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Actress Lisa Edelstein is being slammed for a tweet she wrote following the death of star Alan Thicke. “RIP Alan Thicke. Seems like everyone is checking out before the Trumpacolypse,” (sic) she tweeted. The Twitterverse did not respond kindly to her quip. One follower called the post “soulless” while another wrote, “@LisaEdelstein wow very classy. You should be ashamed of yourself.” Some called the post “classless.” …

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet Pope Francis and US Secretary of State John Kerry in Italy next week. Netanyahu will meet Francis in the Vatican Wednesday, ahead of the pontiff’s expected visit to Israel next year. In Rome, the prime minister will meet with Kerry to discuss the current nuclear negotiations between six world powers on Iran, and the peace process with the Palestinians, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office. The first round of renewed nuclear negotiations between the so-called P5+1 powers and the Islamic Republic concluded Wednesday with cautious optimism from both sides....

President Shimon Peres's comments that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is a partner for peace hurt Israel's public diplomacy efforts, Information and Diaspora Minister Yuli Edelstein (Likud) said on Monday. Edelstein told Arutz Sheva that it is now clear that the Oslo Accords were a nightmare, adding that the focus of the storm around Peres's comments should not be whether the president should express a personal opinion during an election period but rather how his remarks affect Israel's public diplomacy. "We spit blood while the Palestinians - sometimes successfully - try to convince leaders in Europe and North America that...

The residents of the Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El welcomed on Wednesday evening the statement by Minister Yuli Edelstein, who promised that he would support a law regulating disputed Jewish communities, even if he has to pay with it by being dismissed. “We commend the minister on his absolute loyalty to the Likud platform, to morality, to the settlement enterprise in general and to the residents of the Ulpana neighborhood in particular, and call on all ministers to follow him and prevent the Israeli government from being stained by injustice,” the residents said. “Prime Minister Netanyahu must stand behind his...

Minister Yuli Edelstein on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Israel will make sure that another Holocaust doesn't happen Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein addressed the European Parliament on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, and said that Israel will make sure that another Holocaust never happens again.