PM Netanyahu Flash 90 Israel is to export only 40 percent of the natural gas it extracts from newly discovered gas fields off its Mediterranean coast, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. “The State of Israel will receive 60 percent of the gas produced which will allow it to meet its own needs for the next 25 years,” he said. Read More »

Shas parliament member Yaakov Margi Flash 90 Dozens of senior members of the Shas party are taking part this week in an event led by the far-left Geneva Initiative group in which the group teaches its view of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Shas MK and former minister Yaakov Margi explained his party’s decision to participate. Read More »

Yair Lapid image on Facebook Facebook image The Jewish National Fund (JNF), which is now convening in Jerusalem, has released a harsh condemnation, after a photo was published on Facebook depicting Israeli Minister of Finance Yair Lapid as Adolf Hitler. Read More »

Meir Dagan Flash 90 Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, attending the 2013 Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, said there are rapid shifts taking place in the political map of the Middle East. Read More »

IonMed Biowelding process Photo: courtesy of IonMed.com An Israeli company has come up with a way to close incisions without stitches or staples, leaving a seamless closure. The technology, IonMed Plasma Tissue Welding, uses a cold plasma biowelding device called the BioWeld1. The system is designed and engineered to be reliable and easy to use. Read More »

Limor Livnat Flash 90 Minister of Culture Limor Livnat (Likud) spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday following the announcement that three of her nephew’s murderers Read More »

Students use workbooks (illustrative) Israel news photo: Flash 90 Education Minister Shai Piron of Yesh Atid has issued a call to parents of schoolchildren to join book-lending programs, allowing them to save the cost of new textbooks each year. Read More »

Al Qaeda flag Israel news photo: public domain A group of Syrian rebels claims it killed four Hizbullah terrorists across the border in Lebanon this week. The “Syrian Mujahedeen Unit” posted a video on the Internet Tuesday, featuring one fighter saying his unit killed the men as they were crossing the border into Syria. Read More »

The Temple Mount Israel news photo: Flash 90 Four Jewish teenagers were detained Wednesday after visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The arresting officer accused them of having bowed down, in violation of regulations at the site . Rabbi Avraham Isaacs, who witnessed the events, denied that the four had prostrated themselves on the Mount. Read More »

IDF checkpoint (illustrative) Flash 90 The far-left watchdog group Machsom Watch has been exposing IDF activity and publicizing weak points in security, Israelis living in Samaria (Shomron) have accused. The Samaria Residents’ Council has filed a police complaint against the group. Read More »

Tony Blair in Israel Kempinski Quartet envoy Tony Blair told Presidential Conference participants Wednesday that facing the prospect of a military confrontation with Tehran is a better option than having to grapple with a nuclear Iran. Read More »

President Shimon Peres at 90th birthday celebration Flash 90 Former President Bill Clinton told participants at Israel’s Fifth annual Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday, “There are no perfect solutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Read More »

Mention any biblical and historic site of the Jewish people. You won’t find one preserved and protected by the Israeli establishment. Not only is the Temple Mount no longer “in our hands”, but its easier substitute, the Western Wall, has also been conceded by Israel’s government to a group of femminists and cultural extremists. Read More »

Support for Samaria ‘spies’ Israel news photo: ‘Ishi Hazani,’ Merkam Studio The “Samaria spy” affair came to an end Wednesday morning as the “spies” were sent to jail for three months. Akiva Hacohen and Effie Haykin were convicted by the IDF of having prevented home demolitions by reporting troop movements to activists. Read More »

Vandalism at Haohel synagogue, Bat Yam Israel news photo: Moetza Datit Bat Yam A man who is accused of repeatedly vandalizing a synagogue in Bat Yam has been released to house arrest. His release follows the rejection of an appeal aimed at keeping him in police custody. Read More »

One of the three-letter American Jewish bureaucratic organizations which does little has recently shut down the bulk of their operations in Israel, including firing the Jerusalem office director and three other staff members . Read More »

Who is responsible for “Price Tag” attacks? The obvious answer is that we don’t know. Yet, the police and media accuse “settlers” and “hilltop youths.” After arresting many of them, however, the phenomenon continues. Read More »

Terror arrest (illustration) Israel news photo: Flash 90 The IDF has arrested three Palestinian Authority police officers who shot and murdered a young Jewish father as he returned from prayers at Kever Yosef (the tomb of the Biblical patriarch Joseph) in Samaria. Read More »

Oslo Accords: Rabin, Clinton and Arafat Official White House photo Former President Bill Clinton was awarded Israel’s highest honor Wednesday morning. Presented by President Shimon Peres, Clinton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the fifth Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem. Read More »

Aryeh Deri Arutz Sheva Shas head Aryeh Deri defended recent harsh comments by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in an interview Wednesday morning with Galei Tzahal ( IDF Radio ). Read More »

US Air Force F-16 Official US Department of Defense photo Military forces from Jordan and the U.S. are drilling together in the Jordanian desert with 17 other nations in Exercise Eager Lion 2013 — the third such military drill to take place in Jordan. Read More »

Gila Gamliel צילום: פלאש 90 Finance Minister Yair Lapid has asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to pull Likud MK Gila Gamliel from the Knesset’s Finance Committee following her scathing attack on Lapid from the Knesset podium, Maariv reports. Gamliel, the coalition whip on the Finance Committee, criticized Lapid over the 2013 budget. Read More »

Music (illustrative) Israel news photo: Flash 90 “Lost” music composed by Holocaust detainees came to life Tuesday at a concert in America, Robert MacPherson of the AFP news agency reports. Read More »

Arab mob attack in Jerusalem (file) Israel news photo: Flash 90 “When was the last time your legs trembled in fear? When did you last stay awake all night, afraid someone would burn your house down? When was the last time you saw dozens of people who Read More »

Explosions in Gaza (file) Israel news photo: Flash 90 An early morning attack intended for southern Israel following President Shimon Peres’s birthday bash fizzled with at least one – and possibly two — of the rockets intended to kill Jewish civilians exploding instead inside Gaza. Read More »

Mother and baby Israel news photo: Flash 90 Four years ago, after many prayers and medical treatments, Leah Gal-Ad made Israeli medical history by being the first woman in Israel to carry a pregnancy to term and to give birth without a cervix. Read More »

Children march through Samaria Samaria local authority Israel cannot annex Judea and Samaria (Shomron) and remain a viable state, demographer Professor Sergio Della Pergola warned in a recent interview with Arutz Sheva. Read More »

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stressed on Tuesday that achieving peace was important, but that defending Israel from its enemies is equally as important. Netanyahu, who spoke at President Shimon Peres’s lavish 90th birthday celebration , said that this lesson is something that he had learned from the president himself. Read More »

Rocket attack on Ashkelon (archive) Flash 90 Terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza fired three Qassam rockets at southern Israel early Wednesday morning. Two of the rockets were fired at the city of Ashkelon, and the third one was fired towards the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. Read More »

Golan Heights Israel news photo: Flash 90 Fiji has offered more than 500 troops to the UN Golan Heights peacekeeping force after several countries withdrew because of the spillover from the Syria conflict, diplomats said Tuesday, according to the AFP news agency. Read More »

Putin in Israel Flash 90 Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his country would not rule out sending fresh arms to the Syrian regime and warned the West against arming “criminals” in the rebellion, AFP reported. Read More »

Daniella Weiss Hillel Maeir Daniella Weiss, one of the leaders of the Nahala movement for Jewish settlement in the land of Israel, responded on Tuesday to the confirmation by Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi) that there is indeed a new ban on Israeli construction east of the 1949 armistice line, including in eastern Jerusalem. Read More »

anti-Israel boycotters Flash 90 The Spanish government provided funding between 2009 and 2011 to political NGOs leading the campaigns to delegitimize Israel through demonization, boycotts, lawfare and other forms of political attacks, according to an NGO Monitor report issued on Tuesday. Read More »

concert Flash 90 Neil Tennant, the singer in the pop duo Pet Shop Boys, on Monday rejected calls from pro-Palestinian Authority activists to cancel the band’s Tel Aviv concert, scheduled for June 23, the Israel Hayom daily reports. Read More »

Twitter Logo frame of video Saudi Arabia is the hottest new Twitterspace in the cyber world, according to a recent report by GlobalWebIndex. The kingdom now shows the highest rate of tweeting in relation to number of users worldwide, with some 1.5 million tweets per day. Read More »

Picture of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden Reuters U.S. surveillance efforts foiled over 50 potential terrorist events since the 2001 attacks, the head of the National Security Agency told lawmakers Tuesday in defending the programs as vital to national security, AFP reports. Read More »

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member of Taliban Reuters United States and Taliban officials will engage in Afghanistan peace talks Thursday, senior U.S. administration officials said. The officials say prisoner exchanges will likely be among the topics discussed in the Doha office, which opened Tuesday after months of delays. Read More »

PM Netanyahu Flash 90 Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned world powers on Tuesday against holding “drawn out” negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program following the election of its new president in Tehran. Read More »

Netanyahu in China Israel news photo: Flash 90 China called for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority at a conference in Beijing Tuesday, as the rising global power seeks greater diplomatic influence in the Middle East. Read More »

Shimon Peres Flash 90 An array of celebrities, politicians and public figures are in Jerusalem to take part in Israeli President Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday celebrations to be held later on Tuesday. Read More »

Picture of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden Reuters The father of National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has pleaded with his son to stop leaking information and to return home to the United States, the Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday. Read More »

MK Aryeh Deri Flash 90 Shas head Aryeh Deri visited the Israeli Arab town of Abu Ghosh on Tuesday following an overnight attack by vandals . The attacks slashed the tires of 28 cars and spray-painted the words “Arabs out” on walls. Read More »

Yair Lapid image on Facebook Facebook image An image posted on Facebook on Monday showing an image of Finance Minister Yair Lapid wearing a Nazi uniform and looking like Hitler has gone viral on the social networking site, causing outrage in Israeli society. The picture caption said, “enemy of the Israeli economy. Read More »

קלינטון בכותל הקרן מלמורשת הכותל המערבי Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in Jerusalem for the 90th birthday celebration of Israeli President Shimon Peres, visited the Western Wall and expressed “continued admiration” for Jewish heritage. Clinton prayed, placed a note in the Kotel, and toured the Western Wall tunnels. Read More »

MK Yoni Chetboun Israel news photo: Flash 90 MK Yoni Chetboun of the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) fexpressed strong concern Monday night over the direction of Israeli schools. Chetboun used his speaking time during a debate on the 2013 budget to warn that Israel is forgetting to pass its values on to the next generation. Read More »

Holocaust museum Israel news photo: Flash 90 Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old top Nazi war crimes suspect over his brutal role in organizing the deportation of some 12,000 Jews to World War II death camps, the AFP news agency reports. Read More »

Child in Islamic Jihad summer camp in Gaza Israel news photo: Flash 90 As the hot weather arrives in Gaza, children head to the town of Rafah for summer camp — not to play sports but to join war games organized by the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, the AFP news agency reports. Read More »

‘Price tag’ (archives) Flash 90 President Shimon Peres spoke with Abu Ghosh Mayor Salim Jaber on Tuesday, in the wake of last night’s incident in which vehicles were vandalized and anti-Arab graffiti was sprayed. Read More »

MK Aliza Lavie Israel news photo: Flash 90 Yesh Atid MK Aliza Lavie accused Labor leader Shelly Yachimovich of ugly politics Tuesday, for allegedly refusing to “cancel out” with an MK who had just given birth. Read More »

For the first time, an El Al plane has been outfitted with a C-MUSIC system to protect it against shoulder-fired missiles. The plane, a Boeing 737, conducted test flights with the new system in place. The MUSIC DIRCM systems are to be installed in every civilian plane traveling to a high-risk area. Read More »

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has not had a “close connection” with the city’s Jewish community, NYC politician Peter Vallone Jr. told Arutz Sheva . Vallone, who is running for Queens Borough President, noted that his own ties to the city’s Jewish community are particularly strong. Read More »

Graduation (illustrative) Israel news photo: Flash 90 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. Read More »

William Rapfogel Screenshot William Rapfogel, Chief Executive of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, also known as the Met Council, gave an exclusive innterview to Arutz Sheva , and explained the organization’s approach to helping people suffering from poverty. Read More »

Anti-Semitic incidents in Brooklyn are “very disturbing,” local representative Jumaane D. Williams told Arutz Sheva . Williams, who sits on the New York City Council, spoke out firmly against all forms of racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia. Read More »

Moshe Feiglin Flash 90 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. Read More »

Protest at Tapuach Junction Israel news photo: Women in Green Israeli women living in Samaria (Shomron) are planning a march Tuesday evening to protest rock attacks on Israeli drivers in the region. The march will begin at 6: 30 p.m. Read More »

With President Shimon Peres celebrating his 90th birthday in lavish, star-studded events, an amateur videographer’s “tribute” is making the rounds on internet social networks. Read More »

MK Lipman addresses Knesset Israel news photo: Flash 90 A proposed ban on foie gras imports to Israel could lend inadvertent support to those working to ban kosher slaughter in Europe, a French Jewish leader has warned. Read More »