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Breaking News White House Says No to Bibi Meeting
The White House declined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request on Tuesday to meet U.S. President Barack Obama during a UN conference in New York at the end of the month. An official in Jerusalem said that the prime minister’s office sent the White House a message stating that although Netanyahu will spend only two…
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Breaking News Rare Galilee Bats In Danger of Extinction
Until a decade ago, the Alma cave in Upper Galilee was home to thousands of rare bats, but recent surveys conducted by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel find that only several dozen remain, and they are in danger of complete extinction. The SPNI believes the reason is hikers who disobey rules,…
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Breaking News Angry Bibi Hits Back Over Iran ‘Red Lines’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday launched an unprecedented verbal attack on the U.S. government over its stance on the Iranian nuclear program. “The world tells Israel ‘wait, there’s still time’. And I say, ‘Wait for what? Wait until when?’ Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have…
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Breaking News Secret British Envoy Warns Israel Against Iran Strike
A special envoy from the British government came to Israel about two weeks ago on a secret visit for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. According to an Israeli source who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter, the high-ranking visitor delivered a stern message from…
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Breaking News Men-Only Show Sparks Boycott Call
Jewish pluralism and women’s rights groups are up in arms over a series of presentations featuring only men to be held at the Israeli town of Petah Tikva’s municipal cultural center. In a letter to Petah Tikva’s Mayor Yitzhak Ohayon, the groups said they would boycott the center unless he ensured that women appear in…
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Breaking News Hillary Clinton Rejects Bibi’s Iran ‘Red Lines’
Despite talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office and the White House over the possibility of drawing red lines concerning the Iranian nuclear program, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the White House is not prepared to make such a public commitment. “We’re not setting deadlines,” Clinton said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio. On…
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Breaking News Maariv Sale Shakes Up Israeli Media
Shlomo Ben-Zvi’s acquisition of Maariv is expected to rearrange the Israeli journalism industry and may even affect the country’s political scene. Maariv’s announcement that the newspaper and most assets of the troubled media group are being sold to Ben-Zvi ends Nochi Dankner’s 17-month ownership of the paper via the IDB group’s Discount Investment Corp. Ben-Zvi,…
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Breaking News Israel Cabinet Approves University in Settlement
The Israeli government voted overwhelmingly in favor of recognizing the Ariel University Center of Samaria as an accredited university on Sunday. The cabinet resolution is symbolic, since the controversial change to the status of the institution, which is located in the West Bank city of Ariel, must first be approved by the High Court of…
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