February 25, 2015
4:10 pm

Israel Electric Company workers build a new electric line (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90)

Israel cuts power to West Bank cities for second time

Electricity to Jenin, Nablus suspended by power company again over NIS 2 billion owed by Palestinian utility companies

By Tamar Pileggi

February 25, 2015
2:48 pm

Several hundred Syrian refugees wait to cross into Turkey at the border in Suruc, Turkey, on Sunday, September 21, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Amnesty: 2014 ‘catastrophic’ year for human rights

Watchdog accuses Israel of committing ‘war crimes’ in Gaza; Foreign Ministry says report ‘disregards’ Israeli suffering

By AFP and Tamar Pileggi

February 25, 2015
10:05 am

The Quran (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Saudi Arabia to behead man for renouncing Islam

Defendant to be executed after he posted a video of himself ripping up a Quran, hitting it with his shoe

By Tamar Pileggi

February 24, 2015
1:20 am

Israel cuts power to West Bank cities over massive debt

Electricity to Jenin, Nablus briefly suspended as a warning over the NIS 2 billion owed by Palestinian utility companies

By Tamar Pileggi

February 23, 2015
11:53 pm

Yossi Cohen, National Security Adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset September 2, 2014. (Photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/ FLASH90)

‘Netanyahu didn’t consult top aide on Congress speech’

National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen said to have learned of PM’s address hours before it was announced

By Tamar Pileggi

February 23, 2015
8:22 am

Jewish Home party candidate Bezalel Smotrich speaks to students at the Lev Institute in Jerusalem on January 21, 2015. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jewish Home hopeful boasts of being ‘proud homophobe’

Bezalel Smotrich says gay people welcome to be ‘abnormal’ in their own home, but shouldn’t ‘make demands of the state’

By Tamar Pileggi

February 22, 2015
11:52 pm

Illustration of a Torah scroll text (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Iranian soldiers said to return stolen Torah to Jews

Paramilitary forces return the ancient, hand-written manuscript to a synagogue in Shiraz

By Tamar Pileggi

February 22, 2015
7:33 pm

Gideon Sa'ar (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ex-Likud MK urges Israelis to vote for his former party

Gideon Sa’ar says only Likud protecting Israel from ‘dangerous’ consequences of concessions to Palestinains

By Tamar Pileggi

February 19, 2015
1:23 am

FB to post ‘I voted’ button for elections

Social networking site says the digital badge boosts voter turnout

By Tamar Pileggi

February 19, 2015
1:15 am

Two Palestinian women ride a donkey cart past the destroyed Nada Towers residential neighborhood in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

UN ‘alarmed’ by Hamas rearming

Official says situation in Gaza ‘increasingly worrisome,’ warns financial crisis could reignite hostilities

By Tamar Pileggi

February 18, 2015
7:59 pm

Balad MK Hanin Zoabi speaks to the press during the February 17, 2015 Supreme Court appeal of a decision by the Central Election Committee to ban her and right-wing activist Baruch Marzel from running for the Knesset in the March 17 elections. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Liberman: Allowing Zoabi to run a ‘disgrace to democracy’

Foreign minister joins lawmakers on right in castigating court for overturning disqualification of Arab MK

By Tamar Pileggi

February 18, 2015
4:54 pm

Arab Joint List MK Hanin Zoabi in the Supreme Court on February 17, 2015. (photo credit: David Vaaknin/POOL/FLASH90)

Supreme Court says Arab MK, far-right activist can run for Knesset

Legal body overturns disqualification of Hanin Zoabi and Baruch Marzel from upcoming election

By Tamar Pileggi and Marissa Newman

February 17, 2015
2:29 pm

Firebrand Arab MK appeals ban in Supreme Court

Hanin Zoabi and far-right activist Baruch Marzel look to overturn decision to disqualify them from elections

By Tamar Pileggi

February 16, 2015
11:33 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem February 16, 2015. (Photo credit: PMO)

Netanyahu: If Iran nuclear deal is good, why hide it from Israel?

No responsible PM could refuse invitation to speak to Congress on issue that threatens israel’s survival, he tells visiting US Jewish leaders

By Tamar Pileggi

February 16, 2015
9:49 pm

Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2011 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Former Shin Bet chief: PM residence film ‘severe security breach’

Yuval Diskin criticizes Netanyahu for showing inside of official home ahead of comptroller’s spending report

By Tamar Pileggi

Writer: Tamar Pileggi

Israel cuts power to West Bank cities for second time

Electricity to Jenin, Nablus suspended by power company again over NIS 2 billion owed by Palestinian utility companies

Amnesty: 2014 ‘catastrophic’ year for human rights

Watchdog accuses Israel of committing ‘war crimes’ in Gaza; Foreign Ministry says report ‘disregards’ Israeli suffering

Saudi Arabia to behead man for renouncing Islam

Defendant to be executed after he posted a video of himself ripping up a Quran, hitting it with his shoe

Israel cuts power to West Bank cities over massive debt

Electricity to Jenin, Nablus briefly suspended as a warning over the NIS 2 billion owed by Palestinian utility companies

‘Netanyahu didn’t consult top aide on Congress speech’

National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen said to have learned of PM’s address hours before it was announced

Jewish Home hopeful boasts of being ‘proud homophobe’

Bezalel Smotrich says gay people welcome to be ‘abnormal’ in their own home, but shouldn’t ‘make demands of the state’

Iranian soldiers said to return stolen Torah to Jews

Paramilitary forces return the ancient, hand-written manuscript to a synagogue in Shiraz

Ex-Likud MK urges Israelis to vote for his former party

Gideon Sa’ar says only Likud protecting Israel from ‘dangerous’ consequences of concessions to Palestinains

FB to post ‘I voted’ button for elections

Social networking site says the digital badge boosts voter turnout

UN ‘alarmed’ by Hamas rearming

Official says situation in Gaza ‘increasingly worrisome,’ warns financial crisis could reignite hostilities

Liberman: Allowing Zoabi to run a ‘disgrace to democracy’

Foreign minister joins lawmakers on right in castigating court for overturning disqualification of Arab MK

Supreme Court says Arab MK, far-right activist can run for Knesset

Legal body overturns disqualification of Hanin Zoabi and Baruch Marzel from upcoming election

Firebrand Arab MK appeals ban in Supreme Court

Hanin Zoabi and far-right activist Baruch Marzel look to overturn decision to disqualify them from elections

Netanyahu: If Iran nuclear deal is good, why hide it from Israel?

No responsible PM could refuse invitation to speak to Congress on issue that threatens israel’s survival, he tells visiting US Jewish leaders

Former Shin Bet chief: PM residence film ‘severe security breach’

Yuval Diskin criticizes Netanyahu for showing inside of official home ahead of comptroller’s spending report

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