JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s top court has upheld a law denying citizenship to Palestinians married to Israelis, with one judge saying it helped the Jewish state fend off “national suicide”. By a 6-to-5 vote, the Supreme Court late on Wednesday rejected petitions against the 2003 ban, which civil liberty groups denounced as racist for potentially forcing members of Israel’s 20-percent Arab …
Lebanese media report the army has detained a Lebanese man on suspicion of collaborating with Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters)- Israel killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired faction in the Gaza Strip on Friday, accusing him of involvement in firing rockets and a planned attack on the Jewish state from the neighboring Egyptian Sinai. The deadly air strike was Israel’s second against a Salafi Islamist militant this week. Militants identified him as Momen Abu Daf, chief of the Army of Islam …
President Peres says that mystery, rumors surrounding Dimona nuclear facility serves as a powerful deterrent against Israel’s enemies: “Iran is very dangerous, but there is no need to get hysterical.”
Prosecutors have asked for six life sentences in what they dubbed the “worst murder case in Israel’s history.”
Sydney Morning HeraldIsrael mustn’t politicize the Armenian genocide
Haaretz
The possibility of officially recognizing the Armenian genocide was for years weighed in terms of Israel’s foreign-policy interests in Turkey, on the one hand, and fear over the loss of the concept of “Holocaust” as an exclusive Jewish “property” on …
Israel’s Turkish dilemma: To lead with head or heart?Jerusalem Post
Israel Risks New Turkish Ire with Recognition of Armenian GenocideNew York Times
Israel hints that Turkey was guilty of its own ‘holocaust’The Independent
CNN
Press TVClarification: Israel’s National Security
TIME
By Joe Klein | @JoeKleinTIME | December 19, 2011 | + ‘
President Barack Obama told a Jewish group Friday that his administration has done more than any other in support of Israel’s security, and he declared his commitment to Israel to be “unshakable.”
HaaretzShooting Israel / ‘Sad beauty’
Haaretz
Jungjin Lee’s photo of Midreshet Ben-Gurion reveals her interpretation of the Land of Israel as a metaphor – as something that can be anywhere, she says. By Ofer Aderet “In this picture I show Israel’s sad beauty,” the Korean photographer Jungjin Lee …
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PRI's The WorldAnalysis: Israel’s Iran strategy: Bombs? Bluff? Both?
Reuters
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – If Washington is perplexed by Israeli “opacity” on whether it might attack Iran, that is no accident, since Israel’s leaders are themselves torn – but also content to let fears of bluff and double-bluff play to …
Gulf tensioned unity for nuclear arsenals in Iran and IsraeleTaiwan News
Obama Administration: Israel Should Do More to Mend Fences With its NeighborsPRI's The World
US Unclear on Israel’s Intentions for IranGlobal Security Newswire
Asia Times Online
Yossi Vardi, the investor behind Israel’s hi-tech success
Christian Science MonitorIsrael honors civil rights
Boston Herald
Having served as a soldier in Israel’s military government in the West Bank during my compulsory military service, I know first-hand that Israel’s situation vis-a-vis its Palestinian neighbors is not perfect. …
Israel seeks new friends to counter IslamismJerusalem Post
Israel ViewpointJewish Times of Southern New Jersey
Israel’s take on Arab Spring may undo peace with EgyptHa'aretz
Irish Times
UNGA adopts 6 anti-Israel resolutions; International Day of Solidarity exacerbates conflict, Israel’s ambassador tells UN.
Germany to build and pay one-third of cost of Dolphin-type submarine, Israel’s sixth in its fleet.
Israel’s latest in laugh-out-loud commercials was broadcast about a week ago and immediately went viral. The TV spot, for baked goods manufacturer Bagel & Bagel’s latest offering, Bagel Dak Dak, (meaning: thin, thin pretzels) is a best described as a 21st century re-imagining of the modern State of Israel’s 19th century roots. It could also [...]
AFPIsrael hardens on tax freeze over Hamas-Fatah meet
AFP
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AFPIsraeli Democracy Is Safer Than We Think
Huffington Post
The warnings are dire: Israeli democracy is greatly endangered, and those who will suffer will be the Palestinians, the secular, the foreign workers, the leftists; in short, everyone who isn’t haredi, secular nationalist, or religious nationalist. …
Israel’s Gay Rights RecordThe Atlantic
Israeli journalist dissects Israel’s chances for survivalJweekly.com
Quartet urges Israel to release Palestinian fundsAFP
Jerusalem Post
Israel’s ‘defamation bill’ passes 1st reading; critics say it curbs freedom of …
Washington Post
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What should be clear, though, is that a chaotic, violent transition of power would not be in Syria’