Contents: Israel and Syria have unprecedented missile clash over Jordan; Russia summons Israeli envoy to demand an explanation; Jordan has to live with increasing threats from Syria and Israel
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday threatened to destroy Syrian air defence systems after they fired ground-to-air missiles at Israeli warplanes carrying out strikes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised Sunday the possibility of snap elections following a dispute with his finance minister over a new national broadcasting service.
Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missile launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six years ago.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East held a three-hour meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday, his second meeting with the Israeli leader since arriving in the country this week.
Italy on Wednesday renewed its pledge to Israel to oppose any resolutions at UNESCO that ignore Jewish ties to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
TEL AVIV – Israel will do everything in its power to stop Iranian proxies gaining strength on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights just as it has done in the past, Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Breitbart Jerusalem amid news that an Iran-backed Shiite militia had been formed with the goal of “liberating the Golan Heights from Israel.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday evening that talks with US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace envoy, Jason Greenblatt, did not yield an agreement for a coordinated US-Israeli position on West Bank settlements, but described the meeting as “good” and “honest.”
TEL AVIV – The newly formed “Golan Liberation Brigade,” an Iran-backed Shiite militia, heightens the threat posed by the Islamic Republic on Israel’s northern border, Minister of Intelligence and member of the Security Cabinet Israel Katz told the Jerusalem Post on Monday.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy met for five hours Monday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the Trump administration’s attempt to jumpstart the moribund peace process with the Palestinians.
TEL AVIV – An Iranian-backed Shiite militia, armed with Russian tanks via the Syrian army, this week announced the formation of a dedicated brigade to “liberate the Golan Heights” from Israel, the state-controlled Fars news agency reported.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its anger that the regional German daily newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost included Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a list of “The Seven Craziest Leaders in the World.”
Iran’s parliament speaker on Sunday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comparison of the ancient Persians who sought the annihilation of the Jews in the Purim story to modern-day Iran, advising the Israeli premier to study history and the Jewish Bible.
TEL AVIV – Iran is closing a deal with Syrian President Bashar Assad to build a military base at the port of Latakia in Syria, an Israeli diplomatic official told the Hebrew news site Walla on Friday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin were focused on keeping Iran from filling the vacuum left by the Islamic State in Syria and combating Iranian-sponsored radical Islamic terrorism.
TEL AVIV – The U.S. is in discussions with Israel about holding back on settlement activity, acting State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said Tuesday.
Visiting Eilat on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel will not tolerate any cross border violence.
Police Chief Roni Alsheich said Monday that both ongoing corruption investigations into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were nearing completion, as the prime minister was questioned by police for the fourth time in one of the probes.
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone Monday, the White House confirmed.
Iran is responsible for more than 80% of Israel’s security problems, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, quoting one of the country’s security agencies.
A top Arab Israeli politician on Monday defended naming a street in northern Israel after the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to remove it.
Police investigators are set to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a fourth time on Monday, as part of the ongoing corruption investigations into the Israeli premier.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to address developments in Syria and how to combat Iran’s military presence in the war-torn country.
JERUSALEM – Speaking from Jerusalem in a Breitbart News exclusive interview, Congressman Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said he believes President Trump will announce the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before the end of May.
The Israeli government voted on Sunday in favor of decriminalizing recreational marijuana use, joining some U.S. states and European countries who have adopted a similar approach.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed Saturday that “no street in the State of Israel will be named after Yasser Arafat,” after it was discovered through the navigation application Waze that an Arab-Israeli village in Israel’s north had named a road for the late Palestinian leader.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday to voice opposition to what the Israeli leader charged were Iran’s attempts to establish a permanent military foothold in Syria.
TEL AVIV – Now that President Donald Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the past, Israeli lawmakers are planning to reintroduce the annexation bill extending Israeli sovereignty to the Jerusalem-area settlement of Ma’ale Adumim.
The Trump speech offered a long-awaited opportunity: the chance to celebrate those who have died in a cause largely unseen and unknown, and sometimes abandoned and even denigrated.
TEL AVIV – Head of the opposition Isaac Herzog on Monday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to set up an “emergency national program” in preparation for “waves” of Jewish immigration as a result of an ongoing upsurge of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and France.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is “deeply disappointed and concerned” by the uptick in anti-Semitism across the U.S., White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday.
Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday reiterated his warning that Israel will not allow any “drizzle” of rocket fire on its territory from enemy entities.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told MKs from his ruling Likud party on Monday that he still has not reached an agreement with US President Donald Trump regarding the construction of new homes in West Bank settlements.
Israel will never relinquish security control of the entirety of the West Bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his inaugural tour to Australia has been ‘wonderful’. The Israeli PM and his wife Sara wound up their five-day trip to Sydney on Sunday, meeting with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop just hours before departing.
Lionel Messi, one of the world’s most celebrated footballers, arrived in Egypt this week as part of a government campaign to resurrect the medical tourism industry, a vital source of revenue that has dwindled since the 2011 Arab Spring revolution and the political instability that ensued.
They were told to be on their best behaviour. They were told to sing in their most beautiful voices. And most importantly, to smile.
Despite the Australian government’s warm welcome this week for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the first visit of an acting Israeli premier Down Under, hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators took to the streets in Sydney on Thursday to protest against the visit.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday reiterated his support for the pardoning of IDF soldier Elor Azaria. In a case that rocked the nation here, Azaria was sentenced by an Israeli military court two days ago to 18 months in jail
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull offered a staunch defense of Israel on Wednesday, criticizing the United Nations and vowing never to support “one-sided resolutions” calling for an end to Israeli settlement building on occupied land.
