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‘A plan to change Israel’s DNA’: 80,000 rally in Tel Aviv against judicial overhaul

Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2023

Tens of thousands of demonstrators braved pouring rain Saturday night to gather at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square for protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government and its plans for sweeping changes to Israel’s justice system.

Jerusalem’s 2,000-year-old Pilgrimage Road preparing for modern revival

Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2023

For nearly a decade, archaeologists in Jerusalem’s City of David National Park have been working hard to uncover the Pilgrimage Road and bring a 2,000-year-old journey to life.

Written records of biblical King David discovered by researchers

Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2023

The Mesha Stele, also called the Moabite Stone, is a basalt stone slab that has provided historians and linguists with the largest source of the Moabite language to date. Researchers have only now been able to verify with…

Report: Iran steps up air defense deployment in Syria in bid to curb Israeli strikes

Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2023

Iran has invested millions of dollars in an effort to ramp up the deployment of an advanced air defense network in Syria, amid repeated attempts by Israel to target Iranian sites and shipments of weapons to its regional…

Israel: Law may be changed to allow only those with at least one Jewish parent to immigrate

Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2023

Israel’s new government is considering a drastic change to the country’s 1950 Law of Return that would allow only children of at least one Jewish parent to ‘make Aliyah’ and immigrate to Israel, i24 News reports.

Israel will fight to prevent Iran from building military base on its northern border, Netanyahu says

Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the Israeli government will resist any effort by Iran to establish a military base along Israel’s border with Syria and Lebanon, i24 News reports.

Netanyahu: In a democracy there will be no call to civil riots

Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2023

In a democratic country, the leaders of the opposition are not arrested, just as the government ministers are not called Nazis, the Jewish government isn't called the Third Reich and the citizens are not called to start a…

Israeli officials meet Abraham Accords counterparts in Abu Dhabi ahead of Negev Forum summit

Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Senior Israeli officials and their counterparts from Abraham Accords countries attended a two-day meeting in Abu Dhabi this week to prepare for the upcoming Negev Forum summit in Morocco later this year, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.…

Israel Rebukes U.N., Palestinian Authority for Emergency Session on Temple Mount

Posted on Monday, January 9, 2023

Last week, the United Nations Security Council met in an emergency session following the visit of a prominent minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Israeli leaders claim the emergency meeting was another attempt launched…

Israel Removing Palestinian Flags

Posted on Monday, January 9, 2023

Israeli-Palestinian tensions rose further Monday after Israel's new National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, instructed police to remove Palestinian flags from public spaces.

US, Israeli Air Forces Practice Joint Flights, Target Strikes in Latest Exercise

Posted on Sunday, January 8, 2023

The American and Israeli air forces on Thursday wrapped up a drill simulating joint flights and target strikes.

Israeli Jews Support Christians after Church-Run Cemetery Desecrated

Posted on Sunday, January 8, 2023

Dozens of Jewish Israelis paid a solidarity visit to a Christian cemetery in Jerusalem after it was desecrated, apparently by Orthodox Jews, earlier this week. The incident, which parallels an untold number of descecrations of Jewish graves in…

Oman parliament votes to criminalize normal relations with Israel

Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2023

Dashing hopes that Oman will become the next Arab state to normalize relations with Israel, the Omani parliament on Friday went so far as to criminalize relations or interactions with “the Zionist entity,” the Times of Israel (TOI)…

Israel: Increased number of IDF soldiers killed or committed suicide in 2022

Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2023

An increased number of soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces were killed in uniform or died by suicide in 2022 compared to the previous year, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Survey shows 40% of Israeli Americans will settle in the US

Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2023

A new survey by the Israeli American Council (IAC) shows that 40% of Israeli-Americans plan to settle in the US and not return to live in Israel, the Jerusalem Post reports. According to the IAC, there are currently…

Jordanian lawmaker threatens suicide bombings in defense of Al Aqsa mosque following Ben-Gvir visit

Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2023

Outraged that Israel's new National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem this week, Jordanian lawmaker Yanal Abd al-Salam Nour al-Din al-Fraihat stated the following day that his countrymen would become "suicide bombers" in defense…

Israel launches new nanosatellite in quantum communication advance

Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Scientists from Israel’s Tel Aviv University have launched into orbit a new nanosatellite designed to advance research into quantum communication, a field of technology that aims to render information security completely unassailable by hackers, the Times of Israel…

Ben Gvir faces dilemma as activists ask to hold Passover sacrifice on Temple Mount

Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2023

A fringe religious group on Monday night asked newly installed National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for permission to perform the Passover ritual sacrifice on the Temple Mount this coming spring.

Hezbollah chief: Middle East could ‘explode’ after Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount visit

Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah warned on Tuesday of consequences for Israeli Cabinet member Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

UN Security Council slated to meet on widely decried Temple Mount visit by Ben Gvir

Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2023

The United Nations Security Council will convene an emergency session to discuss firebrand National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s visit to Jerusalem’s flashpoint Temple Mount, which drew a flood of international condemnations on Tuesday, a source said Tuesday.

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