Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan said on Sunday that Iran’s leadership is using “smart” diplomacy to advance its nuclear program, and that the Iranian threat is not a “quarrel” between Israel and Iran, but an international issue. Speaking at a conference sponsored by the Jerusalem Post in New York, Dagan described President Ahmadinejad’s regime as…
The United Kingdom’s fifth largest food retailer has ended trade with suppliers who export produce grown in West Bank settlements. The British Co-operative Group is the first major European supermarket group to cut ties “with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements,” the British newspaper The Guardian reported Sunday. The…
On Sunday, the first members’ assembly will be held for a Tel Aviv co-op, to be called Bar Kayma (Hebrew for “sustainable”), in which its members will vote on its menu, location and design. The prices paid for food and drink at the new co-op will only cover the cost of production, while guests will…
The Israeli cabinet unanimously approved Sunday a proposal to erect temporary housing for residents of the illegal West Bank outpost of Migron, which would allow for the outpost’s evacuation by July 15. The High Court of Justice last month ordered the state to evacuate the illegal West Bank outpost and dismantle it by August, after…
The Tal Law, which enables full-time yeshiva students to be exempted from mandatory army service, will be replaced with “a more egalitarian and just law,” Israel’s Prime Minister promised activists. “The division of the burden must be changed. What has been is not what will be,” Benjamin Netanyahu told representatives of reservist activists protesting as…
Police arrested a 20-year-old resident of south Tel Aviv for firebombing the homes of African asylum seekers living in his neighborhood. The man was expected to appear in court on Sunday. It is not known if the alleged arsonist had any accomplices. The attacks, which occurred on the morning of April 27th, were directed at…
Israeli legal figures expressed surprise that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein had thrown his support behind Prime Minister Netanyahu’s move to oppose the demolition of the structures built on private Palestinian land in the West Bank settlement of Beit El. One legal figure said on Saturday that Weinstein had gone far beyond what had been acceptable…
Likud sources said on Saturday that the national elections are likely to be held between September and November. Anticipating the coming elections Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already meeting strategic advisors and survey experts, a political source said. “Netanyahu’s associates are pressing him to push up the elections,” the source said. “Whichever way you look…
Right-wing extremism is Israel much more violent than that originating in the political left, former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin was recorded as saying on Friday, adding that an attempt to evacuate West Bank settlements could result in an event similar to the assassination of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Earlier Saturday, remarks made…
Israel’s political system will know whether or not it’s heading for early elections following the vote on a replacement to the so-called Tal Law on May 9, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Saturday, adding that his Yisrael Beiteinu party has exhausted its obligations to the coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The FM’s comments,…
Haredi Orthodox leaders are planning what they say will be a massive rally in New York City to call attention to the dangers of modern digital technology. Tens of thousands are expected to gather for a May 20 rally at Citi Field, the Mets’ baseball stadium in Queens. The Hebrew-language Jewish Daily News reported that…
