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Israel asks France to cancel peace parley, calls for direct talks with PA

“Israel expects France not to advance an initiative or a process that is against the official stance of the state of Israel,” Netanyahu's envoys say.

France: Israel should show commitment to peace by attending December parley

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Arab town has eyes on US election

By BEN LYNFIELD
Amona battle goes down to the wire

By LAHAV HARKOV,TOVAH LAZAROFF

Palestinian teen sentenced to 12 years in jail for 2015 terror stabbing

The defendant, who was 13 at the time of the attack, was sentenced in the Jerusalem District Court for carrying out a stabbing attack last October.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Twitter users lampoon Palestinian claim to Dead Sea Scrolls

Hundreds of social media users poked fun at the latest Palestinian claim to a piece of Jewish history.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Israel postpones temporary expansion of fishing zone off Gaza’s coast

There are approximately 4000 fishermen in Gaza today, who rely on the fish they catch to make ends meet.

By ADAM RASGON
Analysis: Hamas operating from Turkey as usual despite Ankara's promises

Despite the anger in Israel, especially in the defense establishment and intelligence community, the government does not intend to throw away the deal.

By YOSSI MELMAN
Large-scale attack against IDF forces thwarted by PA in Hebron

Israeli border police detonate large IED after receiving information from Palestinian security forces.

By ANNA AHRONHEIM
Palestinians make a play for Dead Sea Scrolls at UNESCO

The Palestinian drive to lay claim to the Dead Sea Scrolls comes amid a series of resolutions passed at UNESCO that ignore Jewish ties to the Temple Mount.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
‘No big bang theory to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’

EU and UN officials doubt that Israel and the Palestinians can come to a peace deal without the assistance of mediation.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Palestinian Authority and Israel lock heads over PA attempt to join Interpol

The Palestinians gained observer status at the United Nations General Assembly in 2012; garnering 138 votes out of the 193-member body.

By ELIYAHU KAMISHER
One soldier lightly wounded in shooting near Tulkarm, assailant at large

No initial reports of injury to Israeli forces.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
US pans expansion of Jerusalem's contested Jewish neighborhood of Gilo

181 residential units approved in capital's southwestern Gilo neighborhood.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD
Have documents in the Duma arson case vanished in a cover-up?

Prosecution calls them ‘technical’ and unimportant.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB
US Latino leaders observe complexities of Arab-Israeli relations

“US Latinos are and will be important decision makers. It is important that the Jewish community is an ally and accompanies them in this process,” said Dina Siegel Vann.

By ELIYAHU KAMISHER
New Israeli bill seeks to hold EU liable for illegal Palestinian building

Bill would strip diplomats of immunity in activities relating to terror, human trafficking and illegal construction.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
IDF ‘Reservists on Duty’ aim to expose Palestinian hatred on US campuses

To catch the attention of students, the group decided to apply the same strategy applied by pro-Palestinian students for the infamous Israel Apartheid Week.

By DANIELLE ZIRI
Netanyahu to Abbas: If settlements didn’t exist, would you recognize a Jewish state?

Netanyahu makes remarks ahead of meeting with visiting Italian president.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Palestinians want Crimea-style solution in soccer dispute with Israel

After Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014, UEFA banned Crimean clubs from moving to the Russian league and instead authorized them to set up their own competition.

By REUTERS
Canada wades into troubled Middle East waters

“We are deeply interested in the peace and stability and the challenges in this part of the world.”

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Palestinian forces raided home of PA policeman hours before attack, brother says

Relatives of the gunman in Monday's attack on IDF soldiers in the West Bank say PA forces raided his home ahead of the attack that left 3 IDF soldier wounded.

By ADAM RASGON
Israel aiming to block Palestinians from joining Interpol

Diplomatic official says that there are concerns that Palestinian police will leak sensitive information to terrorist groups.

By ELIYAHU KAMISHER
Release of UK citizen accused of aiding Hamas ordered over alleged torture

Shin Bet denies wrongdoing, emphasizes terror charges and appeal of release.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB
Stabbing attack by female Palestinian thwarted at Cave of the Patriarchs

Israeli security forces find two knives in the possession of the suspect, who planned to carry out an attack at the holy site in Hebron.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Ambassador: Denying Israel's ties to Temple Mount is like denying Sweden's to IKEA

"Any attempt to deny these ties is simply an evasion of science," writes Israeli envoy to Sweden.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
IDF raids home of Palestinian policeman turned terrorist

Monday's incident was the fourth terrorist attack to occur in the West Bank in three days.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Senior intelligence official: There's a basis for a deal with the Palestinians

Brig. Gen. Dror Shalom: "I know some of you might not like to hear this, but since 2004, there is a leader... who has generated quiet and opposed terrorism."

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Israel to build new settler homes in Shiloh, despite US objections

US: “This settlement's location deep in the West Bank… would link a string of outposts that effectively divide the West Bank and make the possibility of a viable Palestinian state more remote,”

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
60-year-old wounds still fresh in Kafr Kasim

‘We hope the state will recognize the massacre, even if it will take another 100 years,’ says MK Frej.

By ELIYAHU KAMISHER
Knesset opens with protest from family whose son remains in Hamas captivity

Abera was last seen in Israel on September 7, 2014, when soldiers saw him climb the fence into the Gaza Strip.

By ELIYAHU KAMISHER
Terrorist takes 9-year prison plea deal for rock attack that killed Alexander Levlovitz

According to police, after causing the crash, the four suspects fled the scene and met again to coordinate their alibis if arrested.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD
Palestinian policeman reported gunman in West Bank shooting of 3 Israelis

Gunman killed at scene near Ramallah.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Israeli MKs call to annex Ma'aleh Adumim to save Jerusalem

Demonstrators rally outside Knesset demanding annexation of the West Bank's third-largest settlement.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

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