50,000 turn out in Tel-Aviv to support Druze call for equality

August 6, 2018 by  

Over 50,000 people flooded Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to protest the controversial nation-state law. The demonstration, called by the Druze community, highlighted the ongoing dispute between minority communities and the government.

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Navy intercepts two protest ships trying to break Gaza blockade

July 30, 2018 by  

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  

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  

A one-ton stone dropped out of the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday.

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Knesset ratifies Breaking the Silence law banning group from schools

July 17, 2018 by  

The Knesset ratified the so-called “Breaking the Silence Law” overnight between Monday and Tuesday, giving Education Minister Naftali Bennett the authority to prevent organisations that “act against the IDF” from addressing school groups or entering state-funded schools.

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Prince William at Western Wall: ‘May the God of Peace Bless this Region’

June 29, 2018 by  

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

Netanyahu corrects UK over royal visit to ‘Occupied Territories’ in Jerusalem

June 25, 2018 by  

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a veiled rebuke to the United Kingdom Sunday less than 48 hours before Prince William was scheduled to begin the first-ever official visit to Israel by a member of the British royal family, after Kensington Palace listed Jerusalem’s Old City as “Occupied Palestinian Territories” in the itinerary for the trip which will also take in the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. Read more

Strategic Affairs Ministry unveils BDS ‘Map of Hate’

June 24, 2018 by  

The Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy Gilad Erdan has revealed a map of the network of ties between 42 of the most prominent BDS organisations in the world and their ties with terrorist organisations Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Read more

Hamas paid parents of Gaza baby to lie and blame Israel for death, says cousin

June 22, 2018 by  

Hamas paid the parents of an eight-month old baby who died of a blood disorder to say that she had been killed as a result of tear gas fired by IDF soldiers during riots along the Gaza border, states an indictment filed Thursday at the Beer Sheva District Court against a Palestinian who was caught attempting to infiltrate the border and is related to the family. Read more

Disgraced former Israeli minister Gonen Segev charged with spying for Iran

June 19, 2018 by  

Former Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and MK Gonen Segev was arrested last month by the Israel Security Agency and indicted on charges of aiding the enemy in time of war and espionage against the State of Israel, the Shin Bet revealed yesterday. Read more

Hamas threatens Israel with thousands of burning kites

June 15, 2018 by  

Hamas warned that it would dispatch some 5,000 burning kites into Israel from the Gaza Strip to coincide with Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.

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Haredim, Reform both say will fight conversion proposal

June 4, 2018 by  

Non-Orthodox groups were guardedly optimistic about a proposal by former Shas MK Moshe Nissim Sunday to create a to create a national conversion authority that would aim to streamline conversion to Judaism by taking the subject out of the hands of the Chief Rabbinate. Read more

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