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Hackathon seeks to fix Israel’s ‘hasbara’ problems

Haifa’s Technion hosts students, encourages creation of apps that help improve nation’s image.

Family, friends mark 10 years since death in Lebanon of lone soldier Levin

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD
Kahlon touts budget reforms amid criticism on spending

By NIV ELIS
US: Israeli seizure of abandoned Palestinian property ‘unprecedented’

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Obama told Engel he supports Iran Sanctions Act renewal

Senior administration official responds to 'Post': ISA extension "not necessary" yet.

By MICHAEL WILNER
Cabinet approves 2017-2018 budget after all-night session

Bank of Israel Governor Flug warns against education cuts, raising deficit.

By JPOST.COM STAFF,NIV ELIS,HERB KEINON
Pollard loses challenge to US parole conditions

Eliot Lauer, a lawyer for Pollard, said he was disappointed with the ruling and said his attorneys were studying it.

By REUTERS
Turkish FM says parliament to approve deal with Israel next week

“Israel has met our terms, paving the way to normalize ties,” he said. “Therefore, we must do this as soon as possible.”

By HERB KEINON,ARIEL BEN SOLOMON
Cabinet to OK 2017-2018 budget

Bank of Israel Governor Flug warns against education cuts, raising deficit.

By NIV ELIS,HERB KEINON
Togo proposes hosting Israeli-African summit in its capital next year

The announced plans come just two weeks after President Gnassingbe’s brother-in-law, Marcel Alain de Souza, was in Israel and invited Netanyahu to a summit in Nigeria later this year.

By HERB KEINON
Israel’s virtual security zone

A working relationship with rebels on the other side of the Golan Heights has kept the border with Syria quiet.

By JONATHAN SPYER
Ahead of Tisha B’Av, MK Glick calls on colleagues to show a little more love

One of the first things that struck Glick upon becoming a lawmaker at the end of May was the way MKs spoke to and treated one another.

By LAHAV HARKOV
Uruguay's parliament and Knesset sign cooperation agreement

The agreement was signed as part of a Knesset delegation to South America, that includes stops in Paraguay and Argentina.

By LAHAV HARKOV
Likud's leading women spar

The dispute erupted over comments regarding Kan, Israel's new public broadcasting corporation.

By GIL HOFFMAN
Knesset threshold bill could be roadblock for small parties

The bill is intended to strengthen the two largest parties at the expense of smaller ones.

By GIL HOFFMAN
Lapid warned US that MOU could backfire

Lapid did not endorse anyone in the American election, but he did make a surprising statement about the race for UN secretary-general.

By GIL HOFFMAN
Netanyahu miffed over probe of Yair

In a briefing for Army Radio journalists Wednesday, Netanyahu dismissed the investigation against him, saying that he is not overly concerned about it.

By GIL HOFFMAN,ELIYAHU KAMISHER
Bronze medal bonus for Gerbi? MK’s bill would pay Olympic medalists

The bill would cost the state less than NIS 400,000 a year to pay the current total of seven medal winners.

By LAHAV HARKOV
Analysis: What happened to all Netanyahu’s men?

More and more of his friends have been hired to junior-level positions in the Prime Minister’s Office.

By GIL HOFFMAN
Right-wing rapper tells vets to return their Gaza War medal

Hatzel to Likudniks: I’m not such a bad guy.

By GIL HOFFMAN
New judges appointed as cases pile up in Israeli courts

In a ceremony at the President’s Residence, 14 new judges and registrars were appointed – primarily to district and magistrate’s courts in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Lod.

By GREER FAY CASHMAN
Women to get greater representation on local religious councils says AG

According to statistics provided by the Hiddush religious pluralism lobbying group there are 49 women serving on 40 of the total 132 religious councils in the country.

By JEREMY SHARON
Kahlon tax plan will push up rent price, critics allege

Plan would impose a heavy tax--up to NIS 1,500 a month--on people who own three or more apartments.

By NIV ELIS
Knesset approves funds for Reform, Masorti mikvas

In order to allow UTJ’s law to pass, the attorney general’s office said that the government must put in place a solution for the Reform and Masorti Movements.

By JEREMY SHARON
Opposition outraged by bill exempting Netanyahu from probes of ‘minor offenses’

“No one in Israel is above the law, not this prime minister, not his predecessors, and not those who come after him," MK Nachman Shai said.

By LAHAV HARKOV
'Turkey-Israel rapprochement did not affect Israeli- Russian relations'

He added that Turkish relations with Russia also are key because of energy cooperation. Last month, Russia and Turkey revived plans for the TurkStream natural gas pipeline.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON
Rivlin and Sharansky to aim for Jewish unity at pre-Tisha Be’Av conference

A spokesperson for the president said haredi representatives had been invited to attend. The theme of the unity session is remembering the past and educating for the future.

By GREER FAY CASHMAN
Kara defends right-wing rapper joining Likud

"The Likud party belongs to the people of Israel," Kara wrote on Facebook. "There are no boycotts, and no one will be ostracized. Everyone is invited to join and will be welcomed."

By GIL HOFFMAN
Defense Ministry backs down from Iran deal comparison to Nazi era Munich agreement

Ministry blames media for "misunderstanding" earlier statement, denied it was comparing Iran deal to Munich pact.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN
Israeli demographics present economic challenges, study finds

Israel's life expectancy, it noted, is higher than the OECD average. Without increses in the retirement age, the report argued, people will be spending in retirement will increase 1.5 times by 2055.

By NIV ELIS
Homegrown Israeli BDS activists may face punitive measures

Israeli-Arab MK Tibi: Boycotting is a democratic right, occupation should be boycotted.

By LAHAV HARKOV
Green Party presidential candidate Stein: End military aid to 'apartheid' Israel

Dr. Jill Stein currently is polling at about 5 percent.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Education Ministry to revise curriculum to include history of Jews from Islamic countries

The decision aims to implement one of the recommendations of the Biton Committee, released in July.

By LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
The Israeli link to Zambia’s national general election

Grace Njapau is running for office for the Chavuma constituency, and says her husband’s Jewish and Israeli identity play a positive role in her campaign.

By TAMARA ZIEVE

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Arab-Israeli Conflict

Hassan Nasrallah during a video broadcast.

Hassan Nasrallah: 'There is no location in Israel outside of our cross-hairs'

The Hezbollah leader also thanked Syria and Iran for their assistance in the war ten-years-ago, and noted that his terror organization "is spearheading the fight" against Israel.

Culture

THESE SEALS fell during the destruction of the Second Temple

Archeological finds, City of David bolster Jewish claim to J’lem

“If all that stuff is built on the notion that none of this ever happened, and then you pull a seal out of the ground with the names of the ministers straight out of the Bible one after the next."