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By TOI staff Several coalition lawmakers, including prominent defenders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cried foul Sunday over the timing of the revelation of a year-long graft and organized crime investigation surrounding coalition whip MK David Bitan. Bitan was questioned by police on Sunday morning, hours after 17 Rishon Lezion city officials were arrested as […]

Israel won’t allow Iran to entrench itself militarily in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday. His remarks, in a taped message to a forum in Washington, came just a day after Israeli aircraft attacked a suspected Iranian base outside Damascus and could suggest the Middle East is entering a new volatile phase in

A bombshell report suggests that Saudi Arabia will buck its commonly held belief that relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are key towards establishing relations with Israel and are ready to sign a deal with the Jewish state, even if the PA opposes it. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s former national security advisor Yaakov Nagel

By Sue Surkes Followers of an influential Sephardic rabbi will from now have to avoid looking at the country’s NIS 50 banknote because the poet whose image adorns the bill was married to a Christian woman. Rabbi Benzion Mutzafi issued his ruling after pulling the offending note out of his pocket during a weekend lesson

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit decided on Sunday to close the case against MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home), who had been accused of sexual harassment and indecent assault. The Justice Ministry said in a statement that “after the Attorney General examined all the evidence and opinions presented to him, from which it was seen that there

For decades, Jewish visitors to the world”s oldest Jewish cemetery have suffered harassment, assaults, and even terror attacks will visiting the graves of loved ones or of prominent rabbis from generations past. While individuals or even small groups of visitors to the Mount of Olives cemetery have been targeted by Arab gangs in the area

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will attend a key summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Kuwait this week, according to Qatar’s foreign minister. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Sunday that Qatar’s leader had accepted the invitation to attend the two-day event held in Kuwait City starting on