PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

“We can’t wrap our heads around that idea,” admitted a committee member. Jerusalem, January 20 – Israel’s authority on the proper Hebrew equivalent to vernacular terms adopted into the language has declined to translate foreign terms referring to a positive balance ...

New York, January 12 – Publishing giant Harper-Collins announced today that it will soon issue an atlas for Israeli grade-school students that does not include the names of any Muslim or Arab countries, a launch that the company says is ...

Jerusalem, January 6 – Meteorologists and Israeli government officials are warning residents and visitors alike to prepare for a major storm of remarks questioning the validity of climate change observations and predictions, in reaction to an anticipated snowfall and  lower-than-average ...

Jerusalem, December 31 – Mayor Nir Barkat approved a measure today to save the Municipality of Jerusalem millions of shekels annually by paving streets and sidewalks directly with dog droppings instead of laboriously laying bricks or asphalt and then bringing in dog ...

Shiloh, Occupied West Bank, December 24 – Archaeologists have unearthed a vast conspiratorial effort by ancient Israelites to make Jews living in Palestine 3,000 years later look indigenous, scholars are reporting. Over the last century and a half, diggers have ...

Haifa, December 18 – Israeli households struggling to make ends meet are awash with gratitude over a new and more pressing source of stress than the classic challenges of hostile regimes and populations. A national poverty report released Wednesday found that ...

Ramallah, December 11 – Palestinian leaders are voicing regret that they left out beheading in the various conflicting descriptions of how Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian official yesterday. Ziab Abu Ein was taking part in a rock-throwing demonstration against Israel ...

Jerusalem, December 6 – The youths who sprayed threatening and racist graffiti on the walls of a mixed Jewish and Arab school voiced frustration today that they have attracted only criticism instead of commendation for acting only when no one ...

Ashdod, November 29 – An umpire at an informal game of cricket died this afternoon after being struck by the ball, sending shock waves throughout the country as people discovered the sport exists. The 58-year-old man was hit in the chest ...

Tel Aviv, November 23 – Residents of Israel who spent their formative years in the US are eagerly anticipating Thanksgiving celebrations this Thursday that will invariably fail to live up to their hype, sources close to the expatriate community reported ...