TEL AVIV – Iran’s foiled cyberattack on Israel’s water system sought to increase residential area chlorine levels, a Western intelligence official has told the Financial Times, adding the attack was “close to successful.”
TEL AVIV – Iran is building a new weapons storage facility in eastern Syria at a military base near the Iraqi border, Fox News reported Wednesday citing a private Israeli intelligence firm.
TEL AVIV – Hundreds of people attended the funeral of an IDF soldier killed by a Palestinian rock thrower during a raid in the West Bank overnight Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Biological Research Institute has made a breakthrough development in isolating an antibody that neutralizes the Chinese coronavirus, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday said the military had progressed from blocking Iran’s presence in Syria to moving it out entirely.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennett’s recent interview on live TV was interrupted by a gatecrasher in the form of his 8-year-old son. The perennially cool defense minister continues to answer the news anchor’s questions with aplomb, stopping only to kiss or caress the young interloper.
TEL AVIV – Syria accused Israel of an airstrike near Damascus in the early hours of Monday, killing four members of a pro-Iran militia and three civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
TEL AVIV – Israel announced Thursday it would begin easing coronavirus restrictions as a nationwide Passover curfew ended.
TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (Yamina) on Sunday pointed to the ultra-Orthodox and Arab sectors of Israeli society as being the “problem” in the spread of COVID-19, and called for his ministry to lead the fight against the virus instead of the Health Ministry.
Israeli’s defense minister Naftali Bennet posted a video to social media on Friday suggesting that the country’s long-term strategy should involved most of the population becoming infected with, and immune to, coronavirus while isolating the elderly.
Last week’s election in Israel resembles the Democrat Iowa caucuses given the absence of a clear winner, said Jeremy Saltan.
TEL AVIV – The Blue and White party on Wednesday confirmed it was working on getting a law passed that would prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as an indicted prime minister, from leading the country.
TEL AVIV – Israel and the U.S. will work together to combat Iranian terror in the Middle East, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said following a trip to the U.S., with the task being divvied up so that Jerusalem will work to curb Iran’s entrenchment in Syria while Washington will combat the Islamic Republic’s presence in Iraq.
JERUSALEM – The Blue and White party has come under fire for its latest ad campaign which has been denounced as “antisemitic” and full of “hate and incitement.”
TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday announced the formation of a special team for the annexation of West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley on the heels of President Donald Trump’s unveiled peace plan which calls for Israeli law to be applied throughout those territories.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Defense Ministry has made a “technological breakthrough” on a laser beam defense system capable of intercepting rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles, it announced Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Two IDF soldiers who completed a course in the armored corps petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday demanding the right for women to serve as tank crew members.
JERUSALEM – Israel on Sunday said it would withhold tens of millions of dollars worth of taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority over Ramallah’s so-called “pay-for-slay” program, in which stipends are paid to terrorists and their families.
Israeli leaders on Wednesday morning issued fresh threats to Iran after the military conducted overnight airstrikes on the Islamic Republic’s Quds Force in Syria, with the defense minister saying even Tehran’s leaders were “not immune.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday appointed Amir Ohana to replace Ayelet Shaked as justice minister, making him the first openly gay cabinet minister. Shaked was fired by Netanyahu earlier this week after she and former education
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday fired ministers Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett, leaders of the New Right party that failed to cross the electoral threshold in the April 9 elections.
TEL AVIV – The pro-cannabis, right-wing leader of the Zehut party, Moshe Feiglin, said he met with New Right leader Naftali Bennett to discuss possibly joining forces in the upcoming elections. Despite promising campaigns, both parties failed to make it
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “abhorrent” shooting attack in a Poway, California Chabad synagogue on Saturday that killed one woman and wounded three others.
The New Right party on Thursday said it would demand a recount of its votes as it emerged that it had fallen just short of entering the Knesset, after all votes were tallied but with a review of the vote-count process underway.
TEL AVIV – Israeli officials slammed the European Union over its “shameful” rejection of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights, despite President Donald Trump signing an order of recognition earlier this week.
An early morning rocket fired from the Gaza Strip demolished a house in central Israel on Monday, wounding seven people and prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut short a trip to Washington.
Israeli politician Naftali Bennett told Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu: “It seems that the Palestinians have spent the past 71 years victimizing themselves. They’ve fallen in love with it.”
New Right chair Naftali Bennett launched a direct assault on Donald Trump Wednesday morning, accusing the US president of “planning a Palestinian state right over our heads,” and calling on him to release his closely guarded Middle East peace plan before Israel’s April elections.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to begin cutting funds to the Palestinian Authority over its payments to convicted terrorists and their families.
TEL AVIV – The new party formed by Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announced on Tuesday that activist Shirley Pinto will be joining the New Right party’s list as the first-ever deaf Knesset candidate.
