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Israel moved closer to early elections Friday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main coalition partner, the Bayit Yehudi party, said it wants a vote “as soon as possible,” and will
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Likud Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, known to be among those close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, caused a storm on Thursday when he announced that there is a difference between Gaza
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Women’s winning streak in this year’s elections has extended to statehouses across the country, two groups reported Thursday. More than 2,000 women will serve in state legislatures when those chambers
A former Nazi concentration camp guard on trial on hundreds of counts of accessory to murder has testified he was aware that inmates were dying but says he didn’t know
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday, 7 Kislev, sent a letter to his assistant, Dina Zilber, explaining he was making do with censuring her and she was not going to
Cows that can withstand hotter temperatures. Cows born without pesky horns. Pigs that never reach puberty. A company wants to alter farm animals by adding and subtracting genetic traits in
President Donald Trump and Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen never quite clicked personally as the president chafed at her explanations of complicated immigration issues and her inability to bring about
Russian President Vladimir Putin says arms control issues will likely top the agenda of his planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. Putin says the leaders need to discuss the
The demand of Minister of Education Naftali Bennet to receive the defense portfolio led MK Yehuda Glick to sharply attack the conduct of the party and its leader. In a
Prime Minister Theresa May defied mounting calls to quit or change course Thursday over Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, warning that abandoning her Brexit plan would plunge the country
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