Israel's ultra-Orthodox reject housing in new Negev town

Ultra-Orthodox leaders search for a solution to the housing crisis in the sector, but they are not in favor of the solution proposed by the government to establish a new ultra-Orthodox town in the Negev region.

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Citizenship law deepens rift between Israel's Arab parties

The Joint List was hoping to use the vote on the controversial citizenship Law to embarrass its rival Muslim coalition party Ra’am.

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Israel vows country won’t become safe haven for sanctioned Russian oligarchs

Speaking at a press conference in Slovakia, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid stated that Russia won’t be able to bypass Western sanctions through Israel.

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Analysis

Bennett, Erdogan seek to fill diplomatic vacuum over Ukraine

Qatar’s role in Iran diplomacy even more vital with pause in Vienna nuclear talks.

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Israel needs long-term plans to absorb Ukrainian immigration wave

Israel’s government has made short-term housing plans for the thousands of Ukrainian and Russian Jews expected to immigrate to Israel, but absorption will be a long and difficult road.

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Germany’s Scholz behind Israel’s Bennett shuttle diplomacy on Ukraine

Associates of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett emphasize that his traveling to Moscow and Berlin and his contacts with all the parties were conducted with the US administration in the picture and with its blessing.

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Bennett government shakes off Netanyahu’s shadow on foreign policy

The coalition government's foreign policy on Russia, Iran, the United States, Turkey and the Palestinians differs significantly from that of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Israel seeks to contain flood of Ukrainian refugees

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked announced yesterday a framework plan for welcoming 5,000 Ukrainian refugees and for temporarily regularizing some 20,000 Ukrainian nationals residing in Israel mostly illegally.

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Israel unhappy over unregulated cryptocurrency trade

Israeli authorities are demanding the international crypto stock-exchange Binance to explain unregulated digital currency trade in the country.

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Bennett's shuttle diplomacy impresses few in Israel

So far, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his phone calls with world leaders over the Ukraine crisis are not improving his standing at home.

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F-35 stealth fighter jets intercepted Iranian drones last year, Israel reveals

Israel estimates that Iran operates drones from its territory and also from other countries.

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Israel's president exchanges friendly gestures in Turkey

After years of cold, even hostile relations between the two countries, Israel's President Isaac Herzog was warmly welcomed today in Ankara by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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