed with the police in this case. The British-Jewish umbrella organization took the extraordinary move on Monday by publishing a letter that said that Rabbi […]
By JTA
New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher said in an interview with Bolivian media that the reaction by the country's Jewish community to his jailing was "quite disappointing." Ostreicher, who had been jailed in Bolivia without charges for 18 months, said he believes the Jewish community is afraid of the government. "To be honest with you, the Jewish […]
By JTA
A Jerusalem building committee has approved the construction of more than 1,200 apartments in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem. Gilo is located in southern Jerusalem, beyond the pre-1967 Israeli borders and is considered a settlement by the international community. The approval late Monday by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee comes less than a […]
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A contractor who became the first Israeli to be extradited from the United States to Israel for tax evasion was sentenced to prison. Aharon Barashi, who was extradited from the U.S. last week, was sentenced Tuesday by the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court to 30 months in prison. He will also pay a nearly $16,000 fine. Barashi […]
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