Israeli envoy slams UN agency for discriminating between murder of ‘Israeli ctizens’ and ‘settlers’

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan sent a scathing letter to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres following statistics published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in which it differentiates between the murder of “Israeli Citizens” and “Settlers.” Read more

Yad Vashem slams Fox News host’s comparison of Dr. Fauci to Nazi Doctor Mengele

Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, reacted sharply after Fox News host Lara Logan compared Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, to Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, infamous for his experiments on humans. Read more

On anniversary of UN decision to recognize Jewish People’s statehood, UN holds solidarity event with Palestinians

On the 74^th anniversary of the United Nations decision to recognize the Jewish People’s right to statehood and the partition Plan on November 29, the UN held only a solidarity event with Palestinians. Read more

World Squash Federation cancels competition in Malaysia after it bans Israel

The World Squash Federation (WSF) announced Monday that the 2021 WSF Men’s World Team Squash Championship, which was scheduled to take place in Kuala Lumpur in December, has been cancelled after Malaysia refused to admit the Israeli team into the country. Read more

Israel ‘very disturbed’ by renewed nuclear talks with Iran, says PM Bennett

The nuclear talks between Iran and the major powers are slated to be renewed in the coming days in Vienna, and Israel “is very disturbed by the willingness to lift the sanctions and allow billions to flow into Iran in exchange for insufficient restrictions in the nuclear sphere,” stated Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Read more

Israeli envoy demands Security Council act against Hezbollah’s violations of its resolutions

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan sent an official letter of complaint to the Security Council and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in which he demanded that the UNSC strongly condemn Hezbollah’s violations of UN Resolution 1701 and take action against the terrorist organization. Read more

‘Heartbroken’ and ‘Appalled’: Diplomats respond to the fatal terror attack in Jerusalem

Diplomats and officials from around the world strongly condemned Sunday’s terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, in which Hamas terrorist Fadi Abu-Shkadem fired at Israelis on their way to the Kotel, killing Eli Kay and wounding four others. Read more

Shin Bet exposes extensive Hamas terror infrastructure, arrests over 50 terrorists in Judea and Samaria

Israel’s combined security services have uncovered in recent weeks a large-scale Hamas terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria, led by senior Hamas figures from abroad, which operated to carry out attacks, including suicide bombing, the Shin Bet security service revealed Monday. Read more

Eliyahu Kay, Oleh from South Africa named as Israeli murdered by Hamas terrorist

Eliyahu David Kaye, 26 and an Oleh (new immigrant) from South Africa, has been identified as the Israeli murdered by a Hamas terrorist in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning. Read more

Jerusalem terrorist was Hamas member, religious teacher

The terrorist who shot and killed an Israeli man and wounded four others in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday was identified as Fadi Abu Shahidam, a resident of the Shuafat refugee camp aged 42, affiliated with Hamas. Read more

Jerusalem: Terrorist shoots and kills 1 Israeli, wounds 3 in Old City

An Arab terrorist shot and murdered an Israeli man in his 30s and wounded three others at one of the entrances to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning. Read more

‘Wrong and unfair’: Hezbollah and terror organisations bemoan UK’s banning of Hamas in its entirety

Several terror organizations expressed “shock and dismay” after the UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel laid before the UK’s Parliament on Friday an order to outlaw the Hamas Islamist terrorist movement in its entirety from the UK. Read more

Fifth wave? COVID-19 transmission rate in Israel rising

Coronavirus (COVID-19) morbidity indices in Israel exhibited a worrying trend in recent days as the coefficient of infection (R) increased and reached 1.02, indicating a spread of the virus. Read more

Israel’s President Herzog has ‘positive’ talk with Turkey’s Erdogan after release of Oknin couple

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog spoke by phone on Thursday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following the release of the Israelis Mordy and Natali Oknin from Turkish custody late Wednesday night. Read more

Shin Bet arrests Israeli after he offered to spy on Defence Minister for Iran

Omri Goren, an Israeli citizen who was employed in housework and cleaning at Defence Minister Benny Gantz’s home, was arrested earlier this month after he attempted to contact Iranian elements and offer his services as a spy. Read more

First phone call between Israeli and Chinese presidents

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog spoke on Wednesday by phone with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, the first-ever phone call between the presidents of China and Israel. Read more

At donors conference, Israel warns UNRWA is the problem, not the solution

Several countries came together in Brussels yesterday to state political and financial support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as Israeli officials warned that UNRWA is the problem, not the solution and that it propagates antisemitism and terrorism in its classrooms. Read more

Israel dispatches senior diplomat to help in release of couple held in Turkey

Israel’s Foreign Ministry has decided to send Consular Division head Rina Djerassi to Istanbul on Monday to augment efforts to secure the release of the Israeli couple Mordy and Natali Oaknin, tourists who were arrested by Turkish authorities and are possibly facing espionage charges after taking a picture of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s residence. Read more

‘Cynical use of human rights’: PFLP operative convicted of fundraising for terrorism through civil organisation

Juana Rashmawi, a Palestinian Authority resident with Spanish citizenship, was convicted on Wednesday in a plea deal at the military court in Judea and Samaria after she admitted that she served as a fundraiser for an organization called the “Union of Health Work Committees” (UHWC). Read more

Israel’s ambassador to UK forced to flee violent students at London’s LSE

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom Tzipi Hotovely has been forced to flee London’s School of Economics and Political Science on Monday night after being violently assaulted by students. Read more

78 Arabs arrested in police’s largest arms bust in history

Around 1,600 Israeli police officers raided dozens of targets across Israel on Tuesday morning and arrested 78 major weapons dealers in the Arab sector, the largest operation of its kind against illegal weapons trafficking since the establishment of the state. Read more

Chief Of Staff: IDF ‘accelerating’ operational readiness to deal with Iran

The IDF is “accelerating” its readiness to contend with Iran’s nuclear and military threat to Israel while contending with six arenas simultaneously, IDF Chief of Staff Avi Kochavi told the Knesset. Read more

For the first time, Israel approves entry of hi-tech workers from PA

Israel’s Cabinet decided on Sunday to approve a quota of workers from the Palestinian Authority (PA) to work in the high-tech sector in Israel. Read more

Tourist groups can enter Israel without 3rd vaccine

The Corona Cabinet approved on Sunday evening a new outline that will enable groups of tourists vaccinated with two COVID-19 vaccines to enter Israel, even if more than six months have passed from the time they received the vaccine, and even if they have not received the third vaccine. Read more

Haley, Pence warn Israel not to rely on Biden

“Israel should not count on Biden to stop the Iran nuclear program,” Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the United Nations, warned, calling on Israel to defend itself. Read more

‘Important to regional stability’: Israel and Jordanian trade ministers meet

Israeli Economy Minister Orna Barbivai and Jordan’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Yousef Al-Shamali met on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea on Wednesday, the first such meeting in a decade. Read more

Wheelchair-bound Israeli minister left outside UN Climate Conference

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow was witness to an embarrassing incident on Tuesday when Karine Elharrar, Israel’s Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources, who uses a wheelchair, was left out of the conference due to accessibility problems. Read more

PM Bennett has historic first meeting with Bahrain’s Crown Prince

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett registered a historic moment on Tuesday during the United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow when he met with Bahraini Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the first Israeli prime minister to do so. Read more

Who is really polluting Judea and Samaria?

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh accused Israel’s “colonial settlements and their waste” as “Palestine’s most significant environmental dangers” in his address at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow on Tuesday, listing the various grievances against Israel’s supposed environmental policies. Read more

‘Hypocrisy’: Israel’s envoy slams UN support for PFLP-linked organisations

Israel’s Ambassador to the US and the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan dispatched on Tuesday a firm letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the Security Council after the Palestinian Authority (PA) sent two letters of complaint against Israel to the UN regarding Israel’s declaration of six supposed civil society organizations as terrorist organizations. Read more

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