By SAM SOKOL
JERUSALEM (JTA) — It was meant to be a diplomatic triumph for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: a much-touted diplomatic summit in Jerusalem on Monday with four Central European states.
Instead, harsh words from Israel’s acting foreign minister opened a diplomatic rift threatening to severely damage Israeli-Polish...
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By MARCY OSTER
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli lawmaker Tzipi Livni announced that she would exit politics at the end of the current Knesset term, and pulled her HaTnua party out of the upcoming national elections.
The party’s recent poll numbers showed that it would not make the electoral threshold to...
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By MARCY OSTER
(JTA) — Iran’s foreign minister said that Israel is “looking for war” and that the behavior of Israel and the United States toward Iran is increasing the chances of such a war.
“Certainly, some people are looking for war… Israel,” Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an address...
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By ARYEH SAVIR
(TPS) — President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday kicked-off the countdown for the launch of Beresheit (Genesis), the first Israeli spacecraft to be sent to the moon, which will blast off on Tuesday.
Project SpaceIL, which has developed the spacecraft, was launched as a national project at Beit...
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(TPS) — Israeli Minister Yisrael Katz was appointed Israel’s foreign minister on Sunday. He will serve in the position until after the elections in April.
Katz already serves as the Minister of Transportation and the Minister of Intelligence and is a member of the Security Cabinet of Israel.
Katz is stepping temporarily as a replacement...
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By MARCY OSTER
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Reported homophobic incidents in Israel increased by 54 percent in 2018 over the previous year, according to a new report.
The report by the Nir Katz Center on LGBT-phobia was delivered to President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday.
The center, named after Nir Katz, a...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — A German shepherd received a cash reward offered by an Israeli family for finding two sisters who were missing in Argentina for two weeks. Ruca and her trainer Ayelen Castro received the more than $1,300 reward on Friday at the Sociedad Israelita de Beneficencia Jewish...
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Jerusalem (JTA) — The unclothed body of a young woman, identified as 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher from the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, was found on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Thursday.
According to The Times of Israel, police described Ansbacher’s body, which was found in Ein Yael near the Biblical Zoo...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli tank fire struck a Hamas military position in Gaza following a rocket attack on Israel.
A rocket fired from Gaza landed in southern Israel late Wednesday night, triggering the Color Red alert system. A second alert was triggered minutes later but no rocket landed, leading to...
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(TPS) — Former Knesset Member (MK) Basel Ghattas, an Israeli-Arab lawmaker of the Joint Arab List, who is serving a two-year prison term after pleading guilty to charges that he had used his parliamentary immunity to help imprisoned terrorists, was denied early parole.
Ghattas was convicted in March 2017 of smuggling mobile phones...
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