JAFFA, Israel – Egypt has been in turmoil following clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Nile Delta area, during which an elderly Christian woman was evicted from her home, stripped naked and parading through the streets.
JAFFA, Israel – Egypt has been in turmoil following clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Nile Delta area, during which an elderly Christian woman was evicted from her home, stripped naked and parading through the streets.
The Gaza-based, al-Qaida-inspired militant group Ajnad Beit Almaqdes (Soldiers of Jerusalem) claimed responsibility for Wednesday night’s rocket fire on Israel, which triggered an Israel Air Force retaliation.
TEL AVIV – The ever first study on licensed medical marijuana users in Israel revealed that 99.6% of patients applied for the drug after conventional medications had no effect, The Jerusalem Post reported.
TEL AVIV – Hezbollah said Wednesday that it was digging tunnels along the border with Israel and has succeeded in creating a “balance of terror,” making southern Lebanon “the most secure region in the entire Middle East.”
The Jerusalem Post reports: Various brush fires blazed across Israel as the country was hit by high temperatures on Thursday, as fires in parts of Jerusalem prompted dozens of residents to evacuate their homes.
A UN resolution has singled out Israel as the world’s only violator of “mental, physical and environmental health” and commissioned a delegation to report on “the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory” and in “the occupied Syrian Golan.”
TEL AVIV – Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, “an ignoramus when it comes to the Middle East,” has tapped a “professional Israel-hater” for the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee, internationally acclaimed lawyer Alan Dershowitz told The Algemeiner on Tuesday.
In first remarks as Israel’s designated defense minister, right-wing settler Avigdor Lieberman joked about his fiery reputation: “I have undergone surgery to lengthen my fuse.”
GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) – Life has turned into a nightmare for Fatma’s family since her eldest son, 11, was sexually assaulted, a trauma which has damaged them all and forced them to move house.
Haaretz reports: Just hours after the signing of an agreement between the Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu, the U.S. responded to the expanding of Israel’s governing coalition.
The Israeli air force carried out strikes on Hamas sites in Gaza early Thursday in response to a rocket attack targeting the Jewish state, the army and Palestinian officials said.
The Daily Telegraph reports: The UN envoy for the Middle East expressed alarm on Wednesday after Hamas authorities in the Gaza strip moved to hold public executions, and urged them to change course.
The Times of Israel reports: An Israeli delegation led by a top diplomat arrived in Turkey to represent Israel at the first World Humanitarian Summit.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Regional normalization steps, alongside a regional peace process based on the Saudi initiative, could bring about the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair said in London.
The Washington Post reports: BEIRUT — In an unusual announcement Wednesday, Russia said it would halt air raids against Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, to give other rebel factions a chance to distance themselves from the extremist group.
The Times of Israel reports: The Israeli air force attacked two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip Wednesday night, hours after terrorists in the Strip fired a rocket into Israel from the territory. Palestinian media reported that a second rocket
Ynetnews reports: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke about Avigdor Lieberman becoming the Israeli defense minister in a speech on Wednesday night. Nasrallah gave the speech while hiding in his bunker but had the speech broadcasted on giant screens in villages
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is airing an attack ad accusing Donald Trump of “root[ing] for the real estate crash,” while ignoring that many of Clinton’s own top corporate donors were implicated in helping to cause the subprime-mortgage crisis and the roots
JAFFA, Israel – A UAE prince who expressed his support for a meeting between Pope Francis and the head of the world’s leading Sunni Muslim institution came under a barrage of online criticism as well as sympathy.
TEL AVIV – The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Presidency delivered a speech this week on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas extolling the Palestinian people for “loving death more than life” and promising that the Israeli “tyrants” and “aggressors will end up in the trash bin of history.”
TEL AVIV – A Spanish constitutional tribunal recommended annulling a municipality’s motion calling for a boycott against Israel and declaring itself “a space free of Israeli apartheid,” The Times of Israel reported.
Ynetnews reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman signed a coalition agreement on Wednesday morning after understandings were reached overnight Tuesday on Lieberman’s conditions to join the government as defense minister.
Iran has officially resumed funding to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, the London-based newspaper Asharq al Awsat has reported, confirming a Breitbart Jerusalem report last month.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli start-up claims to have developed a program that can identify terrorists, pedophiles, even expert poker players in just a fraction of a second using facial analysis tools.
Ynetnews reports: Four residents of the Israeli-Arab town of Jaljulia who were planning to travel to Syria and join ISIS were convicted by the Lod district court on Monday.
A French court on Tuesday ordered the chief suspect in a deadly attack on a Paris synagogue in 1980 to be sent back to jail, ten days after he was released on bail.
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian terrorist who murdered U.S. Army veteran Taylor Force was given a hero’s funeral that was described as a “large national wedding befitting of martyrs” – a reference to the 72 virgins – by official Palestinian Authority television.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — France’s prime minister said Tuesday that peace between Israelis and the Palestinians is also important for security in Europe.
BBC News reports: New satellite imagery appears to reveal extensive damage to a strategically significant airbase in central Syria used by Russian forces after a reported attack by so-called Islamic State (IS).
A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian militias launched a new offensive against Islamic State fighters near their de facto capital of Raqqa city on Tuesday, a monitoring group and an official said.
