PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Tel Aviv, July 8 – Editors at the popular Israeli website Ynet are toying with the notion of giving their readers news stories beyond celebrity gossip and the latest photos of attractive public figures in swimsuits. With tensions mounting between ...

Jerusalem, July 3 – More than 800 commentators, politicians, and other public figures needed medical treatment yesterday when they suffered various injuries incurred while jumping to conclusions over the abduction and murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16, whose body was found ...

Tel Aviv, June 29 – Troubled by unruly attendees in the audience, Heichal Hatarbut, the Tel Aviv home of the Israel Philharmonic, has decided to stop selling alcoholic beverages beyond the third movement of orchestral works of four movements or ...

Ramallah, June 22 – Palestinian officals are accusing an Israeli medical facility of failing to live up to the characterization of Apartheid that the Palestinains and their supporters demand of the Jewish State.  According to those officials, Assuta, a private ...

Tel Aviv, June 18 – The current crop of FIFA World Cup teams competing for the championship trophy has Israelis split on which of the many Jew-hating countries in the tournament deserves their support. Thirty-two teams will vie over the ...

Jerusalem, June 11 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reacted to the election of Reuven Rivlin as President of Israel by taking exception to the latter’s vegetarian sensibilities, rather than to his views on the desirability of annexing parts of the ...

Jerusalem, June 5 – The aftermath of the Shavuot festival has anthropologists and other scientists scratching their heads at the popularity in Israel of a sponge-like, only mildly edible cheesecake in honor of the day, when dairy is traditionally made ...

Jerusalem, May 30 – A joint report by the Ministries of Environmental Protection and Agriculture recommends that the government cease enforcement of pesticide limits aimed at protecting aquifers, since the underground water sources have already been depleted. Minister of Agriculture ...

Ramat HaSharon, May 25 – Bright Foods, the Chinese conglomerate that purchased a controlling stake in Tnuva last week, is trying to reassure Israeli consumers that drinking melamine-contaminated milk will not usually be lethal. Bright Foods completed the purchase of ...

Jerusalem, May 18 – The makers of latex prophylactics are warily eyeing the downward trend of Birthright Israel registration, as the thinning ranks of those Jewish young adults who have never been on an organized tour of Israel are reflected ...