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In addition to the US and Israel, the countries that voted against the condemnation were Nauru, Palau, Togo, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Guatemala, and Honduras.

PM Netanyahu recognized the potential of flipping more needy, third-world countries to the side of the angels by helping them financially.

Nisman was Jewish, but not religious, and dedicated ten years of his life to the investigation of the Jewish center's bombing.

It appears that Israel will not be able to walk out in a huff and slam the door on the United Nations Educational, Scientific...

Before the vote, there was a vociferous confrontation between MK Oren Hazan (Likud) and MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) Arab List), during which she called him a pimp and he informed her that he couldn't get even a two-legged goat for her.

The project was started in memory of 9-year-old Omer Sayag, who loved building Lego towers and who died of a rare brain cancer.

The fire was under control by 11 pm.

The would-be attacker, an 18-year-old Arab female, tried initially to make her way through the crossing but was turned away by the Border Guard police.

Next year the Transportation Ministry says at least 23 million passengers are expected to stream through Ben Gurion International Airport.

The cause of the blast was an IED packed with metal shrapnel, equivalent to 200g of TNT.

Pressure "from above" was enough to convince the State Dept. it was worth another discussion; the President will be the tie-breaker.

Soldiers with Asperger syndrome or autism are also used in some of the IDF’s most secret units for technological development.

"We are an island in a very stormy sea," Netanyahu told the new IAF fighter pilots.

The PA has "called upon the Arab League to seriously consider imposing an economic boycott on any country that recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of the Israel or move its embassy to it." So far there have been no takers.

The letter was signed by academics from 15 different Israeli universities and colleges, with the majority coming from Hebrew University, Tel-Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University.

Some of the members of the women's network have returned from the Middle East following the decline of ISIS.

Since 2013 there has been a trend of a rise in complaints against Israeli medical doctors who perform circumcisions.

Asher Elmaliach was stabbed in the heart by a terrorist.

"I decided to name the Kotel station after US President Donald Trump, in appreciation of his courageous and historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel."

Each time Hamas acts against the jihadists, it harms its own reputation as a dedicated Islamic group – another reason to go to war, to defend its honor.

"He simply should not smile any longer," Prime Minister Netanyahu told the mourners.

One suspect, 60, was assisted by a family member, 20, in making the online purchase.

Both the US dollar and the euro rose against the shekel.

The municipality is planning an ecological beach and environmental education center in order to educate the public about the treasures that await beneath the waves.

It's not known how the Palestinian Authority responded to the Japanese peace summit proposal.

As with Guatemala, the embassies will transfer from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem only after the relocation of the U.S. Embassy.

FIDE was able to secure the participation in the tournament of chess players from two countries which are, for all intents and purposes, at war with Saudi Arabia – Qatar and Iran.

Following the incident, Hamas condemned Hazan as a sadist, saying his behavior mirrored that of "the occupation," which the Knesset Guards evaluated as a threat on the MK's life.

"We call these 197 countries 'states', like France, Germany, or Algeria. There a few more, but not all other countries in the world agree that these are real states (for example Israel or North Korea)."

In mid-December, the heads of the Knesset coalition parties approved the demand of Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman to support a death penalty for terrorists bill, which should be submitted in the new year.