Likud lawmaker calls to drop charges in criminal case against Netanyahu
Likud lawmaker and coalition chairman Miki Zohar announced on Tuesday that he has formally requested that the state drop all charges in one of the criminal cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, due...
Netanyahu: Opposition leaders’ calls to ignore COVID directives will lead to anarchy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday took opposition politicians to task for calling on the public not to cooperate with Health Ministry directives regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Such calls, said Netanyahu, would lead...
Lieberman: Israelis should flout gov’t COVID-19 directives, rely on ‘common sense’
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman urged Israelis on Monday to flout government coronavirus directives and rely on “common sense” instead.
During a meeting on Monday morning of his party’s Knesset faction, which was widely...
Haredi leaders accuse Netanyahu of ‘selective punishment’
A group of haredi leaders sent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a harshly worded letter on Sunday, warning him that they would not forgive him for casting the haredi community as “spreaders of disease.”
The letter, written by...
Netanyahu calls ‘Times’ report on F-35 sale to UAE ‘false allegation’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed a report in The New York Times that suggested he did not oppose the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets and radar-blocking planes to the United Arab Emirates as part of the...
IDF’s precision-rocket battalion prepares for complex battlefield
Under the cover of darkness in southern Israel, dozens of rockets pierced the night sky, flying out of their launch pods before exploding into targets some located dozens of kilometers away. The specialized drill—dubbed...
World Zionist Organization to send permanent emissaries to UAE Jewish community
The World Zionist Organization has selected a young couple as pioneer permanent emissaries to the Jewish community in Dubai.
According to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, which said that it received an update on this...
Honduran official: Embassy relocation to Jerusalem moving forward
Honduras’s plan to relocate its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem was delayed by COVID-19 but will move forward in the coming days, the country’s government said on Wednesday.
Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales Banegas told local...
IDF arrests armed infiltrator from Gaza, thwarting terror attack
Israeli forces on Wednesday night arrested an armed infiltrator that had crossed into Israel from the southern Gaza Strip, the military said in a statement.
“Soldiers dispatched to the scene after IDF spotters identified a...
13 ways Israel is helping the world fight forest fires
This year alone, Australia battled its largest-ever bushfire, California has more than 500 blazes burning, many of them mega-fires, and forest fires have been reported in 14 other U.S. states. In August, Argentina registered 8,493...