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Israeli security forces arrested a Hamas terrorist involved in tunnel digging who crossed the border into Israel, it has been cleared for publication. The 17-year-old member of Hamas’s military wing was captured upon entering Israeli territory, in a joint operation involving IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Police forces in May of this year. Under interrogation

Prosecutors in Lod have filed charges against Omar Riyad Abd al-Razak Uda, a 21-year-old man from Qalansawe in central Israel, for contacting a foreign agent and providing services for an illegal organization. According to the statements, Uda periodically visited the al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. On three occasions in 2015, he

Israel on Sunday released a correspondent in the Golan Heights for Iran’s Arabic-language state television after four days of detention, police said. Bassam al-Safadi, a journalist for the Al-Alam news channel, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of “supporting a terrorist organisation and incitement to violence and terrorism,” police said. A court in Nazareth in northern

While the Jewish community in the neighborhood of Silwan (Shiloach) in eastern Jerusalem has elicited fierce criticism from the Israeli left and even the American government, descendants of the original owner of the “Kfar HaTeimanim” (Yemenite Village) area in Silwan celebrated the planned construction of an additional apartment building for the growing Jewish population. Yair

Recent comments by Opposition head Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) and Shelly Yachimovich (Zionist Union) suggest that their party may still join the government coalition. On Saturday, both politicians said that they would reconsider joining a unity government, should there be any diplomatic initiatives. MK Herzog presented new conditions to joining. “If Netanyahu kicks the Jewish

Due to the large number of lawyers who have visited former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in prison, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) has decided to change its policies on visits. Under the new rules, prisoners will be allowed three lawyer visits per week, and no more than one per day. In addition, each visit will

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM, June 4 — Israel marks today Yom Yerushalayim, the 49th anniversary of what is described by most Israelis as the reunification of Jerusalem as Israel’s “eternal capital.” The city’s Arabs view today’s celebration as anther tragic reminder of Israel’s conquest of their land in the 1967 Six Day War. The