Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to crack down on Monday against threatened no-shows for military reserve duty by opponents of his judicial overhaul plan, saying such actions were anti-democratic and risked emboldening the country’s foes.
Leaders in the coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said they were “shocked” that a judge on Israel’s High Court of Justice decided Thursday that the court will hear a petition from a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to have the prime minister disqualified from office.
Hundreds of visitors flocked to Shiloh in Samaria’s Binyamin region on Thursday to welcome a biblically pure red heifer.
The N7 Initiative is pushing for a regional free agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbors, starting with a trilateral one with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Bringing to mind longstanding, harmful antisemitic narratives, an “alarming” new study has found that Israel has been criticized on the Twitter social media platform around 10 times more than any other country in the world in regard to human rights violations, the Jerusalem Post reports. Posts against Israel included typical antisemitic tropes about Jewish bloodlust, dominance, covert control, and replacement.
An explosion near Lebanon’s border with Israel slightly wounded at least three members of the militant Hezbollah group, a Lebanese security official said.
Senior Cabinet Ministers decried a ruling made by Israel’s Supreme Court Wednesday morning that nullified a clause in a law about foreign workers residing in Israel. The clause required than any government financial or social benefits earned by a foreign worker in accordance with the law become forfeit should the worker illegally remain in Israel after his visa expired.
Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday visited Jenin.
American archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a mosaic at a Roman-era synagogue of the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq in the Lower Galilee, i24News reports.
Tens of thousands of mourners from around Bosnia and abroad gathered in the town of Srebrenica on Tuesday for the annual commemoration of the 1995 massacre here, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two.
The six-month-long mass protests in Israel against the government’s plans for judicial reform intensified into a planned “Day of Disruption” on Tuesday after part of the planned new legislation passed the first of three stages in the Knesset on Monday night, i24 News reports.
The Palestinian Authority on Monday rejected Israel’s demands for helping prevent the collapse of the PA.
The Knesset will vote Monday evening on a bill to restrict the use of the “reasonableness” standard by the Supreme Court.
The IDF and the US have started another joint drill which is a not-so-veiled threat against Iran, the military announced on Monday.
The UK-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research has reported that the numbers of Jews now leaving Russia and Ukraine for Israel could soon reach “exodus” levels, the Religion News Service (RNS) reports. The IJPR defines “exodus” as the departure of 50% to 75% of Jews in a country over ten years.
he Defense Ministry and military said Sunday that the Israeli Air Force and Rafael defense firm had successfully completed a recent series of tests with the David’s Sling medium-range air defense system.
Israel will act to prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the security cabinet voted on Sunday.
Against all odds, and at a time when relations between Israel and the United States are not at their peak, Jerusalem and Washington are advancing a secret plan to establish a continuous land bridge connecting the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel, leading from the Persian Gulf straight to Israel’s seaports. This is intended for the export of goods from the East to Europe through Israel, and later for tourist movement as well.
The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on Iranian advanced arms depots in Damascus overnight Thursday, but Syrian air defense systems were not activated, Ynet has learned.
Comments by Israeli leaders in the aftermath of a two-day incursion in the Jenin refugee camp indicate that the Israel Defense Forces will take repeated military action against Palestinian terror.