RE’IM, Nova Festival Memorial Site, Israel – Iconic 80s pop star Boy George is in Israel this week. He’s made all the usual stops on a celebrity visit: met with the president, placed a note in the Western Wall and, of course, performed two concerts. But it was his visit to the Nova Festival Memorial […]
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JERUSALEM – Less than an hour after election night exit polls were published, Mansour Abbas, the leader of the Islamist Ra’am party, whose representation was predicted to almost double, declared: “We will translate this electoral power into an influential political force … we’re here — not on the sidelines.” With all the votes now counted, […]
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This story was last updated at 12:30 a.m. ET on Oct. 28. JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist rival Gadi Eisenkot were locked in a battle for the future of Israel after an election Tuesday night that left no clear winner as exit polls were released. The exit polls showed Netanyahu’s […]
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JERUSALEM – He’s been called a “political Houdini,” the man with “9 political lives,” and a “political genius,” but could Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s more-than-19-year stint at the helm of Israeli politics be coming to an end? After the Oct. 7 attacks and wars in Gaza, Lebanon and with Iran, and after four years of […]
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JERUSALEM – Israel Police arrested 10 people on Monday on suspicion of involvement in violent acts over the weekend against journalists, foreign diplomats and Palestinians in the West Bank during the annual olive harvest. The arrests came after international condemnation of the attacks, including by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who is generally supportive […]
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An explosion during a school hiking trip killed a boy about 14 years old on Monday and injured 24 others in northern Israel, Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, said. Rescue teams were dispatched to the scene, and the injured were evacuated to hospitals in northern Israel. “An initial investigation by IDF forces at […]
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TEL AVIV – More than 48 hours after an apparent attempt to take over a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv, the incident is raising fresh security concerns for Israelis and Jewish communities abroad, while leaving hundreds of Israeli travelers stranded in the United Arab Emirates. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in an interview […]
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Iran won’t be bullied by military action or economic sanctions into giving up its nuclear program, the country’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, pledged to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday as the United States deliberates whether to resume the war it joined Israel in launching. “We will never bow our head or bend at the […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump called upon nations to stay united in their pressure on Iran’s economy, as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Indeed, Trump showed no sign of walking down from the military conflict he began with Tehran in February amid criticism that the U.S. is not accomplishing […]
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U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, is obstructing a Trump administration proposal for a $2.8 billion bomb sale to Israel. Meeks, a longtime supporter of Israel from New York, said he would not clear the transaction due to concerns that these 2,000-pound munitions would not […]
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