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Amichay Eliyahu’s comments came amid growing hunger in the territory, where Israel controls the delivery of food.

This meeting comes ahead of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer's meeting with US Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani in Paris. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Thursday.

This year’s crop of eight new Israeli feature films that had their Israeli premieres in the Haggiag Competition were, for the most part, strong and entertaining, which bodes well for the future of the Israeli movie industry.

Netalie Braun’s anti-war drama Oxygen, about a single mother who takes extreme action to prevent her 21-year-old son from returning to the front in Lebanon, scooped the Best Israeli Feature Film award at the 42nd Jerusalem Film Festival on Thursday evening.

The Israeli military will allow foreign countries to drop aid into the Gaza Strip, according to a report Friday on Israel Army Radio, citing an army source.  Israel will allow the United Arab

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocked major roads in Jerusalem to protest against a controversial Israeli conscription bill that would end exemptions from military service. The demonstrations follow the arrest of three men accused of desertion and come as the Israeli army begins sending draft notices to 54,

Gaza continues to headline regional print and broadcast news. For people following the news, it is nearly impossible to evade the catastrophe that has

Israel’s recent strike on a Catholic church in Gaza, which killed three civilians and injured nine, has sparked a political backlash from its most staunch allies, including evangelical

Israel said Thursday that it “deeply regrets” a deadly strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church, which killed three people.

In the aftermath, the new state of Israel’s capital was in West Jerusalem. Jordanian forces controlled East Jerusalem, which included the Old City and most of the ancient sites and shrines.

We cannot colonize a land that God promised to Abraham 3,800 years ago. We cannot colonize a land in which Jews have lived for four millennia.