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Get email notification for articles from The Associated Press Follow May. 3, 2021 4:44 PM Top Biden administration officials and U.S. senators crisscrossed the Middle East on Monday, seeking to assuage growing unease among Gulf Arab partners over America’s re-engagement with Iran and other policy shifts in the region. The trips come as the U.S. and Iran, through intermediaries in Vienna, discuss a return to Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that former President Donald Trump abandoned three years ago. Why Bibi and his Haredi cronies won’t allow a meaningful probe in...

The deadly stampede 'could have been prevented,' says state comptroller, whose office warned in 2008 and again in 2011 that the tomb site in Israel's north could not accommodate mass gatherings

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio "The best way to clarify the circumstances surrounding this tragedy and to learn the necessary lessons that will prevent such a thing from happening again, is to carry out an investigation under a singular body," Mendelblit said, "not amid a multiplicity of decentralized investigations." Open gallery view Attoreny General Avichai Mendelblit in Israel's top court, last month.Credit: Emil Salman Despite the attorney general's approval, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to oppose a state commission of inquiry, the type of inves...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The appeal was filed by three activists: Daniel Ohana, Niron Mizrahi and Ziv Bertfeld. Ohana was arrested on Saturday afternoon when he protested outside the prime minister’s residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem. The police stopped two buses in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Karem that were taking protesters to a demonstration on Balfour Street. Both Mizrahi and Bertfeld were on the buses. All three were arrested on suspicions of disorderly behavior and violating public order. After being questioned, the three refused to be rel...

Get email notification for articles from Oded Yaron Follow May. 3, 2021 8:45 PM The Israeli hackers-for-hire firm NSO Group promised it would publish a transparency report starting this June. The announcement from last week comes after a coalition of human rights groups published an open letter to the company and its investors calling out NSO for failing to comply with human rights disclosure practices. The letter, written by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Access Now and the Committee to Protect Journalists, among others, was sent to the spy firm’s owner Novalpina Capital and n...