Israel apprehends alleged killers of cabinet minister’s nephew (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces apprehended three Palestinian Authority security officers who allegedly killed an Israeli near Nablus in 2011, Israeli officials said on Wednesday. The arrests, which were made in May but embargoed until Tuesday, were carried out with the help of the [...]
Iranian election ‘doesn’t have the power’ to change nuclear ambitions, Netanyahu says (JNS.org) Iran president-elect Hassan Rohani, who is considered a relative moderate, “doesn’t call the shots” when it comes to Iran’s nuclear program, but rather, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sdoes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday. “The Iranian election clearly reflects [...]
Bennett: Drop two state solution (JNS.org) Israel should discard the two-state solution when it comes to the conflict with the Palestinians and instead seek to “live with the problem,” Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) said on Monday in a conference sponsored by the Yesha Council in Jerusalem. Bennett said Israel should annex—“as [...]
Ayatollah Khamenei promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy (JNS.org) On the eve of Iran’s June 14 presidential elections, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s promoted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on his Facebook profile by featuring the logo of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee accompanied by text reading “the U.S. president is being elected from only two parties [...]
Wounded Syrian treated in Israel comes with doctor’s note (JNS.org) A severely wounded Syrian rebel carrying a note from the Syrian doctor who treated him was transferred to Israel’s Ziv Hospital in Safed for treatment on Tuesday, Israel Hayom reported. Ziv Hospital has treated 20 Syrians since the onset of the Syrian civil war. The [...]
Mossad reportedly gives Ankara intelligence (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Tamir Pardo, met secretly with the Turkish intelligence agency’s undersecretary, Hakan Fidan, on June 10 in Ankara, with Syria, Iran and the Gezi Park protests on the agenda, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported Wednesday. Pardo claimed to have information [...]
Netanyahu: Construction has ‘no bearing’ on peace deal (JNS.org) Speaking behind closed doors at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that if peace negotiations with the Palestinians were entered into, they were expected to “be long and tough, but that the alternative Israel faces is a [...]
Assad could prevail in Syrian civil war, minister says (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) There is a “real possibility” that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “could survive Syria’s civil war and even prevail in it” against the rebels trying to topple him, Israeli International Relations and Strategic Affairs Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz told a group of foreign [...]
Kerry authorizes $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt (JNS.org) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry authorized $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid to Egypt last month despite writing himself in a memo that the U.S. is “not satisfied with the extent of Egypt’s progress” on its democracy, Reuters reported Thursday. The Secretary of State, [...]
Samantha Power nominated as U.S. ambassador to U.N. (JNS.org) Samantha Power, President Barack Obama’s replacement for Susan Rice as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has a history of controversial comments about Israel. Power from January 2009 to March 2013 held positions including special assistant to the president, senior director for multilateral affairs and human [...]