NEW YORK — James Comey took to Twitter on Saturday to respond to an earlier tweet by President Trump about the Russia probe, with the former FBI director exclaiming that the “American people will hear my story very soon.”
byAaron Klein17 Mar 2018, 6:43 PM PDT0
Actress Gal Gadot has attracted criticism after suggesting that the influential scientist Stephen Hawking is now ‘free of any physical restraints’ following his death earlier this week.
byBen Kew17 Mar 2018, 12:37 PM PDT0
A bomb planted near the Israel-Gaza border exploded Saturday, causing no casualties, the military said. In response, Israeli tanks destroyed a Hamas post in the area.
byBreitbart Jerusalem17 Mar 2018, 8:50 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — Recent reports of a deterioration in the health of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set off fears of a political war of succession that could work to the advantage of Hamas, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
byAli Waked17 Mar 2018, 8:45 AM PDT0
JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party this week marked the 40th anniversary of The Coastal Road massacre – the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in which 37 Israelis, including 13 children, were murdered – by honoring the “thunderous souls” of the Palestinian murderers and asserting that the infamous Dalal Mughrabi, who orchestrated the attack, died in a “most spectacular way” by first killing as many Israelis as possible.
byDeborah Danan17 Mar 2018, 8:44 AM PDT0
The Islamic State terrorist group published photos on its Telegram account showing “child soldiers” executing Afghani soldiers who were purportedly captured by IS during fighting in the Nanajahar region in Afghanistan.
byAli Waked17 Mar 2018, 8:43 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – A prominent Shiite Iraqi interfaith activist told BBC Arabic earlier this month that the Islamic State terror group’s violence, including beheadings, is “deeply rooted in Islam” and that that makes it “a hundred times more evil.”
byDeborah Danan16 Mar 2018, 11:07 PM PDT0
A report surfacing this week claims Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), 31, has blocked his father, King Salman, from seeing his mother for more than two years and has worked to keep them apart throughout his rise to power.
byAdelle Nazarian16 Mar 2018, 5:03 PM PDT0
A Palestinian driver hit four Israeli soldiers with his car Friday afternoon, killing an officer and a soldier and seriously injuring the others, outside the Mevo Dotan settlement in the northern West Bank.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 1:49 PM PDT0
Amid widespread reports National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is expected to lose his job within days, it is instructive to recall the troubling ideology and concerning connections of the man who has been serving in one of the most powerful U.S. national security positions.
byAaron Klein16 Mar 2018, 1:34 PM PDT0
With the US announcing cuts in aid money to the Palestinians, one might think the Palestinian Authority would try to cut expenses, but an invoice from a hotel stay by top Palestinian officials this month indicates the exact opposite.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 10:35 AM PDT0
BEIRUT — Syrian government and Russian airstrikes killed at least 46 people in a besieged town outside of Damascus on Friday, while Turkish shelling and attacks on a Kurdish-held town in northern Syria left at least 22 dead there, monitors and officials said.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 9:31 AM PDT0
An extensive New Yorker magazine profile of former British spy Christopher Steele disclosed that the author of the infamous, largely discredited anti-Trump dossier held a series of off the record briefings with national-security reporters in Washington.
byAaron Klein16 Mar 2018, 8:54 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — A security delegation from the Palestinian Authority is set to arrive in the Gaza Strip at the orders of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in order to follow the investigation into an explosion that recently targeted a convoy that included the prime minister and intelligence chief Majed Faraj, a Palestinian source from the Interior Ministry said.
byAli Waked16 Mar 2018, 8:52 AM PDT0
India’s state-run carrier Air India said Friday it will fly over Saudi airspace to Tel Aviv, a move that ends a decades-long Saudi ban on the use of its airspace for flights to Israel.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 8:48 AM PDT0
A well-known Israeli soccer player from one of the country’s top teams appears in a disturbing sex video that was spreading across social media Thursday morning.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 5:42 AM PDT0
Israel has retained its spot as the 11th happiest country in the world for the fifth year running, according to the United Nations’ annual “World Happiness Report,” published Wednesday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 3:57 AM PDT0
Berlin recorded a twofold increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes between 2013 and 2017, according to the latest German police figures.
bySimon Kent16 Mar 2018, 3:07 AM PDT0
With Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the cusp of winning a second term in this month’s election, what’s left of the opposition is reduced to praying he will step aside in four years.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 2:12 AM PDT0
Palestinian groups in the West Bank and Gaza are urging mass protests Friday to mark 100 days since US President Donald Trump announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 1:51 AM PDT0
The United Nations received pledges Thursday of nearly $100 million in new funding for the UN relief agency for Palestinians after the US slashed its aid, but it is still facing a nearly $350 million shortfall this year.
byBreitbart Jerusalem16 Mar 2018, 1:34 AM PDT0
Like the foreign policy establishment he represented, Rex Tillerson refused to abandon the false belief that nothing can be done without PLO approval.
byCaroline Glick15 Mar 2018, 11:22 PM PDT0
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, commonly referred to as MBS, asserted that Riyadh will pursue nuclear weapons development if Iran possesses a nuclear bomb and reiterated his claim that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is “very much like Hitler” in a CBS interview to air on Sunday.
byFrances Martel15 Mar 2018, 1:02 PM PDT0
The unelected European Commission is set to approve an additional three billion euros in funding for Turkey, the second part of a deal whereby they make efforts to stem the flow of migrants from the Middle East.
byLiam Deacon15 Mar 2018, 11:16 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the subsequent transfer of his country’s embassy there constituted “shock therapy” against Palestinian rejectionism, which is the real obstacle to peace, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer said at a Senate event on Tuesday.
byDeborah Danan15 Mar 2018, 8:39 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — The working assumption within the Palestinian Authority is that Palestinian intelligence commander Majed Faraj and not PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was the main target of the assassination attempt on Tuesday morning in the Gaza Strip, a PA official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
byAli Waked15 Mar 2018, 8:37 AM PDT0
Former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters has joined Palestinian performers Trio Joubran to record a song attacking Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embasssy from Tel Aviv accordingly.
bySimon Kent15 Mar 2018, 7:05 AM PDT0
The Knesset passed the state’s budget for 2019 in the early hours of Thursday, closing out the parliament’s winter term just over a day after the coalition managed to solve a crisis that nearly saw the government fall and new elections called.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 4:03 AM PDT0
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Wednesday signed a $742 million (600 million euro) deal with Russian state-owned energy firm Zarubezhneft to boost production at two oil fields in the country’s west.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 3:25 AM PDT0
Israel Police have asked the attorney general for permission to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and possibly also their son Yair before the Passover holiday, which begins on March 30, in connection with the Bezeq corruption probe.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 2:40 AM PDT0
HAMMURIYEH, Syria — Syrian regime forces broke into a key town in the beleaguered rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta late Wednesday amid heavy bombardment, a monitor said.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 2:11 AM PDT0
The Democratic Party is following Britain’s Labour party down the antisemitic rabbit hole with its refusal to oppose Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
byCaroline Glick14 Mar 2018, 6:04 PM PDT0
NEW YORK — Victoria Nuland, a senior official in John Kerry’s State Department, gave the green light for the FBI to first meet with former British spy Christopher Steele regarding his infamous, largely discredited dossier alleging wild claims about Donald Trump and Russia, according to a book released this week.
byAaron Klein14 Mar 2018, 5:15 PM PDT0
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration will move ahead with projects in the Gaza Strip with or without the Palestinian Authority if its chairman Mahmoud Abbas continues to boycott the U.S., senior administration officials said Tuesday.
byDeborah Danan14 Mar 2018, 3:19 PM PDT0
TEL AVIV – Officials from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees will meet in Rome with world powers on Thursday in an urgent attempt to alleviate the crisis it faces after the U.S. withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in funding earlier this year.
byDeborah Danan14 Mar 2018, 8:04 AM PDT0
JERUSALEM – Israel will win this year’s Eurovision song contest with its entry, “Toy” sung by Netta Barzilai, bookies are predicting.
byDeborah Danan14 Mar 2018, 8:01 AM PDT0
NEW YORK — New details presented in an extensive New Yorker magazine profile of former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the largely discredited anti-Trump dossier, raise immediate questions about a key representation inside the FISA application to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page.
byAaron Klein14 Mar 2018, 7:57 AM PDT0
WASHINGTON, DC — The Russian- and Iranian-assisted regime of Bashar al-Assad is winning the civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands in Syria since 2011, suggested the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, stressing that toppling the dictator is not part of the American mission in the conflict-ridden country.
byEdwin Mora14 Mar 2018, 7:55 AM PDT0
Egypt wants its citizens to report on the news media. Escalating a pre-election crackdown on independent or critical reporting, Egyptian authorities have published a list of telephone numbers for citizens to alert them to reports they view as undermining security or spreading false news.
byBreitbart Jerusalem14 Mar 2018, 3:46 AM PDT0
US President Donald Trump’s peace plan is nearly finished and the White House intends to present to the proposal soon, The New York Times reported Sunday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem14 Mar 2018, 2:39 AM PDT0
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday strongly condemned the explosion that targeted the convoy of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in the northern Gaza Strip, calling it a “murderous terror attack.”
byBreitbart Jerusalem14 Mar 2018, 2:22 AM PDT0
The Israeli military hosted US Marines this week for an urban combat drill in a mock-up of a generic Middle East village, sharing know-how and signaling the allies’ shared interests as their leaders close ranks on a host of regional issues.
byBreitbart Jerusalem14 Mar 2018, 1:55 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State has released photos over the encrypted Telegram forum purpoting to be from the areas under its control in Syria showing members of the IS-affiliated Khaed Bin Waleed militia in the Yarmouk region of the Golan, the triangular border zone between Syria, Jordan and Israel.
byAli Waked13 Mar 2018, 10:24 PM PDT0
TEL AVIV — Hamas has demanded that other jihadist Palestinian organizations prevent any attempts to carry out attacks in the border area with Israel in order to avoid harming the chances of leading thousands of Palestinians to the border fence in a protest planned as part of events marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding, a senior official in one of the jihadist Palestinian organizations told Breitbart Jerusalem.
byAli Waked13 Mar 2018, 10:23 PM PDT0
WASHINGTON – Israeli national security officials sat around the same table on Tuesday morning with their counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, discussing a dire humanitarian situation unfolding in the Gaza Strip.
byBreitbart Jerusalem13 Mar 2018, 9:20 AM PDT0
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