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An 11-year-old boy is in critical condition after a car hit him on Rechov Mirski in Ramot, Yerushalayim, on Sunday night. The driver fled the scene and remains at large. Police are…
A Be’er Sheva court has indicted Sami Amarani, a 28-year-old Bedouin from Rahat, for destroying 170 dunams of agricultural land and causing damage of tens of millions of shekels for…
Winter overstayed its welcome a second day on Monday, as rainy and cold weather – atypical for Chol Hamo’ed Pesach – continued. According to weather researchers, the month of March…
Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Kosel Monday morning for the traditional mass Birkas Kohanim event, held on Chol Hamoed of Pesach and Sukkos, on the first day…
President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan will not involve giving land from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula to the Palestinians, an American envoy said on Friday. Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s Middle East…
B’chasdei Shamayim, the first days of Pesach passed largely uneventfully from a security point of view. On Friday night, Leil haSeder, security forces foiled a stabbing attack on IDF soldiers on…
The measles outbreak in Israel has taken an alarming turn for the worse as two people—a 43-year-old El Al flight attendant and a 10-year old boy—were reported hospitalized and in…
Media reports about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s leading candidates for justice minister have provoked a threatening reaction from senior ministry officials, according to Channel 10 on Thursday evening. The…
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has strongly rejected Israeli media reports claiming that Russian officials have taken the remains of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen out of Syria, where he was executed…
Bnei Brak has the highest rate of public transportation use in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, and to better serve the area, the Transportation Ministry will build a new central…
Pesach marks the start of spring, but this year winter appears to be extending its stay – and that will further benefit the Kinneret, which so far this year has…
Many residents of Arab and Muslim countries are interested in developing closer ties with Israel, even if their governments are not, according to polls commissioned by the Foreign Ministry. Among…
Police on Thursday said they had busted a forger ring that produced hundreds of drivers licenses for Arab in Yerushalayim. The suspects include the head of a legal practice and…
Israel is keeping an open mind toward the peace plan being crafted by the U.S., but Palestinians will not do the same, alleged Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the U.N.…
A Pesach seder plate from the early 1800s has been returned to the Israel Museum after having gone missing for half a century, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. The…
Post-election formalities continued on schedule Wednesday as President Reuven Rivlin tasked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with assembling a ruling majority. In a ceremony at the Presidential Residence, reference was made…
A day after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his brother Dr. Ido Netanyahu received the personal effects of Yoni Netanyahu Hy”d, who was killed in the Entebbe raid, it…
Post-election formalities continued on schedule Wednesday as President Reuven Rivlin received the official results of the elections to the 21st Knesset from Chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge Hanan…
The person likely to be the next minister of justice has already stirred controversy with pronouncements of what he will do once in office. Tourism Minister Yair Levin (Likud) —…
The new Palestinian prime minister on Tuesday accused the United States of declaring “financial war” on his people and said an American peace plan purported to be in the works…