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Knesset member Ahmad Tibi attends a meeting of the opposition at the Knesset on March 11, 2014. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Poll: Israeli Arabs see Ahmad Tibi as top candidate for prime minister

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Voter turnout in Israel’s Arab sector is expected to be around 60 percent on March 2, and 91 percent have great confidence in the impact on the next Knesset of the Joint Arab List,...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman with Efrat regional council head Oded Revivi, and the heads of local councils in Judea and Samaria, during a visit to Efrat on Feb. 20, 2020. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Joint US-Israel sovereignty committee holds its first meeting

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The joint U.S.-Israel committee tasked with mapping the areas to which Israel will extend its sovereignty under the Trump Mideast peace plan held its first meeting on Monday outside the Samaria city of Ariel. Israeli...
A view of Israel's largest Arab city, Umm al-Fahm. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli Arabs reject becoming citizens of Palestinian state, as suggested in Mideast peace plan

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Israeli Arab citizens flatly reject the idea floated in the recently released U.S. “Peace to Prosperity” plan that envisions the possibility that borders would be redrawn and some Arab cities and villages could become...
Israel is preparing a “meaningful move” with regard to the Gaza Strip that will only take place “on our terms and in our time,” according to Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett.

Bennett: Israel needs to ‘fundamentally change the situation’ in Gaza

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Israel is “preparing something” for the terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett. In remarks made during an interview with i24 News that aired on Monday, Bennett said that Israeli Prime...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Feb. 16, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Plan to build 3,500 housing units in E-1 is moving forward

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday his intent to push ahead with a plan to build 3,500 homes for settlers in the E-1 area of Judea and Samaria that would effectively connect...
Election campaign posters in Tel Aviv depict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, as well as the leaders of the Blue and White Party, including Benny Gantz, second from left, Sept. 2019. Photo by Adam Shuldman/Flash90.

For first time in round three of elections, Netanyahu pushes past Gantz in polls

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Were Israeli elections to be held today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party would secure 33 Knesset seats, giving the ruling party a slight edge over challenger Blue and White, projected to win...
PM Netanyahu and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hold talks at Sharm e-Sheikh , 6.1.11. Photo: Moshe Milner, GPO

PM Netanyahu sends condolences on the passing of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

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PM Netanyahu: President Mubarak was a leader who led his people to peace and security, to peace with Israel. I would like to send condolences to President A-Sisi, to the Mubarak family and to the...
An illustrative view of Israel's currency. Ogen works as a nonprofit loan fund that provides affordable credit to disadvantaged segments of the Israeli public, aiming to increase upward economic mobility for low- and middle-income families, as well as small-business owners. Source: RJA1988/pixabay.com

First Israeli nonprofit bank to provide life-changing loans as a ‘national mission’

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Originally established to help new immigrants from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union adjust to their new lives in Israel, the Ogen Group, formerly known as the Israel Free Loan Association (IFLA), is working to...
View of an election campaign billboards showing Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White head Benny Gantz, in Tel Aviv on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

For third time in row, Netanyahu and Gantz race towards an inconclusive finish line

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Israel has entered the home stretch of its third election within a year, and with polls showing some possible shifts in public opinion, the parties have begun their last-ditch efforts to gain votes. Blue and...
A ball of fire and smoke rises above buildings during Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip after a slew of 14 rockets were launched towards southern Israel, on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

55,000 students miss school as rockets rain down on southern Israel

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At least 14 Palestinian rockets rained down on southwestern Israel on Monday, with one striking and damaging a playground in the town of Sderot and another shattering a car windshield in Nir Am. Twelve of...