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Palestinian workers on November 11, 2015, at a date packaging factory in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. This produce will be labeled if exported to the EU as 'Product of the West Bank (Israeli settlement' (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
December 5, 2018, 11:18 pm
Israel fumes as Irish Senate advances bill outlawing settlement trade
Foreign Ministry slams ‘most extreme anti-Israel piece of legislation in Europe,’ though it still has to clear several hurdles to become law
By Raphael Ahren
US Ambassador David Friedman, left, lighting a Hanukkah menorah, at the Sultan's Pool in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2018. (Matty Stern/ US Embassy)
December 3, 2018, 8:20 pm
Top Irish diplomat scolds US envoy for feting Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
David Friedman’s Hanukkah-themed tweet is ‘provocative and biased’ and unhelpful on the path to peace, Simon Coveney says
By Raphael Ahren
Jewish winemakers inspecting grapes at a winery in the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, September 8, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)
November 28, 2018, 11:08 pm
Ireland advances bill criminalizing sale of goods made in settlements
Legislation still has numerous hurdles to overcome before it becomes law, and Israeli officials are confident the government will ultimately block it
By Raphael Ahren
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street in London, Friday, November 16, 2018. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)
November 17, 2018, 3:23 am
Allies rally to UK’s May amid leadership woes over Brexit
In a tumultuous week, Britain’s PM finally clinches a divorce deal with EU — only for it to be savaged by opposition, parliamentary partners, and members of her own party
By Jill Lawless
In this May 1, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
October 4, 2018, 10:55 am
Facebook faces possible $1.6 billion fine as data breach investigation opened
Irish regulator probing massive privacy scandal that affected 50 million accounts, checking if social media giant complied with EU regulations
By Kelvin Chan
Ireland's Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, speaks to the media, at Iveagh House in Dublin, August 16, 2017. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)
September 23, 2018, 2:42 pm
Irish FM: We’ll recognize Palestine if peace talks remain stalled
At press conference with PA foreign minister, Simon Coveney warns that ‘a lot of other countries in Europe’ are likely to do the same
By TOI staff
In this file photo, then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman waits outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem for a meeting with his Irish counterpart, Eamon Gilmore, Jan 29, 2012 (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
July 12, 2018, 4:05 pm
Liberman wants Dublin embassy shut over Ireland’s anti-settlement legislation
‘We won’t turn the other cheek,’ defense minister says after Irish Senate advances bill to ban settlement goods, despite Irish FM opposing it
By Raphael Ahren
Screen capture from video of Irish Ambassador to Israel, Alison Kelly. (YouTube)
July 11, 2018, 10:36 pm
Israel summons Irish envoy for dressing down over anti-settlement bill
Alison Kelly to be reprimanded by Foreign Ministry officials after Irish Senate advances bill setting prison time for those who import settlement goods
By Raphael Ahren
The Irish Senate debating a bill that would ban trade with settlement goods, July 11, 2018 (screen shot oireachtas.ie)
July 11, 2018, 7:30 pm
Ireland moves to criminalize trade with settlements, drawing Israeli ire
Palestinians welcome Irish Senate’s advancement of bill setting prison time for those who import settlement goods; proposal still faces hurdles to become law
By Raphael Ahren
Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh (C) leads the party's weekly faction at the Knesset, October 31, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 11, 2018, 2:06 pm
Arab Knesset party backs Irish bill to criminalize trade with settlements
Joint (Arab) List says Israel ‘deserves all the sanctions and boycotts,’ encourages European countries not to give in to ‘the Zionist lobby’
By Raoul Wootliff
Israeli police secure a bulldozer demolishing structures at the Bedouin village of Abu Nuwar, east of Jerusalem in the West Bank on July 4, 2018. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)
July 5, 2018, 3:00 pm
European Union says demolition of West Bank villages hampers two-state solution
Hamlets of Abu Nuwar and Khan al-Ahmar are necessary for contiguity of land needed for a Palestinian state, EU warns
By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid
Irish Senator Frances Black speaks ahead of of a Senate vote on the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, January 30, 2018 (screenshot www.oireachtas.ie)
July 4, 2018, 10:51 am
Israel slams ‘immoral’ Irish bill banning trade with settlements
Embassy in Dublin says bid to prohibit sale and import of settlement goods, which will be voted on next week, will empower Hamas
By Raphael Ahren
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled speaks at an event in Beirut in January 2009. (CC BY 2.0, Sebastian Baryli, Wikipedia)
May 31, 2018, 11:44 pm
Israel urges Ireland to cancel speech by Palestinian terrorist
Minister Gilad Erdan sends Irish education minister protest letter, calls planned video address at Dublin club by plane hijacker Leila Khaled a ‘theater of the absurd’
By Michael Bachner
People from the "Yes" campaign react as the results of the Irish referendum on the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution are heard, at Dublin Castle, in Dublin, Ireland, on May 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
May 26, 2018, 9:19 pm
‘Monumental day for women’: Ireland votes overwhelmingly to repeal abortion ban
PM hails ‘revolution,’ vows new legislation within months; final results give ‘yes’ side 66 percent of 2.1 million ballots cast
By Gregory Katz and Renata Brito
People from the "Yes" campaign react, as the results of the votes begin to come in the Irish referendum on the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution at the RDS count centre, in Dublin, Ireland, Saturday May 26, 2018. Ireland appeared to move away from its conservative Roman Catholic roots and embrace a more liberal view Friday as two major exit polls predicted voters had repealed a constitutional ban on abortion. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
May 26, 2018, 3:14 pm
‘Yes’ voters jubilant as anti-abortion campaign concedes defeat in Ireland
As final votes counted, polls show almost 70% say yes to repealing amendment which has made termination of pregnancy illegal except in cases where it endangers mother’s life
By Agencies
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