Former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard visited the graves on Sunday of Hallel and Yagel Yaniv, the brothers murdered a week ago by a Palestinian Arab terrorist in the Samaria town of Huwara. Near the two graves, Pollard spoke with Kan News and called for the government to take measures against the town where the murders

As it seeks to take over process of nominating judges, government changes Knesset bylaws, extending deadline to form Judicial Selection Committee to June 15

Closure of crossings is standard practice during Israeli festivals and holidays, which are seen as periods of increased tensions

If there”s one thing that Israelis know well, it”s dealing with trauma, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), to be precise. Today, a full year after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, there are people out there looking ahead to the long-awaited day after, and what Ukrainian citizens, young and old&mdashall of whom are war victims

Legal counsel rules matter will be kept out of budget voting, noting ‘odd and irregular’ manner in which it was approved by cabinet

On Mar 5, 2023, Arutz 7 reported “An US official quoted by Channel 12 News said on Saturday night that the administration is considering preventing Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the United States, following his comments that the Arab village of Huwara should be “wiped out”. The official said that it would be better for

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Col. Herzi Halevi met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid the rise in cases of reserve soldiers refusing to report for reserve duty in protest of the government’s judicial reform legislation. According to a report by Channel 12, the Chief of Staff told Netanyahu that the refusals that are related

Four months after investigation opened, prominent hardline rabbi called in for interrogation by Lahav 433 unit

Do Sephardic Jews have the same gut reaction to the Holocaust as their Ashkenazic counterparts? Or do they hearken back to the primary atrocity of their history hundreds of years ago – the Spanish Inquisition? As an Ashkenazic Jew with tragic family ties to the Holocaust, basic questions pertaining to shared or differing experiences surrounding

The Religious Zionism party held a special session to commemorate Hallel and Yagel Yaniv, who were murdered in a shooting attack in Huwara last week. The session was attended by friends of Hallel, who worked with him in the party’s youth activist group. During the session, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated: “We thank you, friends,

Chili Tropper says members of Netanyahu’s party have offered MKs from his own National Unity faction coalition spots instead of Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit

A pair of new polls released Sunday evening show the parties allied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would lose seats if new elections were held today, with one poll predicting the left-wing – Arab bloc would win an absolute majority in the Knesset. The first poll, conducted by Project Midgam and published by Channel 13,

Halevi tells PM army’s operational capacity could be harmed if trend expands, a concern echoed by Defense Minister Gallant, who calls for compromise on judicial overhaul

Prosecutors says HoggPool lured in clients with ‘fraudulent’ means, promised large returns, then abruptly stopped operations in February and disappeared with $620,000

Billionaire former New York mayor urges Netanyahu to ‘slow down’ controversial legislation, says he understands those pulling funds from country

Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum. [There is no evil faster than rumor]&mdashVirgil, Roman poet (70 BCE-19 BCE), in “Aeneid”. Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late&hellip–Jonathan Swift, Tory writer, The Examiner, November 9, 1710. A lie gets halfway around the

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Sunday with Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger in Jerusalem. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed deepening the cooperation between Israel and Slovakia, especially in technology, innovation and tourism, as well as regional issues. Netanyahu emphasized the need to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. They also discussed opportunities

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, a veteran of the elite Sayaret Matkal general staff reconnaissance unit, explained why 17 years after his death during the Second Lebanon War, pictures of Lt. Col. Emmanuel Moreno are still classified. In the final episode of a Hot 8 documentary series about the elite unit, Halevi

Ministerial committee votes to transfer responsibility for protecting PM’s family after hours-long protest outside beauty parlor where his wife was getting a haircut

Former New York City Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg condemned the Israeli government”s judicial reform plan, warning that its passage could lead Israel “to disaster.” In an opinion piece the billionaire businessman penned for The New York Times, Bloomberg touted his own pro-Israel bona fides, while comparing the Netanyahu government to Richard

* Translation by Yehoshua Siskin We spent Shabbat with my parents in Herzliya. On Shabbat morning, *Rabbi Yehuda Butman* of the “Oneg Shabbat” synagogue, said the following: “I want to speak about three invisibles!” he declared. The first invisible is Moshe Rabbeinu. He does not appear in the Torah portion of Tetzaveh that we just

Former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard on Sunday was among those to join the family of Hallel and Yagel Yaniv, the two brothers who were murdered last week by a Palestinian Arab terrorist in Huwara, at their grave at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to mark a week since their murder. Pollard told the family: “Your strength

The Israeli government voted Sunday to transfer the provision of a security detail to the prime minister”s wife and children to the Shin Bet internal security agency. The vote comes after the prime minister”s wife, Sara Netanyahu, was trapped inside a Tel Aviv hair salon for over three hours last week after a mob of

Airline staff said to refuse to take job due to opposition to government’s planned judicial overhaul; task to find pilot complicated over Netanyahus’ demand to fly in Boeing 777

Form 4 no longer to be required; agreement expected to add hundreds of megawatts to electricity grid

Only Netanyahu can avert catastrophe – by halting his bid to neuter the courts and instead negotiating genuine reform. It might cost him his coalition, but it would save the state

In this conversation with R. Dr. Shlomo Brody, we discuss the epic mistake of the Golden Calf and Moshe’s handling of the situation.

Selected Israeli startups will receive a $50,000 grant for a six-month period; tech will be integrated into Samsung products

During one of his lessons for the Purim season, religious Zionist spiritual leader Rabbi Chaim Druckman, who passed away in December at the age of 90, would tell a story as a parable to teach about G-d’s salvation on Purim about a king who would disguise himself and walk down the street. At the end

The fifth edition of the World Baseball Classic is just days away, as players and fans across the globe prepare for two weeks of competition beginning on Wednesday. Jewish fans may remember that Israel took the WBC by storm in 2017, winning four straight games as an underdog and advancing to the second round before

Netanyahu also responds to boycott letter from fighter pilots: ‘When we are called to reserve duty we always go. We are one nation’

Several students at 2 high schools in west, southwest take ill; deputy interior minister says plotters aiming to close sites; Raisi blames enemies seeking to sow fear

PM says remarks ‘unworthy’ of Rafael Grossi, vows Israel will protect itself against ‘oppressors’ like Purim villain Haman

Defense Minister Yoav Galant decided to extend the administrative detentions of two suspects of being involved in an incident in the Samaria Arab town of Huwara, despite the court ordering their release. We spoke with Atty. Adi Keidar from the Honenu legal advocacy group, who is representing the detainees, tells Israel National News that the

The IDF and Israel Police forces on Sunday thwarted a major drug smuggling attempt worth 6,000,000 NIS in the “Yoav” Regional Brigade area and apprehended three individuals suspected of carrying out the smuggling. Overnight (Sunday), IDF soldiers spotted a number of suspects that arrived at the area of the security fence and attempted to smuggle

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticized International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) Director Rafael Grossi for claiming that an Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program would be illegal under international law. “International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi just said in Tehran that an Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities is against

Lapid, Gantz swiftly reject negotiations initially proposed by business groups, noting government refusal to freeze legislative push; override bill advances out of committee

Kyiv seen as likely to retreat rather than allow soldiers to become surrounded in longest and bloodiest battle of war; Moscow defense chief makes rare visit near front line

When students at Connecticut College learned that their president had been planning to attend a fundraiser at a historically racist and antisemitic golf club, they began to organize. But their school”s building for race and ethnicity programming, the Unity House, didn”t have enough space to hold them all. So a pivotal meeting that kicked off

New analysis of artifact from late 2nd century, discovered in Colchester in 1853, depicts duel between fighters Memnon and Valentinus

Renowned philosopher, Professor Shalom Rosenberg passed away this morning (Sunday) at the age of 88. Dr. Rosenberg leaves behind his wife and seven children. Dr. Rosenberg’s funeral will take place at 4 pm today at the Jerusalem community funeral home at the Mount of Rosenberg was born in 1935 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to immigrants

Haredi MK had quit, complaining Center for Holy Sites not relinquishing control of annual event, scene of 2021 deadly crush; PM commends him, tells relevant parties to cooperate

Baharav-Miara says legislation contradicts law geared to ensure politicians’ integrity; proposal reportedly would let PM keep cousin’s $270,000 donation he was told to return

At cabinet meeting, PM says UN nuclear watchdog chief who recently returned from trip to Iran is a ‘worthy person who made an unworthy remark’

Shiloh resident Idit Lavi, the mother of the two-year-old girl who was critically injured in a car accident near Ofra in Binyamin, maintains that the collision was intentional and no accident. She said that on Saturday morning, she was taking her daughter home from the hospital, where the child had gotten stitches. “On Saturday morning

The popular apparel brand’s CEO Jay L. Schottenstein is well-known for his charitable Jewish contributions, including to Chabad, whose teen program engineered the affixing event

Former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg said that he has more sympathy for the residents of the Arab village of Huwara than for the Jewish community of Har Bracha following the murder of two Har Bracha residents in Huwara a week ago and the subsequent riot in Huwara by a group of Jews. “It is not

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian with updates on perpetrators of last week’s terrorist attacks and Huwara rampage; Knesset reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn previews this week’s votes

Dani Karavan’s ‘Grundgesetz 49’ displays constitution’s articles on glass plates; Last Generation group says it targeted piece because use of oil is incompatible with rights

Israel’s biggest supermarket chain inks deal to exclusively import and sell SPAR products in Israel, vowing to increase competition and bring down food prices