MOSCOW, Feb. 16 (UPI) — Russian Jews must keep relying on foreign rabbis, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia said this week. Read More »

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Israeli settlers pray during a protest in the illegal Jewish settlement Givat Asaf in the West Bank near Ramallah, October 27, 2011. The Givat Asaf settlement is slated to be demolished by the Israeli government by year’s end. UPI/Debbie Hill Published: Feb. 14, 2012 at 11: 45 AM BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 12 (UPI) — Israel’s military budget is short of about $1 billion and defense operations will have to be scaled back, officials said Sunday. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 8 (UPI) — Israel is reported to be seeking to deploy fighter aircraft in Cyprus, its partner in developing a natural gas bonanza under the eastern Mediterranean, to protect these vital energy resources. Read More »

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EL ARISH, Israel, Feb. 5 (UPI) — Egypt’s Arish natural gas pipeline to Jordan and Israel was blown up Sunday, Egyptian security forces said. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 2 (UPI) — The chief of Israel’s Military Intelligence warned Thursday that some 200,000 missiles and rockets are aimed at the Jewish state at any given moment. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, Jan. 29 (UPI) — Political experts say Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may hold early elections to capitalize on his popularity. Read More »

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NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (UPI) — A New York man being investigated in his wife’s death wanted her to be buried in Israel, which a rabbi said would have averted a finding she had been strangled. Read More »

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) — The United States and Israel have decided to postpone an upcoming, large-scale joint naval exercise because of growing tensions with Iran. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, Jan. 11 (UPI) — Israel is preparing for an influx of Alawite refugees from Syria should President Bashar Assad leave office, the head of Israel’s military says. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 28 (UPI) — Israel’s top general has warned that the military will have to invade the Palestinian enclave again if militants keep firing rockets into the Jewish state. Read More »

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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 20 (UPI) — Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn said Israel was behind rockets fired into the Jewish state, calling it an effort to undermine security in south Lebanon. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 12 (UPI) — The Israeli air force is upgrading its F-16C/D jets amid growing concerns the delivery of F-35 stealth fighters ordered by the Jewish state will be delayed. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, Nov. 28 (UPI) — Israel is considering the release of Palestinian tax revenues that have been frozen for more than a month, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 1 (UPI) — Germany has reportedly threatened to halt the delivery to Israel of a submarine in protest of plans to build homes for Jewish settlers in an East Jerusalem suburb. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, Nov. 1 (UPI) — Israel may impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority in response to UNESCO’s vote to admit it as a full member, officials said. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 31 (UPI) — The Israeli air force is preparing to deploy a new air-defense system with the biblical name of David’s Sling, designed to intercept medium-range missiles, while the Iron Dome system deployed earlier battles Palestinian rockets. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 31 (UPI) — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said there are no plans to strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities but all options remain open. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, Oct. 27 (UPI) — Israel released 25 Egyptian prisoners Thursday in a swap for the release of Ilan Grapel, a dual American-Israeli citizen who was jailed in Cairo, reports said. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, Oct. 24 (UPI) — Israeli officials announced the flow of natural gas from the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt would slowly return following a string of attacks on a key pipeline. Read More »

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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 21 (UPI) — The leader of Hezbollah said Friday if Israel starts a war with Lebanon, Tel Aviv would be the militant group’s first target, a Lebanese newspaper reported. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 18 (UPI) — The Israeli government is considering a $100 million plan to buy new patrol boats to protect the Jewish state’s rich offshore gas fields. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 12 (UPI) — Israeli intelligence officials say Israel should consider resuming peace talks with Palestine to improve the country’s diplomatic standing, documents reveal. Read More »

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NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (UPI) — A motorcycle gang consisting of Hassidic Jews from New York said they are cruising the region to bring the word of God to other Jewish bikers. Read More »

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NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (UPI) — Jewish donors may like Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney but some give to Michele Bachmann, mistakenly thinking she’s Jewish, Romney backers say. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, Aug. 30 (UPI) — Israel’s Ministry of National Infrastructure has asked for a feasibility study on building a nuclear power plant, Calcalist reported. Read More »

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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug. 28 (UPI) — The Palestinian Authority refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Palestinian officials in Ramallah. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 21 (UPI) — One Israeli was killed and scores were injured after approximately 100 rockets were fired at southern Israel, police and military officials said. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, Aug. 10 (UPI) — Anti-normalization elements in Jordan are threatening economic and diplomatic ties with Israel, sources told The Jerusalem Post. Read More »

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HAIFA, Israel, Aug. 8 (UPI) — Israel seeks to build up its navy, partly to counter the Iranian ballistic missile threat, with missile-firing submarines and two other warships. Read More »

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BERLIN, Aug. 2 (UPI) — Israel was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist last week in Tehran, the German magazine Der Spiegel reports. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, Aug. 1 (UPI) — Israel can do without natural gas from Egypt, an energy analyst said after saboteurs attacked a pipeline for the fifth time this year. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, July 27 (UPI) — Israel’s Parliament maintained the religious monopoly on marriage Wednesday, rejecting a civil alternative. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, July 26 (UPI) — Israel and the United States plan a joint missile defense exercise next year to improve operational coordination of defense systems, officials said. Read More »

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A visitor looks at a display showing a photo of Pope Pius XII in the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum on Holocaust Memorial Day in Jerusalem, April 21, 2009. Critics of Pius XII say he did not take action to stop the killing of Jews during the … Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, June 29 (UPI) — Israel’s growing missile defenses will reportedly be integrated into the United States’ planned regional defense network — and could end up shielding Arab states that, in theory at least, are considered adversaries of the Jewish state. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, June 29 (UPI) — Israel has reportedly warned Syrian President Bashar Assad not to start a war with the Jewish state to divert attention from his domestic problems. Read More »

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CAIRO, June 28 (UPI) — The arrest of an Israeli-American on charges of spying for Israel has intensified fears in the Jewish state that the post-Mubarak regime in Cairo seeks to distance itself from the historic 1979 peace treaty between the two countries. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, June 28 (UPI) — Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is a “basic requirement for peace” with the Palestinians. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, June 23 (UPI) — Israel’s leader told Washington he would resume peace talks based on Israel’s 1967 borders if Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, Maariv reported. Read More »

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about the results of the Turkel Commission during an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event, in his office in Jerusalem, Israel , January 23, 2011. The Israeli inquiry into the deadly May 31 … Read More »

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JERUSALEM, June 19 (UPI) — Israel Sunday began a nationwide, week-long drill simulating missile attacks from Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Gaza. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, June 17 (UPI) — Israel’s defense industry racked an unprecedented $7.2 billion in exports in 2010, up on the $6.9 billion achieved in 2009. Read More »

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NETANYA, Israel, June 17 (UPI) — An apparent natural gas explosion ripped an apartment building in Netanya, Israel, early Friday, killing four people and injuring dozens more, officials said. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, June 10 (UPI) — Israeli politicians Friday addressed the annual gay pride parade in Tel Aviv as the street party with tens of thousands of participants got under way. Read More »

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An Ultra-Orthodox Jew visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, May 1, 2011, in Jerusalem, on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “a renewed anti-Seminitism is spreading” at the start of the … Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, June 6 (UPI) — Israel’s High-Tech Industry Association has signed a memorandum of understanding with its Indian counterpart to boost cooperation in advanced technology, a move that will undoubtedly increase the Jewish state’s burgeoning defense sales to India. Read More »

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MAJDAL SHAMS, Syria, June 5 (UPI) — Israeli troops killed at least six Palestinian protesters Sunday and wounded 100 who tried to breach the Syria-Israel border, Syria said. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, June 5 (UPI) — Israel will mull France’s proposal for a peace conference but will not speak with a Palestinian Authority that includes Hamas, Israel’s prime minister says. Read More »

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CAIRO, June 3 (UPI) — Egypt’s cut-off of natural gas supplies to Israel is escalating a dispute over resources that’s wrecking the Jewish state’s relations with its Arab neighbor which until the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February were the linchpin of the Middle East peace process. Read More »

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JERUSALEM, June 2 (UPI) — Israel will raise its level of alert and the army said it would respond firmly to attempts by Palestinians to breach the borders in upcoming protests. Read More »

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WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) — US government opposition to claims against European insurance companies by Holocaust survivors is creating a rift among some Jewish groups, experts said. The State Department, under the administrations of both Barack Obama … Read More »

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BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 1 (UPI) — Palestinians plan to stage protests along Israel’s borders to mark the 44th anniversary of the Six Days War and Israel’s occupation, a Fatah official said. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 23 (UPI) — The Israeli air force is considering phasing out its U.S.-built Raytheon Hawk surface-to-air missiles, backbone of its air-defense network since 1965, and replacing them with David’s Sling, a weapon being developed by Rafael Advances Defense Systems. Read More »

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WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) — Speaking before America’s main Israel lobby Sunday, President Barack Obama defended his Middle East policies, which some Jews oppose. Read More »

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JAKARTA, May 13 (UPI) — A member of the Indonesian Parliament has asked the country’s Jewish community to cancel plans to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day Saturday. Read More »

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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 11 (UPI) — Amid mounting tensions in the Middle East, Israel’s outgoing internal security chief, Yuval Diskin, says the Jewish state has been the target of attempted cyberattacks on key state infrastructure. Read More »

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