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Madrid offered to replace Barcelona as Tel Aviv’s Spanish twin city, after Barcelona announced it would be cutting ties with Israel, JTA reports. Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau stated on Wednesday that she is suspending all of the city’s ties with Israel, citing what she called “the repeated violations of human rights of the Palestinian population and non-compliance with United Nations resolutions.” She added that Barcelona will maintain relations with “Israeli and Palestinian entities that continue to work for peace and against apartheid.” A day later, on Thursday, Madrid’s mayor, José Luís Martínez-Almeida, offered to step up as a replacement. In...

According to police estimates, 100,000 protestors are currently participating in the demonstration. Additional demonstrations are planned to take place outside the President's residence in Jerusalem, in Be'er Sheva, and Herzliya.

The Tel Aviv municipality has refused to authorize a right-wing counter-protest this Saturday night in addition to the left-wing anti-government protests which have been held for the last few weeks in the city, the JDN Hebrew news site reported. The right-wing protestors are hoping to demonstrate in support of Justice Minister Yariv Levin's proposed judicial reforms and Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, who was disqualified from serving as a minister One activist said: "They are trying to shut us up, only the leftists are allowed to demonstrate. Isn't our voice equal?" The activists are currently seeking to be allowed to demonstrate...

Thousands of left-wing activists gathered at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to protest Benjamin Netanyahu's new government. In an attempt to block the Ayalon highway, hundreds of protesters are reportedly attempting to push through police lines. Despite the organizer's attempts to fight the waving of PLO flags at the demonstration by distributing Israeli flags, countless PLO flags, along with flags of the radical Antifa movement, have been spotted at the demonstration. At 8:00 PM, police estimated that approximately 15,000 protesters had gathered at the square. At the same time, approximately 2,000 protesters demonstrated in Haifa, and in...

The new Likud Party-led government in Israel, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, includes a new Social Equality Minister, Amichai Chikli, who has described the Tel Aviv Pride Parade as “disgraceful vulgarity,” according to Haaretz. Chikli’s new titles include Diaspora Affairs Minister and Social Equality Minister. It is his job to work with Jews abroad, the diaspora, many of whom are liberal and non-Orthodox, and to build support for the Likud Party through social issues. However, Chikli’s repudiation of his past liberal politics may cause problems in dealing with Israel’s LGBTQ community, said Haaretz. Chikli entered the Knesset first as...

During construction work at Palmachim National Park near Tel Aviv, a fallen rock reveals an ancient treasure trove from the era of the biblically notorious pharoah A team of archaeologists was essentially transported back in time when it entered an untouched 3,300-year-old cave at the Palmachim National Park, just south of Tel Aviv, last week. The vast array of discovered items date to the Late Bronze Age, close to or during the rein of the biblically notorious Ramses II. The cave was spotted when a rock shifted during the course of construction work and light was literally shed on an...

Thousands of Israelis gathered in a Tel Aviv hangar on Wednesday night as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), one of the most influential political organizations in the United States, held its inaugural Israeli conference. Conservative activists and top Donald Trump administration officials spoke about how much the former US president has done for Israel, praised Israel’s high birthrate and called on Israelis to fight on the conservative side of America’s culture wars. But the key draw for many was celebrity pundit Ben Shapiro, who gave the evening’s keynote address. SNIP “Do any of you watch CNN International?” he...

Puerto Rican Imam Ben Shaban Praises Perpetrator Of Tel Aviv Terrorist Attack: This Was A Man Who Was Worth 1,000 Men; He Single-Handedly Made Tel Aviv Stand Still; Men Like This Will Liberate Palestine, Restore The Muslims' Honor #9495 | 02:11 Source: The Internet - "Imam Shaban on YouTube" In a video that was uploaded to his YouTube channel on April 8, 2022, Palestinian-Puerto Rican imam Ben Shaban praised Raad Hazem, the Palestinian terrorist who killed three Israelis and injured several others in a shooting in a Tel Aviv bar the previous day. Citing a hadith from the Prophet Muhammad,...

One got engaged a month ago, the other started a new job: Tomer Morad and Eitam Magini, 27-year-old childhood friends from Kfar Saba, decided to go out for a bar at the "Ilka" bar on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv. The terrorist trembled and Hazam killed them by firing squad. "When they did not answer - we realized that the worst had happened," said a friend of the two who will be buried side by side on Sunday.

Officials at Ichilov Medical Center say two of the wounded in the Tel Aviv attack have died. The hospital is treating eight other wounded: Four are being operated on and are in serious condition, two more people are in moderate-to-serious condition, and two more are mildly hurt. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai have arrived at the scene of the attack. A police spokesman says large police forces are scanning the area for the assailants. “We dove under the tables and people started crying, it was horrible,” says Evelyn Gertz, 34, who was having dinner next...

The Tel Aviv local planning and building committee gave the final go-ahead for the construction of the 91-story Spiral Tower being planned by the Azrieli group. Construction on the 1,150-foot tall structure is expected to take four years at an estimated cost of $800 million The Azrieli Group, an Israeli real estate and holding company, announced their plan to build Israel’s tallest building as an addition to their already impressive Azrieli Center Complex in Tel Aviv. The new tower will take its place next to the iconic circle, square and triangle towers that make up the Azrieli Complex. By building...

A top House Republican revealed Sunday the investigation into the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue on Saturday has gone international. What are the details? Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told CNN host Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" there is "something more" to the case than a lone actor. In fact, McCaul disclosed that the FBI's investigation now extends to London and Tel Aviv. "I know the FBI has now fanned their investigation out to London and Tel Aviv. So this has now turned into an...

The city of Tel Aviv was named after the title in Hebrew of “Old New Land” (“Altneuland” in German), a visionary novel written in 1902 by Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. Israel’s commercial capital still blends modernity and history. This summer, as time-poor professionals were ordering coffee pods delivered by drone, archaeologists nearby were uncovering a Byzantine wine press and a 7th-century gold coin. Both discoveries might come in handy in the city that is now the world’s most expensive. According to the latest findings of the Worldwide Cost of Living Survey from The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU),...

With Ramat HaSharon approaching its centennial year, archaeological evidence indicates the Tel Aviv suburb’s history goes back much further than previously thought. “The excavation unearthed evidence of agricultural-industrial activity at the site during the Byzantine period – about 1,500 years ago. Among other finds, we discovered a large winepress paved with a mosaic as well as plastered installations and the foundations of a large structure that may have been used as a warehouse or even a farmstead,” said Dr. Yoav Arbel, who directed the excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority. “Inside the buildings and installations, we found many...

The Tel Aviv municipality on Saturday informed dozens of residents of two apartment buildings in the center of the city that they may return to their homes, days after they were evacuated when the ground suddenly began heating up and emitted steam. Experts who were called in did not detect any dangerous substances at the site or any risk to the buildings’ stability, and the source of the heat was said by the municipality to be "trapped energy" from an unknown source. . . . On Thursday, residents of an apartment building on the northern end of Ibn Gabirol Street...

The State Department confirmed the sale in September The United States sold the ambassador’s residence in Israel for more than $67 million in July, according to an official Israeli record of the sale that shines new light on a transaction that has been shrouded in secrecy. The State Department confirmed the sale in September but refused to identify the buyer or disclose the sale price of the sprawling beachfront compound in the upscale Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya. On Tuesday, it said the sale had been "open and transparent." The Israeli business newspaper Globes has identified the buyer as the...

A Russian fighter jet on Sunday reportedly came dangerously close to an Israeli passenger aircraft while on route from the Greek island of Rhodes to Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport. The incident occurred when the Israir flight entered Cypriot air space. No casualties or damage were reported. The Russian Sukhoi Su-27 came to within a mile from the Israir Airbus A320, a distance considered unsafe, for several minutes before air traffic controllers in Cyprus warned it away. Russia has fighter aircraft stationed in nearby Syria, where it is assisting the Assad regime in the civil war, leading to crowded skies in...

A police officer shown throwing a bucket during a crackdown on an illegal outdoor worship service. More later on Israel's coronavirus crackdown. New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio wants to shut down nine neighborhoods in the city starting Wednesday..... "Your own kid's high school football game...we just stood for the national anthem and then we violated every liberty and freedom that we have" "I have a right not to wear a mask" We now have video of what happened from Ammon Bundy's perspective as he took a stand against a mask-muzzle order at a high school football game..... The coronavirus freedom...

Leftist operatives are trying to break through police roadblocks in the area of Habima Square and are holding a procession while blocking traffic arteries. "Beyond the fact that the procession is not approved and constitutes a violation of public order, the violators of the order are marching in violation of emergency regulations: Failure to maintain distance from each other, number of participants above what is defined in the regulations and more. This action is contrary to regulations and constitutes a violation of public safety," the police say. At least 10 protesters were arrested and dozens of tickets were issued ...

The bags were dropped by the "green drone" Telegram group, which advocates for the legalization of cannabis in Israel, with "free love" being the group's slogan. A drone dropped hundreds of bags of cannabis on Thursday afternoon over Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, attracting dozens of confused people, who rushed to pick up as many bags as they could carry. The bags of cannabis were dropped by the "green drone" Telegram group, which advocates for the legalization of cannabis in Israel, with "free love" being the group's slogan. Before dropping the cannabis over Tel Aviv, the group published a message...