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The agreement, according to Hamas, was reached through the Qatari envoy who had mediated.
Hamas has reached new understandings with Israel to de-escalate the situation in the Gaza Strip, it an

Each year $2 million will be allotted to increase women’s current 32-percent presence at research positions – though not in programs for the ultra-Orthodox

Israel’s colleg

Israel-Advocacy Groups Urge Facebook to Label Criticism of Israel as Hate Speech
ON AUGUST 7th, amid broad efforts to get Facebook to clamp down on extremist activity and hate speech, mor

Documents reveal the private discussions behind both Pope Pius XII’s silence about the Nazi deportation of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and the Vatican’s postwar support for the kidnapping

New York state governor says he’ll crack down after reports of large Jewish weddings in Borough Park.

By Paul Shindman, World Israel News

New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo

Extreme heat could pose a serious health risk for at-risk populations, including the elderly, people with cardio-vesicular diseases and young children.
Starting from Saturday, August 29, and u

The caucus expressed particular concern for the 50% of Area C, which under the Trump plan, is designated for a Palestinian state.

A Turkish naval flotilla under the guise of a research mission continues to stoke tensions as the US and French send warships.

“There are cameras and drones but the thieves aren’t afraid of anything” said one Israeli farmer.

Some 46 high schools in Israel achieved 100% matriculation eligibility. Most of these schools were state Jewish-religious schools. Five were religious-ecclesiastical schools in the Arab sector.

The extremist Left wing journalist from Haaretz has called to Sterilize the Jewish women of Judea-Samaria.  This is an outrageous statement, and reeks of Nazism.  

Cops nab suspect at the scene outside Petah Tikva; victim is local man, aged 39; assailant said to be 46, father of 6, who had a permit to work in Israel

With the world, and Israel, running out of space, should Jews have less children.  Rav Melamed gives a clear answer why Jews still need to have large families, and lots of children.

Data centers, like electricity, water, gas, and other infrastructures face a range of serious threats, most notably sophisticated cyber-attacks.
 

Very few of us ar

JERUSALEM, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Israel's cellphone surveillance for coronavirus contact-tracing may have overcome challenges by privacy watchdogs, but the state tracking policy is hard put to deal wi

Yeshiva student arrested over suspected murder at Mea Shearim seminary
Victim is a man in his 60s, who succumbed to wounds days after assault

1,500 gather in Rabin Square, demanding policy reforms to combat assaults against women; ‘We need to change everything,’ city’s deputy mayor says

?Rina Shnerb (17), a resident of Lod, was murdered when terrorists detonated an IED device near Dani's Spring, a popular tourist and recreation site situated near the West Bank settlement

PM says he’ll back proposal to push off Monday’s budget deadline, likely averting 4th round of elections for now; Blue and White says the proof will be in premier’s actions

The ministry's spokesperson Deifallah al-Fayez condemned the "continued Israeli violations."
The Kingdom of Jordan has requested that Israel "respect the sanctity" of the Al-Aqsa Mos

“This is a destructive plan that, if implemented, will fatally block the possibility of creating territorial contiguity between east Jerusalem and Bethlehem,” Peace Now wrote in a lette

Presumptive democratic nominee and his surrogates say his top priorities, if he beats Trump, will include resuming assistance to Palestinian Authority and UNRWA
WASHINGTON (AP) — Should

Ehud Olmert confirms that Ariel Sharon died before a planned major disengagement in Judea and Samaria.

By Paul Shindman, World Israel News

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert co

From her first meeting with the Incredible Hulk, this super-agent represented the Jewish angle in American comics

She appeared for the first time in August 1980, 40 years ago. It was in a s

A top Twitter executive who took part in a Knesset hearing on Wednesday declined to say why her company had not taken action against genocidal incitement by Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Health Ministry: Visitors from ‘green states’ could travel without isolation, testing * Netanyahu discusses virus with world leaders * Israel sets new daily diagnoses level: 2,093 in a

A youth who was standing on the roof of a building adjacent to the Aish Hatorah yeshiva in the Old City was shot twice on Friday afternoon just before the Sabbath began. One bullet grazed his neck

Number of ultra-Orthodox tech employees jumped by 52% in 2014-2018; 71% of them are women, according to study presented to President Rivlin

The number of ultra-Orthodox workers in the tech

The Tov TV service, dubbed the “kosher Netflix” by the Israeli daily Haaretz, is geared toward observant Jews who follow the religious laws of modesty.

Israelis who don’t

"This year too, on Tisha Be'av, we can progress significantly on the Temple Mount! I won't go into more detail. Everything is dependent on the number of pilgrims."
The Joint Headquarters of Te

Muhammad Khalil found by passerby in an abandoned vehicle in the town of Fureidis, succumbs at hospital

A four-year-old boy died on Monday after being found in an abandoned car in the north

JNS.org – Israel’s Tel Aviv District Court handed down an unprecedented ruling Sunday, saying that the state had the right to seize funds the Palestinian Authority is paying terror

The involved parties, who serve on a military checkpoint, allegedly collaborated with Palestinian truck drivers and smuggled merchandise, stolen vehicles and weapons into the West Bank.
Four s

Suspects accused of bringing a total of 150 kilograms of the drug into Israel from South Africa

Additional charges have been brought against seven men involved in a cocaine smuggling ring,

The E1 project was first advanced by former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and then frozen as a result of US and international pressure.
Israeli promotion of plans for 3,412 settler homes in the

TV report says security agency got OK from Justice Ministry officials for controversial program, but few in the government were informed; Knesset, phone companies didn’t know

Long bef

CTech – Some 4,900 Intel employees at its Kiryat Gat factory woke up on Sunday morning with a weird sensation. Their secure workplace was shaken by a single sentence uttered last Thursda

Rodney Muhammad deletes post after backlash, claims he is ‘not familiar’ with ‘Happy Merchant’ cartoon in image posted to his timeline

Jewish groups in Philadelphia

For the past 27 years, Tenufa has been working with maintenance professionals in 14 cities, some on staff and some serving as volunteers, in order to provide crucial and necessary repairs.
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Dozens of officials purchase more than 600 pounds of Al Arz paste to support Arab Israeli businesswoman

JTA — The Arab Israeli owner of a popular tahini brand facing a boycott&nb

Israel Chamber of Real Estate Brokers vice chair Assaf Epstein: The hard blow is yet to come. I'm worried about what will happen.
 

Initial figures about apartment

Even before the Covid-19 crisis stores were struggling to compete with malls and online sales. "Globes" looks at three Israeli cities.

Long before the Covid-19 pandemic reared its ugly head

Israel’s civil administration body in the West Bank denied on Wednesday that it had destroyed a Palestinian construction site in Hebron intended for drive-through coronavirus testing.

Minor scuffles reported between anti-government demonstrators and counter-protesters; PM: ‘Don’t drag the state into anarchy, violence’

Hundreds of demonstrators massed in

Dubbed “The American Road,” the new highway is being hailed as one of the biggest infrastructure projects undertaken by Jerusalem in the last several years.

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“…under the peace plan that we released, that comes with a commitment to set aside a certain area of land for the eventual, potential Palestinian state,” said President Trump&rsq

Remember when anti-Israel haters accused the Jewish State of withholding information about COVID-19 from Arabic-speaking residents?

It was all false, of course.

But the most popular

Knesset passes coronavirus law, weakening its oversight of government decisions
Law approved 48-35 gives cabinet wide-ranging powers to set virus restrictions, sidelines Yifat Shasha-Biton&rsq

Associates of PM quoted saying he won’t allow budget to pass by August deadline, thus triggering new national vote; reportedly fears courts will ban him from post amid his trial

Prime

Alongside a jump in aliya applications is a revival in apartment purchases, and not just in traditional strongholds like Jerusalem.

Thirty years ago, K left Israel for Silicon Valley in Cal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a NIS 3.3 billion increase in the defense budget, despite the current economic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic, saying the move is necessary in

The legislation, proposed by Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz, would take away the license of psychologists who uses conversion therapy, fine them and send them to jail for repeat offenses.
Membe

Despite hard limit of 10 participants at indoor events, at least 35 activists affiliated with party caught at gathering in honor of Yaakov Hagoel Monday evening in Jerusalem
 

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There are 14,410,700 million Jews in the world, the Knesset’s Aliyah, Absorption and Diaspora Committee revealed on Monday, and 45% or 6,740,000 of them live in Israel, 6,088,000 in North Ame

Khalil Jabarin also ordered to pay NIS 1,250,000 in compensation to family of victim; widow Miriam Fuld says life sentence suitable for attacker’s ‘abominable’ act

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Police opened an investigation earlier this week after receiving a disappearance report for a expensive monkey, apparently worth thousands of shekels, from a zoo in Kiryat Motzkin.

US performance artist Madonna published over the weekend a series of Instagram posts in which she expressed solidarity with “Palestine.”

The “Material Girl” singer,

But such a country would have to ensure equal democratic rights for all its citizens, stresses PM Omar Razzaz

Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said his country could possibly back a sin

Two Arab terror suspects involved in the August 2019 bomb attack that killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb were paid from Dutch taxes, Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok and Minister for Foreign Trade

Airports Authority says current restrictions, under which entry granted only to nationals or those obtaining special permit from Immigration Authority, to stay in force

Restrictions prevent

Israel’s health system to receive 2,000 new nurses, 400 doctors.
The Health and Finance ministries agreed to provide the health system with the manpower it was requesting and the nurses

by Sharon Oppenheimer

On the 76th anniversary of the failed assassination-attempt on Adolf Hitler, Germany stands on the brink of a pioneering restitution case which may have seri

Led by the ministries of labor and defense and city hall, project may serve as an example for similar initiatives across the country
The government on Monday announced a new pilot program in a

Noble Energy has played a key role in discovering and developing Israel’s mammoth offshore natural gas fields, Tamar and Leviathan
Chevron Corporation, the multinational energy firm, sai

Many Jews around the world follow mourning practices in the days and weeks before Tisha B'Av, the day on which the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed.

Israel's Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Y

Cairo could intervene in neighboring country’s civil war in response to territorial gains by forces backed by rival Turkey
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s parliament is to vote Monday t

Now that China has chosen to stand with Iran, Israel must recognize the implications and act accordingly.

By Caroline Glick, Israel Hayom via JNS

When Chinese President Xi Jinping v

An IDF Special Forces unit operating in Jenin on Sunday night arrested two wanted terrorists and shot and wounded a third after he threw an explosive device at them.

The IDF stated Monday t

A Hezbollah spokesman on Sunday claimed the IDF had taken control of a drone that was part of a music video of a Lebanese orchestra that was recorded near the border with Israel.

Hospitals and health clinics nationwide to offer reduced services, with exceptions in urgent cases and responses to coronavirus
Nurses across the country went on strike at 7 a.m. Monday over s

After judge concludes that alleged child sex abuser wanted in Australia was feigning mental illness, but proceedings could still face further delay

Nearly six years since her initial arrest

A legendary Israeli cyber-spy whose name has remained a secret for years is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin.

The largest percentage of Israelis catching coronavirus are between the ages of 20 and 29.
The majority (1,474, or 67%) of Israelis caught it at home. 
In second place: schools (210,

A planned discussion between the Finance Ministry and nurses union will deal with "the severe shortages and impossible loads placed on the shoulders of nurses."
 

The United States District Court of the Northern District of California denied most of the arguments NSO Group made in its request in April.
 

Rifaat, now 82 years old, was convicted of embezzling Syrian state funds by a Paris court on Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison.
 

Demonstrators block roads in both cities, clash with police in the capital; speakers decry leadership they say is corrupt, disconnected and callous
 

Once completed the 1,900 kilometer pipeline (1,180 miles) will be the longest in the world.

The government is set Sunday to approve the agreement Israel signed in January with Cyprus and Gr

Israel said to compile roster of officials who could face arrest over ICC probe

List of 200-300 people reportedly includes top officials who could be under fire if The Hague rules tribunal

Supreme Court chief: Plan for panel to review judges aims to intimidate justices

Esther Hayut writes to judges that proposal rejected by

Sentencing delayed in Duma case amid alleged contradictions in victim’s account

Defense submits as evidence interviews of child, wh

“Son of Stuxnet” Attacks Sets Back Iran Nuke Program 2+ Years – Beyond the Matrix [audio]

The Middle East is witnessing

El Al to suspend flights until end of August
The mandatory furlough was also extended to the end of August.
 

Thousands of Israeli nurses expected to strike this coming Monday, even as a weekend lockdown is expected due to rising coronavirus infections.

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CTech – Israeli retail chains are reporting a massive jump in online sales amid growing fears that the government will impose a new lockdown to try to curb the