JERUSALEM (Israel Hayom) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday appointed several Knesset members to ministerial posts, after having resigned from his own ministerial posts following a petition to the Supreme Court. Netanyahu named Likud MK David Bitan agriculture minister, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) as Diaspora affairs minister, Likud MK Yifat Shasha-Biton […]

JERUSALEM (Israel Hayom) — U.S. Special Representative for the Middle East Avi Berkowitz arrived in Israel on Sunday for a series of discussions with top Israeli officials. This will be Berkowitz’s first visit to Israel since stepping in for Jason Greenblatt, who resigned as U.S. President Donald Trump’s emissary in November. The visit signals that […]

TEL AVIV (VINnews) — As strong rains continued to buffet Israel’s coastal region Sunday, more casualties were reported. A 71-year-old man drowned in the town of Binyamina after his car was swept along by floodwaters and he was trapped under a stream. Firemen worked for an extended period of time with tractors and cranes to […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel’s Blue and White Party announced on Sunday that it has the support of 65 MKs to immediately convene a committee to deliberate on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for immunity from prosecution in the three criminal cases facing him. Blue and White MK Avi Nissenkorn, who heads the Knesset Arrangements Committee, […]

WASHINGTON (JNS) — New changes to the U.S. administration’s visa policy targeting only Israelis reduces the period of time they can use visas for investment, work and study purposes in the United States, Ynet reported on Thursday. The relocation L1 visa document was reduced from 60 months to 48 months; the commerce type E1 visa […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support for the U.S. slaying of the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Netanyahu spoke Friday about the American airstrike in Baghdad that killed Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force, which operates a number of regional militias and is allied with terrorist groups targeting Israel, including Hezbollah […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two women who successfully completed an Israeli military tank course have filed a lawsuit demanding they be allowed to serve in the tank corps. In a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court, Osnat Levy and Noga Shina say the army’s refusal to let them serve as tank drivers is a violation of […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday extended the term of Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, just hours before his posting was set to expire. Danon, who was appointed in 2015 for a three-year term and whose posting has already been extended multiple times, will now stay in the […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not extend the term of Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Danon’s term officially expired on Tuesday, the same day that the announcement that his term would not be extended was made, Israel’s Channel 12 first reported. Danon’s term was supposed to end in August, […]

JERUSALEM (Israel Hayom) — A group of more than a thousand Israeli victims of Palestinian terror attacks on Monday filed an NIS 20 billion ($5.78 billion) lawsuit against the Jordan-based Arab Bank PLC at the Jerusalem District Court, claiming that the bank cooperated with, supported, assisted, funded and encouraged terrorist acts that killed hundreds of […]