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After Jerusalem votes, PM recalls envoy to UNESCO

Netanyahu summons Carmel Shama-Hacohen for consultations after organization’s member states approve two resolutions ignoring Jewish links to Jerusalem’s holy places

By Times of Israel staff

Israel's ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen throws a copy of the resolution in the trash on Wed., October 26, 2016. (Erez Lichtfeld)

Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein meets with Pope Francis in Rome, January 17, 2015. (Knesset spokesperson)

Knesset speaker asks Vatican to help fight UNESCO decisions

By Alexander Fulbright

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee voting on a resolution ignoring Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem's Old City in Paris, October 26, 2016 (screen shot UNESCO website)

UNESCO adopts another resolution ignoring Jewish link to Temple Mount

By Raphael Ahren

An aerial view of the Dome of the Rock, left, in the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's old city, and the Western Wall, center, the holiest site for Jews, October 02, 2007. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)

UNESCO vote ignoring Jewish ties to Temple Mount a ‘blood libel,’ says Herzog

By Times of Israel staff

Palestinian kids, 8, detained with knives outside settlement

Two children arrested near Migdal Oz security fence; pair confess they were sent to carry out attack, army says

By Times of Israel staff

A photo of the knives found on the persons of two Palestinian children, 8, near the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz on October 26, 2016 (IDF spokesperson's office)

Moscow to host Iran, Syria ministers for war talks

Iranian FM Zarif to meet with Russian, Syrian counterparts at the end of the week

By AFP

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, chats with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov upon being welcomed by Lavrov for their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, August 17, 2015. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

No Israeli officials present, as teenager killed in cross-border shooting buried

Representatives from Defense Ministry, PM’s office should have ‘paid last respects,’ says relative of Nimer Bassem Abu Amar

By Times of Israel staff

Nimer Bassem Abu Amar, a 15-year-old Bedouin Israel, who was killed in a shooting on October 25, 2016, near the Egyptian border, where he worked for a subcontractor hired by the Defense Ministry. (Courtesy)

Charges dropped in shooting of Palestinian siblings at checkpoint

State Prosecutor says no evidence civilian guards acted unlawfully during April incident at Qalandiya in which brother and sister killed

By Raoul Wootliff

Israeli security forces stand guard at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah in the West Bank after a security guard shot dead two Palestinians at the crossing on April 27, 2016, after one of them threw a knife at border guards. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Palestinian gets 17 years for stabbing soldier in Jerusalem

East Jerusalem resident also ordered to pay $13,000 to victim, who was lightly injured in attack last year

By Times of Israel staff

Said Komboz arrives to the Jerusalem District court on October 26, 2016. Komboz was sentenced to 17 years in prison after he stabbed an Israeli soldier near the central bus station in Jerusalem last year. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In first, US, Israel abstain on UN vote against Cuba embargo

Following American rapprochement with communist nation, Washington and Jerusalem don’t oppose resolution in first time in 25 years

By Agencies and Times of Israel staff

United States Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power during a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting on the situation in Syria, at the UN in New York, September 25, 2016. (AFP/Bryan R. Smith)

13 wedding revelers indicted for celebrating killing of Palestinian baby

8 adults, 5 minors charged with incitement to terror for dancing with and stabbing photos of slain Dawabsha family

By Times of Israel staff

Yakir Ashbel (center), the groom from what came to be known as the 'hate wedding,' is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on December 31, 2015 after being arrested on suspicion of racist incitement at his wedding celebration. (Flash90)

Jihadists shave beards, change hideouts as Iraqis near Mosul

Resident says Islamic State members ‘must be scared… they are also probably preparing to escape the city’

By Sarah Benhaida and W.G. Dunlop

Iraqi forces flash the V-sign as they stand on an infantry fighting vehicle loaded on a truck driving through the Al-Shura area, south of Mosul, on October 24, 2016, during an operation to retake the main hub city from the Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

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Israel's border with Egypt. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

It’s 3 p.m., do you know where your poor, uneducated teens are?

The death of a 15-year-old working on the border fence raises tough questions, like why a kid was out there and what it means for Israeli society

By Joshua Davidovich

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Israeli security at a scene of a terror attack at the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on October 9, 2016. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

East Jerusalem man charged with plotting shooting, backing Hamas

Resident of Ras al-Amoud allegedly tried to buy weapon to carry out assault in capital; security service says ‘serious attack’ thwarted

By Stuart Winer

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October 27, 2016
2:07 pm

Nadia Murad, human rights activist, testifying during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, June 21, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / MARK WILSON)

2 Yazidi women who escaped IS win Sakharov human rights prize

US general says between 800 and 900 Islamic State fighters killed since the operation to recapture Iraqi city of Mosul began

By Gavin Rabinowitz

October 27, 2016
1:50 pm

Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., shaking hands with supporters after outlining his plan to reform the US financial sector in New York City, Jan. 15, 2016. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Hacked emails show Clinton campaign’s fear of Sanders

Exchanges released by WikiLeaks reveal moves against Democratic rival during primary season

By Andrew Taylor

October 27, 2016
12:39 pm

A suspected member of the Islamic State (IS) group is detained by Iraqi Kurdish forces in the southern Domiz neighbourhood of Kirkuk, October 21, 2016. (AFP/Marwan IBRAHIM)

Jihadists said to shave beards as pressure builds on Mosul

US and British defense officials predict assault on Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in Syria within weeks

By Sarah Benhaida and W.G. Dunlop

October 27, 2016
11:52 am

Illustrative: In the Dead Sea area, the lowest place on Earth at some 400 meters below sea level, muddy water floods over the road near Kibbutz Ein Gedi on February 4, 2007. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Flash flood fears as first rainstorm expected to lash Israel

Rains, strong winds and unseasonably high temperatures expected in much of country this weekend

By Times of Israel staff

October 27, 2016
9:12 am

Sign at entry to Portland State University (CC BY-SA 3.0, Kelvin Kay, Wikimedia Commons)

Portland State University students pass pro-BDS resolution

Measure urging divestment from companies that work with IDF will have no practical effect on Oregon school’s finances, president says

By JTA

October 27, 2016
8:39 am

People wander around their small town after a 5.9 earthquake destroyed part of their neighborhood in Visso, central Italy, October 27, 2016. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Panic, but few injuries, as Italy quakes crumble buildings

Pair of temblors, actually aftershocks from deadly August quake, topples church and sends frightened central Italy residents to cars and shelters

By Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry

October 27, 2016
6:55 am

Sandra Solomon, a Palestinian woman who converted to Christianity and advocates for Israel. (Screenshot)

Niece of top Arafat aide so loves Israel she had it tattooed on her back

Ramallah-born Sandra Solomon, a convert to Christianity, says her dream is to come to Israel, salute the flag; she ‘grew up in a home that hated the Jews, hailed Hitler and praised the Holocaust’

By Times of Israel staff

October 27, 2016
5:51 am

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

New poll shows Clinton cruising toward commanding victory

AP survey has Democratic nominee with 14-point lead over GOP rival as his opportunities to overtake her appear to be evaporating

By Julie Pace and EMILY SWANSON

October 27, 2016
5:26 am

Workers repair the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after it was vandalized by a protester on October 26, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (David McNew/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump’s Hollywood star smashed over sex assault claims

Protester dressed in construction gear seen in footage posted online hacking away at gold lettering and camera logo from tribute

By AFP

October 27, 2016
4:57 am

Illustrative photo of a tunnel opening discovered by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, July 20, 2014. (photo credit: IDF)

PM asks for one more hearing ahead of release of Gaza war findings

Netanyahu to present State Comptroller with information on 13 cabinet meetings in which tunnel threat was discussed

By Alexander Fulbright

October 27, 2016
3:44 am

Rep. Steve Israel, D-New York, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington after attending a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and the House Democratic Caucus to talk about the Iran nuclear deal, July 15, 2015. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Steve Israel: Florida Jews more worried about Trump than Tehran

Highest ranking Jewish congressman, while campaigning for Clinton in battleground state, says GOP nominee’s antics have ‘eclipsed’ dismay over nuclear accord

By Eric Cortellessa

October 27, 2016
2:53 am

InfoWars host Alex Jones, who on October 26, 2016 used his show to lambast ‘the Jewish Mafia‘, was hailed by Donald Trump in December 2015 for his ‘amazing reputation‘. (YouTube screenshot)

Conspiracy theorist admired by Trump raps US ‘Jewish Mafia’

Radio host Alex Jones, who was told by GOP nominee that he had an amazing reputation, rails against ‘global corporate combine’

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

October 27, 2016
2:32 am

Knesset speaker asks Vatican to help fight UNESCO decisions

In letter, Yuli Edelstein requests cooperation to prevent further ‘assaults on history’; Pope, in speech on migrants, recalls the Israelites’ 40-year walk to ‘the land promised by God’

By Alexander Fulbright

October 27, 2016
1:22 am

UNESCO vote ignoring Jewish ties to Temple Mount a ‘blood libel,’ says Herzog

Opposition head says decision cannot erase or rewrite history; Bennett defends move to recall envoy to UN cultural body

By Times of Israel staff

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