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Fifty-four years after 11 members of Israel’s Olympic delegation were murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Games, Israel gathered Monday evening to honor their memory and reaffirm a commitment to carrying their legacy forward through sport.
The Health Ministry advanced new regulations on Tuesday that would require table salt sold for household use to be enriched with iodine, after findings showed widespread iodine deficiency among Israel’s population.
A US official told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that CENTCOM is currently striking Iranian oil tankers, as Iranian media outlets reported explosions near Kharg Island.
Reino Unido, França e Canadá anunciaram nesta terça-feira (08/09) medidas para bloquear importações de bens agrícolas produzidos em assentamentos israelenses na Cisjordânia ocupada, em meio a preocupações com o aumento da violência praticada por colonos judaicos e com a expansão dessas comunidades.
The U.S. military on Tuesday said an unmanned submersible that Iran reportedly seized in the Strait of Hormuz was "defective" and carried no sensitive data or classified equipment.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered relatively restrained remarks on Tuesday in response to western allies announcing a slew of unprecedented punitive moves against Israel, adding only that the US will not follow suit.
The European Union urged Yemen's Houthi rebels to "end all attacks" on Tuesday, condemning strikes on Saudi Arabia that targeted oil facilities and wounded dozens of people.
Israel’s far-right national security minister has put a seven-year timetable on emptying Gaza of most of its people, and dressed it up as choice. Gazans RT spoke to call it what international law already names it: forced displacement.
Sara Netanyahu’s remarks suggesting that Yair Golan knew about the October 7 attack are not merely a brazen lie aimed at a political rival ahead of crucial elections. They are also an irresponsible legitimization of conspiracy theories targeting Israel and Jews at a time of an explosion in radical anti-Zionism and a…
Israeli warplanes have carried out several air attacks in southern Lebanon, including in the towns of Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband invoked his family’s Holocaust history and his childhood memories of Israel on Tuesday as he delivered one of the UK government’s harshest speeches on Israeli policy and announced a ban on imports from West Bank settlements.
The UK is a lead nation among a dozen countries that jointly announced Tuesday they are imposing sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The UAE has responded to an article in an Israeli news outlet that claimed Abu Dhabi warned Israel of an imminent Hamas attack in the weeks before October 7.
A look at whether Ed Miliband’s plans will be effective and what they signal for future Israel-UK relations
The United Arab Emirates has signaled that it has no intention of being drawn into Israel’s political dispute ahead of the elections, following a Haaretz report claiming that UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu roughly a week and a half before October 7 that Hamas was planning a…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally warned that Hamas was preparing a major attack days before October 7, 2023, but did not relay the information to Israel’s top security chiefs, Haaretz reported on Tuesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Tuesday denied an explosive report from Israeli paper Haaretz that the leader of the United Arab Emirates warned him of Hamas's plans to attack southern Israel on 7 October 2023, calling the allegations "false".
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A 28-year-old Palestinian man was killed by Israeli forces’ gunfire on Tuesday in the town of Aqaba, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestintian health minitry.
Vista de una zona cerca del asentamiento israelí de Maale Adumim en Cisjordania, el 8 de septiembre de 2026. (Foto AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A sharp diplomatic rift has erupted between Israel and several of its key Western partners after 12 countries backed restrictions on trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and London accused settlers of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in parts of the territory.
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Dozens of businesses owned or operated by women immigrants to Israel, offering food, clothing, accessories, jewelry, and more, were featured last Thursday evening in central Tel Aviv at an olot (female immigrants) night market held as part of the HER Tel Aviv International Summer Festival.
The fourth annual MEAD conference opened in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, bringing together senior figures from the United States, Israel, and the Middle East at one of the most consequential moments since the forum was established.
Shas released its candidate list for the 26th Knesset on Tuesday, following days of internal debate over major changes to its parliamentary lineup.
Saudi authorities on Tuesday issued brief alerts warning of potential danger in three areas bordering Yemen, hours after overnight strikes from the Houthis injured dozens in the south of the kingdom.
London: Israel has slammed a move by a dozen countries to impose trade sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, launching a furious diplomatic response after Britain accused it of allowing “ethnic cleansing” in the contested lands.
The UK has attacked ‘settler terrorism’ deployed in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, whilst announcing sweeping sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivered the strongest condemnation of the actions of the Israeli government ever by a Brit…
Israel’s UN envoy said on Tuesday his country opposes efforts to maintain a large international military presence in southern Lebanon after the UN peacekeeping mission’s mandate ends, arguing Lebanese forces should assume responsibility for securing the border.
Several MPs also banned from Israel after UK steps up condemnation of settlements and announces sweeping sanctions
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Tuesday for an urgent de-escalation of hostilities between Yemen's Houthis and Saudi Arabia, warning they risked expanding the Middle East conflict.
Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed a Palestinian and injured 15 others across the Gaza Strip, Wafa news has reported, citing medical sources.
The BBC's Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from Ma'ale Adumim - an existing Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, overlooking Israel's proposed E1 site.
The US has placed sanctions on 27 Iranian commercial airlines as President Donald Trump's administration seeks to crank up its economic pressure campaign against Tehran.
Arkia announced that it would be opening a new direct route to the capital of the Philippines, Manila, starting on January 3rd, 2027, as the airline expands its international flights from Ben-Gurion Airport.
The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday allowed a tender for 1,234 homes in the E1 area to move forward, but did not decide whether the underlying construction plans are legal.
German sportswear giant Adidas has issued an apology following backlash and international calls for a boycott of the company over a local marketing campaign in Israel.
The Iran conflict will “only be resolved through a deal,” Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Majed al-Ansari told CNN on Monday, arguing that the “nucleus” of the broader regional crisis was the war Israel fought in Gaza.
Reports from Yemen that express optimism and portray a new offensive against the Houthis as potentially successful may be part of a path to reshape the Middle East.
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia on Tuesday threatened to hit back after a wave of missiles from Yemen’s Houthis set oil facilities ablaze and wounded dozens of people, the Iran-backed rebels’ heaviest attack in years.
The US Treasury announced new sanctions on 36 entities, including 27 Iranian airlines, for “supporting Iran’s aviation sector”.
JERUSALEM — Israeli opposition leaders on Tuesday called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unfit to serve after a report that the United Arab Emirates had warned him before Hamas’ war-sparking attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
One Palestinian student found herself facing permanent expulsion and the revocation of all her academic credits at Zefat Academic College in Israel, after posting a video of a religious preacher praying for the people of Gaza.
The co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, has criticised the UK government's hypocrisy in proscribing the direct action group as a "terrorist" organisation while claiming to stand up for international law by banning trade with Israeli settlements.
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Plans for Jordan to begin supplying Lebanon with imported natural gas, which will be transported through Syria, were approved by Jordan’s cabinet on Sunday, Jordanian Prime Minister Jafar Hassan announced.
A UN commission investigating Syria said on Tuesday it was deeply alarmed over Israel's military activity inside Syrian territory, warning that some actions, including the detention of civilians, could amount to war crimes.
On Tuesday, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom jointly confirmed their intention to impose national restrictions on trade in goods from Israeli settlements.
The Palestinian Authority's Embassy in London welcomed Tuesday's announcement by British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband stating that the UK will ban all trade with West Bank settlements.
The United Kingdom’s recent decision to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements and individuals in the West Bank is a “disgusting” political calculation that could bankrupt major British companies, Florida Congressman Randy Fine (R) warned in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.