Jerusalem – Israel’s Foreign Ministry has halted most diplomatic activity due to a budget shortfall. The ministry on Sunday announced the cessation of all expenditures, limiting the travel of diplomats around the world and in Jerusalem, the Kan public broadcaster reported. The new guidelines, ordered by the Finance Ministry’s accountant general, were issued due to […]

Jerusalem – Following numerous instances where volunteer first responders from United Hatzalah were physically attacked while responding to medical emergencies in the cities of Kfar Saba and Ra’anana, the organization has begun free self-defense training sessions for volunteers in these cities. The training course is a three-part series that gives the first responders the basic […]

Jerusalem – Israel is “very close” to launching a military campaign in the Gaza Strip in which the leaders of the terrorist organizations in Gaza will be “wiped out” and their forces “destroyed,” Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz said on Sunday. Katz’s remarks followed a significant uptick in tensions between Israel and the terrorist forces […]

Jerusalem – In a strategy reminiscent of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, Israel’s prime minister is preemptively claiming to be a victim of electoral fraud as the country prepares to head to elections. In a Facebook video Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused his opponents of conspiring to “steal” the election. He also pushed through […]

Jerusalem – Israeli jets hit a Hamas naval equipment depot and two aerial operations “military centers” on Saturday, after an armed drone entered Israeli airspace from the Gaza Strip earlier in the day, according to a statement by the Israel Defense Forces. The cell responsible for launching the drone was also targeted, according to the […]

Jerusalem – An Israeli teenager was seriously injured on Saturday morning when he was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant during a visit with his father to a dentist near the Palestinian city of Qalqilya in Samaria. Liber Perez, 17, sustained multiple stab wounds to his upper body in the attack, while his father, Yosef Perez, […]

Warsaw – Israeli students spending a semester in Warsaw were attacked as they left a nightclub in the city. Two of the students required hospitalization after the early Saturday morning attack. The details of the attack were posted on Facebook by Barak Kashpizky, the twin brother of one of the injured Israelis. Yotam Kashpizky, who […]

Jerusalem – Miriam Adelson said that Sara Netanyahu told her to defend her husband, Israel’s prime minister, against critics or be responsible for Israel’s destruction, an Israeli television channel reported. Adelson, the publisher of the Israel Hayom daily and wife of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, said this sometime after January 2017 during questioning by police […]

Jerusalem – The recently published study “Israel, Jews and Peace in Palestinian Authority Teachers’ Guides” by Dr. Arnon Groiss of the Center for Near East Policy Research showed that Palestinian teachers’ guides promote an attitude towards the “other” based on delegitimization, demonization and war indoctrination instead of peace education. Aimed to check the attitude of […]

Jerusalem – A private Israeli company on Tuesday inaugurated the largest solar project in the country, reported the Israeli financial daily Globes. Located in the Negev Desert, the Ashalim solar-energy project is the size of a small town, and is currently producing enough energy to power an estimated 70,000 households, according to the report. Shikun […]