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TEL AVIV – Palestinian terror groups have come out in praise of the “heroic” West Bank car-ramming attack in which two IDF soldiers were killed on Friday afternoon

byDeborah Danan18 Mar 2018, 3:31 PM PDT0

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TEL AVIV – The Czech Republic has begun investigating the possibility of following the U.S.’s lead and moving its embassy to Jerusalem as a result of a diplomatic campaign waged by Israel, Channel 10 reported on Saturday.

byDeborah Danan18 Mar 2018, 3:31 PM PDT0

A wounded man is wheeled into a hospital in Jerusalem following a shooting attack on a religious school in the city in which at least eight students were killed on March 6, 2008. Some 35 people were wounded in the attack on the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in the predominantly Jewish west Jerusalem tonight, the Magen David Adom rescue service said. Public television said two Palestinians were killed when they attacked the school in the Kyriat Moshe neighbourhood, and that many people were wounded. AFP PHOTO/DAVID VAAKNIN (Photo credit should read DAVID VAAKNIN/AFP/Getty Images)

A Turkish tourist stabbed and seriously injured an Israeli security guard in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, medics said.

byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 8:27 AM PDT0

Israel makes arrests after deadly West Bank car ramming: army

TEL AVIV – Israel will demolish the home of the Palestinian terrorist who on Friday afternoon ran over and killed two IDF soldiers and wounded two others, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Saturday night.

byDeborah Danan18 Mar 2018, 8:24 AM PDT0

A coalition between left-wing socialists and the Islamic extremist party Nida in the Dutch city of Rotterdam has collapsed after a tweet from Nida surfaced which called the state of Israel equal to the Islamic State terror group.

byChris Tomlinson18 Mar 2018, 4:02 AM PDT0

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The US administration is delaying the announcement of its Middle East peace plan because it believes the proposal would have a greater chance of success after a new leader replaces long-time Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a senior Palestinian official was quoted as saying Saturday.

byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 3:13 AM PDT0

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and his wife Sara, left, stand beside Vice-President Gabriela Michetti on the site of the former Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. The Bombing of the Israeli embassy on 1992 killed more than a dozen and left hundreds injured. Netanyahu is on a two day official visit to Argentina. (AP Photo/ HO Argentina- Vice Presidency)

Police are seeking another round of questioning of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on Monday in the Bezeq graft probe, for the first time since a former adviser turned state’s witness in the high profile corruption case, Hadashot TV news reported Friday.

byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 2:49 AM PDT0

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The Israeli military says it has destroyed a Gaza tunnel built by the Hamas militant group.

byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 2:33 AM PDT0

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IDF officers and Defense Ministry representatives met earlier this week with their counterparts in Egypt in an effort to halt disruptions to mobile phone services in southern Israel, a result of Egyptian jamming against ISIS-affiliated terrorists in Sinai.

byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 2:15 AM PDT0

An Israeli F-15 I fighter jet launches anti-missile flares during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli air force pilots at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert, near the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva, on June 30, 2016. / AFP / JACK GUEZ (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli military aircraft carried out a raid against a Hamas target in the Gaza Strip overnight after an explosive device detonated near the border with Israel, the military said Sunday.

byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 1:45 AM PDT0

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas gestures as he speaks during a Christmas lunch with members of the Christian Orthodox community on January 6, 2016 in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Mahmud Abbas dismissed weeks of rumours the Palestinian Authority could collapse, saying he would 'never give up' on it. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX / AFP / THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

In the presidential office in Ramallah on March 14, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas met with Rajaei Haddad, a terrorist from eastern Jerusalem released from prison after serving a 20-year term for his 1998 conviction of complicity in the murder of an Israeli in Jerusalem’s Old City.

byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Mar 2018, 1:06 AM PDT0

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

Israeli Merkava tanks roll near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip as they return from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian coastal enclave on August 5, 2014, after Israel announced that all of its troops had withdrawn from Gaza.

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

PLO leadership abbas

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

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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

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

Islamic State Video Shows Gunshots and Beheading in Afghanistan

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

Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince, looks on during a bilateral meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May at An Nasiriyah Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, April 4, 2017. May began a visit to Jordan and Saudi Arabia on Monday, with the goal of building security and commercial ties. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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

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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

White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster delivers keynote remarks during a discussion on 'Syria: Is the Worst Yet to Come?' in Washington, DC, on March 15, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

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

A Palestinian Bedouin woman washes a bowl on October 22, 2013 at an encampment where she lives with her family in tents amid harsh living conditions with no electricity in southern Gaza City.

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

This photo released on Saturday, Feb 24, 2018 by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group and civilians gathering to help survivors from a street attacked by airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. A new wave of airstrikes and shelling on eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus left at least 22 people dead and more than a dozen wounded Saturday, raising the death toll of a week of bombing in the area to nearly 500, including scores of women and children. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

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

Christopher Steele

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

A vehicle damaged in the explosion that went off near Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah's convoy is seen in the northern Gaza city of Beit Hanoun on March 13, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

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

Air India's Dreamliner taxis on the tarmac upon arriving in Sydney on August 30, 2013. Australia's first ever Dreamliner passenger flight touched down in Sydney as the airport welcomed direct services from New Delhi to Sydney with Air India. AFP PHOTO / Saeed Khan (Photo credit should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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

CA Bastia's Anthony Salis (R) vies with Bastia's French defender Gaetan Varenne (L) during the French Cup football match CA Bastia (CAB) vs Sporting Club de Bastia (SCB) at the Francois Coty stadium in Ajaccio, Corsica, on January 6, 2013. AFP PHOTO / PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA (Photo credit should read PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA/AFP/Getty Images)

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

Hovi Star representing Israel celebrates as he advances to the grand final, after qualifying in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 12, 2016.

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

A visitor with with a Star of David and the words 'Against Hatred Toward Jews' written on her hands attends a rally against anti-Semitism on September 14, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. With the slogan 'Stand Up! Never Again Hatred Towards Jews' ('Steh auf! Nie wieder Judenhass'), the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden) organized the demonstration after anti-Semitic incidents in the country occurring in the wake of the conflict in Gaza this summer, in which more than 2,000 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli government, the majority of whom were civilians, according to Palestinian authorities. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

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

In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, attends a conference commemorating the country's martyrs, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, March 15, 2018. Up for re-election in less than two weeks, Egypt's president on Thursday took center stage at a televised ceremony declaring his readiness to personally join the battle against militants and decorating soldiers and families of fallen ones. (Sherif Abdel Meniom/Egyptian Presidency via AP)

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

A Palestinian protester burns an Israeli flag after the funeral of Palestinian Milad Said Ayyash, 17, who died of wounds sustained in yesterday's protests in east Jerusalem, Saturday, May 14, 2011.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

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

Rex Tillerson

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 conducts a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May with other members of their delegations, inside 10 Downing Street, London, on Wednesday March 7, 2018. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a royal welcome with high level political talks to begin his three day visit to Britain, although protesters criticised the visit. (Dan Kitwood/Pool via AP)

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

Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah talks during the first cabinet meeting of the new Palestinian unity government in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 3, 2014. Under terms of the agreement, Hamas and Fatah, which dominates the West Bank administration, worked together to formulate an interim government of independents which will prepare for elections within the next six months. AFP PHOTO/ ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)

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

Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd, performs on the Us + Them Tour on Saturday, July 22, 2017, in Chicago. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP)

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

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2007 file photo, a worker repairs a part of a unit of the Tehran oil refinery, in Tehran, Iran. A series of fires at Iranian petrochemical plants and facilities have raised suspicions about hacking potentially playing a role in the blazes. Iran officially insists the six known blazes this summer weren’t the result of a cyberattack. However, authorities themselves saying that “viruses had contaminated” equipment at several of the affected complexes. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

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

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 21: (ISRAEL OUT) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Defence Minister Ehud Barak (not pictured), on November 21, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel. An official ceasfire started at 9pm local time between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement after eight days of conflict resulting in the deaths of over 140 Palestinians, five Israelis and many hundreds injured. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)

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

This photo released on Wednesday March 7, 2018 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government soldiers advancing during a battle against Syrian rebels, in eastern Ghouta, Syria. The International Committee of the Red Cross said a second convoy that was supposed to carry aid to the besieged rebel-held eastern suburbs of Damascus was postponed Thursday because of the violence and rapidly evolving situation on the ground. (SANA via AP)

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

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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

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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

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