Israel’s Health Ministry Says Lockdown Possible Over Hanukkah
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israeli Health Ministry Director General Hezi Levy said on Thursday that he doesn’t know if there will be a lockdown over Hanukkah, “but we are identifying an inc...
Israeli Army Says Gaza Militants Fired A Rocket At Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket toward Israel on Saturday night, setting off air-raid sirens in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, the I...
Netanyahu: Convicted Spy Pollard Expected In Israel Soon
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday welcomed the lifting of parole restrictions on Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst convicted of sp...
Jonathan Pollard Is Freed Of Restrictions, May Travel To Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Almost 35 years to the day after his arrest outside the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C., Jonathan Pollard was granted the freedom to do what he wanted that da...
Israel PM Healthy After Routine Exam Under Sedation
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in good health after two small colon polyps were detected and removed during a routine examination on Friday, his offi...
Police Kick And Humiliate Charedi Protesters Over Grave Desecration Near Mount Zion Hotel
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Police in Israel have exhibited unusually violent behavior in dispersing Chareidi gatherings during the period of coronavirus. At the same time in most cases ...
Now They See That Rav Chaim Was Right, It’s Time To Apologize
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — It took a while but this week even the secular public's leaders in Israel realized that Chareidim are not "spreaders of disease" but rather principled people ...
Pompeo Is 1st Top US Diplomat To Visit An Israeli Settlement
JERUSALEM (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first top U.S. diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank as the State Department anno...
Former MK Calls For ‘100,000 Palestinians to Encircle A Settlement And Remove It From The Earth’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Arab politician Dr. Jamal Zahalka, a former head of the Balad faction of the Joint Arab list , made some shocking and inciteful statements in an inter...
Israel Strikes Syria After Finding Bombs Along Its Frontier
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes struck Iran-linked targets in Syria overnight after troops uncovered roadside bombs along the frontier in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military...
IDF Tests Its Victory Concept In Latest War Drill
JERUSALEM (JNS) - The Israel Defense Forces has tested out its new victory concept—based on the ability to use network-centered warfare techniques to rapidly detect and destroy ene...
Netanyahu, Rivlin Call Biden To Congratulate Him On Presidential Victory
JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin have now both talked to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to congratulate him on his e...
Palestinians Restore Israel Ties As Annexation Threat Fades
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A senior Palestinian official said Tuesday the Palestinian Authority would restore ties with Israel after it cut all contacts in May over Israel's planne...
Israel’s US Ambassador Says It Would Be A ‘Mistake’ For Biden Administration To Rejoin Iran Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel’s U.S. ambassador said President-elect Joe Biden should not have the U.S. reenter the Iran nuclear deal. At least the one that was signed in 2015, when Bi...
Retired Fighter Pilot Eytan Stibbe To Become 2nd Israeli In Space — And He’s Paying His Own Way
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A former ace fighter pilot turned big-time investor will become only the second Israeli in space — and he’ll be paying for the trip himself.
Eytan Stibbe, 62, ...
Moderna’s Israeli Chief Medical Officer Helps Spread His Company’s Good Covid Vaccine News
JERUSALEM (JTA) - As the American drug company Moderna announced Monday that it had developed a COVID-19 vaccine that is 94.5% effective, Israeli scientist Tal Zaks was among the c...
Iranian Hackers Target Israeli Firms In ‘Double Extortion’ Ransomware Attack
JERUSALEM (Israel Hayom) — Iranian hackers were behind the Pay2Key ransomware attack on dozens of Israeli companies last week, according to the Israeli cyber security firm Check Po...
Top Pentagon Adviser Has Said ‘Israeli Lobby’ Funds Government Officials Who Want War
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Douglas Macgregor, a top adviser to President Donald Trump’s new acting defense secretary, routinely blames “the Israeli lobby” and “neocons” for pushing the Uni...
Israel Advances Plans In Sensitive East Jerusalem Settlement
JERUSALEM (AP) — A settlement watchdog group said Sunday Israel is moving ahead with new construction of hundreds of homes in a strategic east Jerusalem settlement that threatens t...
AP Report: US, Israel Worked Together To Track And Kill Al-Qaida No. 2
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior al-Qaida operative in Iran earlier this year, a bold intelligence operation by the two all...