Monday, 22 August 2022 | Suspected Palestinian terrorists fired on a crowded Israeli bus in Judea and Samaria on Saturday night, according to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces], shortly after another incident in which three Arab women in possession of a submachine gun and a suicide note were arrested at a checkpoint. The bus was
Continue Reading »Monday, 22 August 2022 | Cyprus has reached a deal to purchase from Israel the Iron Dome missile-defense system, Kathimerini reported on Friday. According to the report, the deal has been finalized, although the number of batteries purchased and their estimated delivery date remain unknown. Jerusalem and Nicosia have reportedly been holding talks about the
Continue Reading »Monday, 22 August 2022 | Moscow’s Basmanny District Court during a hearing over the weekend postponed by 30 days its verdict on whether to shutter the Jewish Agency for Israel’s operations in Russia, according to Russian media. Russia claims that the Jewish Agency, which helps Jews immigrate to Israel, broke laws by collecting private data
Continue Reading »Friday, 19 August 2022 | Prime Minister Yair Lapid and other Israeli officials are telling Washington and European leaders to walk away from the nuclear negotiations with Iran, a senior Israeli official told Israeli reporters yesterday. “The Europeans sent Iran a final offer, which doesn’t even meet the demands that the Americans committed to, and
Continue Reading »Friday, 19 August 2022 | A Palestinian youth was killed and some 30 Palestinians were wounded on Wednesday in Nablus [Shechem] during clashes with Israeli forces that erupted when a Jewish group was attacked on the way to Joseph’s Tomb, Israeli media reported. There were no Israeli casualties or wounded, though a bullet struck the
Continue Reading »Friday, 19 August 2022 | Israel on Wednesday ratified an October 2021 decision to designate three PFLP-affiliated NGOs [non-governmental organizations] as terrorist organizations, according to the Israeli Defense Ministry. The Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC), Bisan and Adameer, are all “branches of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP],” the ministry said
Continue Reading »Friday, 19 August 2022 | For the first time in history, women are occupying some of the most senior roles in Israel’s Mossad, the intelligence agency announced on Thursday. “A,” who has served in the Mossad for 20 years, recently assumed the post of director of the Intelligence Authority, the first-ever woman to hold the
Continue Reading »Thursday, 18 August 2022 | Israel and Turkey will restore full diplomatic relations in a process that will include the return of ambassadors and consuls general, according to a statement on Wednesday from Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s office. “Upgrading relations will contribute to deepening ties between the two peoples, expanding economic, trade and cultural
Continue Reading »Thursday, 18 August 2022 | After drawing backlash from his statement in Berlin that Israel has committed “50 Holocausts” against the Palestinian people, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement to backtrack. Abbas, during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Sholz in Berlin on Tuesday, told a reporter, “I have 50
Continue Reading »Thursday, 18 August 2022 | The Palestinian Authority [PA] is again seeking full membership in the United Nations, although the effort is liable to fail just as Ramallah’s previous attempt did in 2011 when the Obama administration essentially kiboshed the initiative in the Security Council. PA envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour confirmed the
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