If you believe the polls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Israel’s dominant political player and media maestro for the past decade and a half – is poised to lose to a political neophyte with relatively limited communications skills and a nondescript platform. How is that possible? The rise of the potential usurper, former Israel Defense […]
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A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 19-year-old Israeli in the West Bank on Monday, before fleeing the scene. Israeli troops shot and killed the assailant after a roughly hour-long manhunt. Palestinian media identified the assailant as Mohammed Mohsen, 34. The attack took place at Ma’oz Yehuda farm, a settler farming outpost near the Palestinian village […]
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The United Kingdom, France and Canada will ban goods produced in the West Bank settlements and Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament on Tuesday, explaining that all such communities were deemed by his country to be illegal. The declaration exacerbated the rising tensions riling the traditionally strong Israel-U.K. alliance. […]
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Adidas has apologized for featuring an Israeli former soldier and amputee in a campaign advertising its service for people with missing legs, which sparked calls for a boycott. Shalev Biton, who lost his left leg during the 2021 Israel-Gaza conflict, appeared in a promotional video for the sportswear company’s Single Shoe service. The program was […]
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TEL AVIV – Israel’s High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by Israeli expatriates seeking to vote in the Oct. 27 election after discovering that they had been excluded from the voter rolls under a little-known Interior Ministry classification that records certain citizens as nonresidents. The petition was filed by some 100 expatriate Israelis challenging […]
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TEL AVIV — The Oct. 27 elections have brought the concept of Palestinian emigration from Gaza to the forefront of Israeli political discourse. The once-taboo topic has become an increasingly popular position among right-wing politicians, even as it repels many in the American Jewish community and elicits condemnation from world leaders. Several prominent politicians on […]
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TEL AVIV — Cafe Basimta, the Jerusalem coffee shop that became a flashpoint in the city’s long-running dispute over Shabbat observance, will stop opening on Saturdays beginning this weekend after two months of weekly ultra-Orthodox protests. The cafe said Thursday that the decision was made “after prolonged deliberation and with a heavy heart,” out of […]
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The new British government plans to announce in the coming weeks a comprehensive package of economic sanctions and other measures designed to prevent the Israeli expansion of West Bank settlements. Overall the U.K. needs “a comprehensive reset of our policy” when it comes to the West Bank, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told the House […]
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A Jewish Zionist politician announced Monday night that he had joined an Arab party, in an unusual move that could help give the coalition of opposition parties enough votes to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oct. 27 Israeli election. Former Knesset member Yoav Segalovitz and Mansour Abbas, the leader of the Ra’am party, […]
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Israel and Greece finalized on Monday a $3.5 billion deal providing the Hellenic Republic with a multilayered antimissile system designed to protect the European Union country against aerial attacks from nations such as Iran and Turkey. It is one of the largest defense export deals in the history of the Jewish state. The two countries […]
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