A series of terrorist attacks in Israel raises fears of a new wave of terrorism; Abbas tells the UN that Britain must pay the Palestinians reparations for the Balfour Declaration; and Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak meet, sparking speculations about a possible political alliance.Read More

No improvement is seen in Shimon Peres’ condition as Israel prays for his recovery; Israel signs a military aid package with the USA; Netanyahu’s claim that Palestinians want to “ethnically cleanse” their future state is widely criticized and a new poll shows that Yair Lapid is the most popular politician in Israel.Read More

Documents show Abu Mazen worked as KGB agent in Syria in 1983; polls sharply criticize Netanyahu for ordering work stoppage on the Sabbath; Netanya Mayor Miriam Feirberg arrested.Read More

A conflict over fixing highways and train stations on Saturdays threatens to bring down the Israeli government; a key Israeli communication’s satellite was destroyed during a rocket launch in Florida; the Palestinians negotiate new borders with Egypt, the Israeli government criticizes the move; Putin tries to organize a meeting between Abbas and Netanyahu in Moscow; Avigdor Lieberman allegedly says he will not seek the return of the bodies of captured Israeli soldiers and the Israeli general Benjamin Ben-Eliezer dies.Read More

Israel bombs Gaza after a rocket hits Sderot; Turkey criticizes Israel for its action; a group of scientists in Tel Aviv find a possible cure for melanoma and Franz Kafka’s archive will be returned to Israel.Read More

Former Defense Minister Ehud Barak again attacked Prime Minister Netanyahu saying his approach to the American elections is creating tremendous fear in Israel. The Palestinian National Authority is preparing for local elections taking place in early October. Thousands turn out at the Western Wall to mark the fast of the 9th of Av with the traditional recitation of the Lamentations. Israel won another medal at Rio’s Olympic games, a bronze, was won by Judo champion Ori Sasson who successfully defeated Egypt’s judoka who then refused to shake hands with Sasson.Read More

Haaretz reports that Ashkenazi children were kidnapped before the state’s founding and Avigdor Lieberman criticizes the Iran deal by comparing it to the West’s appeasement of Hitler.Read More

Members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition argue about the future of Israel’s new broadcasting authority; a terrorist attack on Jerusalem’s Light Rail system is avoided thanks to watchful guards and an Israeli official acknowledges that Yemenite children were stolen from their parents.Read More

Parents of soldiers who died in the Second Gaza War request an investigation into the government’s handling of the war; Haredi schools will continue receiving government support despite not teaching secular subjects and the Palestinian Authority wants to sue the UK over the Balfour Declaration.Read More

FM Lieberman’s command to Army Radio that Palestinian poet can’t be part of Israeli narrative is first time that government meddles in content of broadcast; over 25,000 participate in Gay Pride parade.Read More