Netanyahu Expresses Desire To Separate From Palestinians
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his belief that Israel need to disengage from Palestinian areas in the West Bank in order to avoid the demographic nature of Israel as…
Gisha Ordered To Pay 25,000 NIS As A Result Of Failed Legal Petition
The Israeli human rights organization for the freedom of movement, Gisha, have been fined 25,000 NIS (7,250 USD) in legal fees as part of ruling against a case brought by…
Barak: “U.S Will Veto Attempts To Declare State”
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, stated that he believes that United States will use its Veto power at the Security Council in order to prevent an international recognition of an…
Netanyahu: “No Peace With The Palestinians Without Recognizing Jewish State”
Israeli paper, Haaretz, reported Friday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, believes that there can be no peace agreement with the Palestinians unless they recognize Israel as a state for…
Ex Israeli Soldier, Eden Aberjil, will not face Charges for Controversial Pictures
Israeli Deputy State Prosecuter, Shai Nitzan, has judged that the state will not take proceedings against Israeli military soldier, Eden Aberjil, over photographs posted on Aberjil’s Facebook page in which…
Lieberman: “We Will Cancel All Peace Accords Should Palestinians Declare State”
Israeli Foreign minister and leader of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu Party, Avigdor Lieberman, stated during his meeting with EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, that Israel will void all related…
Herzog: “U.S. Does Not Even Want To Hear Netanyahu’s Name”
Labor Party member of Knesset, Yitzhak Herzog, stated that he recently met with a number of American government officials close to president Barack Obama. They allegedly told him that they…
4 Israelis Killed, At Least 50 Injured In Netanya Blast
Israeli medical sources reported that a blast late on Thursday night occurred in a building in Netanya leading to the death of four Israelis while at least 50 were injured.…
Palestinian Worker Seriously Wounded After Being stabbed By Israeli Assailant
A Palestinian worker was seriously injured on Thursday after being attacked and stabbed by an Israeli man in Netanya, in the north of the country. The injured worker was identified…
Israeli Arms Companies Report $7.2 Billion In Exports for 2010
JPost reports that Israeli military companies sold a total of $7.2 billion worth of military hardware abroad and a further $2.4 billion to the IDF in 2010, according to the…
Israel Readies To Attack Freedom Flotilla 2
Israeli media sources reported Wednesday that the Israeli army and the navy are intensifying their training and preparing plans to intercept and attack the Freedom Flotilla 2 should it try…
Israeli FM Calls New Peace Initiative ‘Naïve’
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israeli Army radio on Tuesday that focusing the international Mid-East policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was, ‘naive.’Lieberman pointed to events in other countries including…
Majority Of Israeli’s Unaware Of Realities Of Jordan Valley
A report by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel has released a report showing that the majority of Israelis are not aware of the legal or demographic background of…
Livni “Netanyahu Is A Danger To Israel”
Opposition head in Israel, leader of the Kadima Party, Tzipi Livni, stated that Israeli Prime Minister, head of the Likud Party, Benjamin Netanyahu, is a danger to Israel as he…
Hunger strike by detainee with untreated brain tumor enters second week
A Palestinian man being held in an Israeli prison has entered the second week of hunger strike after Israeli authorities refused to allow him to receive treatment for a recently-diagnosed…
Palestinian Girl, 13, Detained During Visit To Her Detained Father
A 13 year old Palestinian girl has been detained during a visit to her father in a Israeli prison in the Negev Israeli detention camp. The girl, Samah Majdi Musallam,…
5,000 Israelis march in Tel Aviv calling for Palestinian statehood
At a march organized by a number of Israeli center-left groups, around 5,000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown Tel Aviv Saturday night calling for a Palestinian state on…
Israeli TV: “Netanyahu Crushed Abbas During His Congress Speech”
Israeli TV, Channel 2, quoted several Israeli political analysts stating that, during his congress speech on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, crushed Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and managed to…
Israeli forces deploy along border with Syria
According to Israeli and international media, the Israeli military has deployed troops along the border with Syria in the Golan Heights, and declared the area a closed military zone. The…
Prison Protest Expands
Protests against conditions in Israeli jails have continued recently, with two additional institutions joining the hunger-strikers’ action.The protest is intended to secure the release of a number of prisoners from…
Gush Shalom Welcomes Reconciliation Agreement Between Hamas and Fateh
The Israeli Human Rights group, Gush Shalom, issued a press statement on Thursday welcoming the reconciliation agreement between the two Palestinian rival groups Hamas and Fateh in Cairo on Wednesday.Former…
P.A Slams Subaru Ad, Subaru-Israel Denies Relation To The Commercial
The Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank expressed on Thursday its anger over an advertisement showing the Subaru car hitting two Palestinian children in Jerusalem with “We will see…
Peres Believes Israel Should Present Its Own “Peace Initiative”
Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated Friday that Israel needs to present its own initiative for peace in the region in order to avoid being obliged to accept a deal presented…
Settlers Disrupt Israeli Left Wing Protest Calling For Palestinian Statehood
A group of extremist Israeli settlers disrupted on Thursday evening a peaceful rally held by Israeli left-wing activists and Israel Prize Laureates calling for an independent Palestinian State.The settlers blew…
Israel Arrests Four Arab Lawyers Believed To Be Liaisons For Islamic Jihad Detainees
Israeli sources reported that the Police arrested in recent weeks four Arab lawyers from the north of the country on suspicion that they delivered messages from detained Islamic Jihad detainees…
Israel Arrests A Saudi-Australian Man At The Ben Gurion Airport
Israeli TV, Channel 2, reported on Tuesday at night that an Australian man from a Saudi descent was arrested at the Ben Gurion Airport on suspicions that intended to spy…
Israeli teen injured by Palestinian shell dies of wounds
A 16-year old boy who was in a schoolbus struck by a Palestinian shell on Thursday April 7th died of his wounds Sunday. He and a bus driver, who were…
Israeli Police Arrests Sheikh Raed Salah
The Israeli Police arrested on Sunday evening Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 territories. Sheikh Salah was taken prisoner at the…
Netanyahu: “Israel Is A Jewish State, Will Not Bow To Pressure”
Israeli Prime Minister, stated on Thursday that Israel is a “Jewish State”, and that the country will not bow to international pressures. His statements came in a speech to the…
While At Israeli TV Building, Peace Now Director Attacked By Right-Wing Researcher
On Thursday evening, and while Peace Now General Director, Yariv Oppenheimer, was waiting at the prep room at the Israeli TV, Channel 1, preparing to be interviewed by the Israeli…
Israeli FM Could Face Fraud Charges
Israeli Attorney-General, Yehuda Weinstein, informed Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, that he is facing serious charges of money laundering, witness-tampering and fraud. Weinstein told Lieberman that he will be allowed…
Corrie lawsuit challenging Israeli impunity
Several Israeli soldiers testified at the witness stand in the Haifa district court earlier this week, as trial hearings continued in the case of Corrie vs. the State of Israel.…
Netanyahu: “Gaza Flotilla, A Provocation”
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed Monday that the Freedom Flotilla solidarity ships, planning to send aid and humanitarians supplies to the Gaza Strip, are a provocation that must be…
Palestinian Factions Resume Firing Homemade Shells Into Israel, Causing No Injuries
After Palestinian factions declared a ceasefire Thursday, saying they would stop firing homemade shells if Israeli forces ceased its airstrikes, Israeli forces killed ten Palestinians in airstrikes, including a young…
Two Israelis Hurt In a Mortar Attack In Southern Israel
Israeli sources reported Thursday that two Israelis, including a 16-year-old school student, were injured when a mortar shell, fired from Gaza struck a school bus in a settlement adjacent to…
Gazan Engineer Formally Charged By Israel
Dirar Abu Sisi, the Gazan engineer who was abducted by Israeli security personnel whilst traveling by train through the Ukraine, has been formally charged by an Israeli court on Monday.The…
Goldstone To Visit Israel
Only a few days after retracting his report on Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, South African Judge, Richard Goldstone, said will be happy to visit Israel next summer, starting…
Thousands Mark Land Day In The Negev
Thousands of residents and university students marched on Wednesday Marking March 30, the Palestinian Land day, and chanted slogans against the illegal Israeli policies of land theft, and the ongoing…
Detention of Gazan Engineer Extended by Israeli Magistrates Court
The detention of an engineer from the Gaza Strip, Dirar Abu Sissi, has been extended by seven days by the magistrates court in Petah Tikva.Application for extension is only permissible…
Israel passes laws forbidding remembrance of 1948 takeover of Palestine
In a law condemned by rights advocates as racist, revisionist and divisive, the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) voted Wednesday to prevent any commemorations of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) in which historic…
Before Flying To Moscow, Netanyahu Approves Further Strikes In Gaza
Israeli sources reported Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved a series of strikes in the Gaza Strip before he headed to Russia.The decision came during a meeting he…
Netanyahu: “P.A. Must Choose Between Peace And Hamas”
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas must choose between peace with Israel and peace with the rival Hamas movement, the Israeli Radio and…
Israeli Soldier Stabbed In Haifa
Israeli sources reported that an Israeli soldier was stabbed in Jaffa city on Sunday, and that the masked assailant snatched his weapon and fled the scene.The soldier suffered moderate wounds…
Israeli Officials Admit To Monitoring Left-wing Organizations
According to Israeli media reports, the Israeli intelligence service set up a special department several months ago to monitor groups involved in bringing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, claiming…
Netanyahu Denounces Fateh-Hamas Reconciliation Efforts
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, harshly slammed the reconciliation efforts between the rival Fateh and Hamas movements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.In an interview with the CNN,…
Jewish Official Stopped By Police Because He Looked Arab
Israeli Ynet News reported that a Jewish man, member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council was stopped by a policewomen who racially profiled him as an Arab. The man described…
Ayalon: “Israel Will Absolve Itself From All Peace Deals Should the P.A. Announce State”
Israeli deputy Foreign Minister, Danni Ayalon, threatened that should the Palestinian Authority declare a Palestinian state without reaching a comprehensive peace agreement with Israel, Tel Aviv will absolve itself from…
Al-Arakib Demolished Yet Again
The Alternative Information Centre reports that al-Arakib village has been demolished again by Israeli forces.Four huts, which were being used for village meetings, were demolished on Monday by JNF (Jewish…
Lod Residents Protest Home Demolitions
Arab residents of Lod held a massive protest, on Tuesday at night, in support of Abu Eid family that lost its seven homes after the Israeli Authorities demolished them four…
Israel To Sue Bedouin Villagers For Cost Of Demolition
The Alternative Information Center reports that Israel plans to sue the residents of al-Arakib, a Bedouin village in the Negev desert, for the costs of demolishing their homes.Al-Arakib has been…
Settlers Organize ‘Day Of Rage’
Extreme Israeli settlers have launched a ‘day of rage’ in protest against the demolition of a handful of illegal structures in the Havat Gilad outpost. Demonstrators briefly succeeded in blocking…
10 Wounded, Sixteen Detained During Jaffa Clashes As Settlers March In City
Clashes were reported in Jaffa city, on Wednesday evening, as a group of extremist Israeli settlers and fundamentalist right-wing leaders and members, marched in the city demanding the Jaffa to…
Right-wing Israelis March In Jaffa against Arab Presence
Right-wing Israelis held a march through Jaffa to protest against what they deemed, “the Islamic movement gaining control” over the city.The march was organised by Michael Ben-Ari, an MK (member…
Netanyahu Said To Be Weighing A Plan For A Palestinian “State” With Provisional Borders
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is weighing a plan that would lead to the establishment of a “Palestinian state with provisional borders”, and that this…
Canada’s Role in Whitewashing Ethnic Cleansing Met with Protests
On Monday, Palestinian, Israeli and international activists protested and held vigils in front of Canadian Embassies organized by the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of the Latrun Villages.…
Al-Arakib Demolished For The 18th Time
JNF (Jewish National Fund) bulldozers re-entered the village of al-Arakib this morning and destroyed buildings that were put up after yesterday’s destruction.This is now the 18th time that al-Arakib has…
Israeli Court Slams Police for Sheikh Jarrah Activist Arrests
On Wednesday, the Jerusalem District Court rejected an appeal by police disputing the court’s decision to release Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Protesters without conditions.The four protesters were arrested, Monday, for demonstrating…
Village Of Al-Arakib Demolished Yet Again
Israel has once again, on Wednesday, demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert. The village, which has been repeatedly demolished and rebuilt in recent months, is not…
Israeli BDS Activists Call on Artists to Boycott Music Festival
Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists have urged international artists who are slated to perform in the International Red Sea Chamber Music Festival in Eilat, Israel next month to…
Clashes Erupt in Bedouin Village
Residents of southern village of Al-Arakib in Israel clash with JNF workers who came to plant trees in the area. Three people arrested for allegedly hurling stones. Residents of al-Arakib,…
Fundamentalist Settler Rabbi Says Killing “Non-Jews” Is Justifiable
Dov Lior, Chief Rabbi of the Keryat Arba’ illegal settlement in Hebron, in the southern part of the West bank, stated that killing non-Jews is justifiable, in some cases, without…
Four Projectiles Fired Into The Negev
Israeli daily, The Jerusalem Post are reporting, on Tuesday, that four projectiles have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Southern Israel.The news outlet states that two projectiles were fired…
Bedouin village bulldozed by Israel for the 12th time
On Monday, the Israeli military and police employed armored bulldozers to destroy the village of Araqib, located in the Negev desert in southern Israel. This is the 12th time that…
Lieberman to Hire European PR Firms
In a move to improve Israel’s deteriorating image in the world, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has decided to make an unprecedented move by hiring a network of European public relations…
Huckabee Calls Settlement Freeze ‘ Irrational’
Mike Huckabee, Republican Party US presidential frontrunner, visited the Israeli Knesset on Monday as part of a tour of Israel and the occupied West Bank.Huckabee took part in a special…
Israel’s Peacemakers Unmasked
For more than a decade, since the collapse of the Camp David talks in 2000, the mantra of Israeli politics has been the same: ‘There is no Palestinian partner for…
Israeli Man Who Murdered Peace Now Activist To Be Released
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that an Israeli citizen who killed an Israeli peace activist in 1983 will be set free on Wednesday. Yona Avursham, was convicted in 1983 of throwing…
Israel’s Internal Inquiry Into Killing Of Humanitarian Aid Workers Finds No Wrongdoing
The commission created by the Israeli government to ‘investigate’ the Israeli attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters in May 2010 has issued its first report, claiming that…
Israeli Committee Likely To Find Israel Not Guilty
According to the Jerusalem Post a source working closely with the Turkel Committee said on Thursday that its members were likely to find Israel innocent of war crimes when they…
Data Shows Israeli Arabs Work Longer Hours,Yet Earn Less Than Jews
According to 2008 data, the average gross salary per household was much lower for Arabs – NIS 8,818, compared to NIS 14,242 for Jews.Data from 2008 that was recently released…
WZO Settlements Division Back With Netanyahu
The World Zionist Organisation’s (WZO) Settlements Division is again under the control of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office after a period of nearly four years with the Agriculture Ministry. The…
Racism In Jewish Schools; “A Dead Arab Is A Good Arab”
A number of teachers working in Jewish Schools in Israel stated that more instances of racism are reaching alarming levels as more students are expressing their views that exceeded their…
Barak Announced His New-Born Party, Independence
After publicly announcing his resignation from the Labor Party, Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, announced on Monday the birth of a new party, running under his command, called “Independence Party”.…
European countries may recognize Palestinian state – Shin Bet
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Yuval Diskin said on Tuesday that he believed that international recognition of a Palestinian state will spread.In remarks during a meeting of the Knesset’s…
Israeli BDS Group Takes Credit for Vanessa Paradis Cancellation
Boycott From Within, Israeli based Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group, is taking credit for the recent Tel Aviv appearance cancellation of the French pop star, Vanessa Paradis. The group,…
Ethiopians Seeking Israeli Citizenship Arrive in Israel
A group of 175 Ethiopians who claim Jewish heritage arrived in Israel on Monday, with the intention of becoming citizens of the Jewish state.A second group made up of another…
According to Netanyahu Aides, Labor Party Exit will Help Advance Peace Process
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides said the Prime Minister believes that the Labor Party split will actually help move forward the peace talks with the Palestinians.According to Netanyahu,…
Rabbis Call for Extermination Camps
An article in the Israeli Jewish Orthodox publication ‘Fountains of Salvation’, which purports to be a ‘family magazine’, suggests that Israel will create death camps for Palestinians in order to…
Israeli Think-tank says US Aid Should End
The influential Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS) has published a study which argues that financial aid to Israel from the United States is a net loss for the country.According…
Bedouin Village Demolished for Ninth Time
Israeli bulldozers demolished 11 structures in the ‘unrecognized’ village of al-Arakib for the ninth time on Sunday. Land Administration officials arrived at the village accompanied by police officers. Residents tried…
Palestinian Political Prisoners Punished for Organizing Hunger Strike in Israeli Prison
Ahmad Sa’adat, the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Jamal Abu Al-Haija , a leader of Hamas in the West Bank, are being punished…
Peres Slams Investigation Of NGO’s Funding
Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated during an interview with Israel’s daily, Haaretz, that the formation of a parliamentarian committee to investigate the sources of funding sent to non-governmental Organizations harms…
Barak To Split Party, Form A New Parliamentary Bloc
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, intends to quit the already weakened Labor Party to form a new parliamentary bloc that would run under his command.Israeli Paper, Yedioth Aharonoth, reported Monday…
Thousands join Peace Now ‘Rally for Democracy’ in Tel Aviv challenging NGO probes
On Saturday, thousands of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv under the banner ‘Demonstration (since it’s still possible) for democracy’ – a reference to a proposed measure currently under consideration in…
Israel Starts Construction Of Hotel In Place Of Historic Graveyard In Jaffa
The Al Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Waqf and Heritage reported that Israel started the construction of a touristic hotel over a historic Islamic graveyard adjacent to the Big Mosque in…
Israeli Government Allocates $100M to Birthright, Educational Zionist Trip
Israel increases funding for Birthright, a 10-day free educational trip to Israel, which aims to bring 51,000 Jewish young adults to Israel annually by 2013According to Ynetnews, last week, Prime…
Israeli Analysts: “Fayyad Targeting Israeli products, Not Settlements”
Analysts working for the Israeli TV, Channel 2, accused Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, of leading a campaign targeting Israeli products in general and not only products of Jewish…
Israeli Extremist Group Calls For Assassinating Ehud Barak
An extremist Israeli group published a video on the internet calling for assassinating Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, for what the group called “his stances that would give the lands…
Lieberman: ‘Israeli Groups that Provided Information to Goldstone Commission: Collabors With Terror’
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman stated that Israeli organizations which provided information to the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Commission) are “net collaborators with terror…
Several shells fired by Palestinian groups into Israel; two foreign workers injured
At least six homemade shells were fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel on Saturday, one of which landed in a kibbutz (farming cooperative) in Sha’ar Hanegev, according to…
Police Raid Homes of Israeli anti-Wall Activists
Israeli activists who are involved in protests against the Israeli annexation wall had their homes searched by Israeli police.According to a Ma’an News report, Israeli special police forces attempted to…
Call for Israeli Facebook Groups to be closed down
The deputy Israeli Attorney-General has asked the police in Israel to investigate two Facebook groups for inciting racism against Arabs.Haaretz reports today that Israel’s deputy Attorney-General Shai Nitzan has instigated…
Knesset to Vote on Proposal to Investigate Organizations Critical of Israeli Military
The Knesset will vote on Wednesday on a proposal initiated by Yisrael Beiteinu to establish a committee of inquiry into groups that are critical of human rights violations committed by…
Lieberman: At least a Decade to Achieve Mid-east Peace
Israeli hard right-wing foreign affairs minister Avigdor Lieberman, speaking to Agency France Press in an exclusive interview, stressed on Tuesday that at least a decade is needed to reach a…
Israeli Detainees Released After Protest Against Jawaher’s Death
The Israeli group ‘Anarchists Against the Wall’ announced on Tuesday evening that Israeli activists, who were detained late on Saturday evening for protesting outside the US Ambassador’s home, were finally…
Rabbi Bans Jewish Women from Driving
Ahram Online reported that a chief Jewish rabbi issued an order banning Jewish women from driving unless absolutely necessary. The religious decree by Rabbi Avraham Yosef prohibits women to drive,…
Israeli newspaper scorns Netanyahu’s call for talks
The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv today rubbished Israeli PM Netanyahu’s statement he is ready to sit down with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas and make peace.Columnist Ben Caspit claims that…
Israeli Ministerial Council Extends Ban On Palestinian Family Reunification
The cabinet of the Israeli Ministerial Council decided, Sunday, to extend the ban on family reunification for Palestinians married to Israelis for an additional six months. The law does not…
Former Israeli President, Katsav, Convicted Of Rape, Sexual Assault
The Tel Aviv District Court convicted on Thursday, former Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, 65, of two counts of sexual assault and rape. By Israeli law, the maximum punishment of rape…
Israelis Divided on Rabbis’ Housing Proposal
Israelis are roughly split between those supporting and opposing the plan of a group of rabbis not to sell or rent property to non-Jews, Press TV reported. According to a…