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Time is short: Belligerent rhetoric and Iran’s nuclear ambitions

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Iran has toughened its already belligerent rhetoric and is threatening U.S. forces in the region. The aerospace division (More...)

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Gaza militant rocket hits Israel, Israel responds with air strikes

A water tower is seen after local residents said it was damaged by an Israeli shell at Beit Hanoun in Gaza, following a rocket that landed in the Israeli town of Sderot

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of (More…)

Israel accuses World Vision’s Gaza rep of funding Hamas

The logo of U.S.-based Christian charity World Vision is seen on a car parked outside their offices in Jerusalem

By Ori Lewis

ASHKELON, Israel (Reuters) – Israel accused U.S.-based Christian relief group World Vision’s Gaza representative on Thursday of (More…)

U.S., Israel narrow differences for new talks on defense aid

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

By Patricia Zengerle and Dan Williams

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United States and Israel have narrowed their differences over what (More…)

EU eyes Israeli technologies for spotting militants online

By Dan Williams

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – European powers are trying to develop better means for pre-emptively spotting “lone-wolf” militants (More…)

As exports struggle, Israel’s economy faces slower growth

supermarket employee in Israel

By Steven Scheer

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – For decades, Israel’s high growth was driven by exports of oranges, diamonds, pharmaceuticals and (More…)

U.N. chief slams Israel over settlement plans in wake of Quartet report

West Bank Jewish

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon sharply criticized a decision by Israel to advance plans to build hundreds (More…)

Gaza receives first Turkish aid shipment after Israel-Turkey deal

Palestinians check Turkish aid shipments upon arrival in the Gaza Strip at Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and southern Gaza Strip

GAZA (Reuters) – Turkish aid shipments arrived in the Gaza Strip via Israel on Monday, a week after Israel and (More…)

Israel should stop settlements, Palestinians must stop violence; Quartet report

Palestinian schoolgirls walk with a donkey as the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim is seen in the background

By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israel should stop building settlements, denying Palestinian development and designating (More…)

Israel to cut Palestinian tax transfers after West Bank killing

People mourn during the funeral of Israeli girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, who was killed in a Palestinian stabbing attack in her home in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, at a cemetery in the West Bank city of Hebron

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will reduce monthly transfers of tax collected on behalf of the Palestinians in what aides to (More…)

Israeli teenager stabbed in West Bank a U.S. Citizen

sraeli soldiers gather near the scene where a Palestinian fatally stabbed a 13-year-old girl inside her home, at the entrance to

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 13-year-old Israeli girl fatally stabbed in her bedroom in the occupied West Bank on Thursday was (More…)