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Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Saturday visited the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Hamdallah was accompanied by Palestinian General Intelligence Service chief Majed Faraj and head of the Palestinian Preventative Security Service Ziad Hab al-Rieh. The visit was coordinated with Israel, and follows Friday prayers a day earlier that

The government on Sunday approved Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s recommendation for an additional budget of 70 million shekels to communities in Judea and Samaria. Included in that budget is a one-off Interior Ministry grant of 15 million shekels to local councils in Judea-Samaria, to help them cope with ongoing Arab terrorism. The Agriculture Ministry will

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett has hit back in response to criticisms of the current government by former defense ministers Moshe Ya’alon and Ehud Barak at last week’s Herzliya Conference. Both Barak and Ya’alon took aim at the government for being, in their view, too right-wing, and Ya’alon took the opportunity to announce his

Zionist Union chief Isaac Herzog”s spokesman Ofer Newman stirred up controversy Saturday night with provocative comments posted on Facebook targeting Jews living in Judea and Samaria. The post came after the airing of the TV special “The Settlers”, inspiring Newman to publicly air his feelings on the Jewish communities over the Green Line. Launching into

By Jeremy Ben-Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — Political change is coming to Israel. That’s the conclusion I came back with from a recent Congressional delegation to Israel and the West Bank. Most Americans who care deeply about the future of Israel have watched in agony as Prime Minister Netanyahu has led the country ever further to

Israel allowed hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip into Jerusalem for Ramadan prayers Friday, an official said, a week after revoking entry permits in response to a deadly attack. The 300 Palestinians are believed to be the first from the Strip to be granted entry to pray since Israel shut the border after terrorists

Israel said Saturday it was sending firefighting planes to a blaze in Cyprus, returning the neighboring island’s helping hand when the Jewish state suffered a devastating forest fire in 2010. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered that firefighting planes be sent to Cyprus to help put out a giant fire that is raging in Paphos,”