TEL AVIV – The U.S. on Tuesday accused Israel of “expropriating land” in the Jordan Valley after Israel reclassified 2,342 dunams (578 acres) near the Palestinian city of Jericho as state land, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Times of Israel reports: The army’s early warning app, iOref, is faster and smarter than the competition’s, according to the director of the IDF Homefront Command’s alerts division. “There are other apps that claim to warn Israelis if a missile
The Times of Israel reports: Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Gadi Eisenkot (pictured) said a recent covert Israeli offer to end IDF operations in parts of the West Bank was part of an effort to bolster security measures
The Jerusalem Post reports: The government must close West Bank roads to Palestinians after terrorist attacks, settlers said on Tuesday as they marched along Route 60 for two hours from the Karmei Tzur settlement to the Gush Etzion junction. If this
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Israel navy is developing a new command and control system for its vessels, which will enable it to strike targets on shore from the sea in less time, and play a larger part in air
TEL AVIV – Fatah and Hamas have been engaged in a media war over the perpetrator of Monday’s car-ramming attack in the West Bank that left three Israeli soldiers lightly wounded. Both groups are claiming the attacker as a member.
TEL AVIV – A non-binding United Nations Security Council resolution on the two-state solution may be the best way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, opined a New York Times editorial published Monday. “There are several options, but the best may be a
The Times of Israel reports: A soldier said he narrowly escaped a stabbing attempt at the entrance to an airport in northern Tel Aviv on Tuesday, according to police. The alleged stabber is said to have escaped the scene in
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the idea of a violent struggle against Israel and stated that a Palestinian state would be established only by diplomatic means, the Jerusalem Post reported. “We are now engaging in a
TEL AVIV — Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon criticized the Iran nuclear deal on Monday, saying it will pave the way for Iranian dominance of the Middle East, and slammed President Barack Obama’s mishandling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Algemeiner reports: Soldiers in the IDF’s new Cyber Defense Division just completed their first drill, involving the simulation of a major security breach at the hands of Israel’s enemies, Israel’s Channel 2 reported on Monday, when the Israeli military released
The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinian civil society organizations that receive foreign funding are inciting terrorism, according to a new report by MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute) and shared exclusively with The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Palestinian organizations in
The New York Times reports: Israel called on the United Nations Security Council on Monday to punish Iran for testing missiles capable of reaching Israel, which the Israelis said was a sign that the Iranians could not be trusted to
The Times of Israel reports: A tunnel collapse in Gaza killed a commander with Hamas’s military wing, the group said Monday, in the 10th such cave-in since the start of 2016. A brigades spokesman described the collapse as a “work
TEL AVIV – A barrage of rockets was fired at Israel over the weekend and another one was launched on Monday in what seems to be a power struggle between Hamas and Salafi movements. Salafi militants allied with the Islamic State fired the rockets in protest of Hamas’ clampdown on jihadi groups, the Gazan-based Salafi leader Abu Ayna Al-Ansari told Breitbart Jerusalem.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia, which has veto power in the United Nations Security Council, said on Monday Iran should not face new council sanctions over recent ballistic missile tests as the tests did not violate a U.N. resolution. The
The Jerusalem Post reports: A Gaza tunnel collapsed in Shujaiyyeh, in the eastern part of Gaza city on Monday, an area near the border with Israel, killing a Hamas operative who was inside. Hamas’s military wing, the Izzadin Al-Kassam Brigades,
TEL AVIV – An Israeli-Arab fighting for the Islamic State was killed in Syria in an American airstrike, Ynet news reported. 28-year-old Khalil Saleh, from Umm al-Fahm in Israel’s north, entered Syria via Turkey three years ago. His family received
TEL AVIV – Nearly 60% of Palestinians support the current so-called wave of terror attacks against Israelis, according to a new survey published Sunday. Just 41% of those polled oppose the violence. The survey found a sharp contrast between Gaza
The Jerusalem Post reports: The European Union (EU) could impose sanctions on Iran over its recent ballistic missile tests, France’s foreign minister said on Sunday. The United States, France and other countries have already said that, if the missiles are
During a radio interview on Sunday, legendary standup comic and staunch Israel supporter Jackie Mason took issue with Sen. Ted Cruz’s attacks on opponent Donald Trump concerning the billionaire’s positions on Iran and Israel during the most recent debate.
The Times of Israel reports: The Shin Bet, together with the IDF, has seized dozens of homemade weapons and gun-making equipment in Palestinian cities in the West Bank over the past few months, the security service announced on Sunday. During
TEL AVIV – Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned Hamas on Saturday that Israel will hit harder than it has before if the terrorist entity continues to fire rockets at the Jewish state. Hamas fired four rockets from Gaza into
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Science, Technology, and Space Minister Ofir Akunis on Saturday accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of being the worst inciter against Israel over the past six months of violence, the Times of Israel reported. “The [Palestinian] Authority has
TEL AVIV – The Arab media accused the newly appointed Secretary-General of the Arab League of being too “conciliatory” toward Israel, Ynet news reported. Ahmed Aboul-Gheit was nicknamed “Tzipi’s boyfriend” due to meetings the former Egyptian foreign minister held with his
Jerusalem (AFP) – An Israeli chief rabbi said that knife-wielding attackers should be killed, after a call by the head of the armed forces to not use excessive firepower in combating a wave of Palestinian violence. “If a terrorist comes
JAFFA, Israel – No less than 50 armed militias are currently operating in the Gaza Strip, possessing around one million weapons of various kinds, an Egyptian newspaper claimed on Thursday. According to an investigative report in the Seventh Day daily newspaper, the leading militia is Hamas’ military wing, the Azz a-Din al-Qassam brigades, which is 18,000-24,000 troops strong.
The Jerusalem Post reports: An Israeli was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack near Jerusalem’s Dung Gate on Friday afternoon. Magen David Adom was treating the Israeli, who sustained a stab wound to the upper body. After fleeing from the
The Jerusalem Post reports: “Choose love, not hate” Lakin Avni told US Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday as he urged him to push the Obama administration to clamp down on Palestinian terrorism. “The American government is funding [Palestinian Authority
An Israeli busker has become a local celebrity after smashing his guitar over the head of a Palestinian terrorist on a fatal stabbing rampage along the Tel Aviv seafront. Yishai Montgomery, 26, has been dubbed the “guitar hero” by Israeli
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday said he opposed all forms of violence but ignored a call from US Vice President Joe Biden to explicitly condemn terrorist attacks on Israelis. “Our hand is outstretched in peace founded on justice and
Israeli forces raided the West Bank offices of Palestine Today television overnight and arrested its manager over allegations of inciting violence, Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency said on Friday. The operation targeting the station’s Ramallah offices was the latest
The Jerusalem Post reports: Eight percent of Israelis are satisfied with what their government is doing to fight terrorism, according to a Panels Research poll taken for the Knesset Channel that was broadcast on Thursday. Seventy-seven percent of respondents said
The Times of Israel reports: Iranian media on Thursday denied reports that US Secretary of State John Kerry protested Iran’s latest long-range missile tests to its foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif a day earlier. “John Kerry has sent emails to Zarif
TEL AVIV – The head of the far-left Israeli NGO Peace Now blasted a stabbing victim’s act of self-defense in a terror attack on Tuesday, calling it an “extrajudicial killing.” Yariv Oppenheimer took to Twitter to condemn terror victim Yonatan Azarihab, who was stabbed multiple times in a store in Petah Tikva before he managed to pull the terrorist’s knife from his own neck and use it to stab and eventually kill his attacker.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday that it was unaware of any new US effort to resume the stalled peace process with Israel. Ahmed Majdalani, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said that the PA leadership
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Wednesday launched efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process by this summer, while ruling out “automatic” recognition of Palestinian statehood. Paris will not “automatically” recognise a Palestinian state if a French initiative to host
The Jerusalem Post reports: MKs from all coalition parties and some in the opposition signed a bill that would deport terrorists’ family members to Gaza, which Knesset House Committee David Bitan (Likud) submitted Wednesday. The idea for the bill came
TEL AVIV – Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday night that the current wave of Palestinian attacks on Israelis is a “war against Islamic State-style Muslim extremist terror,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “We are in an emergency situation,” Katz told Channel 2 following
TEL AVIV – Superintendent Micky Rosenfeld, foreign press spokesman for the Israel Police, says he does not believe there is any connection between the increase in attacks in the last 24 hours and Vice President Joe Biden’s visit here at the same
