Opposition get in last minute digs at outgoing government

Leader of the opposition and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making a last-ditch effort to get every vote needed in order to ensure that his right-wing block wins the 61 Knesset seats needed to form a new government after Tuesday’s national elections. Read more

Major General Herzi Halevi new IDF Chief of Staff

The government of Israel has approved the appointment of Major General Herzi Halevi as the 23rd Chief of Staff of the IDF. Read more

Two Polish women honoured by Yad Vashem as ‘Righteous among the Nations’

Two Polish women, Renata Rostborowska and her aunt Kristina Wojwodzka were posthumously named “Righteous among the Nations” by Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum. Read more

PA claims 101 babies born to jailed terrorists

The Palestinian Authority (PA) claims that as many as 101 children have been born to convicted terrorists held in Israeli jails. Read more

Udai Tamimi wanted killer killed during Ma’ale Adumim terror attack

The terrorist who opened fire at the security guards working at the entrance to the town of Ma’ale Adumim yesterday was Udai Tamimi – the terrorist wanted for committing the shooting attack that took the life of IDF Sgt. Noa Lazar. Tamimi was shot and killed by IDF forces. Read more

Israelis rally in support of Iranian protestors

Israelis gathered in downtown Jerusalem’s Independence Park Thursday evening for a rally in support of the Iranian people who have taken to the streets in recent weeks demanding greater freedom of expression and freedom of religion. Read more

Yair Lapid to UN on Iran and Hamas: ‘Put down your weapons and there will be peace’

Prime Minister of Israel Yair Lapid addressed the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Thursday afternoon. Read more

Israel’s UN envoy walks out on Iranian president at UNGA: ‘This is a Disgrace’

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, walked out of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) hall in protest as the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi began his address to the Assembly Monday. Erdan did so because of Holocaust-denying comments that Raisi made during an interview that he gave to the news program “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night. Read more

PM Lapid confirms PA security involved in death of Major Falah

Prime Minister Yair Lapid and the IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi have spoken on the IDF officer who was killed on Tuesday by terrorists affiliated with the Fatah group. Read more

Israel condemns Mahmoud Abbas’ Holocaust comparison as ‘reprehensible and unfounded’

Israel’s Leadership has strongly condemned remarks made by the leader of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas – also known as Abu Mazen – accusing Israel of committing 50 “Holocausts” against Palestinians over the years. They called the remarks, which were especially egregious as they were made in Germany, “despicable” and a “moral disgrace.” Read more

First woman to serve as IDF military secretary to the President of Israel

History was made in the IDF on Sunday at a ceremony held at the Presidential residence in Jerusalem when Colonel Naama Rosen Grimberg became the first woman soldier ever to be appointed to the post of military secretary to the President of the State of Israel. Read more

Ruach Tzionit off to a quiet start

Yamina, the party previously led by former Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennet and currently led by Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, has merged with the Derech Eretz (the way of the land) Party, which is led by current Minister of Communications Yoaz Hendel. Read more

Lapid meets with “courageous” men who stopped terrorist stabbing attack

Prime Minister Yair Lapid has met with Haim Naim and photographer Meshi Ben Ami, the civilians who neutralised the terrorist in yesterday’s stabbing attack in Jerusalem. Read more

Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour awarded to President Biden

President of the State of Israel Isaac Herzog bestowed the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor upon Joe Biden, the President of the United States, at a ceremony held at the official President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Thursday evening. Read more

Yair Lapid meets French President Macron in Paris

Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid met with French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Read more

The IDF investigation to Shireen Abu Akleh’s death

The IDF has released conclusions made by its official investigation into the shooting death of reporter Shireen Abu Akleh during a clash between the IDF and the terrorist group Islamic Jihad on May 11, 2022, in Jenin. Read more

US government finds no evidence who fired bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh

The United States government issued a ruling on the bullet that was said to have been the one that killed A.P. reporter Shireen Abu Akleh during a clash between the IDF and the terrorist group Islamic Jihad on May 11, 2022, in Jenin. Read more

Naftali Bennett announces his retirement from politics

Outgoing Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett addressed the nation Wednesday night on all of the country’s broadcast channels to announce his intention to quit politics as soon as new elections are held. Read more

Hamas release video of Israeli hostage Hisham a-Sayed

The Hamas terrorist organization released a video yesterday purporting to be of Hisham a-Sayed, a Druze Israeli civilian said to be suffering from psychiatric issues who has been held captive in Gaza for years. Read more

Yair Lapid in Istanbul: Iranian attacks against Israelis a ‘clear violation of Turkish sovereignty by Iran’

In a further sign of Israel’s improving relationship with Turkey, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrived in that country on Thursday and met with his counterpart, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, in Ankara. Read more

Naftali Bennett explains decision to dissolve the Knesset

Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett held a press conference on Monday evening that was carried on all of Israel’s broadcast networks to explain his decision, revealed to the public just a few hours earlier, to call for the dissolution of the Knesset and the holding of new elections. Read more

Election in Israel: Coalition leaders optimistic

Leaders of Israel’s various coalition parties generally responded optimistically in response to Monday evening’s news that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has decided to dissolve the Knesset and call for new elections. Read more

Yair Lapid promises ‘whoever harms Israelis visiting Turkey will pay’

Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid called on Israelis not to travel to Turkey in light of the continuing terrorist threat posed by Iranian agents in that country. Also on Monday, Israel’s National Security Council raised its travel warning for Istanbul to its highest level, level 4. Read more

Yamina faction chair quits coalition increasing odds for new elections

Coalition MK and the leader of that party’s faction in the Knesset, Nir Orbach, has announced his intention to withdraw as a member of Israel’s current coalition government. Read more

Bennett coalition survives no-confidence votes

Israel’s coalition government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett survived two different no-confidence motions in the Knesset on Monday. The votes were held on the first official day back in session after the Passover break ended. Read more

Mayor of Umm al-Fahm repudiates his city’s declaration of sympathy to killed terrorists’ families

A stir was caused in Israel on Thursday afternoon as the official Facebook page of the Israeli Arab city Umm al-Fahm posted a message of condolences to the families of the two terrorists who Sunday night murdered two Israeli police officers in a terrorist attack in Hadera. Read more

‘We cannot be broken!’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett issued a recorded statement Wednesday evening to the Israeli public reassuring them as to the measure being taken to deal with the latest wave of terrorism in their country. Read more

Five murdered in Bnei Brak terrorist shootings

In the second terrorist shooting attack in Israel this week, 5 people were murdered on the streets of Bnei Brak Tuesday night. Read more

Bus driver who shot Be’er Sheva terrorist identified, can’t get his weapon back

The Egged bus driver who shot and killed the terrorist who murdered 4 people in a stabbing attack in Be’er Sheva on Tuesday has been identified as 44-year-old Artur Haimov. Read more

Four Israelis murdered, several injured, in terrorist stabbing attacks in Be’er Sheva

Two different stabbing attacks were perpetrated by terrorists Tuesday afternoon in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva – one at a gas station and the other at an outdoor mall on Yitzhak Nafha Street. 4 innocent civilians were murdered and one terrorist was killed at the scene. Read more

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