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JERUSALEM — Israels defense minister has thanked the United States for including a “record-breaking” $705 million to aid the countrys missile defense in the spending bill passed last week.

byBreitbart Jerusalem27 Mar 2018, 4:05 AM PDT0

TOPSHOT - Inmates that are to appear in court for their trial are rounded up at the Quezon City Jail in Manila in this picture taken on July 29, 2016. There are 3,800 inmates at the jail, which was built six decades ago to house 800, and they engage in a relentless contest for space. Men take turns to sleep on the cracked cement floor of an open-air basketball court, the steps of staircases, underneath beds and hammocks made out of old blankets. / AFP / NOEL CELIS / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Philippines-politics-crime-jails, FOCUS by Ayee Macaraig (Photo credit should read NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military says it has caught three Palestinians from Gaza who sneaked into Israel carrying grenades.

byBreitbart Jerusalem27 Mar 2018, 3:53 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)

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Germanys new foreign minister on Monday urged the Palestinians “not to tear down bridges,” an apparent reference to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbass contentious relationship with the US.

byBreitbart Jerusalem27 Mar 2018, 3:15 AM PDT0

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PARIS – Two people have been charged with the murder of an 85-year-old French Jewish woman, who was stabbed and whose body was then set alight in a crime being treated as anti-Semitic, a judicial source said Tuesday.

byBreitbart Jerusalem27 Mar 2018, 2:35 AM PDT0

Protesters hold placards as they demonstrate in Parliament Square against anti-Semitism in the Labour Party on March 26, 2018 in London, England. The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council have drawn up a letter accusing Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn of failing to address anti-Semitism in his party. Mr Corbyn has today apologised to Jewish groups for 'pockets of anti-Semitism' in Labour. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Jewish leaders and thousands of their supporters took to Londons streets on Tuesday to voice their opposition to the rise of anti-Semitism in the UK Labour Party.

bySimon Kent27 Mar 2018, 1:36 AM PDT0

An 85-year-old woman, who survived the World War Two roundup of Jews by the Vichy regime, was found dead in her apartment after a fire broke out and had been stabbed eleven times in what investigators are now labelling an anti-Semitic attack.

byChris Tomlinson27 Mar 2018, 12:46 AM PDT0

If President-elect Donald Trump made good on his threat to tear up the Iran nuclear deal, the US would face serious international fallout

WASHINGTON — If Congress and Americas European allies are unable to amend the Iran nuclear deal, US President Donald Trump is prepared to “potentially” walk away from it, the White House said on Monday.

byBreitbart Jerusalem27 Mar 2018, 12:26 AM PDT0

US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- shown here at the White House in 2017 -- will meet there again on Tuesday

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came to Washington to meet President Donald Trump last week, and was lauded for many of the reforms he is undertaking in Saudi Arabia. Many of these, such as improving the rights of women, are commendable, but the country still has a long way to go in the area of human rights.

byShmuley Boteach26 Mar 2018, 8:50 PM PDT0

Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat (Ric Feld / Associated Press)

Former President Jimmy Carter called President Donald Trumps decision to appoint Ambassador John Bolton as his new National Security Advisor “a disaster for our country.”

byJoel B. Pollak26 Mar 2018, 2:43 PM PDT0

Images provided by the Israeli army reportedly show an aerial view of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor during a top-secret 2007 air raid that it has publicly acknowledged for the first time

TEL AVIV – Days after Israel admitted to destroying a nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007, an Arabic-language report claimed that the Assad regime may have constructed another nuclear facility near the border with Lebanon.

byDeborah Danan26 Mar 2018, 10:42 AM PDT0

Palestinian protesters wave their national flag near the Israel-Gaza border east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis as they demonstrate efforts to close UNRWA and possible US cuts Palestinian aid

TEL AVIV – Israeli Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi on Sunday warned of a possible “explosion” by the Palestinians ahead of Israels 70th Independence Day.

byDeborah Danan26 Mar 2018, 10:41 AM PDT0

An Israeli F-15 Eagle fighter jet takes off from an Israeli Air Force Base on November 19, 2012. European Union foreign ministers called for an 'immediate' halt to hostilities between Gaza and Israel as a new strike in a sixth day of violence pushed the toll in Gaza to over 100. AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

TEL AVIV – Arab media outlets reported that Israel attacked a number of Hezbollah targets along the Lebanon-Syria border on Sunday night, in reports that the Iran-backed terror group said had no foundation.

byDeborah Danan26 Mar 2018, 10:41 AM PDT0

In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Venezuela's Vice President Tareck El Aissami, right, is saluted by Boilivarian Army officer upon his arrival for a military parade at Fort Tiuna in Caracas, Venezuela. The administration of President Donald Trump is slapping sanctions on El Aissami and accusing him of playing a major role in international drug trafficking. Thats according to individuals briefed on the U.S. governments plans who requested anonymity to disclose the move ahead of a formal announcement. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

WASHINGTON, DC — Venezuelas Vice President Tareck El Aissami, an official of Syrian-Lebanese origin sanctioned by the United States for his connections to drug trafficking, is a “huge” monetary contributor to Irans narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah.

byEdwin Mora26 Mar 2018, 8:55 AM PDT0

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Dubai – Bahraini authorities on Sunday announced they would be taking “severe measures” to track down dissidents who use social media, as the Gulf monarchy tightens its grip on political opposition.

byBreitbart Jerusalem26 Mar 2018, 3:31 AM PDT0

Governor Andrew Cuomo

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) told a predominantly black congregation Sunday that Baptists, Catholics, and Jews all worship God but, unlike them, “without the rhythm,” according to the New York Post.

byJohn Nolte26 Mar 2018, 2:39 AM PDT0

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The Iron Dome missile defense system was apparently mistakenly activated by automatic gunfire within Gaza on Sunday, sending an unnecessary barrage of interceptors into the skies above southern Israel, the army said.

byBreitbart Jerusalem26 Mar 2018, 2:33 AM PDT0

Opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech on Brexit at Coventry University in Coventry on February 26, 2018. Corbyn called for 'a new comprehensive UK-EU customs union' after Brexit on Monday in a major policy shift that could force Prime Minister Theresa May's government to change course. / AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALL (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)

British Jewish leaders blasted opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an extraordinary public letter released on Monday, accusing him of backing anti-Semites “again and again.”

bySimon Kent26 Mar 2018, 1:37 AM PDT0

In this picture released by the office of the Iranian supreme leader on Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to his supporters during his visit to Mashhad, 900 km (540 miles) east of Tehran, Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Outgoing Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi on Sunday accused Iran of bringing instability to the Middle East in its quest for hegemony, a trend that he said would shape the region this year.

byBreitbart Jerusalem26 Mar 2018, 12:44 AM PDT0

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TEL AVIV – Students at Trinity College Dublin voted this week to support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel for the “long-term.”

byDeborah Danan25 Mar 2018, 10:58 AM PDT0

NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 02: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a brief press availability at United Nations headquarters, January 2, 2018 in New York City. She discussed protests in Iran and the North Korea nuclear threat. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the UN Human Rights Council on Friday after it approved five new anti-Israel resolutions, saying the council was “foolish and unworthy of its name.” At the same time, Israel blasted the UN agency for being a “sham” run by “bloodthirsty dictatorships.”

byDeborah Danan25 Mar 2018, 10:58 AM PDT0

A Palestinian militant from the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, poses with his weapon while waiting for the arrival of Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on December 7, 2012. Meshaal is making his first-ever visit to the Gaza Strip amid tight security for festivities marking the ruling Islamist movement's 25th anniversary. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

TEL AVIV – Hamas launched a large-scale military exercise in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, in response to Israels increased forces along the border ahead of a mass march as part of a “day of rage” planned to coincide with the eve of Passover later in the week.

byDeborah Danan25 Mar 2018, 10:57 AM PDT0

John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN), speaks during the American Conservative Unions Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., on Thursday, March 3, 2016. CPAC runs until March 5 with the five remaining 2016 Republican presidential candidates speaking. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has called the appointment of the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to the role of National Security Adviser of the United States “a shame.”

byBreitbart Jerusalem25 Mar 2018, 6:58 AM PDT0

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a swearing-in ceremony for Israel's new Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot at the Prime Minister's Jerusalem offices on February 16, 2015. AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is praising the U.S. government for passing a law that suspends some financial aid to the Palestinians over the stipends paid to families of Palestinians killed or jailed in fighting with Israel.

byBreitbart Jerusalem25 Mar 2018, 5:35 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)

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he hopes to slash flight times between Tel Aviv and Indias financial capital Mumbai, days after Air India ran the first scheduled Israel-bound service to cross Saudi airspace.

byBreitbart Jerusalem25 Mar 2018, 5:23 AM PDT0

Masoud Shojaei

TEHRAN – A conservative lawmaker in Iran slammed the sports federation on Sunday for allowing star footballer Masoud Shojaei to return to the international squad despite appearing against an Israeli team last year.

byBreitbart Jerusalem25 Mar 2018, 5:16 AM PDT0

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been challenged to “explain why you defend the worlds oldest hatred”, in a debate on anti-Semitism in parliament.

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been challenged to a debate on anti-Semitism in parliament to “explain why you defend the worlds oldest hatred.”

bySimon Kent25 Mar 2018, 3:56 AM PDT0

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley speaks during a press briefing at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. Haley says

UNITED NATIONS — Nine months ago, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley stormed the United Nations top human rights body demanding an end to what she said is its bias against Israel and raising the prospect of a U.S. pullout if it didnt.

byBreitbart Jerusalem25 Mar 2018, 3:13 AM PDT0

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced on Saturday that she will lead a delegation of Democrats to the Middle East, with stops in Israel and Jordan.

byBreitbart Jerusalem25 Mar 2018, 2:56 AM PDT0

This August 3, 2015 photo shows bourbon pork chop flambe in Concord, NH. The bourbon gravy that is left after the flames burn out flavors every bite of the pork chop. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)

An Orthodox Israeli rabbi has claimed that genetically cloned pig could be consumed by Jews, including when eaten with dairy products.

bySimon Kent25 Mar 2018, 2:23 AM PDT0

Hamas security forces secure the area while Palestinian bulldozers, at foreground, and Israeli backhoes, at midground, search the destroyed tunnel for the missing of five Islamic Jihad militants near the Israeli border east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. The Islamic Jihad, says five of its members who have been missing since Israel demolished a militant tunnel dug from Gaza into Israel this week have died, the group said Friday that the militants' remains are on the Israeli side of the tunnel after searching for them on the Palestinian side. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

A group of Palestinians from Gaza infiltrated into Israel and tried to damage machinery being used to construct a new anti-tunnel barrier around the coastal enclave on Saturday night, the army said.

byBreitbart Jerusalem25 Mar 2018, 1:54 AM PDT0

Street musicians play their instruments as tourist walk past the stage where US President Barack Obama will deliver his public speech on Sunday April 5, at the Hradcanske Square in Prague, Czech Republic on Friday, April 3, 2009. Obama will attend a summit between the United States and the 27-member European Union in Prague on Sunday. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

PRAGUE – On a fine spring day in the Czech capital, a young busker draws a crowd with his rendition of “Knockin on Heavens Door”. Little does he realise the poignancy of the Bob Dylan lyrics.

byBreitbart Jerusalem25 Mar 2018, 1:35 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)

JERUSALEM – Israeli jets pounded Hamas positions in Gaza overnight after Palestinians staged a cross-border raid into southern Israel, the military said early Sunday.

byBreitbart Jerusalem25 Mar 2018, 1:09 AM PDT0

TEL AVIV – Israel provides a safe haven for gay Palestinians fleeing persecution and honor deaths, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach told Breitbart Jerusalem, noting the Jewish states equal treatment of the LGBT community in all aspects of civil and military life.

byDeborah Danan24 Mar 2018, 10:01 AM PDT0

Mavi Marmara

TEL AVIV – Remember the incident aboard the Mavi Marmara, a Gaza-bound ship in 2010 that became embroiled in a bloody battle with IDF commandos, leading to the death of nine members of a Turkish terrorist organization?

byDeborah Danan24 Mar 2018, 10:00 AM PDT0

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JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas Fatah faction declared earlier this month that the Palestinian people needs more murderers, a post on its Facebook page commemorating the anniversary of a terror attack said. The terrorist also called on more Palestinians to join the “resistance” in order to fight the “hostile” Americans and President Donald Trumps Jerusalem recognition.

byDeborah Danan24 Mar 2018, 9:57 AM PDT0

AP Photo/Dennis Cook

President Donald Trumps decision to appoint former UN Ambassador John Bolton to serve as his National Security Advisor is arguably the most significant single step he has taken to date toward implementing his America First foreign policy since taking office.

byCaroline Glick23 Mar 2018, 3:53 PM PDT0

Taylor Force Act

Amidst criticism of the omnibus spending bill, the passage of the Taylor Force Act is a silver lining — and a milestone in foreign policy that could save taxpayers money.

byJoel B. Pollak23 Mar 2018, 3:51 PM PDT0

68th United States Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during his a public lecture

NEW YORK — Jonathan M. Winer, an official in John Kerrys State Department, vouched for the credibility of anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele to two reporters before they each broke separate stories about the information contained in Steeles largely discredited dossier, the two reporters revealed in their new book together.

byAaron Klein23 Mar 2018, 9:07 AM PDT0

American Jewish actress Mayim Bialik has told an audience that she is “happy to take a public bullet for this state,” while outlining her experiences of anti-Semitism at the Global Conference on Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem.

bySimon Kent23 Mar 2018, 8:14 AM PDT0

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A spokesman for the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has denounced the “genocide” facing Christians in the Holy Land, declaring: “Every five minutes, a Christian dies in the Middle East, and Muslim leaders know it.”

byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.23 Mar 2018, 5:33 AM PDT0

Patriot air defense

The Israel Defense Forces and US military ended their joint Juniper Cobra missile defense exercise this week, with live-fire tests of two anti-aircraft systems over the skies of central Israel.

byBreitbart Jerusalem23 Mar 2018, 4:53 AM PDT0

KIBBUTZ ZEELIM, Israel — Hawks, vultures and storks circle overhead as Christopher Sveen points at the heap of refuse rotting in the desert heat. “This is the mine of the future,” he beams.

byBreitbart Jerusalem23 Mar 2018, 4:33 AM PDT0

A French police officer has been shot by an assailant at a supermarket in the ancient city of Carcassonne, France, with reports of hostages being held and the Islamic State allegiance of the attacker reported in local media.

byOliver JJ Lane23 Mar 2018, 4:18 AM PDT0

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 66th General Assembly Session at the United Nations on September 23, 2011 in New York City. The annual event, which is being dominated this year by the Palestinian's bid for full membership, gathers more than 100 heads of state and government for high level meetings on nuclear safety, regional conflicts, health and nutrition and environment issues. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday renewed his demand that Hamas hand control over the entire Gaza Strip to the PA government, starting with the terror groups security forces.

byBreitbart Jerusalem23 Mar 2018, 4:00 AM PDT0

In a video published on social media earlier this week, a Saudi journalist and historian — speaking in Hebrew — tried to reassure Israelis that there was nothing to fear from his countrys nuclear ambitions.

byBreitbart Jerusalem23 Mar 2018, 3:29 AM PDT0

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