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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with other senior Israeli officials, toured Magen David Adom's national operations center on Feb. 27, 2020. Credit: Magen David Adom.

MDA operations heightened as first non-quarantined Israeli gets COVID-19

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 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured Magen David Adom’s national operations center on Thursday along with other senior Israeli officials and ministers as the first Israeli outside of quarantine was diagnosed with COVID-19, the...
An Israel Defense Forces map of where it carried out airstrikes against Iranian and Syrian targets on Nov. 20, 2019. Source: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Report: Israel kills senior Hezbollah operative in Syria

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A  senior Hezbollah operative was killed on Thursday in an Israeli drone strike in Syria, according to Arab media reports. The official was named as Imad at-Tawil. The Jordan-based Al-Hadath news outlet reported that Tawil was in charge...
Itamar Ben-Gvir of Otzma Yehudit Party attends the Srugim conference in Jerusalem on Sept. 2, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Otzma Yehudit head says he’ll quit election once Netanyahu quits Oslo Accords

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Otzma Yehudit Party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on Wednesday that he had offered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a deal, according to which he would withdraw from Monday’s national election if certain conditions were...
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz holds a press conference at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan on Feb. 26, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Gantz accuses Netanyahu of ‘poisoning’ Israel, fostering ‘culture of crime’

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With Israel’s elections just days away, Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz on Wednesday slammed the door on a future unity deal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and launched a...
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leder Avigdor Lieberman speaks at the Maariv conference in Herzliya, on Feb. 26, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Lieberman: ‘No more unity, we will form a government without Netanyahu’

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Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Lieberman declared on Wednesday that following Israel’s March 2 election, the next government will be formed without Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking at the Maariv business conference in Herzliya, Lieberman discussed the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Conference of Heads of Local Authorities, in Kiryat Anavim, near Jerusalem, on Feb. 26, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu: ‘We’re only two seats away from a strong right-wing government’

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Just days away from Israel’s third general election in under 12 months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was optimistic on Wednesday as he addressed a conference of regional council leaders. “We are only two seats...
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Bennett: ‘I’d rather sit in the opposition than join a government led by Benny...

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“I’d rather sit in the opposition than join a government led by Benny Gantz. I’d also sooner face a fourth election than sit in his cabinet,” Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett told Israel Hayom this week. Bennett,...
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...