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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Wednesday his government's commitment to continue building and developing Israeli settlement projects, without any interruptions. Netanyahu said: "We are building continuously. We...

A Likud party convention taking place on Wednesday evening will vote on a proposal to dissolve the union of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and Yisrael Beiteinu, the...

Shaikh Taissir Tamimi, the Chief Islamic Judge in Jerusalem, has said that Israeli raids and incursions at Al-Aqsa Mosque are at their highest level since 1967. "Settlers and Israeli...

Israeli MK Miri Regev has proposed a new bill to the ministerial committee for legislation that would obligate the prime minister to get agreement from a majority of Knesset...

A senior member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, has claimed that Palestinian Christians "are not Arabs". The Chairman of the governing coalition, Yariv Levin MK, made his comment in...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has said that the current negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority aim to create a framework for more talks. They are not, he...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES December's 'Day of Rage' against the Prawer Plan saw protests held by Palestinian activists across historic Palestine. From the Naqab to Gaza and from Haifa to Ramallah,...

The national director of pro-life group Be'ad Chaim has said that Israel's moral fibres are "in shreds" with the government decision to offer free abortions for almost all women....

A member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has said that the coup against Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi "has already started". Benjamin Ben-Eliezer added that he thinks "civil war...

Arab MK Jamal Zahalqeh has called upon the Palestinian Authority to "immediately" stop peace talks with Israel in the wake of the Knesset's overwhelming vote on Monday to return...

A team from Magen David Adom – Israel's national emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service (MDA) – has refused to take a blood donation from Knesset Member...

The United Jewish Appeal-Federation has announced in New York that it will allocate $145 million to support its own and other projects intended to Judaise the city of Jerusalem....

Israeli officials are expecting that US President Barack Obama will get Congressional approval for a military strike on Syria next week when the Congress reconvenes. Israeli media reports said...

The French President's cancellation of a speech to the Israeli Knesset has created a diplomatic crisis. In return, reported Yedioth Ahronoth, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein has decided to boycott...

French President Francois Hollande severely criticised on Monday Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and called for the "final and complete" ending of the settlements. After visiting the...

Romania stopped sending labourers to work in Israel two years ago, it has been reported by Haaretz. According to the Israeli newspaper, this was because the Israeli government refused...

Two indirectly-related stories from the US this week struck me in a particular way. Firstly, it was a big week for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. The...

Last month during a debate in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, there was a disturbing comment made by one of the right-wing politicians. It was racist remark that revealed much...

By designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist organisation" the interim Egyptian government has hammered the final nail in the coffin of any political settlement that could have mended...

Israel's response to the political developments in the Arab world revolves around security. An increase in its military budget has been accompanied by substantial amendments to the country's security...

After a month and a half of anxiety, the expected has happened; Netanyahu's third government was formed with a fairly predictable coalition which excludes the religious parties Shas and...

Benjamin Netanyahu's third government (and Israel's thirty third) does not offer Palestinians anything new: it will be more of the same; the expansion of illegal settlements, aggression and the...

Israel's Chief of the General Staff, Benny Gantz, has told the Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and Security that the army faces a deficit of 8 billion new Israeli...

The Israeli Knesset recently passed the controversial Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement, also known as the Prawer Bill, which would force the relocation of over 30,000 Bedouin...

This weekend saw protesters taking to the streets of Tel Aviv again to protest against the rising cost of living, austerity and what they call the "tycoon state". "We...

Israel's intentions for Jerusalem have been exposed by its policies and projects ever since the eastern half of the city was captured during the 1967 war. It has to...

As peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials jumpstart into motion again, plenty of questions remain. "What was on the menu for last week's White House Iftar?" Fish and...

On Saturday, protests were held worldwide in global defiance of a bill currently going through Israel's Knesset. The bill, known as the Prawer Plan, aims to forcibly relocate up...