Israel

Crime

British woman stabbed and killed in Jerusalem on train packed with people celebrating Good Friday

According to local reports the victim is a 25-year-old British student.

Apr 14, 2017

By Jen Offord

Conflict

'Israel backs Isis' conspiracy parroted by Syria's UN envoy

Bashar al-Jaafari also accused the West of plotting a way back into the conflict before the chemical attack.

Apr 13, 2017

By Josh Robbins

Isis Syria

Politics

Israel's Holocaust museum tells Sean Spicer to check its website and learn some history

Yad Vashem said his remarks were "liable to strengthen the hands of those whose goal is to distort history".

Apr 12, 2017

By James Tennent

White House Syria

Crime

American-Israeli teen bomb hoaxer made millions selling drugs on Dark Web

Israeli police say the 18-year-old, who terrorised US Jewish communities, worked with criminals.

Apr 7, 2017

By Josh Robbins

Bitcoin

Politics

David Baddiel gave Ken Livingstone the perfect slapdown over his Hitler-Zionism claim

Livingstone claimed Hitler supported Zionism but Baddiel quotes Mein Kampf to prove him wrong.

Apr 6, 2017

By Shane Croucher

Society

Israeli killed in West Bank in car-ramming attack

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) arrests a Palestinian man after the attack.

Apr 6, 2017

By Vasudevan Sridharan

Politics

Israel makes David's Sling missile defence system operational: 'Whoever seeks to hit us will be hit'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls David's Sling system an 'existential danger' to Israel's enemies.

Apr 3, 2017

By Vasudevan Sridharan

Politics

Hamas threatens 'intensive action' against Israeli agents after top militant's killing

The Palestine Islamist group threatens to avenge the killing of Hamas military commander Mazen Fuqaha.

Apr 2, 2017

By Vasudevan Sridharan

Crime

Israeli police shoot dead Palestinian who stabbed two Jews and a policeman in Jerusalem

Police spokesman Luba Samri said the three victims suffered light wounds

Apr 1, 2017

By William Watkinson

Amona Israel west bank illegal settlement

Politics

Israel approves first new settlement in occupied West Bank for nearly 20 years

Netanyahu gives green light despite promising Trump he would 'hold back' on fresh settlements.

Mar 31, 2017

By Tareq Haddad

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone not anti-Semitic

Politics

Livingstone's 'anti-Semitism' defence undermined by Himmler's support for Arabs?

Former London mayor's claim Hitler 'conspired with Zionists' contradicted by anti-Jewish telegram.

Mar 30, 2017

By Mark Piggott

Crime

Orthodox Jew found carrying wife's decapitated head in Israel street

Police found the victim in her 30s burnt and headless in an apartment.

Mar 29, 2017

By Jordan Bhatt

Costumed "Smurfs" characters wave on the main trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Weird World

Too Blue? Female smurf removed from movie posters in ultra-Orthodox city in Israel

Women are not portrayed on film posters in the Orthodox Jewish settlement of Bnei Brak.

Mar 29, 2017

By Mark Piggott

Diplomacy

Mike Pence restates Trump's 'serious' intention to move US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

Pence told the influential US lobbying group AIPAC the administration was still considering the move.

Mar 27, 2017

By Callum Paton

Donald Trump

Crime

Israeli-Jewish teen who allegedly terrorised US Jewish communities has brain tumour

The individual, aged 19, was arrested at the request of the FBI investigating multiple bomb hoax calls.

Mar 24, 2017

By Callum Paton

FBI

Crime

Was Trump right about false flag anti-Semitism? Jewish teen arrested for bomb threats against Jewish institutions

Police in Israel have arrested a 19-year in connection with a series of bomb threats around the world.

Mar 23, 2017

By Josh Robbins

Donald Trump

Conflict

Israel: Hezbollah's Mustafa Badreddine was killed by own men on Iran's orders

Mustafa Badreddine was killed in Syria last year amid an 'internal crisis' within the group.

Mar 21, 2017

By William Watkinson

Syria Iran

Politics

Syria shoots down Israeli military drone but IDF downplays attack

The Israel Defence Forces said the drone did not contain any sensitive information.

Mar 21, 2017

By Vasudevan Sridharan

Syria

Conflict

Top UN official resigns amid pressure to withdraw Israel 'apartheid' report

Rima Khalaf's ESCWA report accused Israel of imposing an 'apartheid regime' on Palestinians.

Mar 18, 2017

By Nandini Krishnamoorthy

United Nations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Politics

Israel's PM reiterates promise to build new West Bank settlement

Benjamin Netanyahu's comments came hours before meeting with Trump's Middle-East envoy Jason Greenblatt.

Mar 17, 2017

By Divya Kishore