The IDF has nabbed three PA police officers-turned-terrorists who shot and killed a young Jewish father at Joseph's Tomb.

Israeli soldiers have arrested three Palestinian Authority police officers-turned-terrorists, who shot to death a young Jewish father as he returned from praying at the tomb of the Biblical Patriarch Joseph in Samaria (Shomron).   Arab media outlets reported the arrests in May, but the news was only officially confirmed by Israeli sources Wednesday after the...

Yacimovich slams 'robbery' of resource that belongs to public.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday that 40 percent of Israel's natural gas reserves would be exported, 13% less than the the Zemach Committee, tasked with exploring the issue, recommended.   Netanyahu said that the 60% of natural gas preserved for domestic use would serve Israel's needs for the next 25 years.

The prime minister added that the "gift from nature" would bring...

Two-time terrorist who planned a suicide bombing is given his degree. He refuses to shake the university president’s hand.

A terrorist who served two prison terms for involvement in terrorism, including a plot to carry out a suicide bombing, has been awarded his doctorate in chemistry from Hebrew University, Maariv reports.   The terrorist is an Israeli citizen and a resident of eastern Jerusalem.   During the graduation ceremony in Hebrew University’s Har Hatzofim...

Feiglin: We’ve heard how much ‘settlements’ cost, let’s see how much the political left costs.

The Oslo Accords, not Israeli “settlements,” are the real drain on Israel’s budget, MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud Beytenu) said Monday night, speaking from the Knesset podium.   Feiglin poked fun at Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid’s “where’s the money” election slogan, and at Lapid’s suggestion that Israeli communities in Judea and...

Minister says: “The attempt to establish a Palestinian state within our land has ended.”

Bayit Yehudi head, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, said Monday that the idea of establishing a Palestinian state has reached a dead end and should be forsaken.   "Never in the history of Israel has so much energy been invested in something so pointless,” Bennett said at a conference on the Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and their depiction in the...

Israel is ready to negotiate with the PA but it wants to impose preconditions, says Defense Minister during a talk in Washington.

The so-called “Arab peace initiative” is a spin, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon (Likud-Yisrael Beytenu) said on Friday.   Speaking at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, Yaalon said, "The Arab peace initiative is a spin. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that Israel is ready to return to the negotiating table without preconditions and...

House and Construction Minister Uri Ariel confirms Prime Minister Netanyahu has frozen building in east Jerusalem.

Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi) confirmed to Army Radio an earlier report indicating that the Israeli government has instituted a de-facto moratorium on the building of new homes in the disputed Jewish areas of the eastern part of Jerusalem since the start of this year.   “This is very problematic,” Ariel told Army Radio. “The...

Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis said that the PA, by its behavior, the PA had proven that it was not ready for an independent state

In an interview Thursday, Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis said that while he favored the idea of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, he didn't think they would lead anywhere. Speaking on Israel Radio, Akunis said that “the Palestinians themselves are not ready for a state, and not even for an expanded self-rule.”   Between their refusal to...