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Holiday flights to Cyprus and Israel from the Netherlands will continue as usual. The rising tension due to the Syria crisis does not yet have any influence on the operation

Outside Rihanna's 'Rude Boy' shines through the luxurious shopping center, young people sitting in a state-of-the-art office sipping a latte bent over their laptops on their first start-up. It could be London, New York or Tel Aviv. But this is Rawabi, the first planned city in the West Bank.

A Palestinian died in confrontations between the Israeli army and demonstrators at the border with the Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Health in Gaza declared Tuesday that the 25-year-old man was shot dead.

At the last minute, Israel sees the planned expulsion of more than 20,000 asylum seekers from Africa. The government wanted to fly them to Rwanda and Uganda in the short term. But the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu sees this, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Monday.

A verbal battle between two influential world leaders came to a climax on Easter Sunday. After a cynical response from Benjamin Netanyahu, president of Israel, his Turkish colleague Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the former a 'terrorist'.

The Palestinian protest party has a bloody beginning. In case of hard confrontations at the Gaza border, at least eight Palestinians were killed. More than a thousand people were injured in the mass demonstrations, which have to last for another six weeks and are feared that they will only escalate further.

Israel is under high tension. Palestinians are killing nearly two months of protests today, which according to the Israeli army can easily escalate into a violent confrontation.

The demographic ghost image of Israel- an Arab majority between the Jordan and the Mediterranean- is again fully in the spotlight, after the army has presented figures showing that there are now as many, or even more Arabs than Jews in the Holy Land.

Approximately 25,000 people demonstrated on Saturday night in Tel Aviv against the expulsion of Africans. The demonstration was organized by Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in cooperation with Israelis from the south of the city, where many Africans have settled, the newspaper Haaretz reported.

More than ten years ago it was Syria, now it can become Iran. With this implicit warning, Israel admitted for the first time that it bombed a nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007.

Because of an attack with a car in the West Bank, at least one Israeli has died. Three others were injured, according to local media. The Israeli radio reported two deaths.

Benjamin Netanyahu is up to his ears in the corruption scandals. Yet he remains popular with a large part of the population. Friend and foe agree on one thing: as politicians, there are few who can match the Israeli prime minister.

Documents with strictly guarded secrets from the Israeli army have mysteriously been deposited for everyone on the Internet. These include extremely secret documents about Defense's weapon systems.

US President Donald Trump may be traveling to Israel for the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. 'If possible, I'll do it', said the president during a visit by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to the White House.

Justice in Israel has found an important witness in a corruption case against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It concerns Schlomo Filber, former confidant of Netanyahu and the ex-chief of the Ministry of Communications.

The Lebanese border with Israel hangs since this weekend a banner with the text 'Your planes have been knocked down.' The Lebanese are overjoyed that for the first time since 1982 an Israeli fighter plane was shot down.

Israel and Iran have for the first time openly and directly confronted each other. The two countries have been running a cat-and-mouse game in Syria for years, but with the military actions of last weekend that shadow war has come under the spotlight. A life-threatening escalation threatens.

From the roof of Sophie Menashe the contrast is clearly visible: in the distance the ultramodern office buildings of Tel Aviv, below the dirty streets with dilapidated houses where many Israelis are locked up in the evening out of fear of criminal Sudanese and Eritreans.

Russian President Putin has inherited an apartment in Tel Aviv from his former German teacher. Israeli media reported that Russian-born Israeli Mina Yuditskaya Berliner died in December at the age of 96 and had a home that Putin had bought for her. Berliner emigrated from Israel in 1973 from the Soviet Union to Israel.

Germany wants to compensate for the first time a large group of Holocaust survivors from Algeria. It is estimated that 25,000 Algerian Jews, most of whom live in France. Approximately 3900 of those affected live in Israel. The Algerian Jews would receive a one-time payment of 2556 euros.

The Israeli Air Force attacked a base of Hamas after a rocket was fired from Israel in the Gaza Strip. How many victims have fallen is not known.

Israeli radio stations have been called by the Ministry of Defense to stop dialing songs by singer Jonathan Geffen and to stop interviewing him. The singer is discredited because he compared the Palestinian Ahed Tamimi, a sixteen-year-old prisoner, with the Jewish Anne Frank.

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The US Embassy in Israel is moving to Jerusalem before the end of next year. That said the American Vice President Mike Pence, who incidentally did not mention a date for the controversial transfer of the diplomatic post.

The member states of the European Union should recognize Palestine as a state, with Jerusalem as its capital. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made this call in Brussels prior to a working lunch with the 28 EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs.

Tens of thousands of asylum seekers must leave Israel before the end of March. If they do not, they will end up in prison. The decision causes a great deal of controversy in the country where 'deportation' is a very sensitive word. A humanitarian organization now calls- inspired by Anne Frank- to provide the population with a hiding place for the Africans.

The planned relocation of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will not take place within a year. That's what President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.

American Vice President Mike Pence visits Israel, Jordan and Egypt from January 20 to January 23, reported the White House on Monday. The trip was originally scheduled for last month after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The Minister of Transport in Israel, Yisrael Katz, wants to extend a high-speed line between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to the Wailing Wall and name that station after Donald Trump. The costs are estimated at 700 million dollars.