Maayan Lubell
By Maayan Lubell
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Breaking News African Immigrant Killed by Israeli Mob — Mistaken for Attacker
An Eritrean migrant, shot by a security guard and kicked by an angry Israeli crowd that mistook him for a gunman, was identified on Monday as one of the dead from an attack on a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba. The Eritrean agricultural worker was named by his employer as Mila Abtum….
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Breaking News 5 More Palestinians Killed as Violence Rages — 12-Year-Old Boy Among Dead
Israeli security forces on Saturday shot dead two Palestinians aged 12 and 15 in protests along Gaza’s border fence, Palestinian medics said, and Israeli police said they killed three Palestinian assailants in separate violence in Jerusalem. Eleven days of bloodshed in which four Israelis and 19 Palestinians have been killed in Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West…
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Breaking News Israel Accuses YouTube Videos and Facebook Posts of Stoking Violence
Israel said on Thursday it had asked Facebook and YouTube to remove videos it says have been encouraging Palestinian violence against Israelis in the past week. Four Israelis have been killed in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in the past week, and two Palestinians have been shot dead and scores injured in clashes with…
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Breaking News How Israel Hopes To Scuttle Iran Deal
Israel will ramp up its lobbying of the U.S. Congress to try to hinder the nuclear agreement struck with Iran on Tuesday and minutely monitor the deal for any violations in the hope of getting sanctions reimposed on Tehran. Responding with alacrity to news that six world powers had agreed to lift sanctions on Iran…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Offers Talks on Settlements
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed resuming peace negotiations with the Palestinians but with the initial focus on identifying those Jewish settlements that Israel would keep and be allowed to expand, an Israeli official said on Tuesday. Peace talks collapsed in April 2014 over Israeli settlement-building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas…
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Breaking News Ayelet Shaked Plans to ‘Rein In’ Israel Supreme Court
The appointment of Ayelet Shaked, of the far-right Jewish Home party, as justice minister has caused a stir in Israel and abroad over her party’s judicial policies, which opponents say will harm democracy. In her inaugural speech, Shaked sought to play down those concerns, pledging to preserve the status of the court that has been…
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Breaking News Israel Coalition Scrapes By First Knesset Test
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emerging government scraped by its first parliamentary test on Wednesday, paving the way for the new cabinet to be sworn in after two months of difficult coalition building. By a narrow 61-59 vote, parliament ratified a legislative amendment allowing Netanyahu to increase the number of ministers he can appoint to…
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Breaking News Will Benjamin Netanyahu Push To Expand Settlements in New Term?
(Reuters) — A day before his surprise election victory last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood against the backdrop of a construction site in Har Homa, a towering settlement in the occupied West Bank, and pledged to go on building. The next week, however, his office ordered local authorities to put the brakes on…
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