PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Jerusalem, October 1 – Police officials announced today that the vast majority of potential successors to the police commissioner have been eliminated from contention, ruling out everyone but a turnip in the Machane Yehuda market. Corruption scandals and incompetence have ...

Jerusalem, September 22 – The exploding population of feral cats in Israel has prompted the Ministry of Environmental Protection to declare the animals a renewable resource, clearing the way to harvest them and use them in myriad ecologically friendly projects, ...

Jerusalem, September 16 – Stiff competition in the high-stakes hot beverage market has led to increasing violence as customers torn between nearly identical competing chains get caught up in it. This month alone, more than a dozen have been killed ...

Hatzor, Israel, September 9 – Archaeologists excavating the Canaanite stronghold of Hatzor have discovered an artifact that conclusively corroborates the Palestinian claim to descent from those pre-Israelite inhabitants: the shield of a Canaanite warrior, to which a small child has ...

Jerusalem, September 6 – Frustrated attendees at various catered affairs took to the political arena this week to protest the drop in quality of the food they experience when moving from the smorgasbord to the sit-down meal, calling on their ...

Ein Zivan, Israel, August 31 – Following a firefight with Jihadist rebels and many fraught hours during which their fate was unclear, the 75 UN soldiers from the Philippines who managed to make their way across the border into Israel ...

Hertzeliya, August 28 – Israeli cellular service providers Orange, Cellcom, and Partner, among others, have been pursuing a market strategy to entice customers with an infinite capacity to send text messages via their mobile devices, but scientists are warning that ...

Jerusalem, August 23 – Israel’s cabinet has decided to shut down the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs amid realizations that its efforts to combat Palestinian propaganda have become pointless. The ministers voted unanimously to disband the ministry and reassign some ...

Jerusalem, August 18 – A special governmental committee has decided to award citations of merit to two moderately prominent entertainers who have somehow managed to remain the only such personalities in their industry without any arrests or police investigations in ...

Tzfat, Israel August 13 – A local receptionist is facing suspicions of sorcery today because she managed to put her flash drive in a computer’s USB port without having to turn it over because it was facing the wrong way. ...