TEL AVIV – Liberal comedian Bill Maher slammed Europe and the UN for its treatment of Israel and wondered if the attacks in Brussels, which killed 31 people on Tuesday, would cause Europeans to show more sympathy to the Jewish state.
Ynet news reports: The fight against BDS has now extended to the artistic arena. A significant number of key figures and politicians have joined forces for the good of hasbara (Israeli public relations) in its struggle against the propaganda of organizations
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the Israeli army Sunday as controversy gripped the country over a soldier caught on video shooting a Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground. The incident on Thursday led
TEL AVIV – It is only a matter of time before the Islamic State’s branch in the Egyptian Sinai carries out a “big operation” in the Israeli resort town of Eilat and other parts of southern Israel, a leading Islamic State-allied militant claimed in an exclusive interview.
TEL AVIV – The IDF is capable of destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities with a preemptive strike, the head of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) said on Saturday. “The Israeli Air Force can meet the challenge of destroying Iran’s nuclear reactors
The Times of Israel reports: Top Israeli military officials on Saturday night rejected assertions that a soldier who shot an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the head was right to do so as he feared the man could be wearing an
The Jerusalem Post reports: Command is set to receive dozens of advanced logistical trailers for heavy armored vehicles, designed to improve the ability of units to conduct lengthy offenses. The two-wheeled Backtrails, produced by the Netanya-based Urdan company, took four
The Times of Israel reports: The soldier who was arrested Thursday after he was filmed shooting a disarmed Palestinian assailant in the head in the West Bank city of Hebron said he shot the man as he believed him to be
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Thursday that the deadly bombings in Brussels are evidence of a new world war, which the Jewish state and other countries must fight together. “We’re in the same boat,” he told Israeli army radio
The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Monday joined the Israel Defense Forces in condemning an incident in which a soldier shot a disarmed Palestinian assailant in the head in Hebron, saying
TEL AVIV – Earlier this week, Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign released the text of the speech he would have given had he attended this week’s annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Sanders, the sole Jewish candidate in this year’s presidential elections and the first Jewish politician to ever win a presidential primary, was also the only presidential candidate not to speak at AIPAC’s conference.
Two Palestinians who attacked an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday were shot dead by troops at the scene, the military said in a statement. Footage filmed by a bystander moments after the attack
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he did not expect a breakthrough on Middle East peace before he leaves office and reiterated his support for a two-state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians could live peacefully side by side.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday banned imports into the West Bank from all of Israel’s major food companies, the Times of Israel reported. Products from the Tnuva, Strauss, Tara, Soglowek, and Tapuzina will not be allowed to enter Palestinian-controlled
Israeli defense officials are commenting on the “ridiculous” lack of airport security in Brussels, said Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter Aaron Klein. Security at Brussels airport failed to spot the suspicious-looking suicide bombers who detonated their explosives in a deadly
TEL AVIV – In the wake of the Brussels terrorist attacks, which a former security chief at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport termed a “colossal failure” of Belgian security, the world is looking to Israel as a model. Authorities in Europe and across the world are tightening security at airports, railway stations, government buildings, and other critical sites after the deadly attacks Tuesday on the Brussels airport and metro that killed 34 people.
JAFFA, Israel – A Dubai official has been at the center of a Twitter scandal for praising Israel. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, the Head of General Security for the Emirate of Dubai, tweeted that the Muslim Brotherhood is a much bigger enemy of
Hamas staged major military exercises Tuesday to test its readiness in the event of another Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has been ravaged by three wars since 2008. The exercises involving 1,000 police and emergency services personnel were
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A new poll indicates that a majority of Palestinians back near-daily stabbing attacks on Israelis, but that support dropped by nine points to 58 percent over the past three months. Monday’s survey also shows that
TEL AVIV – Anyone who buys settlement products is an accomplice to an act of war, PLO Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi (pictured) told the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, the Jerusalem Post reported. The UNHRC met in Geneva toward the
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has warned Israel against attacking Lebanon, saying it will fight any new war with the Jewish state without any red lines. In an interview with the Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen station Monday, Sayyed Hassan
TEL AVIV – The son of a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen murdered by Palestinian terrorists addressed the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, slamming it and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for inciting terror and “painting the train tracks to Auschwitz” by failing
JERUSALEM – The Governor of Ramallah met with the family of the Palestinian murderer of an Israeli teenager, telling them that she is “counting the days until …Abd Al-Fattah [is] a free man,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.
Bloomberg Business reports: The Israeli military’s elite Cyber Command is honing its skills at Hogwarts. A small, handpicked group of computer wizards in the command’s officers training course will soon take what they learned in a recent one-week simulation to the
Ynetnews reports: “Shlissel ran quietly among the parade participants, worked quietly – not as you would imagine,” a witness told the prosecution in the trial of Yishai Shlissel (pictured above, centre), accused of murdering Shira Banki at the Jerusalem Pride
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel’s government on Sunday warned against travel to Turkey after three of its citizens were killed in an Istanbul suicide bombing the previous day. The country’s anti-terrorism office raised its threat assessment and “recommends avoiding visits to
TEL AVIV – Three Palestinians were critically wounded and five others declared missing after a terror tunnel collapsed underneath the town of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian press reported on Saturday. The incident marks the tenth such
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say a Palestinian stabbed a paramilitary officer in the West Bank city of Hebron before being shot dead. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says officers asked the 17-year-old Palestinian to identify himself Saturday and then he
The Jerusalem Post reports: Gaza could be a ticking timebomb of disease for the region if a serious sewage issue is not fixed, an Israeli environmental group warned on Thursday. Gidon Bromberg, founder and Israel director of EcoPeace, told the Jerusalem
Iran will likely escape new United Nations sanctions, though the U.N. Security Council could issue a public reprimand for recent launches of what Western officials described as ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, diplomats said. Council diplomats said
The Jerusalem Post reports: Regardless of the problems that existed under the Obama presidency, the next administration’s initial instinct will be to improve ties with Israel, Dennis Ross (above left) said this week. Ross, who dealt with Middle East issues
The Jerusalem Post reports: Lawmakers from 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries signed a resolution affirming their support of Israel and calling to fight boycotts, a document obtained by the Jerusalem Post Thursday confirmed. The parliamentarians met at the Israel
TEL AVIV – Psychological disorders are a recurring phenomenon behind attacks by Palestinian “lone wolf” terrorists – many of whom enter Israel legally using a family reunification law, Israeli security agency Shin Bet said on Wednesday.
The Daily Mail reports: A new phone app allows Israelis to make video distress calls to emergency responders on their mobile phones. The country launched a nationwide platform in which emergency services can see live video of the victim, chat
Ynetnews reports: Two attackers stabbed and moderately-to-seriously wounded a female IDF soldier on Thursday morning near Ariel. The attack occurred next to the transportation station at the square at the entrance to Ariel, which is used by hundreds of Palestinians and
Hamas’s military wing said Wednesday one of its members was involved in an attack in the occupied West Bank, in what was thought to be the first such acknowledgement since a wave of violence began in October. In a statement,
The Washington Post reports: JERUSALEM — Israel viewed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that he was removing the bulk of his troops from Syria with a mix of surprise and concern. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with Putin in Moscow
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has hosted Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, hailing friendly ties between the two nations. While welcoming Rivlin in the Kremlin, Putin noted that nearly 1.5 million Israeli citizens have origins in Russia and other former Soviet nations,
The Jerusalem Post reports: The military wing of Islamic Jihad, operating in Gaza, released a propaganda video Tuesday night threatening IDF soldiers in response to the recent “Israeli escalation” in the Gaza Strip. The minute and a half long video, titled
TEL AVIV – Israel is set to raise the height of its fence along the Egyptian border in an effort to keep out migrants, defense officials said Tuesday. The fence will be raised an additional meter, making it six meters (19.7 feet) high.
