Category: Israeli Politics

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to officially announce on Thursday the appointment of Yuval Diskin as the next Shin Bet security service chief. Current Shin Bet chief Avi…

Shimon Peres, in a conference, held in the Negev Israeli town of Sderot said that “the right wing in Israel cause huge damage to the state of Israel , after…

Graffiti, ostensibly written by right wing Jewish groups in Ra’nana, in Tel Aviv, threats Sharon with the same “treatment given to Rabin’, “i.e. assassination”. The graffiti describes Sharon as a…

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Tuesday he intends to lead the campaign for holding a referendum on disengagement; an idea that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vehemently oppose. Shalom,…

Tuesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers, supported by two tanks and a number of Jeeps invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and detained residents and students for several hours. {mosimage}Earlier…

A senior Israeli security officials said on Monday that Israel will evacuate unauthorized settlers outposts in the West Bank after the implementation of the unilateral disengagement plan {mosimage}A senior Israeli…

Likud secretariat election ended with a major failure for the far-right Jewish Leadership faction, as Moshe Feiglin’sm the main candidate failed to win representation, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday. However,…

Members of the Israeli Foreign and Security committee met with dozens of settlers in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip, head of the Knesset, Reovin Revlin, who…

Some Likud ministers said they are concerned that right-wingers might take over the party, ahead of Monday’s elections for members of the Likud secretariat, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Monday.…

The Israeli state prosecution claims the opinion of the International Court of Justice at the Hague on the separation wall was partially based on outdated information, therefore is irrelevant. This…

An Israeli source reported that a senior military official in the Israeli army told the military Radio that Israeli should be “generous with Abu Mazin since he is exactly what…

The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon claimed on Friday that the Palestinians are not working enough to stop attacks against Israel, and must do more for the peace process to…

Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said Thursday that administrative detention would be increased as punishment for settlers who resist the pullout decision. Mazuz explained that Jews could be arrested if…

Ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) MK Avraham Ravitz, a partner in the governmental coalition, announced Thursday that he would support holding a national referendum on the disengagement plan. Ravitz spoke…

Israeli political sources predicted that Egypt will officially announce the return of its ambassador to Israel during the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit, next Tuesday. Israeli predicts that after the Egyptian president…

Concerns by the Israeli Army and Shin Bet are increasing regarding the series of harassment acts by extreme right-wing activists aimed at religious officers who live and are station in…

Ami Ayalon, the former head of the Israeli Public Security Service, Shin-Bet, a proposal from the head of the trade union in Israel to run jointly in the Knesset elections…

The Israeli interior minister Ophir Pines-Paz is preparing a bill which, according to the Israeli online daily Haaretz, is meant to make it easier to grant Israeli citizenship to Palestinians…

The Israeli police started training its units to effectively deal with disorder or any turbulence which might be carried out by the settlers during the evacuation. Israeli officials are currently…

Sharon’s collation at the Knesset committee does not have the needed majority for the evacuation-compensation bill, which is needed for enabling the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the northern…

Settlement leader and Kedumim Mayor Daniella Weiss on Tuesday disrupted a meeting for Israeli army officers at the settlement in preparation for the evacuation of four settlers outposts in the…

An Israeli-Palestinian joint committee, setup to deal with the cases of Palestinian resistance operatives Israel claims wanted after a cease-fire is formally announced is scheduled to meet next week for…

Tel Aviv Court indicted on Wednesday a Danish resident of Lebanese descent after charging him oh spying to the Lebanese based Hezbollah party.   The court said that Eyad Al-Shua…

20,000 Falashmura are what is left form the Ethiopian Jews slated to immigrate to Israel by the year 2007, according to a recent Israeli government decision taken on Monday. To…

The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday, that the Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz agreed to a response by the Palestinian Authority to reopen the Rafah border crossing, in…

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuval Steinitz claimed on Monday, that Syria and Egypt are capable of striking Israeli air basis. “In spite of the peace treaty between…

The Israeli army claimed that the Palestinian child killed in Rafah on Monday, was killed by Palestinian fire during celebrations after pilgrimages return from Mecca , and claimed that soldiers…

A Palestinian security source reported that the Israeli army arrested since the beginning of 2005, at least 400 Palestinian in several areas in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.…

Israeli sources reported on Tuesday that the German Government is delaying the signing of a contract for a sale of Dingo armored cars to Israel fearing that the Israeli army…

In his meeting with the U.S, State Department envoy to the Middle East William Burns, the Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres promoted a proposal to pay a monthly allowance of…

Facing the threats by the settlers council to resist the Israeli army when removing the Gaza Strip settlements under the disengagement plan, the Israeli police has been recruiting hundreds of…

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz Monday night told senior Palestinian security official Mohammed Dahlan that there would be no transfer of West Bank cities to the Palestinian Authority without a…

Monday at noon, Israeli soldiers killed a 10-year-old child, injured another child, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, while she was playing in the playground at a UN administered…

Two months ahead the final date for approving the 2005 balance at the Knesset, the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, continued his efforts to expand his collation, and held a…

Further discussions of security and military cooperation between Turkey and Israel are ongoing, the cooperation involves renovation of 48 Turkish air force’s F4 phantoms and 200-300 M48 Patton tanks; Turkey…

Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State is scheduled to meet with the Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, in talks ahead the planned meeting between Sharon and the Palestinian President Mahmoud…

Tens of thousands gathered in Jerusalem Sunday evening to protest against the disengagement plan. Organizers of the protest said the number was close to quarter of a million, media sources…

Israel is worried that the PA security forces in the West Bank, unlike those in the Gaza Strip, have been completely debilitated in the last four years and are not…

The report prepared by state prosecutor office attorney Talai Sason reveals how most of the government institutions disregarded law and allowed the emergence of more than 120 settlers’ unauthorized outposts.…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will present the changed route of the southern section of the separation wall to the cabinet for approval two days before his expected meeting with…

Saturday morning, a Palestinian security source reported that the Israeli side informed the Palestinian Authority that it intends to open Rafah border crossing next Monday, and Karni Crossing on Tuesday.…

Palestinenet news website reported on Sunday that dozens of residents crossing Huwwara checkpoint, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, discovered that soldiers based in monitoring towers surrounding the…

Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the emergency unit at the ministry of health, reported that a resident of Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Younis died of wounds sustained three weeks ago.…

Saturday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and the neighboring the village of Yatta, conducted military searches of homes and arrested four residents. A local…

Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres and Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayad met Friday during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and agreed on the need to upgrade the crossings…

The Jewish National Fund and the Finance Ministry are discussing ways to separate the JNF from the state, to allow it to continue selling land to Jews only. {mosimage}Israeli sources…

“Military doctors gave medics lessons in anatomy using the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.” A Soldier testified to “Breaking the Silence” organization.   The Breaking the Silence organization has…

BBC reporter Simon Wilson was not allowed entry into Israel after accusing him of smuggling interviews conducted Peter Homan, of the Sunday Times newspaper, with the nuclear whistle blower Mordachai…

The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that Shalom and Rice also discussed what was described as the Iranian nuclear threats, the Lebanese based Hezbollah party and the resumption of “strategic…

The humanitarian organization, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), warned Israel in a report published Wednesday, that a health disaster is immanent in the Gaza Strip because of the Israeli procedures…

Dozens of religious soldiers and officers and settlers showed up Wednesday at Jerusalem’s Beit Agron to publicize their firm promise not to refuse orders.   Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaacov Amidror,…

Israeli right wing calls on Mazuz to resign, accusing him with giving preferal to the democratic over the Jewish character of the sate against the declaration of independence.   Israeli…

Demands by Israel Knesset members to add NIS 500 million NIS in compensation for Gush Kativ settlers and settlers of the four small northern West Bank outposts and businesses to…

The Israeli Security service allowed on Wednesday to publish details on the Danish national of Lebanese origin arrested in Israel on suspicions of spying for the Lebanese resistance party, Hezbollah.…

Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers fired at dozens of homes in Dir Al-Balah killing a 3-year-old baby girl, and wounding three others residents, one seriously. A medical source at Al-Aqsa hospital…

A push by Ariel Sharon earlier this month to launch a large-scale military assault on all of the Palestinian Gaza Strip has been toned down somewhat after internal discussions with…

Knesset Finance Committee members are conditioning the approval of the settlers’ evacuation-compensation bill with increasing compensation offered to settlers, which would cause an extra NIS one billion deficit in the…

The Israeli army has asked Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz for permission to clear completely a 300-meter-wide strip along the Gazan-Egyptian border, which requires the demolition of several hundred of…

Israel plans to build an electronic fence along the Israeli-Egyptian border, from Eilat all the way to Kerem Shalom, on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. No budgets have…

The former National Religious Party Chairman MK (Member of Knesset) Effi Eitam responded to Tuesday’s decision by the Israeli government to disband the “hesder yeshiva” religious army units by saying…

The deputy Israeli Prime Minister Ihud Olmert said on Wednesday that Israeli did not officially decide to stop the targeted killed against Palestinian resistance activists. Olmert told the Army Radio…

A high ranking officer in the Israeli Army said on Monday there are increasing signs on a widespread drug abuse among the soldiers. The official expressed serious concerns about his…

The Israel army will disband the special unit for religious soldiers, the hesder yeshiva unit, and place its soldiers into regular army units. The special hesder unit combined military service…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in a speech to the Knesset on Tuesday, attacked those who are calling for civil disobedience and for soldiers to resist orders. ‘The Israeli Knesset…

Israeli Likud party Director-General Arik Barami announced Monday that he intends to ask the party’s internal court to expel Moshe Feiglin and his movement, the Jewish Leadership group, from Likud.…

The disengagement teams representing the different Israeli ministries recommended not to remove the Gaza settlement homes after an Israeli withdrawal from the Strip within the framework of the unilateral disengagement…

For the first time in years, a significant drop in birthrate was registered in the Israeli Arab sector in the year 2004.    Israeli Finance Ministry claims the drop was…

In less than a month, Israeli soldiers shot three handicapped residents in the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia and the surrounding villages killing one and injuring two others. On…

Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres accused Monday Iran of being the principal problem of the Middle East, and the center for “terrorism” in the region. Israeli newspaper Maariv published Monday…

The conclusions an investigation of army home demolition practices and policies, described as “explosive”, would be submitted to Israeli army Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon in few days. The investigation…

The Israeli radio reported that Sharon’s advisor, Dove Weisglass is heading to Washington next week to prepare for Sharons’ visit scheduled to late March or early April. Weisglass will meet…

Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a child, near the village of Azzoun, near the northern West Bank of Qalqilia. A local source in Qalqilia reported that Taqi Al-Deen Khawla, 17,…

Israel is reopening the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in one direction Friday, enabling Palestinians to enter Gaza from abroad but not to leave. The crossing has been…

Friday at noon, a Palestinian child from a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin died of wounds sustained on December, 29, 2004. A medical source at Khaleel…

Members of the Likud rebels asked Knesset Speaker Likud MK Reuven Rivlin last week to join them in quitting the Likud and forming an independent Knesset faction. By law, a…

Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has not yet decided whether to prosecute any of the suspects in the ‘shell companies’ affair. ‘When a decision is made, we will announce it…

Wednesday evening, a Palestinian source two Palestinians were killed, near the Nahal Oz settlement, east of the Gaza Strip. The two residents were killed after the soldiers fired a car…

Thursday afternoon, Israeli soldiers killed a 12-year-old, child in the northern West Bank city of Tubas after invading it. The WAFA news Agency reported that Salah Ed-Deen Dharaghma, 12 years…

The Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz said in a TV interview in the Israeli Channel 10 that Israeli is weighing the possibility of reducing the period of evacuation from the…

The head of the World Bank in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip Nigel Roberts denied Thursday that the bank proposed or is welling to purchase settlers” hothouses. World…

Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a child when they fired at dozens of homes near Salah Ed-Deen border crossing in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. A…

The Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet arrested a Danish citizen of Lebanese descent and two Arab residents of Israel suspected of collaborating with the Lebanese based Hezbollah party. Shin Bet…

The Israeli political-security cabinet approved in principle a military operation in Lebanon. Three incidents of exchange of fire were recorded across Israeli-Lebanese borders in the past two weeks. Israel and…

IMEMC & Agencies, January 19, 2005, 12:56 Israeli soldiers withdrew from the northern West Bank city of Nablus after invading and breaking into it dozens of homes and apartments on…

Uval Steints, chair of the Knesset foreign and security affairs committee said that Israel might retry to assassinate the secretary general of Hamas Khaled Mashal.   Uval Steints, chair of…

‘Army would be considerate of soldiers who quietly approach their commanders to explain their problems with the order.’ Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said, responding to questions about disengagement during…

Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to meet Ultra-Orthodox Shas party chairman Eli Yishai on Wednesday to discuss his party’s budgetary demands. To consider joining the governing coalition, Shas…

IMEMC & Agencies, January 19, 2005, 08:15 Israeli sources said Tuesday Israel will not, for now, change its current policy in Gaza despite the suicide bombing Tuesday night at the…

              June 29, 2004             Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Tuesday that troops will             complete taking over the area from which Qasam rockets were fired             recently at…

               June 29, 2004             Dr. Nabil Sah’ath, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Palestinian             Government, accused the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of             trying to foil…

                        June 29, 2004, 16:54             The Israeli Minister of Defense, Shaul Mofaz said Tuesday that Army             will stay in Gaza Strip as long as needed.            …

                June 29, 2004             Israeli sources reported Tuesday that the Knesset reject three             no-confidence motions in its Monday session.             The three motions have to do wit…

               June 29, 2004             Israeli High Court of justices will hold a hearing on Tuesday             afternoon on the three petitions against the decision to close the             Greek…

IMEMC & Agencies, January 18, 2005, 14:56 Hundreds of Sderot residents marched Tuesday morning toward Beit Hanun city in the Gaza Strip in protest of the Israeli government’s ‘incapacity’ to…

Chief of Staff of the Israeli army Moshe Ya’alon ordered the army on Monday to prepare for a wide scaled military operation in the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported. The…

Israeli Helicopters attacked on Monday afternoon, residential areas in the occupied Shaba Farms, in the southern Lebanon wounding two women. The two women’s wounds were described as light. Israeli army…

            June 30, 2004             Army encircled Wednesday early morning hours the northern Gaza Strip             town of Beit Hanoun with tanks and tore up roads.             Qasams Hit Sderot…

            June 30, 2004             The rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem Avigdor Neventzal warned             Tuesday against giving away Israeli land, saying ‘It should be known             that…

             June 30, 2004, 10:35              The head of the Palestinian Intelligence service Amin Al-Hindi said             Tuesday that the agreement reached between the Palestinian Factions             and the Palestinian Authority…

Monday morning, Israeli killed two Palestinians near Kissufim crossing in the Gaza Strip after firing at them; army claims the two residents were trying to infiltrate into Kissufim area to…