Tag: Israel
Uncovered memos reveal Israeli spies posed as CIA agents
A recent article from the magazine Foreign Policy claims memos from the Bush administration reveal Israeli spies posing as CIA. Under the deceit, Israeli spy organization, Mossad, recruited members of the terrorist group Jundallah for their covert war against Iran....
Israel blames Iran, Hezbollah for Monday attacks on its diplomats abroad
No one was killed but two people were hospitalized in an attack on an Israeli diplomat's vehicle in India Monday morning. Israeli officials are blaming Iran for that attack, as well as a thwarted attempt in the Central Asian nation of Georgia....
Top Islamic cleric in Jerusalem makes speech that shocks Israelis
Israeli officials are outraged over a comment by the top Islamic cleric in Jerusalem. Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, quoted Islamic scripture that's widely viewed as an attack on Jews and Judaism....
Illegal Israeli settlement faces looming deadline to be vacated
Years ago, Israeli settlers built a settlement on private Palestinian land outside the town of Ramallah. Late last year, an Israeli court ruled it must be vacated by March. Now residents and the government are fighting over when, whether and where the residents will go....
VIDEO: Advanced Israeli drone, capable of reaching Iran, crashes west of Jerusalem
Israel is employing a growing fleet of drones to monitor its adversaries and to have should the country ever again be threatened militarily. But one of their newest and most advanced versions crashed over the weekend, just weeks before it was expected to be declared operational....
Most Palestinians married to Israelis barred from receiving Israeli citizenship
A law passed by the Israeli legislature recently barred Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from receiving their own Israeli citizenship. That means they can be forced to leave at any time, and cannot drive or work. Now Lana Khatib and her family are at risk....
Israel struggles as Orthodox, secular communities confront conflicts
Israel's Haredim community is grappling with mainstream Israeli society in an effort to figure out how the two increasingly divergent lifestyles can co-exist in the same country....
Israeli businesses the target of spate of cyber attack
In Israel on Monday, El Al and the Tel Aviv stock exchange were hit by denial of service attacks, effectively shutting down the companies' websites. The attacker were allegedly the work of anti-Israeli Saudi Arabians....
Israel's secular and moderate majority struggling with ultra-Orthodox minority
There's growing tension in Israel between the most ardent, ultra-Orthodox Jews and the country's more mainstream secular and moderate communities. Some of the Haredim want to impose greater restrictions on the public space in the Jewish state....
Shay Charka uses pen to skewer all corners of Israeli society
Shay Charka is perhaps the only syndicated Israeli cartoonist living in a West Bank settlement. And while he's against giving the Palestinians land in exchange for peace, he doesn't fall in with the radical extremists either....
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