|  | Iran and Hizbullah, its Lebanese terror proxy, are building a network of militias inside Syria to preserve and protect their interests in the event that President Bashar al-Assad's government falls or is forced to retreat from Damascus.
| | | | | |  | The upcoming visit to Israel by U.S. President Barack Obama was first on the list of items mentioned by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the opening of the weekly Sunday morning Cabinet meeting.
| | | | | |  | The IDF was able to foil on Saturday yet another attempt by Palestinian Authority Arabs to set up an illegal outpost in Judea and Samaria.
| | | | | |  | Katyusha rockets fired on a camp housing Iranian dissidents near Baghdad killed five members of the Iranian Mujahedeen-e-Khalq opposition, Iraqi security officials said Saturday.
| | | | | |  | The Air Force spent this week rehearsing for an unusual and highly dangerous scenario: the rescue of a pilot from behind enemy lines.
| | | | | |  | Syria's ambassador to the United Nations has claimed there is "no truth" to reports that an alleged Israeli airstrike last week had targeted a convoy heading to neighboring Lebanon.
| | | | | |  | Hezbollah denied it was involved in a terrorist attack in Bulgaria that killed six, including five Israelis.
| | | | | |  | Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei turned down the US offer of one-on-one talks on its nuclear program Thursday, Feb. 7, just 24 hours after US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that due to budgetary constraints, the US could only keep one, not two, US aircraft carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf.
| | | | | |  | Iran has claimed that it has decoded and released footage on state television allegedly extracted from a CIA drone captured in 2011 after it entered Iranian airspace near the Afghan-Iran border.
| | | | | |  | | Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is always touted by the West as a peace partner for Israel, met on Wednesday with the man that has constantly called for Israel's destruction. | | | | | |  | United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke by phone with his Egyptian counterpart to discuss the tense political situation in Cairo and the "role" of the army amid recent street demonstrations, a Pentagon spokesman said.
| | | | | |  | The Iranian people are ready to march on Israel to "wipe it out" if the Jewish state attacks the Islamic republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in his latest anti-Semitic diatribe.
| | | | | |  | | The 19th Knesset began work Tuesday with much fanfare. Media coverage of the emotional scenes from the end of the day, as the national anthem Hatikva played, missed one important detail: that many Arab MKs were no longer present. | | | | | |  | | The weapons, including RPG anti-tank missiles, rockets, grenades and bullets, also were found in a kindergarten and a drainage ditch in Abu Sinan. | | | | | |  | United States President Barack Obama is planning his first trip to Israel as president, the Reuters news agency reports. Obama did not visit Israel during his first term.
| | | | | | | | Two men with links to the terrorist organization Hezbollah were implicated in a terrorist attack in Bulgaria that killed six, including five Israelis, a Bulgarian official has said.
| | | | | |  | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Tuesday, marking the first visit of an Iranian president to Egypt in over thirty years.
| | | | | |  | John Kerry, freshly installed as secretary of state, spoke with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders. Also over the weekend, two top State Department officials dealing with Iran's alleged nuclear threat said they would be stopping in Israel during overseas visits.
| | | | | |  | The Shabak and IDF, it was revealed Monday, have arrested members of a terror gang who were involved in a shooting attack near the Binyamin community of Neve Tzuf in December 2012.
| | | | | |  | | In the study, BC-819 is being administered in conjunction with the standard chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, gemcitabine. The results reaffirm the positive safety and efficacy results of the previous trials of the drug for this indication. | | | | | |  | Syrian ruler Bashar Assad has ordered the resumption of weapons transfers to the Lebanese Hizballah, debkafile's exclusive military and intelligence sources report.
| | | | | | | | | "I am ready to be the first human to be sent to space by Iranian scientists," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday, adding that he is willing to sacrifice his life for the country's space program. | | | | | |  | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel on Sunday of waging "state terrorism" as he condemned the alleged Israeli air strike on Syria as an unacceptable violation of international law.
| | | | | |  | Israel intends to declare a buffer zone inside the Syrian border to prevent terrorists from getting too close to its territory when the embattled Damascus regime topples, security sources quoted by the AFP news agency said on Sunday.
| | | | | |  | The White House condemned Friday's suicide bombing outside the U.S. embassy in Ankara as a "terrorist attack."
| | | | | |  | Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu criticized the Syrian government over the weekend, for failing to respond to an alleged attack by Israel inside Syria earlier this week, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reports.
| | | | | |  | Turkish interior minister Moammer Guler identified the suicide bomber who detonated an explosive Friday, Feb. 1 at the US embassy in Ankara killing a Turkish security guard as Ecevit Sanli, 31, a member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front.
| | | | | |  | | Syria will respond to the "Zionist aggression" at the appropriate time which it will decide, the Syrian army's chief of staff threatened on Thursday night. | | | | | |  | Ten years after the death of Ilan Ramon on the space shuttle Columbia, Israel is ready to train a new astronaut.
| | | | | |  | The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria.
| | | | | |  | After Syria and Lebanon, Iran too has reacted sharply to the reports of an Israeli attack on Syria. The Iranian deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said this afternoon that his country "condemns the Zionist action on Syrian territory" and that "the Israeli attack will have serious consequences in Tel Aviv."
| | | | | |  | | The White House on Thursday warned Syria not to transfer weapons to Hizbullah, as tensions mounted following reported Israeli raids on a military research center and a weapons convoy. | | | | | |  | The Syrian announcement of an Israeli air strike on a military site near Damascus Wednesday, Jan. 30, drew strong condemnation from Moscow the next day.
| | | | | |  | In recently revealed comments, President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of defense Chuck Hagel made staggering accusations against Israel, alleging that the Jewish state is keeping the "Palestinians caged up like animals."
| | | | | |  | The Syrian government, by admitting that the Israel Air Force attacked the Jamaraya "Military Research Institute" (a euphemism for an arms deport), near Damascus, broke the barrier of silence the Israeli government had clamped down on its initial involvement in the Syrian conflict.
| | | | | |  | The arms convoy that Israel reportedly attacked last night along the Syria-Lebanon border carried SA-17 missiles, among other things, according to foreign sources. The SA-17 is a Russian-made anti-aircraft missile.
| | | | | | | | According to reports, Israeli warplanes carried out a surveillance mission over Lebanon Tuesday night which possibly included a strike on an alleged weapons convoy located near the Syrian-Lebanon border.
| | | | | |  | Israel's Foreign Ministry summoned the Argentinian ambassador over his country's agreement with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires JCC.
| | | | | |  | Israel boycotted a United Nations review of its human rights practices, becoming the first country to do so.
| | | | | |  | Israeli Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel warned on Jan. 29, that Syria is falling apart and no one knows what the next day may bring: "War may not break out tomorrow," he said, "but we stand ready for any eventuality."
| | | | | |  | | Families displaced in Gaza Disengagement were given urgent evacuation orders to leave the Nitzan caravan site. | | | | | |  | Tensions along Israel's northern border are rising. Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom warned yesterday that Israel might respond with a military strike to any sign that Syria's chemical weapons might end up in the wrong hands.
| | | | | |  | President Obama congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on winning the most seats in the next Knesset and said he looked forward to working with the new government.
| | | | | |  | An Israeli intelligence source has confirmed Iran's Fordow underground nuclear uranium enrichment facility sustained major damage in a "mega explosion" that occurred last week.
| | | | | |  | Tehran is looking seriously at a limited Syrian-Lebanese clash of arms with Israel, possibly using Bashar Assad's chemical weapons as a trigger, debkafile's military and intelligence sources disclose.
| | | | | |  | At least eight officers were killed in a mysterious twin-car bomb explosion Friday, Jan. 25 at Syrian regional intelligence headquarters in Quneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
| | | | | |  | A Liberal Democrat MP in Britain faces expulsion from the party for saying Jews had not learned from the murder of six million in the Holocaust in their treatment of Palestinian Authority Arabs.
| | | | | |  | A federal judge in Chicago sentenced an American citizen to 35 years in prison for helping Islamist terrorists kill 160 people in India in 2008.
| | | | | |  | | Terrorists fail to cause death in Israel, switch to attacking Jews and Israelis worldwide with attacks in Bulgaria, India, and elsewhere. | | | | | |  | Iran asserted on Thursday that the United States has no other options to pressure the regime over its nuclear program, other than war, and it is chooses to embark upon such a path, Tehran would have no qualms about closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
| | | | | |  | Rabbi Dov Lipman, a dual American-Israeli citizen who was elected to the Knesset, will give up his American citizenship when he takes office.
| | | | | |  | | Thursday's order by a Grand Instance Court judge in Paris came in response to a lawsuit by the Union of French Jewish Students that sought to limit the impunity with which Twitter users may disseminate anti-Semitic incitement. | | | | | |  | World powers hope to resume talks with Iran "as soon as possible" and are "very flexible" on a venue, an EU spokesman said Wednesday.
| | | | | |  | Participation in United Nations forums that refer to a "State of Palestine" does not constitute U.S. recognition of Palestinian statehood, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said.
| | | | | |  | In highly anticipated testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
| | | | | |  | A few observations about the Israeli election results.
| | | | | | | | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who will head a large but weaker Likud party in the new Knesset, gave a victory speech at his party's headquarters on Tuesday night.
| | | | | |  | | Despite Netanyahu's significant lead over rival parties, the right-wing and left-wing blocs are now evenly matched with 60 seats each. | | | | | |  | Binyamin Netanyahu will continue to serve as Prime Minister, but his power has been diminished, according to exit polls published Tuesday evening as the polls closed.
| | | | | |  | The trends emerging shortly before the exit polls is of a grave setback for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's chances of gathering a majority for forming a stable government coalition amid the meteoric rise of a new face in Israeli politics.
| | | | | |  | Voter turnout for Israel's elections was high Tuesday morning, with 38.3% of voters exercising their right to vote by 2:00 p.m.
| | | | | |  | Months of aggressive campaigning, political spins and endless polls come to an end on Tuesday, as Israelis elect their representatives for the 19th Knesset.
| | | | | |  | Haredi Orthodox Jews reportedly pushed and verbally attacked Naftali Bennett, the head of the Jewish Home party, at the Western Wall.
| | | | | |  | | The Russian emergency ministry said Monday, Jan. 21 that it is sending two planes to Beirut to evacuate 100 Russians from Syria - the first such effort since the uprising against Bashar Assad began in March 2011. | | | | | |  | Israel goes to the polls on Tuesday with 10,132 ballot station open around the country from 7 am to 10 pm. 5,656,705 citizens have the right to vote and choose between 34 party lists challenging for Knesset seats.
| | | | | |  | The bodies of two Canadian Islamist terrorists were found Monday at the remote gas complex which played host this past week to a four-day hostage crisis that has left at least 81 people dead.
| | | | | |  | President Obama in his second inaugural address spoke of U.S. involvement throughout the world and Americans working together at home.
| | | | | |  | The Israel Air Force on Monday conducted a successful test of an upgraded Iron Dome rocket system. The Defense Ministry said in a statement that the new, upgraded system would enable the placement of Iron Dome systems in more parts of the country.
| | | | | |  | Jewish Immigration to Israel registered a two-percent drop last year, a trend bucked by new arrivals from Europe and the former Soviet Union.
| | | | | |  | There has been a surge in the death toll in the attack by Al Qaeda-linked terrorists on a gas installation in southern Algeria, authorities say.
| | | | | |  | "History will not forgive those who do not stop Iran's nuclear program," was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's message during a meeting with top U.S. senators on Saturday evening.
| | | | | |  | After being endorsed by American billionaire Donald Trump, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday received another surprising endorsement - this time from famed actor Chuck Norris.
| | | | | |  | The White House said on Thursday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's latest warnings on the state of Iran's economy, proved the "profound impact" of nuclear sanctions, AFP reports.
| | | | | |  | Hamas is once again trying to punish the residents of Gaza by attempting to reduce the scope of Israeli goods entering the region.
| | | | | |  | The United States has quietly asked Turkey and Jordan to keep an eye on Syria's chemical weaponry, and to step in to take responsibility for the ordnance, should the need arise.
| | | | | |  | The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an Arabic-language editorial titled "Arabs of Israel: Get out and vote."
| | | | | |  | For the first time since its establishment, the European Union has incorporated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, into its official calendar.
| | | | | |  | The Likud Beytenu has filed a complaint over a Bayit Yehudi ad that shows Likud leader Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu side-by-side with Jewish Home head Naftali Bennett.
| | | | | |  | | Al Qaeda-linked terrorists are holding Americans and other foreign nationals hostage after seizing a gas field in the southern Algerian town of In Amenas. Three people were killed in the attack. | | | | | |  | The Palestinian Authority, facing its worst financial crisis ever, will receive financial assistance from Saudi Arabia, it was announced Wednesday.
| | | | | |  | | "My name is Donald Trump and I'm a big fan of Israel," Trump says at the start of the 36-second video. | | | | | |  | About 50 Arabs mounted an assault on Rachel's Tomb, just outside Bethlehem, Wednesday evening. They threw pipe bombs, fire bombs and rocks at the security forces guarding the compound.
| | | | | | | | Only the people of Israel can decide who will represent their best interests, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday in remarks directed at President Barack Obama a week prior to the general election.
| | | | | |  | President Barack Obama's controversial nominee for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, has sought to temper the concerns of pro-Israel lawmakers by backtracking on comments he made in 2006 about a "Jewish lobby" in Washington.
| | | | | |  | Israeli soldiers found the opening of a large tunnel in Israeli territory dug from the Gaza Strip that officials believe is intended for use in terror activity.
| | | | | |  | Iran will parade its ballistic rocket achievements by sending monkeys into space next month as part of the celebrations leading up to the 34th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Feb. 10.
| | | | | |  | A bill is scheduled to set to be introduced in Congress this week to allow Israelis to enter the United States for 90 days without needing to obtain a visa.
| | | | | |  | Researchers at the Hebrew University Institute of Medical Research Center have discovered a mechanism by which breast cancer cells switch on their aggressive cancerous behavior.
| | | | | |  | Egypt is set to host another meeting between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction and its rival Hamas, the Egyptian Al-Ahram daily reported on Monday.
| | | | | |  | Oil exploration companies got the green light to go ahead with drilling of wells off the coast of Herzliya Monday, after the Tel Aviv Regional Building and Planning Commission withdrew its objections to the exploration of the Gabriella oil field.
| | | | | |  | The Israel Defense Forces announced last week the closure to Israeli civilian traffic of a 182-kilometer long strip, 300 meters deep, along the Israeli-Egyptian border, carving out Israel's first security zone in its sovereign territory.
| | | | | | | | Iran has been establishing signals intelligence stations in several parts of the Middle East, including the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
| | | | | |  | US President Barack Obama said Saturday that the US goal in Afghanistan was "within reach" as he vowed to move ahead with a timetable to end the 11-year-old military campaign.
| | | | | |  | Approximately 200 Palestinians erected about 50 tents in the area in response to plans announced by the Israeli government in November to build settlements along the E1 corridor which connects Jerusalem to Ma'aleh Adumim, a West Bank settlement.
| | | | | |  | The United States is increasingly focused on how to secure Syria's chemical weapons if President Bashar al-Assad falls from power, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday.
| | | | | |  | | President Obama nominated Jack Lew, his chief of staff, to be secretary of the Treasury Department. | | | | | |  | | A Tunisian non-governmental organization that defends minorities and campaigns, among other issues, against anti-Semitism, has accused a controversial militia close to the ruling Islamists of attacking its offices. | | | | | |  | | The U.S. State Department has decided to keep the office of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington open for another six months, despite anti-terrorism legislation deeming it illegal. | | | | | |  | This week's remarkable winter storm has reached its peak, culminating in substantial snowfalls in large parts of northern Israel, Jerusalem and the inland hills.
| | | | | |  | Gabrielle Giffords, a former Arizona congresswoman, and husband Mark Kelly launched a gun control initiative.
| | | | | |  | The Kinneret's water level has risen 110 centimeters since the start of the winter rainy season, the Water Authority reports.
| | | | | |  | Israeli surveillance that spotted Syria preparing chemical bombs to load them on airplanes spurred President Barack Obama into action to win rare support from Russia to stop the plan, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
| | | | | | | | The Palestinian Authority's Minister of Communication, Safa Nassereddin, said on Tuesday that the first stamp to carry the name "State of Palestine" will be issued for the benefit of PA diplomatic offices abroad.
| | | | | |  | An IDF soldier who has suffered from leukemia since he was a child recently won the right to be assigned to a combat unit, after the soldier sued.
| | | | | |  | So far, the major winter storm that hit Israel this week has flooded roads and highways, closed schools and businesses, created monster traffic jams, and caused at least three deaths.
| | | | | |  | "Syria's chemical weapons are under control for now, but no one in America or Israel can tell what the situation will be five minutes from now," a senior Israeli defense official told debkafile Tuesday, Jan.8.
| | | | | |  | Israel's answer to "Superstorm Sandy" closed the Ayalon, Tel Aviv's major highway Tuesday morning, and the worst is yet to come, with several inches of snow possible in Jerusalem.
| | | | | | | | Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will not rush to issue "State of Palestine" passports, fearing a conflict with Israel, PLO officials stated on Monday.
| | | | | | | | | An investigator in the deadly July bombing in Burgas was dismissed for leaking classified information to the media. | | | | | |  | The deployment of Patriot missiles in Turkey is designed to protect Israel from Iranian threats, Iran charged on Sunday, according to the Turkish daily Hurriyet.
| | | | | |  | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel would erect a new security fence along its armistice line with Syria in order to protect the Jewish state from "infiltration and terrorism."
| | | | | | | | Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' bid to officially name the territories he controls "the state of Palestine" has not distracted residents from their anger over corruption and the failing economy.
| | | | | | | | Yuval Diskin, formerly the head of Israel's Shin Bet internal security service, lashed out at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday, portraying him as weak, out of touch, and a danger to Israel's security.
| | | | | |  | The mufti of Australia visited Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza last week, sparking harsh condemnations from the country's Jewish community.
| | | | | |  | | Iran's ability to attack Israel has been compromised significantly in the past year, Israeli diplomats meeting in Jerusalem were told by Defense Ministry intelligence officials. | | | | | |  | | More than 60,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, the UN said on Wednesday, as dozens more died or were wounded when an air strike hit a service station near Damascus. | | | | | |  | Israel's military prosecutor filed an indictment against the head of a Palestinian terrorist cell who organized the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv.
| | | | | | | | | The United States "still lives in the Cold War era", said Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Tuesday, in response to a new law enacted by President Barack Obama. | | | | | |  | Deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm in Egypt, the Freedom and Justice Party, announced Tuesday that Israel would cease to exist by the end of the decade.
| | | | | |  | Israeli officials have been holding talks in Jordan with Syrian opposition officials "in advance of a possible Israeli-U.S. operation in Syria to protect the Golan Heights," Western intelligence sources reported Tuesday.
| | | | | |  | Channel 2 says Prime Minister affirmed he still believes in the solution he outlined in his Bar Ilan speech in 2009.
| | | | | |  | | Iranian forces have combined cyber warfare tactics and maritime war games in a drill for the first time as the Islamic republic's naval units staged maneuvers in the Strait of Hormuz, media reports said on Monday. | | | | | | | | The Fatah party, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has made official what it has been saying quietly and has adopted a new logo showing all of Israel as Palestine.
| | | | | |  | Egypt will pursue a relationship with the Hizbullah terror group as a "real political and military force" on the ground in Lebanon, the Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon told the Lebanese newspaper Daily Star on Saturday.
| | | | | | | | The center topped its annual Top Ten Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs list with a quote from Mohammed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide, who lamented "Jewish control" and "spreading of corruption on earth," and recommended "holy Jihad" as a remedy.
| | | | | | | | | Abbas is demanding that Israel accept the indefensible pre-1967 lines as final borders, release all Arab terrorists from its jails, and halt construction in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem before talks begin. At the same time, he has refused to recognize Israel's right to exist. | | | | | |  | Despite appearances, Yaalon said, the U.S. was aware of everything going on in Syria and was "very concerned" about the implications for the Syrian civil war on the region.
| | | | | |  | | Speaking from his Israeli jail cell, where he is serving five life sentences for his role in planning suicide terror attacks, Barghouti said, "If the occupation continues, then a third intifada - an unarmed, popular one - will occur." | | | | | |  | | Iran's nuclear clock is ticking. Is anyone listening? | | | | | |  | Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA) Wayne LaPierre has come under fire for using the state of Israel as an example of how to avert school shootings.
| | | | | | | | A new Constitution drafted by an Islamist-majority committee has been signed into law by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Many Egyptian citizens appear to be losing confidence in the future of the country, and are rushing to withdraw their savings from the nation's banks.
| | | | | |  | Tehran is developing its own plans for continuing the Syrian war and maintaining its grip on the country - even as Washington and Russia press on with secret discussions on the fate of Syrian president Bashar Assad.
| | | | | |  | The Human Rights Watch issued a rare condemnation of Gaza terrorists on Monday for war crimes - without the usual "balancing act" of blaming Israel.
| | | | | | | | President Obama nominated Sen. John Kerry as secretary of state. Kerry has a strong pro-Israel voting record, but has rarely initiated the pro-Israel legislation.
| | | | | |  | Heavily-armed Islamists, many linked with Al Qaeda, have deepened their presence in the Syrian uprising and threaten Christians with death if they don't work against Assad.
| | | | | |  | Thousands of people recognized as Palestinian refugees returned on Thursday to the refugee camp in Damascus that has become a battle ground, as UN investigators warned of an openly sectarian conflict that threatens whole communities.
| | | | | |  | Several Christian organizations that support the Palestinian Authority are using Christmas to attack Israel. One claiming that if "Jesus were born today in Bethlehem, the Wise Men would spend several hours queuing to enter the town."
| | | | | |  | The Palestinian Authority is considering a multi-pronged strategy to isolate Israel, including seeking redress in international courts and ceasing security cooperation.
| | | | | |  | A senior official in the Judea and Samaria Division stated Tuesday that despite recent events in the area, "there were no changes in the rules of engagement in the region."
| | | | | | | | | The resolutions adopted Tuesday criticized Israel for "the continuing systematic violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people," and focused on "the extremely difficult socioeconomic conditions being faced by the Palestine refugees" in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. | | | | | | | | Israel's greatest concern is of increased attempts by Hizbullah to attain accomplishments by inserting unmanned aerial vehicles into Israeli territory, the Israeli Air Force said on Wednesday, according to a report on the Israel Defense website.
| | | | | | | | | Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received a warm welcome from Pope Benedict XVI during a three-day visit to Rome. | | | | | |  | | The Los Angeles Police Department investigated two bomb threats near a Jewish synagogue in Koreatown, L.A. early Tuesday morning. | | | | | |  | More than 400 American Jewish clergy members asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to go ahead with new construction in a corridor connecting eastern Jerusalem to the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim.
| | | | | |  | There are more than 900,000 poor children in Israel today. In other words, one in every three children in Israel lives in poverty, according to the annual report.
| | | | | |  | | Avigdor Lieberman's resignation as Israel's foreign minister officially took effect, and Israel's attorney general postponed filing an indictment for fraud and breach of trust against him. | | | | | |  | | In the wake of the shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., Jewish groups are looking to build alliances and back legislation to strengthen gun control laws. | | | | | | | | | A new independent poll in the Palestinian Authority points to a calm before a storm of terror as Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza rejected PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in favor of de facto Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. | | | | | |  | The United States, as expected, condemned on Monday Israel's plans to build new homes in Jerusalem.
| | | | | |  | Last week, the Azerbaijani police rounded up six Iranian agents who had infiltrated the country and were looking for the air bases where their government housed the drones purchased from Israel.
| | | | | |  | A Hamas terror cell has been uncovered in northern Jerusalem, it was released for publication Monday.
| | | | | |  | Shortly before the deployment of two American Patriot missiles manned by 400 US servicemen for defending Turkey against Syria was announced Dec. 13, Washington quietly recalled from Syrian waters the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier and its strike group.
| | | | | |  | The first of the 26 victims of the massacre at Newtown, Connecticut, was brought to rest on Sunday. Noah Posner, aged 6, was the only Jewish victim.
| | | | | | | | A mosque in the Palestinian neighborhood of Yarmouk in southern Damascus that was sheltering some 600 refugees from neighboring districts was attacked from the air and hit by at least one rocket.
| | | | | |  | | The ADL urged Columbia University to condemn "deeply disturbing" statements that called an Israeli border police officer a "terrorist" and were posted on Facebook by the Program Director for the University's Center for Palestine Studies. | | | | | |  | | Israeli leaders sent letters of condolence to President Obama over the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn. | | | | | | | | The secret, one-on-one nuclear negotiations President Barack Obama launched with Iran have run into a blank wall. A senior Iranian team member said Dec. 14 in New Delhi that the diplomatic process for solving the nuclear issue with Iran was in effect going nowhere.
| | | | | |  | The IDF and the police will be on high alert Friday, following a series of attempted terror attacks and riots in the Hevron area.
| | | | | |  | On the instructions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it has been decided that Israel will not sign the final open skies agreement with the EU on December 20 as scheduled.
| | | | | | | | | In a speech given by Hamas top terrorist Khaled Mashaal in Gaza over the weekend, Mashaal said that Hamas would not rest until it had destroyed Israel completely, now Abbas says that technically, Mashaal has already recognized Israel. | | | | | | | | Palestinian Authority Arabs rioted Thursday in Hevron, where they hurled rocks and bottles at Israeli soldiers. IDF troops responded with mob control methods that included the use of tear gas.
| | | | | | | | | Egypt has approved the entry of an Iranian aid convoy into Gaza. The announcement of the aid convoy comes as Iran continues to boast close relations with the terrorist organizations operating in Hamas-controlled Gaza. | | | | | |  | | Heifer at Hanukkah promotes unique Hanukkah gifts for kids that educate them about the Jewish precepts of tzedakah (charity) and tikkun olam (repairing the world). | | | | | |  | A Palestinian state will emerge by 2030, not through negotiations but incrementally, according to a group of intelligence advisers to President Obama.
| | | | | | | | | "Defense News" reports that Israel is uncertain whether to let India have the technology to produce the rocket interception system. | | | | | | | | Turkish President Abdullah Gul said that Israel was "playing with fire" with its plans to build in Jerusalem and the E1 area, stating that "Israel's actions will just hurt her... its isolation will grow, and its allies will be placed in a difficult position."
| | | | | | | | The UN delivers a "One Arab State Solution" through an art exhibit that shows all of Israel as Palestine, mirroring Mahmoud Abbas' "peace process map."
| | | | | |  | | Israeli pupils have scored major achievements in international tests. | | | | | |  | More than half the members of the U.S. Senate have signed on to a resolution urging the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and levy sanctions.
| | | | | |  | | The Obama administration took a careful look at the political calendar before announcing that the first four F-16 fighter planes - of the 20 approved in a $1 billion US foreign aid package to Egypt - would be delivered Jan. 22. | | | | | |  | The Northrop Grumman company and the U.S. Navy have conducted the Navy's first catapult launch of an unmanned system using the X47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator.
| | | | | |  | Islamic Jihad has placed Israel on warning it will break the ceasefire on missile attacks if its leader is banned from entering Gaza.
| | | | | | | | Representatives of the Arab League, who met in Qatar's capital Doha on Sunday, pledged to transfer a monthly sum of 100 million dollars to "the state of Palestine".
| | | | | |  | IDF Special Forces are operating inside Syria to track chemical weapons, the London Sunday Times reported. The Israeli government has not commented on the report.
| | | | | |  | | Italian police on Saturday seized a shipment of weapons intended for Egypt with a final destination of Gaza, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. | | | | | | | | Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, on his first visit to Gaza on Friday, told crowds he hoped his next visit would be to "Jerusalem, Ramallah and a liberated Palestine," the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency reports.
| | | | | |  | | Human Rights Watch accused Israel of committing war crimes during the last Gaza war. The Israeli army said in a statement that it worked to minimize noncombatant casualties, and civilians were never a target. | | | | | | | | The European Union called in Israel's ambassador on Thursday to express its concerns over Israel's plans to build thousands of new homes in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
| | | | | | | | | A secret arms shipment to Libyan rebels fell into the arms of known terrorist groups, leaving U.S. concerned same can happen in Syria. | | | | | |  | | Egyptian security forces deployed at least five tanks outside the presidential palace in a street where supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi had been clashing into the early hours of the morning, witnesses told Al Jazeera Thursday. | | | | | | | | | AFP reports that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said the plan was "a red line that cannot be tolerated" and warned he would take all the legal means available to prevent such a "dangerous" decision. | | | | | | | | A mortar shell fired from Syria fell on the Israeli side of the border fence on the Golan Heights Wednesday afternoon, security sources said Wednesday night.
| | | | | | | | | Three former Egyptian presidential candidates have been accused of espionage and conspiring a "Zionist plot" against the state, according to a complaint referred by Egypt's public prosecutor on Tuesday. | | | | | | | | The USS Eisenhower Strike Group transited the Suez Canal from the Persian Gulf Saturday, Dec. 1, sailing up to the Syrian coast Tuesday in a heavy storm, with 8 fighter bomber squadrons of Air Wing Seven on its decks and 8,000 sailors, airmen and Marines.
| | | | | | | | | Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat expressed support for the Israeli government's plan to build 3,000 additional housing units in the E1 section between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim, Israel Hayom reported. | | | | | |  | Israel is closely monitoring Syria's potential use of chemical weapons, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. "I heard President Obama's important remarks on this issue and we are of the same mind." he added.
| | | | | |  | Jordan's King Abdullah is set to arrive in Ramallah on Thursday on the first visit of an Arab leader to the area since the Palestinian Authority was granted UN recognition as a non-member observer state.
| | | | | |  | US forces in the region, Israel, Turkey and Jordan were all braced Monday night, Dec. 3 for action against Syria in case Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered his army's chemical warfare units to go into action against rebel and civilian targets his own country.
| | | | | |  | | Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday they downed another American spy drone hours after reports that the United States stepped up spying on the Bushehr nuclear plant. | | | | | |  | Engineers working for President Bashar Al-Assad's regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas.
| | | | | |  | The Palestinians have missed multiple opportunities for peacemaking, but the Israelis have shown a lack of empathy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.
| | | | | |  | Israeli security forces continue to foil Arab road terror attempts, including an attempted axe-murderer and a briefcase bomb under a bridge.
| | | | | | | | France and Italy say they're "not ready" to "start thinking in terms of sanctions" against Israel for approving new housing construction - and Israel is standing firm on its plans to go forward with plans to close the gap between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, despite veiled threats.
| | | | | | | | | Britain and France have summoned their Israeli ambassadors to protest Israel's decision to authorize housing construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. | | | | | | | | PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Sunday promised someday the PA flag would fly over "Jerusalem, eternal capital of the state of Palestine."
| | | | | |  | United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned Sunday against Israel’s plan to build new homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, calling it an "almost fatal blow" to any prospects for peace.
| | | | | |  | Turkey's Foreign Minister blasted Israel on Saturday, one day after the decision to build 3,000 new homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
| | | | | |  | The United States and Israel on Thursday hailed the performance of the Iron Dome missile defense system in combating the recent attacks launched by terrorists in the Gaza Strip, as Washington reaffirmed its commitment to the program.
| | | | | |  | The U.S. Army is preparing to supervise the construction of an underground military complex near Tel Aviv. The five-storey complex, dubbed "Site 911," is expected to take more than two years to build and will cost up to $100 million.
| | | | | | | | The U.S. Army is preparing to supervise the construction of an underground military complex near Tel Aviv. The five-storey complex, dubbed "Site 911," is expected to take more than two years to build and will cost up to $100 million.
| | | | | | | | The U.S. Army is preparing to supervise the construction of an underground military complex near Tel Aviv. The five-storey complex, dubbed "Site 911," is expected to take more than two years to build and will cost up to $100 million.
| | | | | |  | | Two UN soldiers who were wounded in Syria on Thursday will receive treatment in Israel. The two soldiers were flown by helicopter to the Rambam Hospital in Haifa. | | | | | | | | | Hamas welcomed the UN vote on "Palestine," but rejected a previous vote on splitting land between Arabs and Jews, saying "Our land won’t be shared." | | | | | |  | | As expected, the United Nations passed a resolution on Thursday evening recognizing Palestine as a non-member observer state. 138 countries voted in favor of the resolution, nine countries voted against it, and 41 countries abstained. | | | | | | | | | "You can't support the establishment of a Palestinian state on the one hand, and on the other - wonder when the world takes action to establish it," Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) Chairman Naftali Bennett said. "This is schizophrenic policymaking." | | | | | | | | | UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday ahead of key vote on UN recognition of a Palestinian state that the Middle East peace process is on "life support". | | | | | | | | | Thursday night, Nov. 29, the UN General Assembly is to grant "Palestine" non-member observer status within 1967 borders by a majority vote. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried dismissing this upgrade as meaningless. But the fact remains that this status and those borders are on the books, no matter which Palestinian government is in power | | | | | |  | The only path towards a Palestinian state is through direct negotiations, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized on Wednesday.
| | | | | | | | It won't be a unanimous vote for the Palestinian Authority bid for nonmember observer state status at the United Nations on Thursday. The United States, Canada and Israel will oppose the resolution, but few others have stated any intention of doing so.
| | | | | |  | | A Hungarian far-right deputy's suggested in parliament that "Now would be the time to survey people living here and in particular those in the Hungarian parliament and government, to see how many are of Jewish origin and present a certain national security risk to Hungary." | | | | | | | | The World Bank has come to the rescue of Hamas, giving it $6.4 million to improve water and sewage services after the latest escalation in attacks on Israel that drew Israel into the eight-day Pillar of Defense counterterrorist campaign.
| | | | | |  | An Israeli mother in the small agricultural community of Sde Avraham managed to fight off an armed terrorist who broke into her home and stabbed her in the face on Monday. She managed to fight him off and save her children from being killed.
| | | | | |  | | Negotiators for Israel and Hamas are holding separate talks with Egyptian mediators to iron out the details of last week's cease-fire. | | | | | |  | Former Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni today announced her return to politics at the head of a new political party, "The Movement", which will run in the January elections for the Knesset.
| | | | | |  | The body of former Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat was exhumed to test whether he died of radioactive poisoning. The body was exhumed Tuesday and samples were taken by a Palestinian doctor under the supervision of Swiss, Russian and French experts.
| | | | | |  | | IDF soldiers stationed along the border fence with Gaza say they have received new orders on opening fire, which allow Arabs in Gaza to endanger soldiers and Israeli civilians in nearby communities. | | | | | |  | Iranian warships will return to Sudan on Friday, the armed forces said on Monday, according to an AFP report. The announcement comes one month after a similar port call followed Khartoum's accusation that Israel bombed a military factory.
| | | | | |  | The staff of Israel's embassy in Cairo has returned to Egypt, according to a source at the city's airport. The employees had left the embassy during the eight-day Operation Pillar of Defense counter terror offensive against Gaza.
| | | | | |  | | The Jerusalem Local Planning and Building Commission last week approved for deposit a detailed outline plan for 1,400 new apartments in the city's Beit Hakerem neighborhood. | | | | | |  | Mumbai's Jewish community marked the fourth anniversary of the attack on the Chabad House that killed six, including the Chabad emissary couple in the Indian city.
| | | | | |  | | A Dutch news show has stirred controversy by airing a fake satirical video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bragging to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about civilian deaths in Gaza. The video was spread by thousands of Twitter and Facebook users who advertised it under the headline "Netanyahu finally tells the truth." | | | | | |  | Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that he was quitting political life after 47 years and would not stand in the January 22, 2013 general election. He would however stay on in defense until the incumbent government ends its term in three months.
| | | | | |  | The David's Sling (also known as Magic Wand) anti-missile system successfully intercepted a ballistic missile in a test yesterday.
| | | | | |  | | Noam Schalit, the father of freed soldier Gilad Schalit, criticized the government Sunday for not advancing "peace talks" with Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) while conducting contacts with Hamas. | | | | | | | | The Palestinian Authority will release Hamas-affiliated detainees as a goodwill gesture to boost reconciliation efforts, a PLO official said Sunday, after Hamas announced similar measures earlier.
| | | | | | | | The civil war in Syria spilled over into the Golan Heights in two separate incidents on Sunday.
| | | | | |  | | Voice of Israel public radio reported that young Arabs approached the security fence near Khan Younis in the early evening, and that IDF soldiers fired warning shots in the air, as well as rubber-coated bullets toward whoever came too near to the fence. | | | | | | | | | In the wake of the great success of the Iron Dome anti-missile system, which was able to intercept many of the rockets fired from Gaza at populated areas during Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel is now pushing ahead with the development of Magic Wand. | | | | | |  | | Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to a ceasefire for halting the eight-day Israeli Gaza operation Wednesday night, Nov. 21, after President Barack Obama personally pledged to start deploying US troops in Egyptian Sinai next week, debkafile reports. | | | | | |  | The IDF is on alert in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem on Friday over threats of further terrorist attacks. There has been increased violence in the region in recent days.
| | | | | | | | | The Shin Bet has arrested members of the terror cell that carried out the attack on a bus in Tel Aviv Wednesday. Men identified with Hamas and Islamic jihad admitted they had agreed upon a plan to carry out a terror attack, then prepared the explosive device. They also enlisted an Arab with Israeli citizenship. | | | | | | | | | Five victims of the bus blast in Tel Aviv Wednesday are still in the hospital, officials at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv said Thursday. A number of them are still in serious condition, and have undergone operations. | | | | | |  | Gaza's terrorist rulers marked the ceasefire that went into effect on Wednesday evening by continuing to fire rockets at southern Israel.
| | | | | |  | Two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards the Israeli border on Wednesday evening, a Lebanese security official told AFP.
| | | | | |  | Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal announced in a press conference Wednesday evening that Israel "has failed in all its goals" in Operation Defensive Pillar. Mashaal also thanked ceasefire mediator Egypt, as well as Iran, which he said "had a role in arming" Hamas during the conflict.
| | | | | | | | Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a press conference Wednesday night in regards to the ceasefire, thanking American President Barack Obama. Netanyahu expressed his desire to the President to work jointly with the United States, to stop the weapons-flow to the terror organizations, many of which, he said, "arrive from Iran."
| | | | | | | | | Israeli radio reports that the ceasefire between Israel and terrorist entity Hamas includes an agreement from Israel to ease some crossing restrictions into Gaza. As the ceasefire was being announced, Code Red alarms for nearly a dozen areas in Israel were broadcasted on the radio as Hamas rockets from Gaza continued to rain down on Southern Israel. | | | | | | | | | Israeli radio reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to implement the ceasefire with Hamas, which will begin at 9:00 PM Israel time, after speaking with President Barack Obama. | | | | | | | | Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said the Israeli police had been expecting additional terrorist attacks, similar to the one shook Tel Aviv Wednesday afternoon.
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|  | | A terrorist left a bomb that exploded in a Dan bus originating in the nearby city of Bat Yam on Shaul HaMelech street in central Tel Aviv, around noon. Three people suffered serious injuries, reports say a total of 27 were injured. | | | | | | | | Egypt and Israel are engaged in a war of words over a possible ceasefire as Hamas continues to attack Israeli civilians and Israel retaliates.
| | | | | | | | Among the targets hit on Tuesday by the IDF were tunnels that are used to smuggle weapons, as well as tunnels through which fuel is transferred to terrorists.
| | | | | |  | | "President Obama asked me to come to Israel with a very clear message. America's commitment to Israel's security is rock solid and unwavering. That is why we believe it is essential to de-escalate the situation in Gaza," Clinton said, just before praising Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi for taking an active role in trying to achieve a ceasefire. | | | | | |  | The IDF hit more than 50 targets in Gaza on Tuesday evening. Half of the strikes were aimed at terrorist cells that were engaged in firing rockets at Israel.
| | | | | |  | An IDF soldier who was critically wounded in a rocket attack Tuesday evening in the Eshkol region has died. He has been identified as 18-year-old Yosef Fartuk of Emanuel.
An Israeli civilian was also killed. | | | | | |  | | Gaza terrorists continued firing on Israel on Tuesday evening. A rocket fired at the city of Rishon Letzion in the Tel Aviv region struck a six-story building, causing extensive damage. | | | | | | | | | Amid the flurry of diplomatic activity to achieve a ceasefire, Hamas today targeted Jerusalem with two rockets, which landed in open areas south of the city, in the Bethlehem region. | | | | | |  | | Sources in Israel, Egypt and Gaza have said that a ceasefire will be declared in Gaza and Israel within hours. Israeli sources said the ceasefire will be declared Tuesday night during a visit from United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. | | | | | |  | | Hizbullah is supplying long-range missiles to Hamas even as Israel’s Iron Dome system blows them up after launching, a Lebanese newspaper reports. Iranian Revolutionary Guard units specializing in smuggling weapons from Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, and other countries are on "high alert." | | | | | |  | The US has returned three amphibious warships with 2,500 Marines aboard for standby off Israel's shore in case they are needed to evacuate American citizens.
| | | | | |  | | A Border Guard officer was lightly wounded as PA Arabs threw rocks at him in Qalandiya, north of Jerusalem. Another soldier was lightly wounded in Beit Ummar as PA Arabs threw rocks at IDF soldiers. In the nearby Husan bypass, rocks were thrown at Israeli cars. Arabs also carried out firebomb attacks | | | | | |  | IDF planes on Monday targeted and eliminated another four senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists. The four were eliminated as part of the IDF's efforts to dismantle the Hamas terror infrastructure in Gaza, and to restore calm and quiet to southern Israel.
| | | | | |  | | Looking at the hundreds of interceptions of incoming rockets by Iron Dome batteries in the past few days over cities in the south and metropolitan Tel Aviv, Barak realizes that the system has saved many lives in both Israel and Gaza. | | | | | | | | With the onset of Operation Pillar of Defense against the chronic rocket attacks from Gaza, Colel Chabad's United Soup Kitchens has been delivering fresh-cooked meals to 1,600 elderly men and women in Ashdod, Ashkelon, Sderot, Kiriat Malachi and Beersheba - the areas hardest hit by incoming missiles and rockets by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. YOU can help!
| | | | | |  | | An Iranian 150-ton freighter departed Bandar Abbas port Sunday, Nov. 18, with a cargo of 220 short-range missiles and 50 improved long-range Fajar-5 rockets for the Gaza Strip, intelligence sources report. | | | | | |  | | Two Katyusha missiles aimed at Israel from Lebanon were discovered Monday. Both were set to launch. | | | | | |  | | The flight paths for landing and takeoff in Ben Gurion Airport have been altered, because of the activity of the Iron Dome anti-missile battery in Tel Aviv. | | | | | |  | Israel has delivered an ultimatum to Hamas through Egypt, according to which the IDF will widen its offensive in Gaza in 36 hours unless Hamas ceases firing rockets and smuggling arms into Gaza, IDF Radio reported Monday morning.
| | | | | |  | According to statistics released by the IDF, since the operation began last Wednesday, the IDF has attacked 1,110 targets in Gaza. The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted more than 35 rockets on Sunday, and a total of 280 since the operation began.
| | | | | | | | | The IDF hit more than 130 targets in Gaza and scored a success in killing Hamas rocket brigade commander Yihya Abiya as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to expand the operation. | | | | | |  | | As the IDF continues to perform tactical hits on specific locations in Gaza to target Hamas, it also continues to drop leaflets into Gaza, warning residents to distance themselves from Hamas operatives to avoid endangering their lives. In Tel-Aviv, the US Embassy suspends consular services. | | | | | |  | | Ofakim came under heavy missile fire Sunday afternoon as part of a day-long barrage launched by Gaza terrorists at southern Israel. A rocket scored a direct hit on a car, injuring one person seriously. | | | | | |  | | Defense Minister Ehud Barak hinted Sunday that a ground assault on Hamas in Gaza is imminent. "The reserves are being absorbed quickly and we will carry out anything that is needed to ensure the aims of the operation are achieved," Barak said. | | | | | | | | | Britain warned Israel Sunday against launching a ground operation in Gaza, but the United States appeared to leave the decision to Israel. On a visit to the Far East, President Barack H. Obama said that the U.S. is, and will remain, "fully supportive of Israel's right to defend itself." | | | | | | | | | The Iron Dome system intercepted and two missiles headed for Tel Aviv shortly after 10 a.m. Sunday. Another missile landed into the Mediterranean Sea. One person was injured from the debris of the missile intercept. | | | | | | | | | The Hamas government headquarters, which housed Gaza "prime minister" Ismail Haniyeh's offices, were leveled to the ground. In addition, "security compounds, tunnels and electricity transformers" were hit, according to Al Jazeera. | | | | | | | | | "It is our duty to ensure peace and quiet to residents of the south," Lieberman told Channel 2 News. "It cannot be that a million people won’t be allowed to lead a normal life, where children, instead of going to school, are in shelters and conduct their lives in accordance with the sirens. This cannot continue." | | | | | | | | Israel on Friday evening sealed off all the main roads around Gaza, declaring them to be a closed military zone amid increasing signs that Israel is readying for a ground offensive.
| | | | | | | | Signs of an approaching full-scale war increased Friday afternoon, Nov. 16. The IDF obtained government approval to call up reserves in addition to the 30,000 already approved. Hospitals across the country were placed on emergency footing.
| | | | | |  | The husband and children of Mirah Scharf are in better condition Friday after being wounded Thursday morning in a rocket attack on Kiryat Malachi.
| | | | | |  | | A short while after a rocket alert siren sounded in Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, sirens were also heard in the Jerusalem area late in the afternoon, and news sources are now reporting that a rocket has fallen in the Jerusalem area. | | | | | | | | | Two long-range Fajr-5 missiles exploded Friday, Nov. 16 on open ground in and around Tel Aviv. Iron Dome intercepted some missiles before they hit Beersheba, Ashdod and Ashkelon in salvoes. Israeli ground forces continue to build up on the Gaza border awaiting government orders to go in. | | | | | |  | President Obama in calls to Israeli and Egyptian leaders backed Israel's right to self-defense as Israel's counterattacks on the Gaza Strip intensified.
| | | | | |  | An Israeli soldier was hit and lightly wounded by a bullet shot from Syria. The incident occurred Thursday morning beside an Israeli army outpost in the Golan Heights near the border with Syria.
| | | | | |  | The IAF launched a second assault wave at Hamas-contolled Gaza Thursday evening, targeting 70 underground missile sites.
| | | | | | | | Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and residents were told to head for shelter Thursday evening as Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved the call-up of 30,000 reserve soldiers, who can be called into action by the military at any point.
| | | | | | | | The names of the three people who were killed Thursday by a rocket attack in Kiryat Malachi have been published, and one of whom, it was just discovered, was an emissary from an offshoot of Chabad, who was involved in outreach in India, and was in Israel on a short visit in order to give birth.
| | | | | |  | The first three Palestinian missiles reached the Tel Aviv conurbation, Gush Dan, Thursday night, Nov. 15. shortly after a long-range missile was confirmed to have exploded in Rishon Lezion southeast of Tel Aviv and sirens sounded in outlying towns of Holon, Ness Ziona, Gan Raveh and Beer Yacov.
| | | | | |  | | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a statement in which he said Israel would continue to do its best to avoid civilian casualties on the enemy side, despite the fact that the enemy is targeting Israeli civilians and hiding behind its own. "There is no moral equivalence, between Israel and the terrorist organizations in Gaza," he said. | | | | | |  | | The four people killed as a result of the Grad rocket attack on Kiryat Malachi Thursday morning were two married couples in their 20s and 30s. Several other people were injured seriously and moderately in the attack, including two infants, one of them just eight months old. | | | | | |  | Gaza-based terrorists fired a barrage of rockets at southern Israel's communities on Wednesday evening. 242 rockets were counted as having been fired at southern Israel as of 4:00 a.m.
| | | | | |  | "We strongly condemn the barrage of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel, and we regret the death and injury of innocent Israeli and Palestinian civilians caused by the ensuing violence," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement.
| | | | | |  | | Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has recalled the Egyptian ambassador to Israel, Atef Mohamed Salem. Morsi has also summoned the Israeli ambassador in Cairo to convey Egypt's rejection of the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. | | | | | |  | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak held a short news conference Wednesday evening in which they announced the goals of Operation Pillar of Defense, which was launched in Gaza earlier in the day.
| | | | | |  | Palestinian terrorists have fired missiles at the Nuclear Reactor in the Israeli city of Dimona.
| | | | | |  | The IDF launched operation "Amud Anan" early on Wednesday, November 14th with the targeted assassination of the commander of Hamas's "military" terror wing, Ahmed Jaabari. Media outlets worldwide are already spinning the story to depict Israel as the villain of the region.
| | | | | |  | Palestinians demonstrated throughout the West Bank to mark the anniversary of their declaration of independence.
| | | | | | | | In the wide scale effort to stop terrorists from continuing their barrage of rocket launches into Israel, the IDF Wednesday caused extensive damage to the long-term launch capabilities (over 40 km) of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
| | | | | |  | | The IAF fired a missile at a car in Gaza Wednesday, killing the commander of Hamas's "military" terror wing, Ahmed Jaabari. Israel's TV Channel 2 says his son was also killed. | | | | | |  | A new UN nuclear watchdog report is to reveal that Iran has completed installation of 2,700 centrifuges at its underground Fordo plant, enabling it to speed up production of 20% pure enriched uranium that could be used for manufacturing a nuclear weapon.
| | | | | |  | The missile attacks on Southern Israel from Gaza continued today. A Grad rocket landed in open ground in the port city of Ashdod this morning.
| | | | | |  | | The United States won on Monday a new term on the UN Human Rights Council and named the Council's biased focus on Israel as one of the "flaws" in the controversial body. | | | | | |  | | Nearly half of all European Union member states will vote in favor of upgrading the Palestinian Authority’s status at the United Nations, an E.U. spokesperson reportedly said. | | | | | |  | | The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations announced Monday that the White House has not ruled out cooperating with a pending U.N. probe into the Obama administration's use of drone strikes. | | | | | |  | The Home Front Command is hoping that the ceasefire announced by Gaza terrorists will hold this time, and has announced that schools in the Gaza belt will operate as usual on Tuesday.
| | | | | |  | Israel Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino today announced the establishment of cyber unit. The cyber unit will have 60 police officers and will be responsible for building a security network for fighting cyber crime.
| | | | | |  | Palestinians will not succumb to United States President Obama's request to postpone their UN bid and will ask members the UN's General Assembly to vote on a resolution to upgrade the Palestinians' status to a non-member state no later than the 29th of this month.
| | | | | | | | Israel will "take whatever action is necessary to put a stop" to the barrage of rockets from Gaza targeting the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ambassadors.
| | | | | |  | The war in southern Israel is still raging. On Monday afternoon, a Grad rocket fired by Gaza Arab terrorists exploded next to a factory in the industrial zone of Netivot. Six people suffered from shock as a result of the attack.
| | | | | | | | The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted two Grad rockets aimed at the strategic port city of Ashkelon Monday, but rural areas closer to Gaza sustained a dozen attacks.
| | | | | | | | Israel fired warning shots at Syria after a mortar shell from Syria hit an Israeli military post in the Golan Heights.
| | | | | | | | | Hamas reiterated its mantra - no compromise on any issue with Israel, until every "last inch of Palestine is liberated." | | | | | |  | Violence spewed out of the Gaza Strip again Saturday night, Nov. 10, with a rocket attack on an IDF Givaty Brigade jeep on a routine task some distance from the border, injuring four Israeli soldiers – one critically, two in moderate condition.
| | | | | |  | Jared Loughner, who seriously wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others in a shooting spree in January 2011, was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences and 140 years.
| | | | | |  | The Palestinians' bid for an upgrade in U.N. status is of immediate concern in the U.S.-Israel relationship, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren said in a post-U.S. election interview.
| | | | | | | | | An unarmed U.S. military Predator surveillance drone was fired at by Iranian military jets last week in international airspace over the waters of the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon disclosed on Thursday. | | | | | | | | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of 13 world leaders that President Obama called to thank for congratulatory messages following his reelection.
| | | | | |  | A smuggling tunnel exploded in southern Gaza on Thursday evening, as a group of IDF soldiers were in the middle of an operation to uncover it.
| | | | | |  | The Samaria Military Court sentenced an Arab man to five years in jail for his involvement in the massacre of the Fogel family, reports Yisrael Hayom.
| | | | | |  | | After winning a second White House term, US President Barack Obama aims to start direct, fast-track nuclear talks with Tehran as soon as December, even before his January swearing-in, on the assumption that Iran's window of opportunity is very narrow, just three months. | | | | | | | | | On Thursday morning, three mortar shells were fired into Israel, with one of them hitting a neighborhood in the religious Zionist town of Alonei HaBashan, which is less than a kilometer from the border. | | | | | |  | Taliban terrorist insurgents told newly re-elected President Barack Obama on Wednesday to admit that the United States has lost the war in Afghanistan and to act accordingly by pulling its troops out of the country immediately.
| | | | | |  | Britain is negotiating a military deal with the United Arab Emirates and if successful, will sell the Arab nation 60 new fighter jets.
| | | | | |  | The Republican Jewish Coalition called on all Americans to "come together to craft real solutions to the very serious problems our country faces today" after President Obama won reelection.
| | | | | |  | | Israeli media reported that three-quarters of Israelis who voted cast their ballots for Republican candidate Mitt Romney, the mirror opposite of Jews in the U.S. who overwhelmingly supported President Obama. | | | | | | | | An IDF position near the border with Syria was hit by what appear to be stray bullets Wednesday.
| | | | | |  | | "The strategic alliance between Israel and the U.S. is stronger than ever," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a short statement issued Wednesday morning in Israel shortly after Obama delivered his victory speech. | | | | | | | | President Barack Obama won 70 percent of the Jewish vote, compared with 78 percent in 2008, according to exit polls.
| | | | | |  | Shortly after 11:15 p.m. Eastern time, NBC and CNN declared Obama as the winner of the 2012 presidential election. CNN reported that Obama had 274 electoral votes, a little more than the 270 required to win the election, and Romney had 201.
| | | | | |  | A Border Guards officer was wounded Tuesday night when Arabs in the Shuafat area of Jerusalem rioted.The officer was stabbed by one of the rioters. Seven others were wounded by thrown rocks.
| | | | | | | | In the final days of what has been a close and bitterly contested election, it's not so much that nothing is sacred in the fight for the Jewish vote. It’s that little that is sacred has not been put to use.
| | | | | |  | According to websites associated with the Fatah movement, Hamas is planning to carry out suicide attacks against Israel from Judea and Samaria, in order to bring down the wrath of the IDF on the Arabs in that region.
| | | | | |  | A Jewish woman in Berlin with family in hard-hit Staten Island, N.Y., started a clothing drive for those affected by superstorm Sandy.
| | | | | |  | | A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine sailed within 200 miles of the U.S. East Coast, defense officials told the Washington Free Beacon. | | | | | |  | Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza early Tuesday morning blew up a bomb and shot at Israeli soldiers, who returned fire.
| | | | | | | | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised on Monday that by the time his term as Prime Minister is over, Iran will not have a nuclear weapons program.
| | | | | | | | | IDF soldiers were patrolling this evening near the northern border when they came under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border. | | | | | | | | | In an interview with Israel Television's Channel 2, Abbas seemed to say that Palestinian refugees like himself will have a "right of return" only to a future Palestinian state and not to Israel. | | | | | | | | UJA-Federation of Greater New York released $10 million in Hurricane Sandy emergency relief aid to its network agencies and synagogues.
| | | | | |  | The father of a Jewish family was badly beaten and the family home was completely trashed on Sunday by local youths in Marseille, France.
| | | | | | | | | The Ministry of Defense officially announced Sunday that a series of tests to the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system has been successfully completed, in an important step in the IDF's plans to upgrade the system. | | | | | |  | Israeli warplanes flew over the divided Golan Sunday, Nov. 4, in a show of strength and as a deterrent against the Syrian civil war seeping across the border, military and Western intelligence sources report.
| | | | | |  | Turkey is planning to return to Israel three tactical drones, allegedly due to "poor performance," reports the military periodical Defense News.
| | | | | |  | Firebomb attacks continued to be the most common form of terrorism in Judea and Samaria during the month of October, according to the monthly report by the Israel Security Agency.
| | | | | |  | | The Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereidoun Abbasi, told reporters at the end of a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday that Iran is completing its nuclear activities as scheduled "regardless of the negative western media speculations and reports." | | | | | | | | Ahead of his latest unilateral statehood bid at the United Nations, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is claiming that he will never allow a third intifada.
| | | | | | | | Israel and Iran are trading words and insinuations over whether the Iranian stealth drone which Hizballah launched over Israel on Oct, 6 did or did not obtain images of sensitive Israeli sites.
| | | | | |  | | Settlers threw stones and rolled burning tires at police and IDF soldiers during the early Thursday morning evacuation of the HaSruga outpost located near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, south of Nablus. | | | | | |  | The death toll from Hurricane Sandy has risen to 74 in the United States alone, with more than half of the victims from New York and New Jersey.
| | | | | |  | | Israel will create a dual cyber security program to promote research and development to serve both civilian and defense goals, the PMO says. | | | | | | | | The United States said on Wednesday it was monitoring a visit by two Iranian warships to a Sudanese port this week, but had no details about it.
| | | | | |  | | A mother places a suicide belt on her child, saying: "I will put it on you and you will go to your death," on Fatah-Lebanon's Facebook page. | | | | | |  | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Francois Hollande will together visit the Jewish school in Toulouse where three children and a rabbi were murdered.
| | | | | |  | | "The students need to know about their own history, how their parents were driven from their homes at gunpoint by Israeli gangs and militias, not how the Jews are victims," says one teacher in a school for Palestinian refugees. | | | | | |  | Norwegian police have increased security around Oslo’s main synagogue after an Islamist extremist threatened to "protect" the Jewish community with an "AK-47 assault rifle and a hunting permit."
| | | | | | | | | In an interview Tuesday with the Daily Telegraph, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel almost attacked Iran eight months ago - but that the "moment of truth" was postponed after Iran redirected part of its enriched uranium to civilian uses. | | | | | |  | | In an interview with Paris Match, excerpts of which were published on Tuesday ahead of his visit to France, Netanyahu said, "Five minutes after [the strike], contrary to what skeptics say, I think a feeling of relief would spread across the region." | | | | | |  | | A new report by 22 aid, development and church groups from nine European Union countries calls for the EU to stop buying goods from Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Jewish businesses in East Jerusalem. | | | | | |  | Two young women were wounded Tuesday when Arabs attacked a bus in Jerusalem. The attack took place opposite Shaar Haashpot in the Old City.
| | | | | |  | Flights between Israel and the United States continue to be delayed as superstorm Sandy continues to batter America's northeast coast.
| | | | | | | | | Egypt rejected an Israeli request to upgrade the relations between the countries, according to a report on Monday in the Ma'ariv daily newspaper. | | | | | |  | Israeli authorities on Monday released former hunger striker Hasan Safadi, the Palestinian Authority prisoners minister told the Bethlehem-based Maan news.
| | | | | |  | Asked twice by an interviewer if it was true that the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was denied help as it came under attack last month, U.S. President Barack Obama avoided a direct answer.
| | | | | |  | Israel has taken the next step in the process of building new homes for retired police and IDF troops in parts of Jerusalem restored to the city in the 1967 Six Day War.
| | | | | | | | An Iranian lawmaker said that Iran has photos of Israeli military bases and other restricted areas.
| | | | | |  | | Senior Israeli officials say they are worried that the visit by the emir of Qatar will pave the way for Hamas being seen as a legitimate representative of the Palestinians. | | | | | |  | Jewish institutions throughout the eastern United States were closing in preparation for the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy.
| | | | | |  | | Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi warned Sunday, Oct. 28, in Tehran: "The drone was definitely not the latest Iranian technology." | | | | | |  | | Gaza terrorists fired 18 rockets at southern Israel Monday, with the armed wing of the ruling Hamas movement saying it was revenge after an IAF air raid killed one of their men. | | | | | |  | | Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Israel on Sunday, where he observed Austere Challenge 12, the largest-ever military exercise between the two countries. | | | | | |  | Less than 24 hours after Sudanese President Omar Bashir pledged "decisive steps against Israeli interests which are now legitimate targets," for the destruction of the Iranian missile plant in Khartoum, Palestinian rocket teams fired Grad missiles as target finders against Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona.
| | | | | |  | Gaza-based terrorists fired two Grad missiles at the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva early Sunday morning.
| | | | | |  | The bombshell announcement that Likud and Yisrael Beyteinu are to unite was one year in the making, Yisrael Beyteinu head Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman revealed Friday.
| | | | | |  | | The United Nations official responsible for investigating Israel-PA affairs has openly expressed support for a boycott of all companies doing business with Israelis east of the 1949 armistice line. | | | | | |  | | The EU, leading diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran''s nuclear program, has talked to Tehran to bring it up to date on the latest discussions, officials said Thursday. | | | | | |  | | The political parties Likud and Yisrael Beytenu will run together in the elections – forming a possible 50 MK bloc. Binyamin Netanyahu will head the new list, and Avigdor Lieberman will be in the number 2 spot. | | | | | |  | Gifts of Joy, the N'shei Yeshiva Derech Chaim Grand Event and Chinese Auction Extravaganza presents an entire day of fun, flavor and flair to benefit a great cause!
| | | | | |  | The Burgas suicide bomber who left five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver dead in July had up to five foreign helpers, a government minister said Thursday.
| | | | | |  | A Conservative Jewish day school will not renew its Boy Scouts charter because of the organization's policy excluding gay and lesbian adults as leaders.
| | | | | |  | | A mortar shell fell in an area of the Eshkol Regional Council Thursday morning, hours after a cease fire by Gaza terror groups was supposed to come into effect. Southern Israel remains on high alert. | | | | | | | | Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that talks with Israel can resume after the PA gains non-member status in the United Nations.
| | | | | |  | | Thousands of Israeli children were ordered to stay home from school on Wednesday to keep them safe from Gaza rocket fire. | | | | | | | | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Gaza terrorists Wednesday that if the rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel do not stop, "deeper activity" in the region lies ahead.
| | | | | |  | | Defense minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz decided Wednesday, Oct. 24, that the heavy Palestinian missile assault from the Gaza Strip, which escalated to 60 rockets on Israeli civilian locations, in a few hours, must be stopped. | | | | | |  | | A Jordanian columnist has criticized a call made by a Palestinian Authority ambassador to teach the Holocaust in Arab schools, as well as the visit of a PA official to Auschwitz. | | | | | |  | | The counterterrorism forces of Israel, the US, Egypt and Jordan have gone on elevated terror alert ahead of the three-day Muslim festival of Eid al Adha starting Thursday night, Oct. 25, debkafile reports. | | | | | |  | | Iran struck back at Western sanctions against it, saying that if the sanctions continued it would stop producing oil altogether. | | | | | | | | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo following an international outcry over the approval of nearly 800 apartments there.
| | | | | | | | | The Simon Wiesenthal Center reiterated its call to President Obama to publicly condemn Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, after he attended a sermon where the preacher called for the "destruction and dispersal of the Jews." | | | | | |  | The U.S.-Israel alliance and the need to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon were major themes in the final presidential debate. Both candidates said Monday during their foreign policy debate that they would stand with Israel should Iran attack it.
| | | | | | | | European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is in the Middle East, arriving in Israel at midweek for meetings in Jerusalem and Ramallah.
| | | | | |  | Ephraim HaLevy, the formerly close-mouthed director of the Mossad, who is a critic of Netanyahu and against striking Iran, continues to make up for lost time and speaks out again on Iran, this time criticizing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
| | | | | |  | More than 2,500 people signed up to participate in a global Shema flash mob as part of a campaign to promote religious pluralism in Israel.
| | | | | |  | Iran's secret cyber war-room is located at Hizballah’s secret internal security apparatus headquarters in the Shiite Dahya district of South Beirut, debkafile's exclusive intelligence and counterterrorism sources reveal.
| | | | | | | | After Twitter agreed to remove tweets that bore the hashtag #unbonjuif, meaning "a good Jew," the French daily Le Monde opted to term "a competition of anti-Semitic jokes."
| | | | | |  | | The IDF continues to escort and provide safe passage for foreign aid to Hamas-controlled Gaza, days after stopping a ship trying to break the maritime blockade. After the boat named "Estelle" was guided to the port of Ashdod, military inspectors discovered that all that was on board the ship were activists, but no aid. | | | | | |  | A Kosher restaurant in Montreal was firebombed this week, the latest attack after a series of burglaries in local synagogues.
| | | | | |  | The IDF has confirmed that there was no humanitarian aid whatsoever on the Estelle, the boat which sought to break Israel’s naval blockade on Gaza.
| | | | | |  | Together with a large homefront security drill taking place in Israel Sunday, the IDF is set to open on Sunday morning a major military exercise together with U.S. forces stationed in Europe.
| | | | | |  | | Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman bluntly drew Israel's red line Sunday in a radio interview, saying "Jerusalem is not a settlement." | | | | | |  | | President Barack Obama this week clued Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in on the latest US intelligence input confirming that Iran will have enough enriched uranium for 4-6 bombs by March 2013. | | | | | |  | On the one-year anniversary of the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Hamas has released a film describing the Israeli soldier's abduction in 2006.
| | | | | |  | As the Greek economy implodes, the main political beneficiaries appear to be Greek neo-Nazis. And the Jews are targets again.
| | | | | |  | Suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat, who killed 21 Israelis and injured more than 50, has been chosen worthy of "the highest honor" by the Palestine Committee of the Arab Lawyers Union. The honorary plaque refers to the day of her suicide bombing as "the sweet anniversary of her Martyrdom."
| | | | | | | | Israel asked the United Nations to stop a Swedish-owned ship carrying human rights activists from attempting to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza.
| | | | | |  | Hizballah has begun depleting line of rockets and fighting units it has facing Israel from the Litani River of South Lebanon and moving them to the Syrian front line at Homs to strengthen Assad's forces, debkafile's military sources reveal.
| | | | | |  | Reports state that security forces in Cyprus have foiled a plot by terrorists to strike Israeli targets - most likely ships carrying tourists.
| | | | | |  | | The military wing of Hamas, Izz-adin al-Qassam, released a preview of a feature-length film, which portrays, both in actual footage and dramatic recreation, the kidnapping of an IDF soldier over five years ago. The film is being released to "celebrate" the release of over 1,000 terrorists by Israel in exchange for Shalit. | | | | | |  | | Gaza terrorists continued to target Israelis Wednesday afternoon, firing the 506th missile or mortar shell this year. Missiles or shells have hit at a rate of almost two a day. | | | | | |  | An IDF drone landed Wednesday night in Samaria near the town of Har Bracha.
| | | | | |  | | Sources disclose that, racing against time, Tehran managed to install the last four clusters of 174 centrifuges each inside in "Fordo's B Chamber" shortly before European Union foreign ministers approved toughened sanctions in Brussels Monday, 15 Oct. | | | | | |  | Mitt Romney accused President Obama of putting "daylight between us and Israel" in the second presidential debate.
| | | | | |  | | Egypt's new Ambassador to Israel Atef Salem confirmed Wednesday to President Shimon Peres that Cairo intends to keep its peace treaty with Israel. | | | | | | | | | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday that Israel would not hesitate to launch a military operation in Syria if it feels that there is a threat that the country's stockpile of chemical weapons will end up in the hands of terrorist organizations such as Hizbullah. | | | | | | | | Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor has asked the international organization to convince pro-Arab activists not to try to sail the "Estelle" boat to Gaza and try to break the maritime embargo on Hamas
| | | | | |  | A firebomb was thrown on Tuesday evening towards a bus carrying IDF soldiers near the community of Ofra in Binyamin. There were also numerous reports of rock attacks in Judea, which are intended by the perpetrators to kill those they target.
| | | | | |  | Just ten days after Israel strategists, intelligence and military were duped by an Iranian stealth UAV launched by Hizballah from Lebanon, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unveiled his new security doctrine to the Knesset in a speech confirming a general election on Jan. 22, 2013.
| | | | | |  | Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza last week fired a missile, smuggled from Libya, at an Israeli aircraft but missed it, the Hebrew-language newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported Tuesday.
| | | | | |  | | The Palestinian Authority's bid for statehood at the United Nations next month would jeopardize the peace process with Israel, U.S. ambassador Susan Rice said Monday during a Security Council debate on the Middle East. | | | | | |  | Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota on Sunday expressed concern over Israel's threats to launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. He made the remarks during a working meeting with President Shimon Peres.
| | | | | |  | Security personnel discovered a pipe bomb Monday in an Israel Electric Company installation located in a Jewish town in Judea.
| | | | | | | | Just days after Lebanon-based Hizbullah terrorists boasted of sending an Iranian drone to spy on Israel, the Jewish State unveiled its new and improved UAV, the "Shoval."
| | | | | |  | "There are increasing attempts to carry out cyber-attacks on computer infrastructures in the State of Israel. Every day there are attempts, even many attempts, to infiltrate Israel's computer systems," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
| | | | | |  | Palestinian Authority Arabs hurled rocks at a bus with Israeli license plates Monday night as it traveled along Highway 60 through Judea near Gush Etzion.
| | | | | |  | | The IDF has drawn lines around land that will be used to absorb a potential flood of Syrian refugees fleeing from the civil war, and prevent a spillover of violence into Israel, Voice of Israel government radio reported. | | | | | |  | The Popular Resistance Committees terror group vowed to retaliate against Israel on Sunday after announcing that two men killed earlier in an IAF air strike were members of the group.
| | | | | | | | Iran jeered at Israel's air defenses Sunday while confirming that Tehran had provided Lebanon's proxy Lebanese militia Hizbullah with the sophisticated drone that passed over the skies of the Jewish state earlier this month.
| | | | | | | | Israel has warned Finland that it will stop a boat with activists on board by force if it tries to break the blockade on Gaza, a spokesman for Finland's foreign ministry said Saturday.
| | | | | |  | | Gilad Shalit in his first interview in Israel since his release spoke of how he passed the time in captivity and his sense of great "relief" upon being set free. | | | | | | | | | The Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah's threat Thursday night of more UAV's over Israel aroused concern in the Israeli high command that Iranian drones had been smuggled into the hands of the Palestinian Hamas extremists ruling the Gaza Strip. | | | | | |  | | Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) put his arm around Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and challenged him to a physical fight during a heated debate. | | | | | |  | | The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced that the Peace Prize for 2012 will go to the European Union. | | | | | | | | A Hamas minister called on Thursday for the kidnapping of more Israeli soldiers so they can be used as bargaining chips to bring about the release Arab terrorists being held in Israeli prisons.
| | | | | |  | | The supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement which Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi belongs to, called on Thursday for a jihad to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli rule. | | | | | |  | | The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that the remains of Pvt. Majdi Halabi, a Druze soldier who disappeared in May 2005 while returning to his army base, were discovered two weeks ago in the Carmel Forest. | | | | | | | | | According to news wires, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the drone aircraft, which flew some 35 miles last weekend into Israeli territory before being shot down by the IDF was sent by the Lebanese, Iranian proxy militia the Hizbullah. | | | | | |  | | Defense Ministry Diplomatic-Security chief Amos Gilad says Israel's priority should be to prevent a nuclear Iran. | | | | | |  | | Turkey seized "objectionable cargo" aboard the Syrian passenger plane which it intercepted en route from Moscow to Damascus on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. | | | | | |  | | The IDF's Sagi Brigade is training soldiers with tools to deal with new threats at the border with Egyptian, ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood. | | | | | |  | | A 17-year-old Arab terrorist stabbed a bus driver Wednesday evening, causing him light wounds. The terrorist was arrested. | | | | | |  | Since the beginning of the Arab Spring almost two years ago, the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been remarkably quiet. That may now be changing.
| | | | | |  | | Mitt Romney has said that he and Benjamin Netanyahu would employ the same "test" for Iran's nuclear program, but that a strike was "a long way" off. | | | | | | | | | The rockets fired Monday damaged an apartment building and killed several animals in a petting zoo. Some Israeli media put the number of rockets and mortars at more than 50. | | | | | |  | | The report by the Quds Net news agency quoted Palestinian Islamic Jihad official Nafeth Azzam, who said Wednesday Egyptian officials ordered the groups to commit themselves to a ceasefire so as to avoid a regional war. | | | | | | | | Two Palestinian Authority Arabs armed with an improvised explosive device were arrested Monday at the entrance to the Samaria Regional Brigade headquarters.
| | | | | |  | | Slovenia's National Assembly is set to vote on a proposed ban on all ritual slaughter, which the European Union member country’s government recently submitted for approval. | | | | | |  | | The United States and Israel have come closer together in recent days, in their views regarding an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to Foreign Policy magazine. | | | | | |  | Holiday greetings were fired from Gaza as terrorists launched a barrage of rockets and mortar shells at southern Israel Monday.
| | | | | |  | At least 21 Egyptian security officers were killed in Sinai early Monday in an apparent motor vehicle accident.
| | | | | |  | Two days after an Iranian pilotless helicopter breached Israeli air space, Israel Monday, Oct. 8, stationed Patriot missile interceptor batteries in different parts of northern Israel, including Mt. Carmel, near Haifa, in what one Israeli official called a routine step.
| | | | | |  | The Air Force carried out "mock raids" at medium altitude over southern Lebanon Sunday, hours after Israel said all indications are that Hizbullah launched a drone that was downed inside Israel on Saturday.
| | | | | |  | Israeli intelligence and air force waged a cyber battle Saturday, Oct. 6 with unidentified parties, most likely Hizballah or Iran, who sent a satellite-guided unmanned helicopter into Israeli air space through the Mediterranean.
| | | | | |  | | The leader of the Islamic Jihad terror group, Ramadan Shallah, said on Thursday that it is time to re-examine the ceasefire with Israel, which terrorists from Gaza usually break in any case. | | | | | |  | | The shooter was an American Jew. He was in Eilat as a participant in the Oranim program, one of about 200 supported by Masa Israel, which is a joint project of the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency. | | | | | |  | | A tourist opened fire in the Leonardo Hotel in Eilat on Friday morning. Witnesses say the man stole a gun from a hotel guard and began shooting in all directions. | | | | | | | | | Sources disclose that President Ahmadinejad's personal cameraman, Hassan Golkhanban, who defected from his UN entourage in New York on Oct. 1, brought with him an intelligence treasure trove of up-to-date photographs and videos of top Iranian leaders visiting their most sensitive and secret nuclear and missile sites. | | | | | | | | | Sources disclose that President Ahmadinejad's personal cameraman, Hassan Golkhanban, who defected from his UN entourage in New York on Oct. 1, brought with him an intelligence treasure trove of up-to-date photographs and videos of top Iranian leaders visiting their most sensitive and secret nuclear and missile sites. | | | | | |  | Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said on Thursday that a decision to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities should be an American decision.
| | | | | |  | | With the focus on the economy, foreign policy was mentioned only in passing as the candidates squared off Wednesday at the University of Denver. | | | | | |  | | "The weakening of the Syrian regime's grip (on the border region) and the increasing infiltration of global jihad elements pose a new threat, which the army is preparing for." IDF Intelligence Chief Aviv Kochavi said during a tour of the Syrian border. | | | | | |  | | Constrained from a substantial military incursion into Syria by US President Barack Obama's veto and Saudi and Qatari refusals to help pay for it, Turkey's government and military decided to make do with carving out a buffer strip 10 kilometers deep into Syria by continuous artillery barrages. | | | | | |  | The Jerusalem Police closed off the Temple Mount to Jews Thursday after receiving intelligence that Muslims intended to attack Jewish visitors there.
| | | | | |  | | Iranian officials claim cyber attackers targeted their country's infrastructure and communications companies Wednesday, disrupting Internet access across the country, in what was most likely an attack aimed at stalling their nuclear operations. | | | | | | | | Less than a week after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu struck Iran with a red marker, the dire Iranian nuclear threat has been thrust aside in the rough and tumble of Israel politics.
| | | | | |  | | Armed Syrians were spotted near Israel's northern border on Wednesday, prompting IDF soldiers to quickly evacuate tourists from the area. The armed Syrians were spotted on the Syrian side of the border, in the area of Mount Hermon. | | | | | | | | Around 200 people demonstrated in the city of Ramallah on Tuesday to demand the resignation of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, AFP reports.
| | | | | |  | Just five weeks before America's presidential election, US intelligence reports signs that al Qaeda leader Ayman Zuwahiri is preparing a string of terrorist attacks as the sequel to the murders of US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other US officials in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
| | | | | |  | | With the donations, Soros now has given $4.3 million during this election cycle to PACs supporting Democrats, according to Politico - the largest donor on the left, it said. | | | | | |  | | A new Hizbullah video highlights the terrorist organization's latest campaign - "liberating the Galilee." On the agenda is Hizbullah's conquering of key sites and cities like tourist centers, refineries, and the Haifa port. | | | | | | | | One Jewish student shares an intimate evening with Iran's president at a hotel in New York City - along with a couple hundred other students, professors and U.N. interns.
| | | | | |  | | "We will never reconsider restoring our relations with Israel," until Israel lifts its Gaza blockade, apologizes to Turkey and pays compensation for the nine Turkish nationals killed on a Gaza-bound vessel by Israeli commandos in May 2010, Erdogan said, according to the Turkish daily Hurriyet. | | | | | | | | | President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about recent developments in the Middle East. | | | | | |  | | Two Azeri former military officers with links to serving personnel and two Russian intelligence sources told Reuters that Azerbaijan and Israel have been looking at how Azeri bases and intelligence could serve in a possible strike on Iran. | | | | | | | | | Israel has already breached its own red line set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by acquiring "dozens of nuclear warheads," Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday. | | | | | | | | | Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday accused the West of nuclear "intimidation" in his final speech to the UN General Assembly which was boycotted by the United States and Israel | | | | | |  | | A new American Jewish Committee poll found 65 percent of Jews nationwide planning to vote for President Obama versus 24 percent for Mitt Romney, with another 10 percent undecided. | | | | | |  | | WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange strongly criticized United States President Barack Obama in a speech given by video feed to a United Nations event, Reuters reports. | | | | | | | | | Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed solidarity on Thursday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, after he called for a "red line" on Iran to stop it from reaching nuclear weapons capability. | | | | | | | | | Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his U.N. address blasted Israel as seeking to end the two-state solution but tamped down any plans to seek statehood unilaterally. | | | | | | | | | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu drew an actual red line with a marker on a chart symbolizing Iran's uranium enrichment program, and explained that Iran must be told that if it reaches 90% of the enriched uranium it needs for a nuclear bomb, it will be attacked. | | | | | |  | | Deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was walking near the U.N. when he was confronted by the mob, said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne. | | | | | |  | | For the second time in two days, a rocket fired during clashes between Syrian regime forces and rebels exploded in the Golan Heights on Wednesday without causing casualties, the IDF told AFP. | | | | | |  | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was scheduled to begin addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York at 1:00 p.m. local time as the Middle East and the world appear to be heading toward a conflict involving Iran and Israel. Watch the live webcast from the United Nations.
| | | | | | | | Egypt's new president on Wednesday hit out at Israel over its veiled threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and the deadlock in the Middle East peace process. President Mohammed Morsi received a rousing ovation for his first speech to the 193-member UN General Assembly.
| | | | | | | | President Obama told the United Nations that "containment" of a nuclear Iran is not an option and it would pose an existential threat to Israel.
| | | | | | | | Several mortar shells from Syria was fired on the Golan Heights Tuesday morning, causing damage but no injuries. The IDF is on high alert.
| | | | | |  | | Iran has tested an array of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles and unveiled a new drone, the Islamic Republic's elite Revolutionary Guards announced Monday. | | | | | |  | | Archaeologists said the 50-acre site might be the largest in Israel that goes back to prehistoric settlement from the Pre-pottery Neolithic Period (about 10,000 years ago) to the Early Bronze Age, around 5000 years ago. | | | | | |  | | Mohammed Morsi makes his first visit to the United States since becoming Egypt's first democratically elected president to attend the annual opening sessions of the United Nations General Assembly. | | | | |
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