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A banner praising Palestinian terrorists as 'heroes' is seen at an Al-Quds University reception for new students on October 15, 2017. (Palestinian Media Watch)
Banner at Al-Quds University praises terrorist ‘heroes’
By TOI staff
Poster at event for new students glorifies founders of Palestinian terror groups, including ex-heads of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Black September
A Palestinian truck driver who says he stole a truck with the intention of running over Israeli soldiers is brought to an Israeli courthouse (screenshot Channel 2 news)
Palestinian truck driver: ‘I wanted to run over soldiers because of Al-Aqsa’
By TOI staff
This file photo taken on January 12, 2016, shows the German-made INS Rahav Dolphin 2-class submarine arriving at the military port of Haifa on January 12, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
Germany said to approve controversial submarine deal with Israel
By TOI staff and AFP
A woman cries as she looks at her house in Raqqa on October 20, 2017, after a Kurdish-led force expelled the Islamic State terror group from the northern Syrian city. (AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic)
Heartbroken Raqqa residents return to city in ruins
By Maya Gebeily
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 25, 2016, 6:34 pm
Palestinians deny Israel scaling back ties over UN vote
Defense minister's directive to limit cooperation after anti-settlement resolution is making no difference on the ground, PA officials say
By Avi Issacharoff
British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses a Conservative Friends of Israel lunch, December 12, 2016 (Courtesy CFI)
December 25, 2016, 6:28 pm
Netanyahu’s office denies he’s canceling meeting with UK’s May following UN vote
Spokesman says he was never scheduled to meet his British counterpart next month in Davos
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with US Ambassador Dan Shapiro in April 2013. (Flash90)
December 25, 2016, 5:35 pm
PM meets US envoy for ‘clarifications’ after US failed to veto anti-settlement UN vote
TV report speculates Netanyahu is now worried Obama may seek another UN vote on principles of a permanent accord
By TOI staff
View of the Palestinian village of a-Ram, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem. April 7, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 25, 2016, 5:04 pm
2 East Jerusalem men arrested for transfering intel to PA
Palestinians suspected of gathering info from Israeli telecommunications firms they accessed through work
By TOI staff
A picture and flowers are seen at the home stage building of the Alexandrov Ensemble (The Red Army Choir), in Moscow on December 25, 2016. (AFP Photo/ Alexander Utkin)
December 25, 2016, 5:04 pm
No sign of survivors in crash of Syria-bound Russian jet
92 killed, including dozens of members of famed Red Army Choir, as military plane goes down in the Black Sea
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber
High school students in Taiwan dressed as Nazi soldiers during a celebration on December 24, 2016. Pictures from the event were posted online by Facebook user Pixar Lu. (Facebook)
December 25, 2016, 4:52 pm
Taiwanese high school holds Nazi-themed parade
President demands administrators make amends to Israel, Germany after students dress in black uniforms, wave swastikas
By Stuart Winer
US President Barack Obama holds a year-end press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, December 16, 2016. (AFP Photo/Zach Gibson)
December 25, 2016, 4:50 pm
Barack bids Bibi a nasty farewell
The Hebrew-language media is all but frantic following a US decision to abstain from Friday’s UN Security Council anti-settlements resolution, allowing the motion to pass
By Adiv Sterman
Gunmen from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, patrol an area near the Israeli border with Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 3, 2015 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
December 25, 2016, 3:56 pm
Hamas’s deployment at the Gaza border carries echoes of South Lebanon
The Islamists are positioned just across the fence, better trained and better equipped than in the past. And it won't take much to shatter the current calm
By Avi Issacharoff
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a traditional Hanukkah doughnut before the start of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on December 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 25, 2016, 3:45 pm
Wary of more trouble with Obama, Netanyahu tamps down annexation talk
After UNSC vote against settlements, PM tells Likud ministers to tone down rhetoric until Trump comes to power on January 20
By TOI staff
Pope Francis (C) looks on from the balcony of St Peter's basilica during the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas message to the city and the world, on December 25, 2016 at St Peter's square in Vatican. (AFP Photo/Andreas Solaro)
December 25, 2016, 2:59 pm
Pope urges Israelis, Palestinians to write ‘new page of history’
In Christmas message under heavy security in Europe, pope offers comfort for terror victims, calls for end to Syrian war
By AFP
Palestinian protesters dressed as Santa Claus during a demonstration against Israel's security wall in Bethlehem, on December 23, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)
December 25, 2016, 2:54 pm
In doleful West Bank, UN vote brings little cheer to Palestinians
Measure unlikely to have meaningful impact on daily life in West Bank, and growing despondency may give way to violence or other drastic actions
By Avi Issacharoff
Arab MK Basel Ghattas attends a remand hearing at Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on December 23, 2016, a day after he was arrested for allegedly passing cell phones to convicted terrorists jailed in Israel. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)
December 25, 2016, 2:29 pm
Party head says Ghattas prison smuggling ‘unacceptable’
Ayman Odeh says he does not believe the arrested MK wants to harm Israel's security, but he shouldn't have broken the law
By TOI staff
Pope Francis (C) blesses from the balcony of St Peter's basilica during the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas message to the city and the world, on December 25, 2016 at St Peter's square in Vatican. (AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO)
December 25, 2016, 1:59 pm
‘Jerusalem city hall set to okay 390 new apartments over Green Line’
PM asks ministers to reduce meetings with states that backed UN resolution; Pope hopes for Israeli-Palestinian peace
By Ilan Ben Zion
This file photo taken on January 2, 2001 shows a Tupolev-154 (TU-154) aircraft. A Russian military Tu-154 plane crashed on December 25, 2016 in the Black Sea as it made its way to Syria with 91 people on board ( AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV)
December 25, 2016, 12:56 pm
Russia rules out terrorism in military plane crash
No sign of survivors after Tu-154 crashes into Black Sea with 92 people on board, including most of popular military band
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at the Israel Bar Association Conference in Tel Aviv on December 20, 2016. (Flash90)
December 25, 2016, 12:38 pm
Liberman orders army to cut civilian ties with PA following UN vote
In retaliation for anti-settlement measure, defense minister instructs army to work with Palestinians on security issues only
By TOI staff
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