Israeli forces killed two Palestinian assailants in the West Bank on Monday, police said, and two Israeli police officers were stabbed in East Jerusalem in a resurgence of violence now into its fourth day. Palestinian street attacks that began nearly a year ago had largely waned in recent months, but a series of assaults since…
As diplomatic faux-pas go, it’s a delicate one. Ahead of the Jewish new year next month, the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv sent gift baskets to a number of Israeli organizations, as it does every year. Among the recipients was Peace Now, a group opposed to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. There was…
BERLIN — In what one German Jewish leader is calling a “Nazi renaissance,” Germany’s newest right-populist party – Alternative for Germany – has broken the Berlin barrier, gaining seats for the first time in that state’s parliament. The anti-immigrant, euro-sceptic party that has been plagued by controversies over anti-Semitism in its ranks now has seats on legislatures in 10…
— A federal appeals court upheld the prison sentence of Rabbi Barry Freundel, a once-prominent modern Orthodox rabbi in Washington, D.C., who secretly videotaped women in his synagogue’s mikvah. Freundel, 64, who began serving his sentence in May 2015, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism, a charge…
Veteran American diplomat Dennis Ross has predicted that President Obama would be far more likely to push for United Nations action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if Donald Trump wins the November elections. The senior Mideast expert told a conference in Palo Alto, California, that Obama might want to codify support for a two-state solution to…
JERUSALEM — Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a private email exchange that Israel has 200 nuclear warheads. The exchange last year from Powell’s private Gmail account was leaked late last week by hackers, The Associated Press reported. Powell told the AP Friday through a spokeswoman he was referring to public estimates…
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama will meet in New York during the United Nations General Assembly. The meeting will take place Wednesday on the sidelines of the international forum and comes as Obama considers making a push to jumpstart stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in his final months in office….
Eric Schneiderman , New York State’s attorney general, said Donald Trump “opened the door” to anti-Semitic rhetoric in reaction to Schneiderman’s probe into Trump’s activities. “Deeply disappointing that @realDonaldTrump has opened the door to this type of anti-Semitic rhetoric,” Schneiderman, a Democrat, said Friday on his Twitter feed. It linked to a New York Daily…
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres remains in serious but stable condition, a CT scan showed five days after he suffered a massive stroke. The scan conducted on Sunday morning at Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer near Tel Aviv reportedly found that there is no change in Peres’ condition, since suffering a stroke and bleeding…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called an explosion on the West Side of Manhattan that injured at least 29 people “intentional” but not terrorist in nature. One of the people injured in the Saturday night blast in a dumpster in the Chelsea neighborhood was injured critically. The injured included a pregnant woman and…
An Israeli soldier was stabbed and moderately injured outside the West Bank settlement of Efrat. The attack at 6 a.m. on Sunday, followed five other attacks on Friday and Saturday that left three Arab assailants dead. The assailant in Sunday’s attack was shot in the dead after stabbing the Israeli officer patrolling near the entrance…
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