Israeli Minister suspected of intervening in case of alleged Australian sex abuser Malka Leifer questioned again
Israeli Deputy Minister of Health Yaacov Litzman was questioned by the police on Thursday and again on Sunday on suspicion that he intervened on behalf of alleged Australian sex abuser Malka Leifer and pressured psychiatrists into declaring her unfit for extradition. Read more
Arabs seize control of and illegally build at holy archaeological site
Arab residents of the village Nabi Samuel have seized control of the Tomb of the Prophet Shmuel (Samuel) and the nearby archaeological site, and have begun to pave a new and illegal parking lot while destroying valued archaeological findings. Read more
Hamas, Pro-Palestinian orgs side with Malaysia’s boycott of Israeli para-swimmers
January 14, 2019 by TPS-IL
The Malaysian government announced last week that it would deny Israeli para-swimmers visas for the 2019 World Para Swimmers (WPS) Championship slated to take place in Kuching in July, prompting the International Paralympic Committee to intervene. Read more
Israel unveils ‘Dare to Dream’ logo for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest
The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation unveiled yesterday the official logo for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest that will be held in Tel Aviv in May. Read more
Israel to demand US$250 billion from Arab countries for Jewish property left behind
Israel is preparing to demand compensation from several Arab states and Iran which forced Jews to leave after 1948 and following the establishment of the State of Israel, Israel’s Hadashot TV reported. Read more
UNRWA tweets, then removes post glorifying PFLP terrorist
December 26, 2018 by TPS-IL
UNRWA, the UN refugee agency for Palestinians, deleted a tweet on Monday that had glorified a terrorist, with the organization blaming “brief, unauthorized access” to its Twitter account for the incident. Read more
Netanyahu, Trump discuss Syria following US withdrawal announcement
December 21, 2018 by TPS-IL
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke with United States President Donald Trump Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria. Read more
Palestinian killer of British exchange student to get away with 18 month sentence
December 21, 2018 by TPS-IL
Jamil Tamimi, a Palestinian resident of east Jerusalem who stabbed a British exchange student to death on the Jerusalem Light Rail in April 2017, will serve only 18 months in jail after reaching a plea bargain with prosecutors who were concerned he could escape punishment altogether as he suffers from mental illness. Read more
Ashkelon hacker sentenced to ten years prison over US bomb threats
A 19-year-old Israeli-American teenager has been sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison and fined NIS 60,000 (A$22,000) after being convicted in June on multiple counts of bomb threats to airports, schools and Jewish centres in 2016 and 2017. Read more
Netanyahu takes Defence Ministry: says now not time for early elections
November 19, 2018 by TPS-IL
Now is not the time to go to early elections while Israel is amidst one of the “most complex” security situations it has known in its history, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday evening at a press conference in Tel Aviv as he declared he would take up the post of defence minister vacated by Avigdor Liberman last week, when he resigned over the government’s Gaza policy throwing the coalition into crisis. Read more
Man killed, two seriously hurt in direct rocket hit in Ashkelon
IDF hits 80 targets in Gaza after night of rocket fire
October 28, 2018 by TPS-IL
The IDF struck some 80 terrorist targets in Gaza overnight in response to 30 rockets fired at Israel, a military spokesman said early Saturday morning Read more
IDF, civil search and rescue units head to Jordan to assist in flood rescue efforts
October 26, 2018 by TPS-IL
IDF and civil rescue teams have been dispatched to Jordan after a bus carrying 37 schoolchildren and seven teachers was swept away by flash floods on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea. Read more
Israel’s UN envoy accuses B’Tselem head of ‘collaborating with the enemy’
IDF prepares to demolish home of terrorist who killed Ari Fuld
September 17, 2018 by TPS-IL
The IDF in conjunction with Shin Bet has raided the home of the 17-year-old terrorist, Khalil Jabarin, who killed well-known Israel activist Ari Fuld on Sunday morning in Gush Etzion. Read more
Kotel workers removing notes ahead of high holidays
August 31, 2018 by TPS-IL
Notes lodged between the stones in the Kotel have been removed…and transferred to the Mount of Olives. Read more
UNHRC head of Gaza inquiry resigns
August 24, 2018 by TPS-IL
The UN Human Rights Council chairman heading up the inquiry into events on the Gaza border in recent months resigned on Wednesday due to “personal circumstances.” Read more
Public broadcaster backs down over Eurovision deposit, contest to take place in Israel
Israel will host the Eurovision Song Contest after the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC) and the Finance Ministry reached a compromise on Tuesday on a 12 million euro deposit required by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in order to obtain the production rights for the 2019 competition. Read more
Netanyahu: Arab demonstrators want to see end of Israel as Jewish Nation State
The Arab demonstrators who raised Palestinian flags at Saturday night’s protest against the Nation State Law “want to annul Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at the weekly Cabinet meeting, yesterday. Read more
Netanyahu: Israel won’t accept anything less than full Gaza ceasefire
August 13, 2018 by TPS-IL
Israel will not accept anything less than a complete ceasefire with Gaza, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting yesterday, while a senior minister said that the option of toppling Hamas was inching ever closer. Read more
Head of the Sderot Yeshiva talks of the rocket attacks – a video report
August 12, 2018 by TPS-IL
Rabbi Dov Fendel, Head of the Sderot Yeshiva speaks about the dozens rockets launched by Hamas from Gaza and the damages to the city of Sderot in southern Israel. Read more
IDF airstrike demolishes Hamas building in Gaza City
August 10, 2018 by TPS-IL
IDF jets have demolished a five-storey building in Gaza City used by Hamas’ internal security apparatus, a military spokesman said Thursday evening. Read more
Foreign worker wounded as rocket barrage continues to pound Gaza belt
August 9, 2018 by TPS-IL
Five people in the Gaza Belt region were wounded, including one seriously, as a missile barrage from the Gaza Strip that began Wednesday afternoon continued overnight. Read more
Netanyahu: Nation-state law necessary to ensure israel’s Jewish future
The controversial Nation-State Law was necessary in order to guarantee Israel’s future as a Jewish country, but the measure does not detract from individual civil rights, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the security cabinet yesterday. Read more
50,000 turn out in Tel-Aviv to support Druze call for equality
August 6, 2018 by TPS-IL
Navy intercepts two protest ships trying to break Gaza blockade
July 30, 2018 by TPS-IL
Israel naval vessels intercepted two protest ships attempting to break the maritime barricade of the Gaza Strip Sunday and escorted them to the Ashdod port, the IDF said in a statement. Read more
Netanyahu: Israel will not tolerate ‘spillover’ from Syrian civil war
July 25, 2018 by TPS-IL
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning Tuesday that Israel will “not accept any… spillover into our territory” by warring parties in Syria, and cautioned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that Israel views the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement with Syria as inviolate. Read more
Stone falls from Western Wall
July 24, 2018 by TPS-IL
Knesset ratifies Breaking the Silence law banning group from schools
July 17, 2018 by TPS-IL
Prince William at Western Wall: ‘May the God of Peace Bless this Region’
June 29, 2018 by TPS-IL
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Thursday, as he concluded a a five-day Middle East tour that also took place in Jordan and the Palestinian territories. Read more
