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Palestinians crowded the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday night (13th) and extra security forces headed to Jerusalem as the capital braced for the…

A delegation of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist movement visited Baghdad on Wednesday (12th) at the invitation of Iraqi officials. The delegation was led by…

The Temple Mount will be closed to Jewish visitors from Wednesday (12th) to the end of the month of Ramadan, which is set to end near the end of next week, Prime Minister…

Five Palestinians who were planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the coming hours were arrested by the IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Border Police in…

Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant on Sunday (9th) completed a tour of the Menashe division in northern Samaria, together with the relevant commanders in…

Seven surface-to-air rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip and exploded in the air overnight Thursday (6th), the IDF said, setting off alarms in Israeli border communities. Five of…

The IAF targeted two Hamas weapons manufacturing and storage sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning (5th) after 16-18 rockets were fired in three waves from…

Two IDF soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in a stabbing attack on Tuesday morning (4th) at the Tzrifin military base near the city of Rishon Lezion, just south of…

The Israeli Air Force Sunday night (2nd) shot down an unidentified aircraft that crossed into Israeli airspace from Syria, the IDF said, adding that there was no danger to…

Israel staged airstrikes on suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus early Friday (31st) for the second day in a row, the state news agency reported.  It gave no word on…

Loud explosions were heard in the Damascus area overnight Thursday (30th), Syrian state news agency SANA reported. Syrian television claimed that the explosions were caused by…

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday (28th) urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abandon a judicial overhaul proposal that led to massive…

On Monday evening (27th), President Isaac Herzog spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and opposition figures Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz, urging them to…

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met Wednesday (22nd) with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau to sign an agreement to resume the Israeli youth Holocaust trips to…

An Israeli airstrike hit the Aleppo Airport early Wednesday (22nd) and put it out of service, Syrian state media reported. The Syrian Civil Aviation Authority, which announced…

The Knesset on Monday night (20th) approved the law canceling the disengagement in northern Samaria in its second and third readings. The law was…

The second session of the joint forum of the United States, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority came to a close on Sunday evening (19th) in…

An IDF raid killed four Palestinian terrorists near Jenin on Thursday (16th).  It was the latest anti-terrorist action in a year-long wave of violence in…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Germany was cut short due to negotiations over a possible compromise on the government’s judicial overhaul plan and…

The Knesset approved on Monday night (14th), in its first reading, a bill repealing sections of the 2005 Disengagement Law that prevent Israelis from entering or living in…

Israel’s parliament passed the first reading of a controversial bill early Tuesday (14th), pushing forward with a measure that would allow lawmakers to protect laws from…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Israeli security personnel who eliminated three terrorists near the town of Kedumim in Samaria Sunday (12th), and vowed to…

At least three people were injured by gunshots in a shooting attack near a cafe on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening (9th). The injured were…

A Border Police SWAT team eliminated three terrorists Thursday morning (9th) in the town of Jaba south of Jenin in Samaria. The three terrorists exited a vehicle and…

Israel Defense Forces troops killed the terrorist on Tuesday (7th) who 11 days ago shot dead at point-blank-range, brothers Hillel Menachem and Yagel Yaakov Yaniv near the…

On the Eve of the Jewish festival of Purim, a special video documentation that reached Ynet shows the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai – the heroes of the biblical Book of Esther – in the…

A closure will be implemented on the West Bank over Purim, from Monday (6th) to Wednesday (8th), as tensions continue to rise after a series of terrorist attacks and…

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is expected to soon leave for Turkmenistan – the central Asian country that shares a long border with Iran – to officially inaugurate…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement on Wednesday evening (1st) in response to the protests that took place during the day against…

A rare inscription bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great has been discovered in Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed this week. The discovery comes…

 A US-Israeli dual-national was killed in a shooting attack near the Beit Arava Junction on Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley on Monday afternoon (27th). Video from the scene showed…

Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday evening (26th) spoke to the Jewish rioters in the village of Huwara following the terrorist attack in which brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv were…

Explosions were heard in Karaj near Tehran in central Iran on Thursday night (23rd), with initial reports indicating that air defenses in the area were activated. The official…

Sirens were sounded early Thursday morning (23rd) at approximately 4 a.m. local time, in Ashkelon, Sderot and other communities located near Israel’s border with…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday (21st) that a credible military threat was the best way to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Speaking at…

The Knesset passed the first two pieces of legislation related to the government’s judicial reform plan following a noisy six-hour-plus debate that…

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Thursday (16th) visited Kyiv’s suburb of Bucha, which became known for mass killings of civilians under the Russian occupation. The minister, who…

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he believes Israel has a biblical claim on Judea and Samaria and is therefore not an occupying force. “Israel is…

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan sent an urgent letter Tuesday (14th) to the members of the UN Security Council ahead of the meeting that…

Israeli Border Police officer Asil Suaed was killed in a stabbing attack at the checkpoint to Shuafat just hours after a 17-year-old man was injured moderately after being…

Days after a deadly ramming attack in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his ministers in the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday (12th) that he would soon…

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi paid a secret visit to Bahrain on Thursday (9th), according to local media in the Gulf state. Bahraini news site Akhbar Al Khaleej shared…

The Jewish population in the United States topped 8 million in 2020, according to a new study published by the American Jewish Population Project (AJPP) at Brandeis University in…

The earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria registered 7.8 on the Richter scale, leaving thousands dead in its wake. This destructive quake was no isolated event, no…

Monday evening (6th), the joint “Olive Branches” humanitarian and delegation of the Israel Defense Forces, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defense left for Turkey to…

At least five Palestinians were killed on Monday morning (6th) in an IDF raid near the West Bank city of Jericho.  The IDF said the dead were Hamas terrorists and members of…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday (2nd), hoping to gain support against Iran’s nuclear program. Israel’s Paris…

The IDF struck weapon production and storage facilities in Gaza overnight on Thursday (2nd) after rocket sirens sounded in Sderot, Ibim and Nir Am at various points throughout…

On February 1, 2003, Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon was killed alongside the rest of his crew during the fatal Columbia Space Shuttle mission. Born in 1954 in Ramat Gan to Holocaust…

Russia on Monday (30th) “strongly condemned” an attack on an Iranian defense facility Sunday (29th), in what appeared to be a thinly veiled threat against Israel, which was reported to…

A bill which would make it easier for the state to nullify the citizenship of terrorists is set to be brought before the Knesset for a vote Monday (30th), making it the first in a series of…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a message Friday morning (27th) for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the 78th anniversary of the…

A massive gun battle broke out in the Palestinian Authority-administered city of Jenin Thursday morning (26th), after Israeli security forces entered the city as part of…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an unannounced trip to Jordan on Tuesday (24th) to meet with King Abdullah II. The two leaders discussed…

The United States and Israel on Monday (23rd) launched what one US official described as the allies’ most significant joint military exercise to date, involving thousands of…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu removed Shas Party chairman Arye Deri from his position as Interior and Health Minister on Sunday (22nd), in accordance with…

Israel plans to fully open its embassy in Kyiv and to increase its humanitarian assistance to that war-torn country, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Thursday (19th) after he…

Iran warned on Thursday (19th) that the European Union would “shoot itself in the foot” by listing the Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, Foreign Minister…

The US will replenish any weapon that it has recently transferred from Israel to Ukraine, an IDF source confirmed on Wednesday (18th). Further, the IDF affirmed…

Israel must rescind the sanctions it levied against the Palestinian Authority for seeking assistance from the world court, 90 nations have declared in a signed statement. “We express our…

The Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem held a ceremony Monday morning (16th), marking the end of IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi’s term as the country’s…

The Mesha Stele, also called the Moabite Stone, is a basalt stone slab that has provided historians and linguists with the largest source of the Moabite…

An Israeli man in his 30s was stabbed and moderately wounded in a terror attack in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank on Wednesday (11th), the military and…

Israel will combat any Iranian attempt to place military bases on its borders with Lebanon and Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said as he toured the North with…

The Israel Minister of Defense on Tuesday (10th) signed an agreement with Elbit Systems to expand the Air Force Mission Training Center (MTC) at the…

The Diplomatic Security Cabinet approved Friday (6th) a series of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority in response to Ramallah’s pushing the…

The newly installed Israeli security cabinet held its first meeting on Thursday (5th) to debate sanctioning the PA over its push for the International Court of Justice to issue an…

Former White House Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt questioned the U.S. Ambassador to Israel’s response to Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will establish an 11-member security cabinet that will be authorized to make decisions for the government on matters of…

Israel’s new government “will not give in to threats from Hamas,” National Security Minister Ben-Gvir said as he arrived at the Temple Mount on Tuesday morning (3rd) for his…

Two Syrian soldiers were killed and two others wounded early Monday morning (2nd) in alleged Israeli airstrikes targeting Damascus International Airport…

Israel’s population reached 9,656,000, said a report published Thursday (29th) by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) ahead of the new year…

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has begun a round of meetings with Likud MKs ahead of the swearing-in of the new Israeli…

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu is expected Wednesday (28th) to bring for the Likud faction’s approval, his appointment of Amir Ohana as…

Tens of thousands visited the Western Wall Plaza during Hanukkah and for the central candle-lighting ceremonies that took place throughout the holiday, among them many…

Just 18 minutes before the deadline, Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a phone call to President Isaac Herzog that he had succeeded in…

As his mandate to form a government expires, Likud party head Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to notify President Isaac Herzog by telephone on Wednesday (21st) that he…

Syrian air defenses were activated against a strike on the area of Damascus early on Tuesday (20th), according to local television reports, claiming it was carried out by…

Candle lighting for the first night of Hanukkah took place Sunday evening (18th) in the presence of the rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz; the Mayor…

Israel’s designated prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday (15th) vowed to seek full diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia once he takes office, claiming that…

Near the school, which is used by UNRWA as a shelter during emergencies, is a Hamas rocket launch site, according to the IDF. In addition, the IDF stated that “prior to…

Less than 24 hours after the right-wing bloc replaced the Knesset Speaker, Tuesday (13th), the Likud and its allies are expected to launch a legislative blitz in the Israeli parliament, laying the…

National Security Minister-designate MK Itamar Ben-Gvir pushed back Tuesday morning (13th), after the US State Department called for “accountability” following…

Likud MK Yariv Levin will become the temporary Knesset speaker on Monday (12th), the Likud said Sunday (11th). The party held a virtual vote and unanimously agreed to choose…

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night (8th) officially asked President Isaac Herzog for a two-week extension…

IDF soldiers operating throughout the West Bank arrested 15 wanted Palestinians, as well as an additional three in Jenin…

Likud and United Torah Judaism signed a preliminary coalition agreement Tuesday evening (6th), paving the way for Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government…

Two vehicle occupants were shot on Highway 6 at the Ben Shemen interchange near the city of Modiin just after midnight on Tuesday (6th)…

Yahya al-Saadi, the son of senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad official Bassam al-Saadi was arrested by Israeli forces amid armed…

The Likud and Religious Zionist Parties reached a coalition agreement on Thursday evening (1st) that clears the way for…

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander and his assistant were killed in armed clashes between the IDF and Palestinians in Burqin…

A female IDF soldier in her 20s was struck by a car at the Migron-Kochav Yaakov intersection in the West Bank in a terror attack on Tuesday morning (29th). The soldier was…

Following an agreement between the Likud and Religious Zionism, Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday (29th) will choose the temporary…

Israel’s Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu met for several hours with Bezalel Smotrich’s far-right Religious Zionist Party on Sunday (27th), with his Likud Party reporting…

Jerusalem was hit by two explosions on Wednesday morning (23rd) at two bus stops, one at the western entrance of the city and one at a junction in northern Jerusalem, leaving a teenager…

Religious Zionism Party Chairman Bezalel Smotrich has agreed to become Israel’s next finance minister, according to unconfirmed reports, walking back his demand for…

Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian gunmen near the West Bank city of Jenin on Monday morning (21st), as they went to arrest a wanted man accused of planning…

Palestinian man carrying a knife was arrested on Friday (18th) in the West Bank, outside the Israeli town of Kiryat Arba, Israeli authorities said.  No one was…

A plaza in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood has been named after Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who saved…

President Isaac Herzog on Tuesday (15th) called for unity among Israelis. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the newly elected Knesset, Herzog urged…