TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran used its annual Army Day parade Sunday to showcase parts of a long-awaited air defence system ordered from Russia, a move likely to irk critics of the arms deal. The S-300 system has been on order since
Ynetnews reports: The Golan Heights will remain part of Israel forever, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Sunday. “In the 19 years the Golan was under Syrian occupation, it was used for bunkers, barbed wire fences, landmines, and aggression. It was used
More than 90 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to use U.S. veto power to block any United Nations resolutions seen as biased against Israel, one of the letter’s lead sponsors
The Times of Israel reports: A senior Likud member of Knesset said Saturday that Hamas was deterred by the last round of fighting with Israel in 2014 but that it is gaining strength. Speaking on Channel 2 TV on Saturday,
The Times of Israel reports: Iran has good reason to be concerned by Israel’s defense capabilities, a senior engineer at the Israel Aerospace Industries, a government-owned company that manufactures military and civilian aircraft and products, said on Saturday. “We are
The Jerusalem Post reports: Hamas’s armed wing, Ezzadin al-Qassam, has deployed members of its “Elite Forces” in various parts of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said over the weekend. The sources said that the Hamas forces have replaced the civilian police
Iran is apparently pushing for merging two rival Palestinian militias that promote its regional agenda as well as Shi’a Islam.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The fragile cease-fire declared in Syria on February 27 between regime and rebel forces is in the process of crumbling. Assad’s forces have launched an offensive across southern Aleppo province. Fighting is also taking place in
Ynetnews reports: Hamas has quickly learned the lessons of the 2014 Operation Protective Edge and has been hard at work recovering its strength, a high-ranked IDF officer said Thursday. However, the Gaza terror organization has yet to restore its rockets arsenal
The United States refused to say Thursday whether or not it would support a Palestinian proposal for a United Nations resolution to condemn Israeli settlement building — but ruled nothing out. While Washington often criticizes Israeli building work in occupied
The Times of Israel reports: Israeli security forces arrested 11 wanted Palestinians in the West Bank overnight Thursday-Friday, for suspected terrorist activity and violence. Police and Border Police officers and IDF troops carried out the raids, and took the suspects
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, on Thursday addressed the Security Council and called on the world’s nations to come together as a united front in the war on terrorism.
A Palestinian armed with an axe attacked an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank and was shot dead on Thursday, the Israeli army said, ending a three-week lull in deadly incidents.
Ynetnews reports: The soldier who shot and killed a neutralized terrorist in Hebron three weeks ago will be charged with manslaughter, as per an official prosecutor’s statement issued to the military court in Jaffa on Thursday. A group of ten people,
The Times of Israel reports: VAN, Turkey — An Iranian pilot who defected to Turkey last year is threatening to seek asylum in Israel and work openly to undermine the regime in Iran if it does not cease what he
The Jerusalem Post reports: The US District Court in the Southern District of New York granted a request on Tuesday by Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard’s lawyers to reopen his appeal against his strict parole conditions, according to a document received Wednesday
The Jerusalem Post reports: The report that the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi requested help from Israel during the revolt against his rule could be another example of the leader’s actions at odds with his harsh rhetoric. After many years
The Palestinians expect the international community to not only state clearly that Jewish settlements in the West Bank represent a major obstacle to peace but to actually do something about it, a top adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
Members of organizations belonging to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have voiced unprecedented criticism against its head, President Mahmoud Abbas, for his “obsequious” attitude toward Israel. The Abbas loyalist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic
TEL AVIV – Hillary Clinton said in a recent interview that Israel was not solely to blame for the failure of the peace process and that Palestinian inaction played a large part. In a radical departure from the attitude of
The Jerusalem Post reports: Two days after Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders charged that Israel acted “disproportionately” during the 2014 fighting in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel would not hesitate to hit Gaza hard again, if
Iran has resumed financial support for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, months after it withdrew support in retaliation for the group’s reluctance to openly back the Islamic Republic, an Islamic Jihad official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said there is an “urgent” need for a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, in an interview with AFP ahead of a multi-country diplomatic tour. “The Security Council is a very important subject because it has now
The Jerusalem Post reports: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems unveiled the Drone Dome on Monday, a system designed to detect and neutralize hostile drones. The Drone Dome, which went on display at the Laad Defense & Security Expo in Brazil, uses
JERUSALEM (AFP) – An Israeli colonel has been cleared of any criminal charges after shooting dead a Palestinian teen who stoned his jeep in the West Bank last year, the military said Monday. A rights group that distributed a video showing
The Jerusalem Post reports: With concern in Israel that Passover, which begins on April 22, could trigger violence around the Temple Mount as Jews flock to the Western Wall for prayers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday for the
Israel’s army is searching for hundreds of weapons and tens of thousands of munitions — from its own former soldiers. It turns out that many soldiers have ended their service by walking away with memorabilia. The military is now pleading
Ynetnews reports: Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram reported Monday that representatives from Israel and Egypt have recently met to discuss the maritime borders between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which could be a major topic of concern, following Cairo and Riyadh’s recent deal, transferring
Russia has sent the first part of its S-300 air defence missile system to Iran, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency on Monday. Russia says it cancelled a contract to deliver
A half-year-long surge in Palestinian street attacks against Israelis is waning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, while Hamas accused the U.S.-backed Palestinian leadership of treachery for helping Israel stem the violence. Since October, Palestinians have killed 28 Israelis
Ynetnews reports: Herzl Shaul, the father of Oron Shaul, and suffering from cancer, called on the Israeli government to expedite the return of his son’s remains in order to bury them in Israel. First sergeant Oron Shaul was killed in an
The European Union must raise political pressure on Israel over accelerating West Bank demolitions that run against international law and increasingly affect aid projects sponsored by the bloc, a U.N. envoy for Palestinian territories said. With more than 540 demolitions
Ynetnews reports: The wave of terrorism in Jerusalem has the district’s police force working round the clock, going from one crime scene to another, sometimes without a moment’s rest while on duty. The police’s bomb squad is working particularly hard: disarming
Hamas employs more than 1,000 operatives to excavate underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported Thursday. According to the report, the terrorist organization invests hundreds of thousands of dollars each month in the digging activities, paying each operative
The Jerusalem Post reports: NGO Monitor on Thursday released a report highly critical of a UN agency deemed so biased in Jerusalem that the Foreign Ministry, according to diplomatic sources, stopped cooperating with it in any meaningful way several years
The Times of Israel reports: Four Israeli soldiers were hurt in a car accident in the West Bank on Friday afternoon, after their army vehicle overturned on its side. The IDF confirmed that one of the soldiers was moderately hurt,
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) celebrated on Thursday, at exactly 5:16pm, five years since the first rocket interception by the Iron Dome system. It began with the historic interception of a rocket fired from northern Gaza towards an Ashkelon neighborhood,
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinian UN Mission says it has circulated a proposed Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements to Arab nations. The draft was condemned Thursday by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Ynetnews reports: The cyber attacks launched by the anti-Israel hacker-group ‘Anonymous’ are more hype than harm, according to Israeli cyber security experts, who claim that media coverage is fomenting unnecessary fear out of sync with the reality of the threat. Anonymous,
The Jerusalem Post reports: An explosive device was detonated early Friday morning during a routine operation in the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported from the blast. Initial reports show that during a planned operation near the security fence in northern
