LATEST ISRAELI NEWS UPDATES, VIDEOS AND PICTURES

'Trump is right!' Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu hails the president's border plans because the wall separating them from Egypt is a 'great success'

29/01/17 04:40

29/01/17 01:02

Yahweh ben Yahweh founded the Nation of Yahweh in 1979 and deemed himself its God as he raged against 'white devils' and claimed African Americans were the original Israelites.

29/01/17 00:37

Israeli diplomat, Shai Masot, was caught making threats against the pro-Palestinian, Foreign Office Minister, Sir Alan Duncan earlier this month. Now a group of MPs are to investigate the scandal.

27/01/17 09:30

At least seven people have died in a crash in Shomron, Israel. A bus plummeted 200ft off a cliff and landed on its roof. Emergency services are on the scene trying to rescue people trapped.

26/01/17 21:36

The decision by Israel's chief rabbis to recognize the Jewish conversion of Ivanka Trump could have a far-reaching impact on others who decide to join the faith abroad.

24/01/17 16:54

The plans, approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, marked the largest recent announcement of settlement building by Israel.

24/01/17 00:11

Archaeologists have unearthed what could be the ancient remains of a synagogue in a village near Israel’s Sea of Galilee. It was built during the 12th and 13th centuries.

23/01/17 12:16

Israel's prime minister plans to visit the White House next month in hopes of forging a 'common vision' with President Donald Trump following a 'warm chat' between the two.

23/01/17 01:32

President Donald Trump Sunday has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit him in Washington next month, the White House announced Sunday.

23/01/17 01:11

President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (right) will speak Sunday for the first time since Trump's inauguration. Iran's nuclear program and Syria are on the agenda.

22/01/17 13:43

The ceremony, held in Gaza City in the northern region of the Gaza Strip, saw members showing off their military skills and burning a mock Israeli post - as well as an Israeli flag - as part of a drill.

20/01/17 10:40

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat released a video on Thursday as part of an online campaign to urge Donald Trump to stay true to his promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.

19/01/17 21:43

Artist Shahak Shapira has called his page Yolocaust, combining the words Holocaust and the hashtag shorthand for 'you only live once' to highlight the inappropriateness of some people's posed pictures.

19/01/17 18:06

Rabbi Yosef Berger, of King David’s Tomb in Mount Zion, Jerusalem, believes the supernova explosion of two distant stars is evidence an ancient messianic prophecy is coming true.

19/01/17 00:08

Defending a UN resolution calling for an end to settlement building, Obama said he doesn't 'see how this issue gets resolved in a way that maintains Israel as both Jewish and a democracy.'

18/01/17 09:12

Historic images show the dramatic mountains and barren deserts surrounding Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Jordan which have deep cultural significance for many different religions.

17/01/17 13:04

State television in Syria quoted the army as saying several rockets were fired from an area near Lake Tiberias in northern Israel just after midnight, hitting a major strategic base (shown).

16/01/17 19:45

The increase of Israeli settlements has 'gotten so substantial' that it is inhibiting the possibility for an 'effective, contiguous Palestinian state,' President Barack Obama said Sunday.

15/01/17 05:37

Israeli agent Shai Masot was exposed by The Mail on Sunday last week plotting with an aide to Tory Minister Robert Halfon to ‘take down’ Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan.

15/01/17 03:14

Sir Nicholas Soames launched a blistering attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his country’s threat to ‘take down’ Boris Johnson’s deputy.

12/01/17 16:49

Streep, who was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award on Sunday, had launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump in front of a room of stunned Hollywood stars.

12/01/17 14:00

A funny video filmed in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, shows the clumsy performer making a fool out of himself. After teasing the crowd from a window he hops up onto a wall which crumbled beneath him.

11/01/17 16:50

From Jerusalem's lavish Waldorf Astoria hotel (pictured) to the buzzing Tel Avivian nightlife, Israel's tourism industry continues apace despite frightening international headlines.

10/01/17 10:27

Fadi al-Qanbar, 28, drove a truck into a crowd of troops in Jerusalem killing four soldiers whose colleagues appear to run away from the scene leaving tour guide Ethan Rond to shoot the terrorist.

10/01/17 03:46

Four soldiers killed in the terror attack in Jerusalem, Israel, have been named as IDF Lieutenant Yael Yekutiel, 20, Cadet Shir Hajaj, 22, Cadet Shira Tzur, 20, and Cadet Erez Orbach, 20.

09/01/17 14:33

Baroness Tonge had her Lib Dem membership suspended after hosting an event where an audience member claimed Hitler killed six million Jews because he was 'antagonised' by a Rabbi.

08/01/17 18:38

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Palestinian attacker who mowed down and killed four Israeli soldiers and wounded 15 in Jerusalem was an ISIS terrorist.

08/01/17 14:25

Captured in the footage seemingly egging the diplomat on is Maria Strizzolo, who is understood to have resigned from her post as a senior adviser to Minister of Skills Robert Halfon.

08/01/17 11:31

The bombshell footage, covertly filmed in a London restaurant and obtained by The Mail on Sunday, shows a senior diplomat making the astonishing threat to target Sir Alan Duncan.

08/01/17 03:08

This is the alarming picture which reveals that the Russian army has deployed missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads to war-torn Syria.

05/01/17 23:24

In sunny Israel, solar energy supplies only a small percentage of the nation's power needs, leaving it far behind countries with cloudier and colder climates.

05/01/17 18:22

A 54-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman were arrested after making online threats against the head of the judging panel, Colonel Maya Heller.

05/01/17 12:34

Elor Azaria (pictured) shot Abdul Fatah al-Sharif in the head as he lay on wounded on the ground. Al-Sharif had been shot after stabbing and moderately wounding a soldier moments before.

04/01/17 17:15

An El Al Airlines flight from Israel to New York's JFK was delayed at Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday when a passenger's cat managed to wriggle free from its crate and get lost in the cargo hold.

04/01/17 17:11

Though positioned close together, the symbols were likely carved hundreds of years apart. Hikers found the timeworn symbols while exploring subterranean passages in southern Israel.

04/01/17 12:38

A Catholic, a Baptist and a Mormon walked into the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday and waded into Jewish politics, proposing the Jerusalem Embassy and Recognition Act.

03/01/17 23:13

About 1,000 children, mostly Jewish immigrants from Yemen and other Arab countries disappeared in Israel's early years, and families believe they were abducted for adoption.

02/01/17 18:12

A black screen was placed in front of Israeli Prime Minister Mr Netanyahu's official residence in apparent anticipation of the investigators' arrival and to obstruct the view of journalists.

30/12/16 21:52

Israel has issued severe travel warnings for India, citing an 'immediate and severe' risk to Western tourists, especially in the south-west of the country, which includes Goa.

30/12/16 15:02

The State Department pointed out that nine other major nations had backed Mr Kerry's condemnation of Mr Netanyahu while the UK PM had aligned herself with the response taken by President-elect Trump.

30/12/16 12:30

A spokesman for PM Theresa May, pictured, said it was inappropriate to attack the make-up of the democratically-elected Israeli government – a key ally of both the US and Britain.

29/12/16 13:43

President-elect Donald Trump says Israel is being treated 'very, very unfairly,' maintaining that countries that are 'horrible places' never get reprimanded.

28/12/16 17:21

'Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks,' Trump tweeted. 'Thought it was going to be a smooth transition - NOT!'

28/12/16 15:42

George Mitchell said on MSNBC that the Obama administration should have stood aside and let Donald Trump set his own Middle East Policy, or at least vetoed Friday's criticism of settlements.

27/12/16 17:23

Police have been looking into allegations made about the Israeli Prime Minister for the last nine months and have now asked permission to launch a full probe.

27/12/16 16:28

Although they have to deal with heavy weaponry and gruelling training, the girls are not afraid to show off their fun, playful side, by posting their sexy snaps in bikinis.

26/12/16 14:00

A huge fire has broken out in Haifa, after a fuel storage tank set ablaze at an Israeli oil refinery. The tank in question, which has a 12,000-cubic meter capacity, was around 10% full when it caught on fire.

26/12/16 13:20

Palestinian protesters dressed as Father Christmas were tear gassed by the Israeli Army as fights broke out in Bethlehem yesterday.

26/12/16 13:07

The U.S. has consistently vetoed such measures but President Barack Obama decided to abstain, allowing it to pass. Donald Trump pledged on Twitter: 'As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th.'

26/12/16 11:59

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Obama administration of orchestrating a UN resolution that declared Israeli settlements in the West Bank criminal.

25/12/16 16:30

The terrifying consequences of fake news has been illustrated with Pakistan's defence minister threatening to attack Israel with nuclear missiles

25/12/16 10:02

Ben Rhodes, the White House's deputy national security adviser defended the decision to abstain from a UN Security Council vote on Israeli settlements and allowing the resolution to pass.

24/12/16 01:09

An abstention by the United States paved the way for the 15-member council of the United Nations to approve the resolution, with 14 votes in favour, to a round of applause.

23/12/16 23:43

Israel has learned that the White House does not intend to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

22/12/16 16:14

Dalia Elyakim, from Herzliya, Israel, was with her husband Rami as the truck rampaged through wooden stalls at the market in Berlin on Monday night in an attack that claimed 12 lives.

21/12/16 18:44

Engineer Sharon Rabi, 29, from Israel, created straightening hair brush, Dafni, after her locks were compared to Hagrid from Harry Potter's and she wanted a solution for busy working mothers.

21/12/16 18:16

Gal Gadot was spotted enjoying a Tel Aviv stroll with her husband Yaron Varsano. Her flowing black top largely downplayed the bump indicating her second pregnancy by her spouse of eight years.

21/12/16 17:25

David Friedman said he looked forward to carrying out his duties from 'the U.S. embassy in Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem,' even though the embassy is in Tel Aviv.

13/12/16 18:30

Researchers from Tel-Aviv University used a motorised glove and a virtual reality headset to carry out the unusual experiment.

12/12/16 19:16

The Iranian defense minister has warned that Donald Trump could trigger a world war and the 'destruction' of Israel and small Gulf Arab states if he provokes the Middle Eastern power.

09/12/16 08:43

A huge cloud of dust and rain blew up along the border between Israel and ISIS last week, sparking online claims that it was a biblical storm.

07/12/16 23:00

Sufganiyot, jelly-filled doughnuts, are a traditional Chanukah treat. This month, Burger King Israel will sell Whoppers with buns made out of jelly doughnuts — with ketchup instead of jelly.

06/12/16 20:20

Forty-six percent of US citizens questioned in a Red Cross survey of 17,000 people said it was acceptable for the armed forces to torture enemy combatants to glean military information.

05/12/16 09:55

New images show the limestone burial shelf and a marble slab with a cross carved into its surface, both discovered at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

01/12/16 23:16

Harsh V Pant on what India can expect from Modi's visit to Israel to mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

29/11/16 14:56

Four ISIS gunmen were killed today after they opened fire on Israeli soldiers in their first attack on the occupied Golan Heights.

26/11/16 02:22

The Palestinian Salafist group Ma’sadat al-Mujahideen has said that it was behind the blazes, which led to 60,000 people in Israel's third largest city Haifa being moved to safety.

24/11/16 23:53

Raging bushfires forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from parts of Israel's third city Haifa on Thursday as firefighters struggled to control blazes across the country.

24/11/16 18:05

The tomb where Jesus is said to have been rested and a shrine surrounding it are being restored during work being done at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem.

23/11/16 20:41

A team of Israeli archaeologists and students made the unusual discovery in Yehud, a Tel Aviv suburb. It dates back to the Middle Bronze Age.

19/11/16 01:40

'Media buzz that I was named Amb to Israel is NOT true,' Huckabee tweeted Friday night. 'Was never discussed with PE Trump; slot probably not picked until State Dept in place.'

14/11/16 09:53

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he supports the bill which would stop the use of public address systems from mosques to issue the calls to prayer saying they cause 'excessive noise'.

13/11/16 18:05

President-elect Donald Trump has invited Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu to the US for talks 'at the first opportunity'.

08/11/16 22:06

EXCLUSIVE: Yiftah Curiel, spokesman for Israel's diplomatic mission, accused SOAS of letting 'racist conspiracy theories' go unchallenged during the talk at the students' union Palestine Society.

07/11/16 14:41

The US businessman, who is in his late 60s, is a member of New York's Hasidic Jewish community and arrived in Israel with his wife last year for a family event when their passports were seized by the rabbinical court, pictured.

01/11/16 09:37

Fourteen elderly women, their hair styled and make-up beautifully applied, took to the red carpet this week to compete in a Holocaust survivors' pageant in the Israeli city of Haifa.

28/10/16 16:54

Video footage has emerged which captured the shocking moment people started pushing each other as dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters attended a student event at UCL in London.

28/10/16 04:10

Prosecutors have charged 13 Israeli wedding guests with inciting violence after they were caught on camera celebrating the murder of a Palestinian toddler and his parents who died last year.

27/10/16 21:17

Israeli archaeologists have unveiled a 7th century BC text they said contains the earliest mention in Hebrew of Jerusalem outside the Bible. The scroll was found in the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea.

27/10/16 16:31

The tablet was first discovered in Yavneh in Israel 1913 and it has resided in the Living Torah Museum in New York since 2005. Los Angeles-based Heritage Auctions is selling the tablet.

   

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