The bullet is by the church: the Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Tel Aviv next year. But some 140 artists, led by Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters, have started a campaign to boycott the popular event. 'As long as Palestinians do not have freedom, justice and equal rights, no business needs to be done with a state that withholds their basic rights', according to an open letter from the group.
After a heavy discussion about the seats in the plane of an easyJet flight, Adaya and Michael get talking. During the flight from London to Tel Aviv, the spark eventually turns over.
Israel closes its embassy in Paraguay. The country is doing this in protest because Paraguay is relocating its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
Paraguay moves its embassy in Israel back from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The government of the new president Mario Abdo Benítez finds the decision of the predecessor of Abdo, Horacio Cartes, unwise and undiplomatic.
The Clinton affair is still sensitive to Monica Lewinsky more than twenty years later. The former White House trainee was asked at a TV show in Israel if she still expects personal apologies from ex-president Bill Clinton. 'Sorry, I can not help you any further', said Lewinsky. She put down her microphone and walked away from the stage.
After Jerusalem, the United States is still hiding a pillar under the Palestinian struggle for an independent state: the right of return. According to Israeli media, the Trump government is announcing in the short term that the descendants of the Palestinians who fled the establishment of the state of Israel can not 'return'.
A love letter that arrives eight years later, when you had long forgotten the woman in question. Or a CD from your favorite artist from six years ago, who is now suddenly in the bus. It will happen to the Palestinians in the West Bank in the coming weeks.
Syria is on the verge of what will probably be the last and bloodiest battle of the war. The regime is preparing for the attack on the province of Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold. Tens of thousands of insurgents and jihadists reside there among three million citizens, who can not go anywhere. This threatens a humanitarian catastrophe in which the previous disasters in Syria will fade.
The Israeli army has targeted targets in the Gaza Strip. As a result, at least two people were killed, presumably members of the armed Hamas branch. Six people were also injured, reports the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated on the Rabin Square in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv against the controversial law that Israel officially designates as the homeland of the Jewish people. The Forum of Druze Army officers had called for the protest.
If it is up to her father, Ahed Tamimi will become the new 'leader of the Palestinian resistance'. The girl was released yesterday, after spending almost eight months in an Israeli cell for kicking and hitting two soldiers. She is only 17 years old, but will also give Israel the necessary headaches in the coming period.
Tak... tak... tak... There is no escape on the beaches of Israel: the sound of beachball. Or in Hebrew: 'matkot'. Where it is a children's game with us, it is taken deadly in the holy land. It is the national sport. Especially in the absence of other sports in which Israelis excel.
A praying woman at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem escaped death when a 100-pound stone fell down. The amazing escape can be seen on a video.
Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated in several cities in Israel for better rights for gays. The reason was the withdrawal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of support for a change in the law whereby gays could have children through a surrogate mother.
The Israeli army fired a Hamas military post on the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning after a group of Palestinians had broken through the fence on the border with Israel. Shortly afterwards, the group returned to the Gaza Strip.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to cease hostilities in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic group made the file known on Saturday. 'Egypt has succeeded in restoring peace by engaging in talks with the two parties in Israel and Gaza. We hope it will stand, 'said a Palestinian official.
In the Gaza Strip, four Palestinians died on Friday when the Israeli army carried out bombing with tanks and aircraft. According to the Palestinian authorities, there would also have been at least 120 wounded. Palestinians have been protesting for months in the border area with Israel.
Israel has adopted a controversial law that stipulates that the country is a Jewish state, even though about 20 percent of the population is Arabic. Critics speak of discrimination and even apartheid.
Israel continues to tighten Hamas the thumbscrews by not fueling the Gaza Strip for the coming days, which is largely dependent on generators for its electricity.
Israel attacked two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday. The attacks were a reaction to the fire balloons and the firefighters who have allowed militant Palestinians to fly across the border for months. The balloons have caused numerous large fires.
A programmer in Israel is suspected of trying to sell sensitive cyber technology. The man asked on the so-called dark web, the hidden part of the internet, converted more than 42 million euros for the stolen data, the Israeli Ministry of Justice announced.
The Palestinian regime is devilish that Israel now transfers every shekel that Ramallah pays terrorists to the tax revenues that it transfers to the Palestinians on a monthly basis. They speak of an outright declaration of war and an attempt to overthrow the Palestinian Authority.
The Israeli army conducted extra tanks and artillery shots to the border with Syria, where the Syrian regime is engaged in a major offensive against the rebels. Israel is determined to maintain its red line- not pro-Iranian militias at the border- and has conveyed that warning via America and Russia.
The Israeli army is sending extra troops to the Golan Heights, because there is heavy fighting between the Syrian army and insurgents across the border in Syria. The army said that the division on the Golan plateau was reinforced with armored troops and artillery units, but did not mention numbers.
Prince William started Tuesday on his first full day of the official visit to Israel. The Duke of Cambridge started with a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
She is called the Marie Antoinette of Israel, but now the longing for luxury Sara Netanyahu threatens to be expensive. The wife of Prime Minister Netanyahu has been charged with 'systematic fraud'.
Militant Palestinians fired a series of grenades and rockets to Israeli territory on Tuesday night. According to Israeli media, about thirty projectiles were involved.
The former Israeli minister of Energy Gonen Segev has been charged with espionage for Iran. Employees of Israeli security services reported that Segev had been spying on the Tehran regime since 2012.
The Israeli security service Shin Bet has rolled up an extensive terrorist network of Hamas in the West Bank in the Nablus region. The militant Palestinian group had more than twenty members who wanted to carry out bombings in major cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The cell also had targets on the West Bank. That was announced on Sunday in the media.
The United Nations General Assembly condemns Israel for the use of excessive force against Palestinian civilians. UN Secretary-General António Guterres was asked to recommend an 'international protection mechanism' for the occupied Palestinian territories.
