The White House on Tuesday denied reports from a Lebanese television channel that its supposed peace plan will include a three-way deal between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the Islamist terror group that rules the Gaza Strip.
While millions were following the impeachment drama on Capitol Hill and the momentous British general election results on Friday, the U.N. General Assembly was focused on its own priorities, adopting eight resolutions condemning or singling out Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said he will resign from all ministerial positions by Jan. 1, 2020, but stressed he has no intention of stepping down as premier.
On December 1, a band of assailants opened fire on worshipers at a small-town Protestant church in Burkina Faso, an impoverished West African country where the Christian minority is increasingly a target of attacks. The victims included the pastor and several teenage boys; regional authorities attributed the attack to ‘unidentified armed men’ who, according to witnesses, got away on motorcycles.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi met on Sunday in the Sinai resort town of Sharm al-Sheikh and discussed Arab support for the Palestinians in international forums, the official PA news site Wafa reported.
Today, the IDF will begin an extensive military exercise in northern Israel, which will include explosions and ‘intense movement’ of forces, vehicles and aircraft, the IDF wrote on its Twitter page.
Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump Friday on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over a phone call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Trump that the American President has referred to as “a perfect phone call.”
The Blue and White party is building a lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, according to a pre-election poll released Thursday, but neither would receive enough support together with their allies to break Israel’s months-long political stalemate.
Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, Israeli authorities said on Thursday.
An Israeli social media influencer is planning a million-man march on Israel’s Supreme Court before new elections in Spring 2020, which, if successful, will be the largest demonstration of the popular will in the nation’s history.
Israel’s 22nd Knesset disbanded Wednesday at midnight, slating the country for third elections in under a year, and positioning neither Netanyahu nor Gantz for the 61-seat majority necessary to form a ruling coalition.
Satellite images taken in October revealed a new underground tunnel that Iran is building in Syria, the US government says to hide weapons.
The White House announced Wednesday that a new executive order targeting anti-Semitism on college campuses will be signed by President Trump, broadening the federal definition of Judaism to encompass ethnicity as well as religion.
The anti-Jewish motives of the Jersey City shooters who killed 4 people on Tuesday near a Kosher supermarket began to surface Wednesday as investigators uncovered the main shooter’s online history.
Iran is thought to be behind 9 attacks near US forces and personnel in Iraq in recent weeks, the State Department now surmises, with the most recent injuring 6 Iraqi soldiers near an airport in Baghdad Monday.
On the eve of a likely Knesset vote for yet another back-to-back election, a new poll by Channel 13 television news showed Blue and White increasing its lead on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday threatened to cut all ties with Israel if it annexes the Jordan Valley, and said the PA was also considering breaking off all its relations with the United States over its recent move saying West Bank settlement were ‘not inconsistent with international law.’
FBI officials are considering a shooting Friday by a Saudi national at the Pensacola naval base that killed 3 Americans to be terrorism, with more information having surfaced about the Saudi man’s vehement anti-Americanism.
Blue and White and Likud have agreed that the next round of elections will be held on Monday, March 2, 2020, barring a last-minute coalition deal in the next two days.
The US House of Representatives approved on Friday a resolution expressing support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while also warning Israel against any attempts toward annexation of territory in the West Bank.