Israel’s central bank announced Wednesday it will keep the base interest rate for the next six weeks at the rate of 0.25 percent. The Bank of Israel’s monetary committee stressed that since the previous interest […]
Mosquitoes infected with deadly West Nile virus were found in Israel during routine tests in August, the state’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MoEP) reported on Wednesday. The tests were carried out by the ministry’s Department […]
Israel’s leading airline El Al announced on Wednesday that it will open the first direct flight route between Israel and Ireland in May 2020. The new route will include three weekly flights between Israel’s Ben […]
The rate of employees in Israel’s hi-tech industry rose to 8.7 percent by the end of 2018, up from 8.3 percent in the previous year, the Israeli Innovation Authority (IIA) reported on Wednesday. This increase […]
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said Tuesday that despite the relative calm over the past two months, the situation in Gaza remains very fragile as violent incidents continue. Speaking […]
Israeli troops along the Israeli-Lebanese border were on high alert on Tuesday over fears that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia will retaliate against recent Israeli attacks. Under instructions issued by the army to its soldiers in […]
Israel’s army said on Tuesday that its forces bombed a Hamas post in the Gaza Strip. Earlier in the afternoon, mortar shelling from Gaza targeted southern Israel, triggering sirens in several communities. No damage or […]
The Israeli army arrested eight Palestinians from the West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli army said in a statement. Israeli special forces in civilian clothes took Daoud Zubeidi, a released Palestinian prisoner, from the Jenin refugee […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he has instructed his staff to prepare plans for building a new neighborhood in the Israel-occupied West Bank. According to a statement issued by the Prime […]
Israeli aircraft have hit the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip after rockets were fired from the territory of the enclave, according to a statement released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Monday. Militants […]
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