Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed his commitment to a peaceful two-state solution with the Palestinians, in his first post-election interview, with Andrea Mitchell of NBC. Netanyahu also expressed his pride leading people of all different ethnicities, downplayed his differences with President Barack Obama, and reiterated his concerns about a nuclear...

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After tallying absentee ballots from IDF soliders and foreign diplomats, Israel’s Central Elections Committee confirmed that the Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has emerged as the party with the most parliamentary mandates—30 Members of Knesset (MKs) in the 120-seat parliament. There are only minor changes from estimates made in...

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Barely minutes after the news broke of yesterday’s terrorist attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, in which 22 people, the vast majority of them foreign tourists, were murdered, jihadi sympathizers were taking to Twitter to crow about their latest success. “Tunisia is contributing the most number of mujahideen to...

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Have you ever lost your smartphone? Your glasses? Your keys? Of course you have. The question is: How much time is too much time wasted to find them again? Pixie Technology is the newest company on the market to make tracking gadgets that help you find your things. The company...

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Hilton and Sheraton are not likely to build hotels in Jisr az-Zarqa, the only Arab village on the Israeli coast of the Mediterranean Sea. But a pair of Israeli visionaries – one Jewish, one Arab – saw tourism potential in the modest fishing village. In January last year, they opened...

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The decision by Israeli voters to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party to power is because progress in the peace process depends on the Palestinians, and currently “the Palestinian side doesn’t have a credible partner with which Israel could make a lasting peace,” Noah Feldman argued today in a column for...

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The victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in yesterday’s Israeli election reflected Israel’s very real “security concerns,” an unsigned editorial (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal asserted today. The editorial observed that “opposition leader Isaac Herzog also opposed Mr. Obama’s emerging deal with Iran.” In an associated...

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Dr. Anat Berko, an internationally recognized expert on terrorism who specializes in studying the motivations of suicide terrorists, was elected to the 20th Knesset yesterday. Berko, who agreed to join the Likud party in December, is also a former lieutenant colonel in the IDF. The Jerusalem Post gave a brief biography...

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The Palestinian Authority responded to the electoral victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday by threatening to continue diplomatic warfare against Israel. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports: “It is clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next government, and for that, we say clearly that we will go...

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Although there will be some minor adjustments made in the vote totals as results from army bases and absentee ballots are counted, the makeup of the 20th Knesset has mostly been determined, and it will have greater representation of women and Arabs. The Jerusalem Post reports: For the second time in a...

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