Following all-night negotiations, Israeli Cabinet ministers on Friday morning unanimously approved a 2019 state budget of NIS 397.4 billion ($117 billion), which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised would ensure the political stability the government needed to survive until the end of its term late next year. Netanyahu welcomed the agreement...

A 13-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip received a lifesaving kidney donation from his brother, an undergraduate student in Algeria, in an operation performed at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The result: a functional kidney, a reunion between family members, and proof that conflict doesn’t penetrate hospital doors. It wasn’t...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, who was elected to a four-year term 13 years ago this week, has presided over an “exacerbated crisis of corruption” in the PA even as he has practiced “his own distinct style of nepotism” to enrich his family, Grant Rumley, a research fellow at...

Three pro-Israel activists are facing a €100 ($120) fine or two days in jail for waving an Israeli flag at an Austrian pro-Palestinian rally at which anti-Semitic slogans were shouted, Benjamin Weinthal reported Wednesday for The Jerusalem Post. The three students were at a rally near the American embassy in Vienna,...

The spectacled bear, the white fronted monkey and several kinds of jaguars can rest a bit easier now that an Israeli organization has agreed to purchase part of their habitat in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. This is My Earth (TiME) has been running a crowdfunding campaign to buy 7,000 dunams (1,730...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told a meeting of Ambassadors representing NATO member states that Israel has prevented many terror attacks within European countries. He was speaking at a lunch event chaired by Greek Ambassador Bikas Konstantinos, which British Ambassador to Israel David Quarrey also attended. Netanyahu told the...