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Sources close to Israel PM: Ben-Gvir is a burden on the government

Concern has been raised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s close circle after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced yesterday that he plans to hold prayers in Dizengoff Square in central Tel Aviv tomorrow following residents’ protests in the city and their attempt to prevent segregated prayers from taking place in the area on Yom Kippur, on Monday. Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted a leader in the Likud Party as saying […]

27 September 2023

International News

Sunburned tourists and fighter jets: The Israel-Greece alliance

Vaccinated Israeli tourists are now allowed to sun themselves on Greek beaches thanks to a COVID-19 green card agreed on by leaders in Athens and Tel Aviv. As the holidaymakers make their way across the Mediterranean another group will be as well: Israeli defence contractors. They are working on a $1.68bn project awarded to Israel’s Elbit Systems last year to build and operate a new air force training school in […]

7 April 2021

International News

Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead in Tel Aviv home

The Chinese ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, has been found dead in his home north of Tel Aviv, according to the Israeli foreign ministry and police. No cause of death was given, and Israeli police on Sunday said it had opened an investigation. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld confirmed that Du was found in the early morning by the envoy's staff in his home in Herzliya. He said police were at […]

17 May 2020

International News

Al Qaeda chief says Israel’s Tel Aviv is also Muslim land

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, speaking in a recording released on Sunday, the eve of plans by the United States to move its embassy to Jerusalem, said that Tel Aviv was also Muslim land. The United States has finalised preparations to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a ceremony scheduled for Monday. President Donald Trump, who in December reversed decades of U.S. policy by recognizing Jerusalem as […]

14 May 2018

International News

Trump to call Jerusalem Israel’s capital, move embassy

US President Donald Trump will recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital and direct the state department to begin the lengthy process of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the city, according to senior White House officials. The announcement, which is expected at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday, comes amid global condemnation of the move. The officials said in a briefing that Trump's expected announcement is "recognition of a reality". The […]

6 December 2017

International News

Thousands of Israelis attend ‘two states one hope’ demonstration

The Israeli NGO Peace Now, an advocate of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, organized a demonstration in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday night, showcasing Israeli speakers and performances by Israeli artists, to voice opposition to Israel's 50-year-long occupation of the Palestinian territory. Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, according to Peace Now, which was live tweeting the event under the […]

28 May 2017

International News

Hamas finds itself resisting Tehran as well as Tel Aviv

The fall of Aleppo to Iran-backed pro-government forces has brought a bubbling conflict between Iran and Hamas to the boil, with the former making thinly-veiled threats to cut off the Palestinian group. The threats came from Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, a member of the Iranian Foreign Affairs and National Security Committee, in the wake of increasing solidarity from Hamas to Aleppo. In an interview last week with the reformist Qanun newspaper, Falahatpisheh […]

28 December 2016

International News

Gold statue of Israeli PM taken down by protesters

A 13-foot-high golden effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly erected in the centre of Tel Aviv in protest against Israel's "culture war" on artistic expression on Tuesday, sparking online controversy and political debate. The gilded statue was raised overnight in front of the Tel Aviv city hall in Yitzhak Rabin Square, named after the former PM who was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish militant in 1995. Dubbed […]

7 December 2016

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