By Biodun Busari Criticisms have trailed the visit of the extreme-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound for the first time since becoming a minister. Ben-Gvir visited the Temple located in the Holy Land of East Jerusalem on Tuesday angering Palestinians who see the visit as a provocation, The Times of Israel […]

Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian Friday in the occupied West Bank, in an incident described by the force as a stabbing and by a Palestinian official as a quarrel. Israeli police said its border guards were approached by several suspects in the town of Huwara when one “pulled out a knife and stabbed one […]

The family of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received a death threat and bullet in the mail for the second time this week, the police said Thursday. According to an Israeli official familiar with the matter, the target of the threats was Bennett’s 17-year-old son. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line […]

Israel has approved a fourth vaccine dose for people most vulnerable to COVID-19, an official said Thursday, becoming one of the first countries to do so as it braces for a wave of infections fueled by the omicron variant. Nachman Ash, the director general of the Health Ministry, announced the decision at a press conference, […]

United States National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, calling for a “common strategy” as world powers continue to negotiate a new nuclear agreement with Iran. Bennett meanwhile warned during the Wednesday meetings that negotiations in Vienna on Iran’s nuclear programme had “profound ramifications” for Israeli security. Bennett’s government has remained […]