U.S. officials have confirmed that Israel was responsible for the bombing of an Iranian weapons depot in Iraq last month, a significant escalation in Israel’s years-long campaign against Iranian military entrenchment across the region.
Read moreReprising an anti-Semitic trope that American Jews have dual loyalty — to their own country and Israel — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that American Jews who vote for Democrats show “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”
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Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib sharply criticized Israel on Monday for denying them entry to the country and called on fellow members of Congress to visit, though they cannot.
Read morePalestinian-American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib on Friday rejected Israel’s offer to allow her to visit her grandmother in the West Bank, blasting the “oppressive conditions” set for the visit as humiliating.
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Shortly after President Donald Trump called for the ban, Israel said Thursday it will not allow two minority Democratic congresswomen who have been critical of the treatment of Palestinians to enter the country next week.
Read moreThe Israel National Library on Wednesday unveiled a missing batch of Czech Jewish writer Franz Kafka’s papers, ending more than a decade of legal wrangling over ownership in Israel and Europe.
Read moreSiding with a lower court, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is immune from civil liability in a U.S. court for commanding a 2010 raid on a humanitarian flotilla that left 10 people dead in the Mediterranean Sea.
Read moreThe Second Circuit dealt a big win to Facebook Wednesday, ruling that online publishers cannot be held accountable for what users post — even if they’re members of a terrorist group.
Read moreIsraeli work crews on Monday began demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes in an east Jerusalem neighborhood, in one of the largest operations of its kind in years.
Read moreIn a musty basement hall of an unassuming building nestled among modern high-rises in the heart of Tel Aviv, a few hundred spectators are kindly requested to turn off their cellphones. What makes the typical scene surreal is that they are asked to do so in Yiddish — the playful, lyrical language of Diaspora European Jews.
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A team of international scientists have used ancient DNA to shed some light on the origins of the Philistines, the arch enemies of the Israelites as told in the Hebrew Bible.
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American officials looked on Sunday as Israel opened a newfound Roman-era street at a divisive archaeological site in east Jerusalem, a move that deepened Palestinian animosity toward the White House’s mediation efforts.
Read moreU.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday Iran should not “mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness,” after the U.S. abruptly called off military strikes against Iran in response to the shooting down of an unmanned American surveillance drone.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Saturday unveiled a $50 billion Palestinian investment and infrastructure proposal intended to be the economic engine to power its much-anticipated but still unreleased “deal of the century” Middle East peace plan.
Read moreAn EU magistrate backed French authorities on Thursday for refusing to label food imported from Israel-occupied territories like the West Bank or Golan Heights as products originating in Israel.
Read moreIsrael’s parliament voted to dissolve itself early Thursday, sending the country to an unprecedented second snap election this year as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition before a midnight deadline.
Read moreThe Miami Herald and others sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his cabinet on Tuesday, claiming their planned meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday will violate the open-meetings provision of the state’s Sunshine Law.
Read moreSyria said an Israeli attack against a military post in the country’s south on Monday killed a soldier and injured another. Israel, in a rare statement acknowledging firing into Syria, said it was responding to an anti-aircraft fire from Syria against one of its combat planes.
Read moreFacebook said Thursday it banned an Israeli company that ran an influence campaign aimed at disrupting elections in several countries and has canceled dozens of accounts engaged in spreading disinformation.
Read moreSpyware crafted by a sophisticated group of Israeli hackers-for-hire took advantage of a flaw in the popular WhatsApp communications program to remotely hijack dozens of phones, the company said late Monday.
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