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Tel Aviv Gay Pride Week accused of "pinkwashing" Israeli abuses

Tel Aviv has become in the last decade a choice destination for the gay community on holiday, and Gay Pride Week which kicks off on Friday has become huge, with 200,000 people expected to…

France

Creating conditions for Middle East peace talks is 'duty' of world powers

The French foreign minister says major world powers intend present a set of incentives and guarantees to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to revive stalled peace…

World News

Paris foreign minister summit aims to revive Middle East peace talks

A summit of foreign ministers in Paris today (June 3) hopes to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks which stalled in 2014.

World News

Israeli media reports police recommend indicting PM's wife

Israeli police have reportedly recommended bringing criminal charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife on suspicion of misusing state…

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Israel's new defence chief jokes about curbing his fiery nature

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his choice for defence minister, ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman, signed a coalition agreement on Wednesday (May 25) and issued assurances that the mos

Israel

Netanyahu reshuffle means Israel being taken over by 'extremists'

Reports from Israel say Benjamin Netanyahu has offered the job of defence minister to his far-right rival Avigdor Lieberman in a move to strengthen his…

Sci-Tech

Israeli divers discover Roman treasure in ancient sunken cargo ship

Archaeologists in Israel have recovered bronze statues and thousands of coins from a merchant ship that sank off the Mediterranean coast some 1,600 years ago during the late Roman…

Israel

Divers uncover shipwreck treasure trove in Israel

Archaeologists have uncovered a haul of treasures while diving in Israel. Statues and thousands of coins are among the haul, located in an ancient

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Palestinians remember Nakba

A commemorative convoy for Nakba, the displacement of Palestinians due to Israel’s 1948 declaration of independence, leaves Duheisha refugee camp in

Turkey

Israel hopes to normalise ties with Turkey soon, say officials

Israeli officials say efforts to restore full diplomatic ties with Turkey must now wait until a new government is formed in Ankara. Relations were

Israel

Israeli soldier goes on trial for killing wounded Palestinian attacker

The trial of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter for killing a wounded Palestinian attacker has opened. Sergeant Elor Azaria denies using

Israel

Israel PM Netanyahu rebukes deputy military chief over Holocaust speech

The dressing down comes after Major-General Yair Golan said on the eve of the annual Holocaust Day that he saw signs in Israeli society of 'nauseating processes' that occurred in Germany 70, 80, 90 ye

Israel

Deadly flare-up in violence as Israel finds Gaza tunnel

A Palestinian woman has died in Gaza amid the worst flare-up of violence there with Israel since the war in 2014. Hospital sources say the

West Bank

Israeli authorities discuss a halt on returning attackers' bodies

Israeli authorities are discussing whether or not to continue handing back the bodies of people killed while carrying out attacks on soldiers

Israel

Israeli troops shoot dead driver who rammed car into soldiers

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian driver in the West bank on Tuesday after he’d rammed his vehicle into three of their colleagues. In the last

United Kingdom

UK: Labour anti-Semitism row grows as ex-London mayor Livingstone refuses to apologise for Hitler remarks

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in the UK is riling from accusations of anti-Semitism. In the latest development the former Labour mayor of London, Ken

Israel

Israeli forces shoot dead 16-year-old Palestinian boy and his sister

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have shot dead two Palestinians at the Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank. Police said the

Israel

Israeli PM vows to hunt down Jerusalem bus bombers

Israel’s Prime Minister has vowed to track down those responsible for a bus bombing in Jerusalem on Monday. At least 21 people were injured in the

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UN Mideast meeting descends into Israeli-Palestinian shouting match

A monthly meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the Middle East deteriorated into a shouting match on Monday as Israeli and Palestinian

Israel

Israel police say Jerusalem bus blast was a bomb

Israeli police have confirmed that a small bomb exploded on a bus in Jerusalem on Monday during the evening rush hour. Eye witnesses said an empty

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