West Bank – The IDF launched a dramatic rescue operation to extract two Oketz K-9 unit soldiers who accidentally strayed into the Palestinian Kalandia neighborhood in north Jerusalem on Monday night, and found themselves in the midst of a massive riot.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waded into an escalating row with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday, accusing him of “forgetting” that only Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem is keeping Islamic extremism at bay and safeguarding the city’s holy places from destruction by terrorists.
“Jerusalem, like London, is a city where every resident has the right to live where he wants and were discrimination based on religion, race or sex is prohibited,” said Mayor Nir Barkat in a press release on Thursday.
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived in Israel on Monday for the first visit by a Kenyan president in 22 years.
A new bill to be proposed on Monday would turn the Ministry of Intelligence Affairs into a statutory ministry headed by a full-time minister with expansive authority regarding budgets and appointments in the intelligence services.
The extreme right-wing activist Amiram Ben-Uliel, the main suspect in the Duma arson and murder, has released a special recording in which he describes undergoing torture at the hands of the Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak).
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is claiming that Israel on Wednesday evening struck military outposts in Syria, near the capital Damascus, Reuters reports.
According to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, former Hezbollah defense chief Imad Mughniyeh wanted to find information on Israeli Air Force navigator Ron Arad to use in a potential prisoner swap.
An Israeli television report on Tuesday night alleged that a newly enforced US Customs policy to label products from the West Bank was not merely a technicality, but an “under the radar” US government policy change with regard to the settlements.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has voiced his concern over Israel’s emerging alliance with Sunni Arab gulf states, and urged Arab leaders to break ties with the Jewish state.
