Israel News

Analysis: First reported IAF strikes in months hint at importance of targets

Analysis: First reported IAF strikes in months hint at importance of targets

Israel said to act on declared ‘red lines’ with overnight air raids on Syrian military base, Hezbollah weapons convoy   For the first time in… Read More ›

Int’l law does not deal with attack tunnels, say experts

Int’l law does not deal with attack tunnels, say experts

It is unclear to what extent an armed force is obliged to check whether civilians are hiding in a tunnel before attacking it as a… Read More ›

The anti-Zionist right

The anti-Zionist right

Op-ed: Instead of having the state’s best interest in mind, Likud Knesset members are insisting on enacting damaging laws in order to gather a few… Read More ›

When a Muslim MK beseeched Israel to fund a Moroccan synagogue

When a Muslim MK beseeched Israel to fund a Moroccan synagogue

In impassioned plea, Zouheir Bahloul says Jewish state has ‘duty’ to support upkeep of holy places abroad, but local Jewish community ‘surprised’ by request, says… Read More ›

Jewish Democrats cry hypocrisy over US general’s Israel remarks

Jewish Democrats cry hypocrisy over US general’s Israel remarks

Gen. James Mattis, contender for Trump’s defense secretary, said settlements could lead to ‘apartheid.’   WASHINGTON – After defending US President Barack Obama’s credentials on… Read More ›

The reality of women in combat roles

The reality of women in combat roles

Op-ed: Research shows that not only has operational preparedness suffered as a result of women’s incorporation in combat units, but that female soldiers themselves have… Read More ›

Top US firefighters ‘dropped everything’ to help Israel battle the blazes

Top US firefighters ‘dropped everything’ to help Israel battle the blazes

39 firefighters, mostly not Jewish, answered Israel’s call for help through the Emergency Volunteers Project   TEL AVIV (JTA) — Call them Israel’s American volunteer… Read More ›

Analysis: IDF meets Islamic State

Analysis: IDF meets Islamic State

Is ISIS trying to provoke Israel?   The cross-border incident Sunday morning on the Golan Heights between the IDF and Islamic State-linked terrorists in Syria represented… Read More ›

Israel Air Force officer: ‘Syria’s the global stage, everybody’s playing there’

Israel Air Force officer: ‘Syria’s the global stage, everybody’s playing there’

Senior official gives military’s view of Syrian civil war, and how Israeli jets navigate the dangerously full skies next door   For years, Israel was… Read More ›

IDF reveals video-interpreting system

IDF reveals video-interpreting system

The army also revealed the existence of the advanced, start-up-styled unit that developed the technology; live events are summarized in text; a database compares to… Read More ›

Finance minister: NIS 2,500 immediately to every person who can’t go home

Finance minister: NIS 2,500 immediately to every person who can’t go home

Speaking in Haifa, Moshe Kahlon committed to provide emergency relief, distributed by local authorities, to every person whose home was rendered uninhabitable by the recent… Read More ›

Cabinet to gather in fire-struck Haifa as flames peter out

Cabinet to gather in fire-struck Haifa as flames peter out

Small fires still being quenched in Jerusalem hills; firefighters to stay on high alert through the week; at least 35 people, mostly Palestinians, held on… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israeli PM Thanks Palestinian President For Help In Fighting Fires

Jerusalem – Israeli PM Thanks Palestinian President For Help In Fighting Fires

  Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday night to thank him for sending firefighting teams and trucks… Read More ›

Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories on Facebook Live with Palestinians

Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories on Facebook Live with Palestinians

Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai answered questions posed to him by residents of the West Bank and Gaza. Asked ‘When will the occupation end?’ he answered,… Read More ›

Follow the lawyer

Follow the lawyer

Op-ed: In his fourth term, Netanyahu is a king in his palace. As the one who was the first to spot the Mount Carmel fire,… Read More ›

75,000 evacuated from Haifa amid allegations of ‘arson terror’

75,000 evacuated from Haifa amid allegations of ‘arson terror’

Fires contained elsewhere in the country; eight countries sending planes to combat blazes, Palestinians dispatching crew   Firefighters continued to battle blazes around the country,… Read More ›

Israeli Jews of Iraqi descent meet Abbas in Ramallah

Israeli Jews of Iraqi descent meet Abbas in Ramallah

“The hostility must end, and we want people to live in peace with everyone, whether [Mizrahi] or Ashkenazi,” Abbas remarks, adding, “We will one day… Read More ›

Appointed IDF chief rabbi to High Court: ‘I never said it’s okay to rape’

Appointed IDF chief rabbi to High Court: ‘I never said it’s okay to rape’

In response to halting his appointment to chief rabbi of the IDF, Rabbi Eyal Karim issues an affidavit to the High Court, saying, ‘One must… Read More ›

Israel against using term ‘Polish death camps’

Israel against using term ‘Polish death camps’

Israeli-Polish governments hold joint meeting in capital.   Israel is opposed to the use of the term “Polish death camps” to describe the Nazi concentration… Read More ›

State-sponsored chaos

State-sponsored chaos

Op-ed: Israel must pass a law to prevent the recurrence of cases like Amona by settling once and for all land-ownership issues and setting a… Read More ›