JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s attorney general on Thursday formally charged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a series of corruption cases, throwing the country’s paralyzed political system into further disarray and threatening the long-time leader’s grip on power. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged Netanyahu with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three different scandals. […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tel Aviv will start providing public transportation on Shabbat. Beginning this weekend, public transportation will run in the city on Friday night and all day Saturday. The initiative, called “We move on weekends,” will have six routes as well as transportation to surrounding communities, including Ramat Hasharon, Givatayim, and Kiryat Ono. The […]

JERUSALEM(VINnews) — Yisrael Beitenu chairman Avigdor Liberman may not have succeeded in creating a unity government in Israel, but during a fiery political speech delivered Wednesday afternoon,  he succeeded in earning the condemnation of the entire political system in Israel with his inflammatory comments against Chareidi Jews and against the Satmar Rebbe. In his dramatic […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Last night’s meeting between Blue-And-White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Netanyahu only served to demonstrate the widening gap between the two leaders’ approaches. Gantz is convinced that as the leader of the largest party, he has effectively won the elections and therefore must be prime minister first and establish the government […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In response to rocket fire launched from Iranian targets in Syria on Tuesday, the IDF has launched an airstrike. According to reports, dozens of Iranian targets were hit by the IDF on Wednesday, according to military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Avichay Adraee. His full statement states, “Warplanes raided dozens of military targets belonging to […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The off-duty Israeli police officer who fatally shot an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager in a Haifa-area park will be charged with negligent homicide rather than manslaughter, the higher charge the victim’s family was seeking. The Israeli Prosecutor’s Office and the Police Internal Investigations Department told the family of Solomon Tekah, who was killed at […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — With a third election looming in less than a year, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are taking an 11th-hour shot at forming a unity government in Israel. The meeting will take place at 10 p.m. Tuesday, a day before Gantz’s mandate to form a government runs […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem issued a travel warning for visiting Americans in the aftermath of the U.S. announcement that the government does not consider the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank as illegal. The warning issued Monday said the visiting Americans could be targets of “individuals and groups […]

ALON SHVUT, West Bank (AP) – Israel’s prime minister traveled to the West Bank on Wednesday to celebrate the U.S.’s announcement that it does not consider Israeli settlements to be a violation of international law. Benjamin Netanyahu called the Trump administration’s declaration, which stepped back from four decades of U.S. policy and reversed the policies […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — As Israel approaches what would be its third election in less than a year, many Israelis and international observers are questioning the sustainability of the country’s complicated parliamentary system. Yet at the heart of Israel’s current political impasse lies not only its system of government, but also its justice system. Attorney General […]