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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Former Israeli defense official calls for joining of US and Russia to roll back...

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The next Israeli government should aim to bring the United States and Russia together to decrease Iran’s destructive influence in the region, a former senior Israeli defense official has told JNS. Professor Rear Admiral (Ret.)...
Itamar Ben-Gvir of Otzma Yehudit Party attends the Srugim conference in Jerusalem on Sept. 2, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Report: Netanyahu seeks to push Otzma Yehudit over electoral threshold

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisers are holding talks with the head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party to try to find a way for Otzma to pass the electoral threshold in Israel’s March...
Safra Children Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer. Credit: David Shay via Wikimedia Commons.

Israel’s Sheba Medical Center develops telemedicine to limit coronavirus spread

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As fears of the growing coronavirus endemic increase worldwide, Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, has developed a groundbreaking way to treat potential patients without risking the health of hospital staff and other patients. Using...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein during a Likud Party meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on Feb. 9, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israel suffers major data breach, Likud accused of breaking privacy laws

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Israel’s Likud Party is being accused of causing one of the most serious data breaches in Israeli history, and of gross violations of Israeli privacy laws, following the exposure on the Internet of the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a tree-planting event for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, in Mevo'ot Yericho in the Jordan Valley, Feb. 10, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Netanyahu: U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty is certain

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During a tour of the Jordan Valley on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his pledge to apply Israeli law there and in other areas designated as Israeli territory under the newly unveiled...
A view of the Dead Sea. Although it has been nearly 20 years with no new hotels built in the area, the Dead Sea region enjoys the highest annual average occupancy of hotels in Israel. Photo by Eliana Rudee.

Dead Sea returns to forefront of Israel’s economy, tourist industry

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Israel’s Ministry of Tourism and Land Authority recently announced the winners of two tenders for the construction of four new Dead Sea hotels, part of a new complex that will be constructed alongside a...
Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, seen with supporters after a court hearing in Haifa on Feb. 10, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Israeli court sentences radical Islamic cleric Raed Salah to prison

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An Israeli court sentenced radical Islamic cleric Raed Salah to 28 months in jail for “inciting to terror” in speeches he made after a 2017 attack at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in which...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman addresses the Kohelet Forum Conference at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on Jan. 8, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

U.S. ambassador to Israel clarifies statement on Israeli annexation

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman set off a firestorm on Sunday when he tweeted, “The application of Israeli law to the territory which the Plan provides to be part of Israel is...
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman during their meeting at the White House on March 14, 2017. Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead.

Report: Historic meeting between Netanyahu, Saudi crown prince in works

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Intensive talks are underway between Washington, Jerusalem, Cairo and Riyadh to convene a summit in Cairo, possibly before Israel’s March 2 election, that would serve as a venue for a meeting between Israeli Prime...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press regarding the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, in Ramat Gan, on Sept. 10, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Israel is mapping lands for annexation

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Israel has begun to map the Judea and Samaria lands that Israel will annex, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an election campaign rally in Ma’ale Adumim on Saturday. “We are already at the...