Middle East

Opposition leader and Zionist Union chief Isaac Herzog agreed to far reaching concessions on the eve of the 2015 election, a report by Channel 10 on Sunday revealed. Herzog, who prior to the election was seen as a viable candidate for Prime Minister, signed a secret letter of understanding with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas,

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has vowed to increase benefits for the families of terrorists killed while carrying out deadly attacks against Israelis. Speaking at an iftar meal to break the Ramadan fast on Friday in Ramallah, Hamdallah said the PA and its institutions would continue providing a wide range of benefits – including

During the cabinet meeting on Sunday, the government authorized an additional 80 million shekels in funding for haredi yeshivas, as per a coalition agreement signed between the Likud and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) parties following last year’s election. With the additional funds, government spending on yeshivas will be restored to the level it was at

Following a petition filed by the Movement for Freedom of Information, invoices revealed that the Prime Minister”s Residence cost Israeli taxpayers a total of 1,965,373 shekels (508,199 UDS) in 2014. The figures, pertaining to Netanyahu’s official residence and two private houses in Jerusalem and Caesarea, mark a decline of about half a million shekels from

About 20 firebombs were hurled towards the fence of the Binyamin region community of Psagot on Saturday night. There were no injuries or damages as a result of the firebombs, which were thrown from the direction of Ramallah. The incident is the latest in a series of attacks on Psagot in recent weeks, including a

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