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The United States quietly supported new EU sanctions against West Bank settlements, a senior European Union official told an Israeli diplomat last week, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday.

The European Commission published the new guidelines last month that limit its dealings with Jewish communities beyond Israel’s Green Line.

American officials have denied knowing in advance about the EU’s plans–which were made public shortly before Secretary of State John Kerry announced the resumption of Israeli negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.

During a closed-door meeting between Kerry and American Jewish leaders, Kerr… Read More »

Ya’alon: Iron Dome is protecting city; residents, tourists don’t need to change daily routine.

Terrorists fired a Grad rocket at Eilat shortly before 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, triggering an air raid siren and activating the Iron Dome anti-rocket battery, which is stationed at the Red Sea city.

The Iron Dome system intercepted at least one rocket, according to initial IDF assessments. The incident marked the first time that Iron Dome has ever intercepted a rocket fired at Eilat.

Residents reported hearing the siren and a number of blasts.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon addressed the attack during a tour of the Lebanese border on Tuesday, say… Read More »

The state files request in response to recent Almagor petition to block mid-August prisoner release; argues gov't believes prisoner release gives Israel potential for improving security situation.

Authorities have said Chabad rabbi was likely victim of terrorist attack in southern Russia.

Further Israeli strikes inside Syria are now expected after American intelligence analysts concluded that a recent attempt to destroy a stockpile of weapons there did not succeed, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

The strike, which allegedly took place July 5th near Latakia, targeted Russian-made anti-ship cruise missiles. While the warehouse containing the missiles was destroyed, American intelligence analysts have concluded that at least some of the Yakhont missiles had been removed from their launchers and moved from the warehouse before the attack.

According to The Times, the Assad government sought to hide the fact that the missiles had been missed by setting fire to launchers and vehicles at the site to create the imp… Read More »

Chabad Rabbi Ovadia Isakov, who was shot by “a member of one of the most extreme Islamic terrorist groups in the Chechnya-Caucasus area,” according to the President of Dagestan, Russia, and recovering on Sunday, in “stable condition,” at the Beilinson hospital in Petach Tikva, Israel, said he hoped to return to Dagestan, despite the anti-Semitic violence, according to Israel Channel 2, reporting from the rabbi’s bedside. 

“All the time, such things as this happen,” Rabbi Isakov said, after regaining consciousness, referring to the anti-Semitic atmosphere of his city. “At Sukkot, they threw a bomb into the women’s mikvah of our synagogue, at our house, they threw a large… Read More »