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Despite flurry of fresh promises, Palestinians skeptical elections will happen

Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2020

After numerous public pledges to bring about the first Palestinian national elections in 14 years, the possibility that residents of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will head to the ballot boxes appears to have petered out,…

Shock Israeli Poll Shows Support for Netanyahu Cratering Amid Coronavirus Protests

Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2020

A new poll rocked the Israeli political establishment on Tuesday, showing that support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party appeared to be cratering, while his longtime rival for the hearts and minds of rightists, Yamina chief Naftali…

In first, Israel charges patient with spreading coronavirus

Posted on Monday, October 5, 2020

An Israeli man was charged on Monday with spreading coronavirus in what looks to be the country's first case of its kind.

Israel may be first to deploy new 23-minute virus test, defense minister says

Posted on Sunday, October 4, 2020

Israel will be the first country in the world to try out an experimental new coronavirus test that promises to deliver a diagnosis within 23 minutes, the defense minister said Sunday.

2,000 year-old Jewish ritual bath uncovered in the Galilee

Posted on Saturday, October 3, 2020

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old mikveh (a Jewish ritual bath) in the Galilee region of Israel, CBN News reported on Thursday. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said the mikveh was discovered among the ruins of an ancient Jewish…

Lebanon says framework agreed for Israel maritime border talks

Posted on Thursday, October 1, 2020

Lebanon's parliament speaker said on Thursday that a framework had been agreed for talks with Israel to end a long-running maritime border dispute between the two nations that are formally at war.

US Receives First Iron Dome Missile Defense System from Israel

Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Israel has long praised its Iron Dome missile defense system for protecting millions of Israelis from enemy rocket fire.

UAE builds on Israel deal with military, diplomatic push

Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2020

The United Arab Emirates is making a bid to become a defense powerhouse in the Middle East less than two months after striking a historic deal to normalize relations with Israel, bulking up its military as it seeks…

Israel has not ruled out pre-emptive strike on Iran

Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Israeli Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel is not ruling out a preliminary strike against Iran, the Jerusalem Post reports. The PM made his statement during a memorial service for those who died in the Yom Kippur…

Hezbollah’s ticking time bomb: Netanyahu reveals terror group’s weapons warehouse

Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Hezbollah is keeping a weapons storage site located in a civilian neighborhood precariously set next to a gas factory in Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

Yom Kippur passes peacefully as prayers held outside

Posted on Monday, September 28, 2020

Israel spent the Yom Kippur fast day in lockdown due to the high number of patients.

Israel braces for Yom Kippur under strict lockdown, PM urges Israelis to avoid mass prayer services

Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2020

The Health Ministry on Saturday said it was very concerned that upcoming Yom Kippur prayer services on Sunday evening may lead to a large spike in new coronavirus cases, even as Israel was already seeing record numbers of…

Abbas to UN: No peace, no security, without resolution to Israel-Palestinian conflict

Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2020

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to convene an international conference early next year to launch "a genuine peace process" between Israel and the Palestinians.

Palestinian groups Fatah, Hamas agree to first elections in nearly 15 years

Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2020

Two rival Palestinian political parties said on Thursday that they will hold general elections within six months.

Israel joins new regional forum in hope of selling gas to Europe

Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Against a backdrop of rapidly changing geopolitics in the Middle East, Israel on Tuesday joined Egypt, Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, Italy and the Palestinian Authority to sign the statute of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF), formally establishing the…

Survey finds two-thirds of US young adults do not know six million Jews were killed in Holocaust

Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2020

A survey published last week has found that almost two-thirds of young adults in the US do not know that six million Jews were murdered by German Nazis during the Holocaust, Christian Headlines reported Monday. Commissioned by the…

Bulgaria Jails Two Men Over Bus Bombing Killing Israeli Tourists

Posted on Monday, September 21, 2020

A Bulgarian court sentenced two Islamic militants to life imprisonment without parole over a 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver in an attack blamed on Lebanon’s Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah.

Palestinian leadership is on a collision course with Arab countries

Posted on Sunday, September 20, 2020

Less than a month after the Second Intifada erupted in September 2000, the Arab heads of state held an extraordinary meeting in Nasr City, a district of Cairo.

Israel Politician: ‘Latest Agreements Israel and Arab States Foretold In Biblical Prophecy’

Posted on Saturday, September 19, 2020

A leading Jewish commentator and politician says the agreements that Israel signed this week with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are of "biblical proportions" and foretold in prophecy. Dov Lipman, a former legislator of Israel's centrist Yesh…

Top Israeli, UAE officials say new ties will make countries ‘close family’

Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2020

Israeli and Emirati officials are working hard to show that the new normalization agreement signed Tuesday between the two countries marks a new period of closeness and friendship.

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