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The Jerusalem Post reports: Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid and Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman – two men who could have been foreign minister had either joined the government – slammed the country’s foreign policy at a joint meeting in the Knesset

TEL AVIV – Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem seems to be a “departure” from the so-called wave of violence carried out by Palestinians – motivated largely by anti-Israel incitement – according to Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein.

Der Spiegel reports: Ayelet Shaked, 39, has had an astonishing career. She studied information technology and later worked in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, before falling out with him eight years ago and leaving the job. Today, Shaked is

The Times of Israel reports: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed “alarm” Saturday at Hamas’s pledge the day before to keep building attack tunnels from Gaza into Israel and to advance the development of rockets to fire at the

EILAT, Israel – Hamas’ military wing confirmed Thursday afternoon that at least seven of its fighters were killed in a tunnel that collapsed in the northeast section of Gaza City. The dead are members of a Hamas commando unit, which was tasked

GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) –  Seven members of Hamas’ military wing were killed when a tunnel collapsed this week in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist movement said on Thursday. “Al-Qassam Brigades declare seven Qassam members were martyred in a tunnel

Ynetnews reports: Nashat Melhem (pictured), the terrorist who killed three people in Tel Aviv on January 1, told one of the three people suspected of aiding him that he had planned a second attack, it was revealed Wednesday. “I’ve murdered

TEL AVIV – Fearful of violating his “draconian” parole, abstained from giving an address at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday, JTA reported. Aaron Troodler, a spokesman for the group Justice for Jonathan Pollard, said Pollard

Ynetnews reports: Hamas’ popular television channel Al Aqsa, which broadcasts to every home in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, has been devoting nearly all of its air time over the past four months to encouraging attacks and keeping

Ynetnews.com reports: The Shin Bet, in cooperation with the IDF, recently arrested 18-year-old Palestinian twin sisters Diana and Nadia Hawilah, it was cleared for publication Monday. The arrests of the sisters, residents of Shuwika near Tulkarm, followed a search of their

TEL AVIV – The Gaza-based terror group Hamas has rehabilitated itself with cross-border terror tunnels and rocket firing systems, and is ready for a new round of hostilities, a senior defense official said Friday. “Hamas in Gaza has recovered, and (its

TEL AVIV – Hillary Clinton’s campaign attacked rival Bernie Sanders’ Middle East policies – which include the idea that Iranian troops should fight the Islamic State – saying they were dangerous for Israel.

Jewish News reports:  Jonathan Pollard – the spy who served 30 years in a U.S. prison after admitting providing classified information to the Israeli government – will address Jewish leaders in New York next week in his first public speech since his release.  Pollard

Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said Thursday he has revoked the permanent residency permits of four Palestinians from east Jerusalem who allegedly killed Israelis in Jerusalem in recent attacks. The rare move is yet another Israeli attempt to stem the

Israel has charged five Palestinians who it says were being recruited and funded by powerful Lebanese faction Hezbollah to monitor Israel’s military activity and carry out a suicide attack, police said on Wednesday. Suicide bombings were frequently mounted by Palestinian

The Times of Israel reports: As  relations between Sweden and Israel grow increasingly tense, a small group of Swedish MPs vowed Tuesday to publicly challenge their foreign minister’s controversial call last week for an investigation into what she termed Israel’s

A senior aide for the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat was arrested by PA security forces on suspicion of spying for Israel. In an interview about the arrest, Erekat said Netanyahu has destroyed the Arab’s “culture of peace.” Erekat

TEL AVIV – The BBC and other major international news outlets have distorted coverage of the murder of an Israeli mother of six, a media watchdog charged. >HonestReporting said that while many top tier outlets – including CNN, the Guardian,

Ynetnews reports: A terrorist on Sunday evening murdered a woman in her Otniel home south of Hebron, making her the 28th Israeli death from terrorist violence since the current terror wave began in September. Security forces began searching the area

The Jerusalem Post reports: New surface-to-surface GPS-guided rockets are becoming operational in the IDF. The Romach rockets, which can hit targets up to 35 km. away, will give the IDF’s Artillery Corps faster ways to respond to sudden security incidents

The Times of Israel reports: Israel closed the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the Gaza Strip and pulled out operating crews on Thursday as the Egyptian Army engaged terrorist forces in the adjacent Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian soldiers, backed with airstrikes,

The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel is facing conventional and unconventional combat challenges, which include missile and rocket threats of various ranges, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said during a meeting with visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Rob Work in Tel Aviv

A hip-hop track dedicated to an American Jewish student who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists while on a study abroad program in Israel has gone viral. The song, written and sung by fellow Americans in Israel, Samuel Kalnitz and Yaakov

TEL AVIV – Israel is readying itself for the possibility that Islamic State forces will cross the border from Sinai into Israel.

The Jerusalem Post reports: A suspected terrorist lightly wounded an Israeli officer on Thursday after stabbing him on the hand on the slopes of Mount Ebal near Nablus located in the West Bank. The assailant was shot and killed following the

A Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli soldier in the West Bank on Thursday and was shot dead, the army said, in the latest in a string of such attacks. Security forces thwarted the stabbing attempt by a Palestinian armed

An Israeli aircraft attacked a group of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday who the military said planned to detonate a bomb at the border with Israel, and a Palestinian terrorist faction said one of its men was killed. Local

In a debate on Iranian TV, a former US marine called Iran the most peaceful nation on the planet while claiming the U.S. is an imperial monster and bully that blows up women and children on a daily basis, and blindly

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) broke up a Hamas cell recently that plotted shootings on Israeli targets around Hebron, the intelligence agency said on Sunday, marking the third disruption of Hamas terrorism plots in recent weeks.

Israeli troops shot dead on Saturday two Palestinian terrorists who tried to stab soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the military said, as a surge in violence showed no sign of abating. Now in its fourth month,

The Times of Israel reports: Nashat Milhem, the Israeli Arab who killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv on January 1 and was shot dead in a gun-battle with security forces in his home village of Arara a week later, was

Iran continues to be Israel’s ’s primary and most significant challenge despite, even because of, the nuclear deal it signed with the world powers, new Mossad head Yossi Cohen (pictured right) said on Wednesday. Cohen’s comments came at a ceremony, attended

The Knesset’s top security officer filed a complaint Monday with the Israel Police on behalf of Yisrael Beytenu chief MK Avigdor Liberman after the former foreign minister received threats to his life on his Facebook page. “You are our target,”

The head of the United Nations peacekeeping force on the Israel-Lebanon border UNIFIL called for “restraint against provocation” to prevent the situation on Israel’s northern border from deteriorating on Monday evening, following a Hezbollah attack against Israeli army vehicles and

The Tel Aviv District Police has opened an investigation in order to find out the circumstances by which a flag identifying with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist organization was found in a penthouse on Recanati Street in northern Tel Aviv.

For the past few days, the IDF has been performing controlled bombings in the Lebanese border region. These include artillery fire into open areas, and are meant to prevent Hezbollah from exploiting the stormy weather Israel has been experiencing lately