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Israel dismantles metal detectors, cameras
Andrew Friedman, TPSJul 27, 2017
Israel Police dismantled metal detectors and security cameras at the entrances to the Temple Mount compound overnight between Monday, July 24 and Tuesday, July 25, less...
10,000 attend funeral of murdered Jews
TPSJul 27, 2017
More than 10,000 Israelis, including government ministers and Members of Knesset, descended on the city of Modi’in for the joint funeral of Yosef, 70, Chaya, 46, and...
Labor, choosing Gabbay, gets a boost
Andrew Tobin, JTAJul 20, 2017
Likud still ahead in the polls, but it could be a different ball game JERUSALEM — After political newcomer Avi Gabbay’s surprise election to head the Labor Party,...
Want a tour of a Hamas tunnel?
JTAJul 20, 2017
By Renee Ghert-Zand TEL AVIV — Capt. Libby Weiss spent most of the summer of 2014 in a Hamas tunnel, and she wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else. Israel’s...
Israel: No Iran in southern Lebanon
JNSJul 20, 2017
By Yaakov Lappin Netanyahu tells Trump and Putin: Iran in southern Lebanon would cross a ‘red line’ With the help of its powerful allies, President Bashar Assad’s...
What’s the magic in the Israel-India relationship?
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 13, 2017
WASHINGTON — Barefoot walks on the beach, warm hugs, lots of mutual admiration, hesitant attempts to speak each other’s language. And giggles. The bromance between...
Denver’s Rabbi Gerson is on Rabbinate ‘blacklist’
Andrea JacobsJul 13, 2017
Rabbi Bernard Gerson, spiritual leader of Denver’s Conservative Rodef Shalom, discovered on Facebook that his name appears on the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s...
New controversy from Israel: ‘Blacklist’
Ben Sales, JTAJul 13, 2017
NEW YORK — Some 160 rabbis, including several American Orthodox leaders, appear on a list of rabbis whom Israel’s Chief Rabbinate does not trust to confirm the...
UNESCO to vote on whether Machpelah is Jewish
JNSJul 06, 2017
By Alex Traiman An upcoming vote by the United Nations cultural body UNESCO on whether to declare Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs as an endangered Palestinian heritage...
First visit to Israel by PM of India
JTAJul 06, 2017
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to Israel, calling his visit “historic.” Modi arrived in Israel on...
