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If Hamas dissolves its Gaza government, who will enforce its disarmament? - analysis

Hamas has its messaging, and it wants to stir the pot and confuse everyone by obfuscating whether it will give up power that it was never supposed to have.

Government Media Office Director Ismail Thawabteh (R) and Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem (L) speak at a press conference regarding the resignation of the head of the Government Emergency Committee and the acting head of Government Follow-up.
IDF Military Drone Unit train with their drones near the Syrian border, northern Golan Heights.

Dozens of drones entered Gaza Strip over recent months, fears Hamas could use in attack - report

Activists, including Israelis and Palestinians, take part in a demonstration in support of peace near Jericho

Trump’s Gaza plan can still work - but only if Washington changes course - opinion

Spike NLOS fired from Apache

Israel's defense industry loses major Asian customer


Haifa fire victims face new challenge: Israeli bureaucracy

An estimated 175 buildings in Haifa where damaged in the blaze, 100 of them are now uninhabitable, leaving over 500 people without homes to return to.

Fires rage across Israel

Palestinian Authority President Abbas reelected to head Fatah party

PA congress has brought together some 1,322 Fatah delegates from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian diaspora.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks with journalists at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah

Rabbinical vs personal converts to Judaism: What’s the difference?

These two types of converts display different profiles and patterns of Jewish engagement, and both differ from the 5.1 million individuals who were born Jewish.

Ultra Orthodox and secular Israelis clash in Beit Shemesh.

Jerusalem project reveals how Jews lived 2,000 years ago

Apart from a replica of the Madaba Map, nine other mosaics will illustrate the stories of people who lived and worked there during Byzantine times.

Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Galant (center) tours the Cardo section of the Jewish Quarter on Wednesday morning.

Albania qualifier location changed for security concerns

According to reports in Albania, four people with links to ISIS were seized following a tip from the Mossad that they were preparing an attack on the Israel squad.

Israel national team players Ofir Martziano (left), Eran Zahavi (center) and Eitan Tibi (right) couldn’t hide their disappointment

Report: Israel's UN ambassador made secret visit to Dubai

Danon sojourned to the oil-rich nation to attend a development conference in his capacity as chairman of the UN Legal Committee, which he was appointed to in June.

Danny Danon addressing the UN Security Council, October 22, 2015

Watch UN slam Israel on ‘human rights violations’

United Nations General Assembly in New York

Fishing zone expanded by 50% for Gaza’s 4,000 fishermen

The decision will increase the coastal enclave’s fishing zone from six to nine nautical miles and will go into effect on November 1.

Palestinian fishermen in the waters off of the Gaza Strip

Hadera coal chimneys to be shut down, replaced by gas within six years

Steinitz: It is the Energy Ministry’s policy to minimize coal use as much as possible.

A bulldozer works at a magnesium factory near the Dead Sea.

An artificial Gaza island is an impractical pipe dream

The fact is that what holds back Gaza’s economy is not lack of an artificial island, but Israel’s restrictions on goods traveling to Gaza, and Hamas control of the Strip.

THE PALM island in Dubai is similar in size to the proposed Gaza Island, but it has been built, whereas the Gaza island never will, argues the author.