Tzipi Livni expected to submit resignation from Israel's Knesset - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Tzipi Livni is scheduled to meet Knesset Speaker Rivlin later Tuesday, where political sources estimate will submit her resignation from the Knesset following a recent loss to Shaul Mofaz in the Kadima primary. The former foreign minister has reportedly updated aides and pa …

Soldiers save Palestinian baby near border crossing - Israel News, Ynetnews

The Home Front Command's Kedem Battalion, which is currently stationed near the Halamish settlement in the West Bank, saved the life of a 10-day old Palestinian baby from one of the adjacent villages, who was suffering from acute respiratory distress. Following the soldie …

Occupy Tampa posts anti-Semitic cartoon on Holocaust Day - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

The Occupy Tampa movement posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on their Facebook page on Thursday, which coincided with Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day. The cartoon, shown below, depicted a Jewish man with a big nose and large beard driving a car with the symbol of the United …

The world will be shocked by the defeat of Tzipi Livni, its favorite Israeli politician

Throughout the previous decade as a leading proponent of Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan and then as Ehud Olmert’s solution-seeking deputy and foreign minister, Livni reached her political pinnacle on September 21, 2008, when President Peres asked her to form a  …

Israel Supreme Court rejects compromise deal on West Bank settlement of Migron - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Israel's High Court of Justice rejected a compromise deal between the state and residents of the West Bank outpost of Migron on Sunday, an agreement that would have prevented Israel from having to dismantle the settlement following a Supreme Court ruling. The deal was meant …

Israel to transfer diesel fuel to Gaza - Israel News, Ynetnews

Israel will transfer 450,000 liters of diesel fuel to Gaza Strip Friday. The transfer, scheduled to take place via the Kerem Shalom crossing is meant to alleviate the grave fuel shortage plaguing the Stirp. Palestinian sources noted that for the first time the Palestinian  …

Fayyad: Stop using Palestinian cause to justify terror - Israel News, Ynetnews

Extremists must stop using the Palestinian cause to justify their acts of violence, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday after a deadly attack on a French Jewish school. "It is time for these criminals to stop marketing their terrorist acts in the name of …

Israeli leftist activists: We are being sexually harassed in the West Bank - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

"Hi everyone, I'm writing this here because I'm not really sure when the next meeting will be. At the demonstration today (February 10, 2012) in Kfar a-Dik, I noticed looks and finger pointing from the shabab (nickname for young Palestinians) that made me feel some discomfo …

Israel to sell $300M in water-tech to China - Israel Environment, Ynetnews

Israel has recently signed a deal to sell China water technology valued at $300 million for use in the agriculture sector, the Israeli Finance Ministry said in a statement. The deal was signed by both countries' finance ministers in Beijing during a visit to China by Isra …

Open Letter to Hamas: You are responsible for your people's fate

The last days have brought another round of violence between Gaza and Israel. Most commentators assume that neither Hamas nor Israel in interested in further escalation of the hostilities that have been initiated by Islamic Jihad this time, ostensibly to jockey for position  …

Syria strongly condemns Israeli strikes in Gaza - Israel News, Ynetnews

"Syria strongly condemns the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and urges the international community to initiate immediate action to put an end to these acts and punish those responsible," the Syrian statement said. The Syrian Foreign Ministry stres …

IDF strike in Gaza kills leader of Popular Resistance Committees - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Israel Air Force launched a strike on Palestinian targets in Gaza on Friday, killing the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, the organization that captured former IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. The IDF Spokesman said in a statement that that the attack targeted Zuhir a …

When it comes to Kurdish rebels, Turkey doesn't have a problem invading Syria - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

“The government of Turkey is prepared to seek the approval of its parliament in order to deploy its forces in Syrian territory should the violence escalate and pose a threat to Turkey’s national security,“ warned Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on  …

First Druze kibbutz members say they're 'enveloped with love' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

A couple originally from a Galilee village made history last week by becoming the first Druze accepted as members of a kibbutz. The couple, Haza and Nibal Tafesh, have been living on Kibbutz Elifaz in the southern Arava region since 2007, after starting out in the Druze vill …

Canada store owner defeats anti-Israel boycotters - Israel News, Ynetnews

Boycott on Vancouver store owner who insists on selling Israeli goods backfires following Ynet story. 'People won't stop calling and ordering products,' she say.

Egyptians claim Israeli goods cause disease, infertility - Israel News, Ynetnews

An Egyptian Health Ministry official said that chemicals smuggled from Israel are infecting his country's poultry with dangerous viruses, Ynet has learned Monday. Osama Selim, the head of Egypt's veterinary authority, has called on the People's Assembly to press the local poul …

Palestinian television glorifies terror attacks against Israel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

At certain moments, while watching a scene from a program broadcast by Palestinian television on October 25 of last year, it is difficult to believe that this is the official television channel of the Palestinian Authority and the PLO, and not that of Hamas or the Islamic Ji …

Will Israel's opposition leader get a second chance? - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

With public opinion polls showing Kadima in free fall and its members in revolt against their leader, can Tzipi Livni still make another run for prime minister?

Israel to buy Italian military training jets - Israel News, Ynetnews

Jerusalem says will purchase 30 M-346 planes, which will replace American Skyhawks; Italy to reciprocate by buying $1 billion in Israeli defense equipment; South Korea complained about lack of transparency in tender.

10 killed as Palestinian children's bus, truck collide near Jerusalem - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Nine Palestinian children and one adult were killed on Thursday when a children's bus collided with a truck north of Jerusalem.

Israel, Syria, and the double standards of the Free World - Haaretz Israeli News source.

I have for years opposed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, and I continue to be appalled by Israel’s continuing expansion of settlements.

Pro-Palestinian hackers bring down Haaretz Hebrew website

In a Twitter message, Anonymous Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack: 'haaretz.co.il Tango Down :)'

Woman in Beit Shemesh attacked by ultra-Orthodox extremists - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

A woman was attacked in her car in Beit Shemesh Tuesday by ultra-Orthodox extremists - the latest in a series of incidents apparently sparked by what members of the town's Haredi community view as immodest dress. A crowd of ultra-Orthodox men jumped on 27-year-old Natal …

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