Bennett to EU envoys: Stop trying to make Israel ‘commit suicide’
Jewish Home party chief says economic arm-twisting ‘immoral,’ calls for European support against ‘river of terror’
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Bruce Hoffman says the struggle for Israel’s independence forms a blueprint for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today
View ArticleEgyptian bank claims it part-owns Israel’s King David Hotel
After being swindled by Israeli-Arab attorney, Banque Misr renews legal bid to regain stock holding in country’s most prestigious hotel
View ArticleWill it be ‘Jew’ vs. Muslim in London’s next mayoral election?
What was shaping up as an easy win for Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith may now prove a bitter tussle with Labour’s Sadiq Khan
View ArticleElectronic music master scouts sites for concert
French artist Jean Michel Jarre prepares to party hard in and around the capital later this year
View ArticleArafat’s shadowy money man visits Israel — report
Palestinian media says Muhammad Rashid arrived with Kurdish delegation, met with Israeli officials and Syrian rebels
View ArticleNasrallah slams Saudis for ‘normalization with Israel for free’
Amid whispers of warming ties between Jerusalem and Riyadh, Hezbollah leader says Arabs nation have abandoned Palestinian cause
View ArticleHow Jordan’s ‘sheikh of sheikhs’ negotiated with Zionists, founded a kingdom
Israeli pens first biography of Mithqal al-Fayiz, the tribal leader who put the Hashemites on the Jordanian throne — a Lawrence of Arabia-esque epic about a desert nomad
View ArticleUK opens secret files on 1940s ‘Jewish terrorists’ in Palestine and beyond
Newly declassified documents show how British agents tried to contain militant activities, feared attacks on British soil
View ArticleJerusalem’s iconic King David Hotel evicts guests to accommodate world leaders
Influx of VIPs for Peres funeral meant nearly all the rooms had to be emptied, and fast, says CEO
View ArticleUK rivals Cameron and Johnson ‘make peace’ over whisky at King David Hotel
Former PM and his school chum turned bitter opponent said to resolve their devastating EU Brexit row in long chat during Jerusalem visit for Peres funeral
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Journalist Clare Hollingworth, who broke news of WWII, dies
In 1939, reporter sneaked into Poland to cover impending Nazi invasion, launching a decades-long career that included British-mandated Palestine
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Tel Aviv looks to lure tourists with posh lifeguard digs
Winners of online selfie competition to stay in pop-up luxury hotel built in converted beach station
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Jerusalem hotels: Unlikely hotbeds of furtive, meticulous romance
In lobbies throughout the capital, young ultra-Orthodox men and women sit down every evening to participate in a carefully rehearsed dating ritual
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Foreign Ministry retweets faux David Friedman account
Journalists, Jewish organizations also hoodwinked by post in ambassador's name, which says he hopes to 'work out of Jerusalem very soon'
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Frenetic preparations underway for Trump’s Israel visit
Delegation to take over entire King David hotel; speculation mounts the president will buck tradition and not visit Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
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Security swells as Jerusalem prepares for Trump visit
King David Hotel braces to receive US president, whose entourage will fill all six floors of the building
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PM meets with Trump envoys to fine-tune presidential visit
Official confirms no trilateral meeting planned between Trump, Netanyahu and Abbas; Jerusalem police, others in frantic preparations for two-day trip
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US hotels mull bolstering security after Las Vegas shooting
They can look to hotels like Israel's King David that reportedly uses infrared cameras, bomb-searching robots in sewers and aircon that can thwart a poison gas attack
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