Israel election deadlock: Four possible paths to a new government
Israel’s election this week was indecisive and there is no clear winner poised to form a government. Benjamin Netanyahu remains in office as caretaker prime minister, but faces a ...
Serbian police shoot dead ‘teenage terrorist’ outside Israeli embassy in Belgrade
Serbian police shot dead a young man outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade in the early hours of Wednesday after what the authorities called a “terrorist attack”.
Interior minister Ivica ...
Israeli firm accused of spying on Starlink users using online adverts
An Israeli company, Discover-Tech, allegedly used the online advertising system to collect location data on users of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service in more than 100 countries, according to ...
US warns Gulf states of possible new strike on Iran after midterms
The US has informed several Gulf nations it may launch a “brief but intense” military operation against Iran after the midterm elections on November 3, the Wall Street Journal reported on ...
Netanyahu’s party claims Arabs ‘stole’ Israeli election
Benjamin Netanyahu’s right wing Likud party accused Arab parties on Wednesday of “stealing the elections”, as vote counting showed them heading for their highest number of seats in the ...
Future of GSI ‘being handled away from public eye’, Christodoulides says
The future of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), which, if completed, will link the energy grids of Cyprus, Greece, and Israel, is “being handled away from the public eye”, President ...
Netanyahu holds on as Israel election ends in deadlock
Benjamin Netanyahu won the support of an unexpectedly clear majority of Israeli Jews in an election billed as a major turning point in his nation’s history, apparently ensuring he ...
Israel election deadlock leaves Netanyahu’s future uncertain
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Gadi Eisenkot offered competing claims to lead Israel after Tuesday’s election, with Netanyahu calling for a right-wing government and Eisenkot saying voters had ...
Israeli exit polls show deadlock, point to setback for Netanyahu
Israel’s wartime election appeared deadlocked on Tuesday, exit polls showed, with Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc running neck and neck with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp, leaving neither ...
Israeli elections
Netanyahu faces fight for political survival as Israel votes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a fight for political survival in Israel’s election on Tuesday, with voters weighing his leadership after the 2023 Hamas-led attacks, wars in Gaza and with ...
UN inquiry says Israel kept committing genocide in Gaza after truce
Israel continued to commit genocide in Gaza after last October’s US-brokered ceasefire in the enclave, a UN commission said in a report published on Monday that Israel dismissed as ...
Cyprus and Israel sign deal for second offshore patrol vessel
The defence ministries of Cyprus and Israel signed an agreement on Monday for a new offshore patrol vessel.
Israel Shipyards will build the new ship and Rafael Advanced Defence Systems ...
Cyprus’ growing alliance with Israel raises questions over security and diplomacy
Given the ever-growing ties between Nicosia and Tel Aviv, it was likely only a matter of time before the Israel lobby began making advances to Cypriot politicians, culminating in the ...
Around 1,200 Palestinians are displaced in Hebron as Israel begins military operation
The Israeli military forced around 1,200 Palestinians to leave their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said on Saturday, a day after a Palestinian attack killed ...
Maccabi Tel Aviv weighing move to Israel instead of Cyprus for home games
Maccabi Tel Aviv did not play their Euroleague home game against Real Madrid in Limassol on Thursday night as expected, and instead hosted the Spanish side in Belgrade, where they ...
Israeli health ministry: Hadassah did not notify it of Cyprus centre
Israel’s health ministry has said Hadassah Medical Centre did not bring its plan for a medical centre in Cyprus to its attention.
Speaking to the Cyprus Mail on Friday, ...
Israeli fire kills four people in Gaza, medics say
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least four people in the Gaza Strip in separate incidents on Thursday, health officials in the enclave said.
In Gaza City, a strike on ...
US orders diplomats out of Saudi Arabia as deadly attacks escalate
The US State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and plans to withdraw family members from a number of other ...
Malaysia bans Waze, citing threat of Israeli data misuse
Malaysia has banned civil servants from using Alphabet’s navigation app Waze, citing security concerns linked to its origins in Israel.
Muslim-majority Malaysia is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian ...
Netanyahu says he has ordered IDF and Mossad to overthrow Iran’s regime
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he has directed the military and the Mossad to bring down the Iranian government.
Speaking at a graduation ceremony for IDF ...
Hadassah’s Limassol medical centre ‘opened without notifying Israel’
Hadassah Hospital is under scrutiny after Israeli media reported that it opened a medical centre in Limassol without informing Israel’s health and finance ministries, which oversee its finances and ...
Israel’s far-right Ben-Gvir gains ground among young voters
He celebrated his 50th birthday with a cake decorated with a noose. He says he plans to surround jailed Palestinians with crocodiles. In videos, he berates foreign activists captured at ...
Israeli election: No change
According to the ‘70s anarchist slogan, ‘No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in’. That’s certainly true for the election in Israel this month (27 October), even ...