The Court stated it was rejecting the petition as final election results had not yet been published.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The filing of the construction plan is the first step in an approval process that is projected to take years before it receives approval, if it does.
"Israel is quickly becoming an energy powerhouse, an energy-exporting country."
Netanyahu made the announcement in response to a petition by the Movement for Quality Government (MQG) to the High Court of Justice. He will remain prime minister.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Everyone understands: Israel is in the midst of a government crisis that could lead to an economic and social collapse. It is indeed a real alarm.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tehran stonewalled on questions regarding its nuclear stockpiles for the first time since IAEA oversight went into effect in 2016, according to The Wall Street Journal.
By JNi.Media
President Jimmy Morales: "For us, the State of Israel has always been an important issue, as well as our good relations with it. We are returning the embassy to Jerusalem."
By JNi.Media
Prime Minister Netanyahu told his guests that today is an historic day that constitutes a milestone in the history of our people, our state and the alliance between us.
“We have come to see that the current envoy simply does not have the necessary backing of Netanyahu and Liberman to be able to bring the soldiers and civilians back."
By JNi.Media
Men and women from every walk of life – young and old, Jew, Christian, Muslim, religious and secular, men and women that have worked hard to build our nation.
"No continent, no country is safe from terrorism. We must stand against them together, to build a solid wall of the civilized world against the flood of radicalism."
At issue are three coalition proposals to curb the ability of the High Court of Justice to overturn laws.
Iran warned Israel Wednesday that it would exact retribution for a missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier in the week in which at least seven Iranian military officials were killed.
“Netanyahu will light a torch and will say a few words, but he will not deliver a speech,” Edelstein’s office said.
By JNi.Media
"The interest of global companies is very great. I have already met with many of them. They all want to come here, and rightly so. They see this as a new direction."
No early elections. Gil Hoffman reveals what happened behind the scenes and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's side behind the story today on Inside Israel Today.
How is it that a meeting between the US President and Israeli PM get overshadowed by other news? Gil Hoffman takes you behind the scenes in the criminal investigations of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Inside Israel Today.
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
During and after the war, the Holy Cross Mountains Brigade was accused of enjoying the support of the German occupation, and the Home Army, the national underground, described its members as being treasonous and openly fascist.
“I ask the prime minister to break the silence and adopt the proposal of the defense minister to legalize Havat Gilad. This is our consolation."
By JNi.Media
"This speech is one that we will listen to with utmost attention, and here in the Knesset we will make every effort to host Vice President Pence in the most proper and impressive manner."
By JNi.Media
The two Prime Ministers attended a ceremony to name a square in New Delhi in honor of the Indian soldiers who died in the fight to liberate Haifa from the Turks in 1918.
By JNi.Media
Of course, as far as hypocrisy is concerned, there was plenty to go around at Ben Gurion Saturday night.
Today on Inside Israel Today Gil Hoffman speaks with Jerusalem Post Opinion & Blogs Amy Spiro about why pop singer called Lorde decided to cancel her performance in Tel Aviv. And takes looks ahead to what could happen in Israeli politics in 2018.
But some Diaspora Jewish groups, particularly in North America, say ... they have no intention of lobbying on behalf of the Netanyahu government.
Israeli Arabs feel generally good in Israel, but “attitudes toward the institutions of the State of Israel are very critical.”
"We did not gather the Jews from all four corners of the earth in order to turn them into a nuclear target."
"This visit will ... will serve as an additional prop to support Israel‘s standing on the international stage."
“Imagine that radical Islamic forces were stationed on these hills. That would be a danger not only to us, but to all our neighbors."
“There are 40 people who voted in favor of a bill to close the newspaper Yisrael Hayom and they are accusing me of bribery and breach of trust? Is anyone investigating them?"
Mahmoud Abbas will never take any deal, no matter how sweet, because "there is no way he will allow himself to go down in history as the person who gave up on the 'right' of return."
“We must remain attuned to the concerns of the adjacent [Israeli] communities.”
"In bilateral relations they will be with Israel, but when it comes to multilateral relations they need to be okay with everyone."
Even the Arab Joint List party, which rarely criticizes excesses by the Arab world, had called the Syrian sarin gas attack a “war crime.”
Foreign ministry officials are bracing for whatever will result from the so-called Paris 'peace conference' -- knowing the outcome least likely to result is peace.
By Donny Fuchs
I condemn Bibi for his mishandling of the war because Am Yisoel and Eretz Yisroel are in danger.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
An open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
By Daniel Pipes
"Whoever tries to uproot us from the city of our forefathers will achieve the opposite."
By dvora
An armed Palestinian domain is merely a stepping-stone to the eventual escalation of conflict.
Here’s good reason for Israel’s saying that UNESCO has been hijacked by the PA agenda. ”Israel planning to raze Al-Aqsa to build ‘second temple,” Screams Saudi Gazette headline. PS: They can’t count.
“We won’t kid ourselves. The international community shouldn’t be tempted into wishful thinking,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday after the victory of relatively moderate cleric Hasan Rohani as Iran’s new president.. “We must remember that, anyway, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sets Iran’s nuclear policy. Iran will be tested by its deeds,” Netanyahu added. Likud minister […]
Jordan is jittery as Syrian chaos and bloodshed goes from worst to worst. Abdullah had no choice but to ditch hopes for Assad and let Israel use its air space to attack Syria with drones, if need be.
Netanyahu did the right thing in the right manner and with the right words.
Israel already has bombed at least once a Syrian attempt to ship anti-aircraft missiles to Hizbullah. Israel will use Obama’s visit to ask United States to do the work the next time, or at least back an Israeli strike.
The admission was included in the Sands' annual regulatory report published on Friday.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The White House has requested that at least 1,000 Israelis be in attendance for Obama’s public address.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released yesterday a Rosh Hashanah youtube message highlighting his government's achievements throughout the year, displaying one government achievement per month.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked the opening day of the school year telling students in Efrat that Efrat and Gush Etzion will always remain part of Israel.
At least seven passengers were killed and 30 injured in an explosion on a tour bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria in an apparent terror attack.
Following is an excerpt from the letter that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent to Shaul Mofaz on Tuesday: "I regret your decision to give up on an opportunity to make an historic change. After 64 years, we were very close to a substantial change in the division of the burden. I gave you a proposal […]