Daily News Surrounding Israel

News Digest — 5/9/24

Israel Defense Forces ground troops on Wednesday (8th) continued the offensive against…

News Digest — 5/8/24

Tuesday (7th) Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant visited an artillery battery that provides fire support to…

Israel at War: Week 30

The United States wants a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, to delay or eliminate an Israeli military operation in Rafah…

News Digest — 5/6/24

The national wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day began…

News Digest — 5/3/24

Eight Syrian soldiers were wounded and material losses were caused in an alleged…

News Digest — 5/2/24

A representative of Hamas said on Wednesday evening (1st) that the terror group was planning to reject a recent…

News Digest — 5/1/24

Israel will invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah with or without a hostage deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said…

News Digest — 4/30/24

Following rocket fire from Gaza at the southern cities of Sderot and Ashdod on Monday (29th), the IDF says its fighter jets struck…

Week 29: Israel at War

The International Criminal Court has 133 member nations and six nations that have not joined the Court…

News Digest — 4/29/24

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has approved plans for a major operation in…

News Digest — 4/26/24

An Israeli civilian infrastructure worker has succumbed to wounds sustained in an…

News Digest — 4/25/24

IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari responded Wednesday evening (24th) to the video published by the Hamas terror organization showing…

Israel at War: Week 28

In the United States, college campuses are boiling over with protests, demonstrations, and physical confrontations with Jewish students…

News Digest — 4/24/24

Two top Hezbollah operatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Tuesday (23rd),  as explosive-laden…

News Digest — 4/23/24

The Jewish holiday of Passover began in Israel on Monday evening (22nd), with families around the country gathering for the festive…

News Digest — 4/18/24

The IDF killed a senior Hamas intelligence officer in an overnight strike on a terrorist cell in the central…

News Digest — 4/17/24

The Israeli military and Lebanon’s Hezbollah exchanged fire on Tuesday (16th), with the terror group launching…

News Digest — 4/16/24

Four IDF soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously, in a blast that occurred as troops operated several hundred meters inside…

Israel at War: Week 27

Early on Sunday morning (April 14, 2024), Iran launched a barrage of 300 missiles, drones, and rockets at Israel…

News Digest — 4/15/24

Israel’s airspace reopened on Sunday morning (14th) following an unprecedented direct attack by Iran during the overnight hours that saw…

News Digest — 4/12/24

Israel is preparing for a direct attack from Iran on southern or northern Israel as soon as the next…

News Digest — 4/11/24

Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, is on the way to…

Israel at War: Week 26

What does the removal of troops mean in the Gaza War? Israel Chief of Staff Lt. General Herzi Halevi explains what it does not mean…

News Digest — 4/9/24

IAF fighter jets eliminated the chair of Hamas’ Emergency Bureau in the Central Camps in…

News Digest — 4/8/24

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi marked six months since the beginning of the war in Gaza and addressed the IDF withdrawal from…

News Digest — 4/5/24

Israeli police deployed in large numbers throughout Jerusalem’s Old City for the final Friday (5th) of Ramadan, with large numbers of…

News Digest — 4/4/24

As part of a situation assessment carried out by the IDF on Wednesday evening (3rd), it was decided to consolidate and…

News Digest — 4/3/24

A ramming attack injured four police officers, one seriously on Wednesday morning (3rd), near…

Israel at War: Week 25

Iran has a reputation of actively supporting and engaging in terror acts. In the July 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center…

News Digest — 4/2/24

Mohammed Reza Zahedi, the top commander in the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) for Lebanon and Syria was assassinated in…

News Digest — 4/1/24

Israeli security forces arrested the sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tel Sheva on suspicion of having ties to Hamas and engaging in…

News Digest — 3/28/24

Two men and a child were injured in a shooting attack toward a bus on Route 90 in the…

News Digest — 3/27/24

Media outlets in Lebanon reported early Wednesday morning (27th) that at least 7 people were killed in…

Israel at War: Week 24

With the demand by United States President Joe Biden to build a pier to advance humanitarian aid into Gaza has come some startling and unsettling facts…

News Digest — 3/26/24

Nine operatives were killed overnight in strikes against pro-Iranian militia targets in the…

News Digest — 3/25/24

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated on Sunday evening (24th) in the Purim Megillah reading with the…

News Digest — 3/22/24

An official in the Israel Police force said on Thursday (21st) that during the upcoming Purim holiday, and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan there will be…

News Digest — 3/21/24

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Republican senators on Wednesday (20th) that Israel will continue its efforts to…

News Digest — 3/20/24

Israel is ranked as the fifth happiest country in the world despite the war in Gaza and the…

News Digest — 3/19/24

Israel early on Tuesday (19th) launched missiles at several military targets outside the Syrian capital resulting…

Israel at War: Week 23

Prime Minster Netanyahu has given a clear and convincing direction for Israel in pursuing their aim of defeating, dismantling, and destroying Hamas…

News Digest — 3/18/24

The IDF launched a precise operation in the area of the Shifa Hospital in the…

News Digest — 3/15/24

The War Cabinet is scheduled to gather Friday (15th) to discuss Hamas’ new proposal for…

News Digest — 3/14/24

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visited the Gaza Strip Wednesday morning (13th) with the troops of the IDF’s…

U.S. Trying to Oust Netanyahu?

Last Thursday, U.S. President Biden was caught on hot mic saying he needed a “come to Jesus meeting” with Israeli Prime Minister…

News Digest — 3/13/24

Two people were injured in a stabbing attack at a checkpoint at the entrance to…

Israel at War: Week 22

Two thoughts for today as Israel enters day 158. The numbers of both Palestinian and Israeli people mount almost daily…

News Digest — 3/12/24

Israel responded with strikes after alarms sounded in the Galilee and the Golan Heights as a barrage of at least 100…

News Digest — 3/11/24

While thousands of Muslim worshipers entered the Al-Aqsa compound in the Old City of Jerusalem to  pray on the first night of…

News Digest — 3/8/24

Israel will push on with its offensive against Hamas, including into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite growing…

News Digest — 3/7/24

Islamic terror groups are likely to target Israelis both in Israel and abroad during the upcoming Islamic holy month of…

News Digest — 3/6/24

Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon launched barrages of rockets at the northern Israeli city of…

Israel at War: Week 21

Hamas accused Israel of killing 104 civilians, and wounding others, as they raced to the trucks bringing humanitarian aid…

News Digest — 3/5/24

Minister Benny Gantz on Monday night (4th) told Biden administration officials that despite the difficulties and the pressures, Israel will decimate…

News Digest — 3/4/24

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday (3rd) visited IDF troops on the Gaza border, and heard from the division commander about the…

News Digest — 3/1/24

Two Israelis were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire at a gas station in the West Bank on Thursday afternoon (2/29) before…

News Digest — 2/29/24

On Wednesday night (28th), Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant spoke with the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin about the progress of the…

News Digest — 2/28/24

About an hour after the IDF announced Tuesday evening (27th) that it had attacked sites in Lebanon, additional artillery attacks…

Israel at War: Week 20

“All politics is local.” In Israel, two political moves illustrate this point. First, President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken appear to…

News Digest — 2/27/24

Hezbollah on Monday (26th) fired dozens of rockets toward the Golan in a significant departure from…

News Digest — 2/26/24

The IDF presented to the War Cabinet its plan to both evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah and to militarily destroy…

News Digest — 2/23/24

A Jewish Member of Parliament stated in an emotional address in the British Parliament Thursday (22nd) that he feels safer in…

News Digest — 2/22/24

Israel’s long-range Arrow air defense system shot down a ballistic missile over the Red Sea early Thursday morning (22nd), apparently fired by…

Is Hamas’s Time Running Out?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday that Israel would not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas…

Israel at War: Week 19

With so much happening in Israel currently, here’s four significant stories from today’s news feed for your information…

News Digest — 2/20/24

Hungary has twice blocked a European Union consensus statement against the IDF’s impending military operation against…

News Digest — 2/16/24

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Commented on Thursday night (15th) on reports that the US administration, along with several Arab countries, are advancing…

News Digest — 2/14/24

Rocket sirens sounded across Israel on Wednesday morning (14th) as Hezbollah ramped up…

News Digest — 2/13/24

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, together with the Inspector General of the Israel Police and…

News Digest — 2/12/24

Two Israeli hostages arrived at Sheba Hospital after they were rescued from Rafah in the Gaza Strip, and brought back to…

News Digest — 2/9/24

An apparent Israeli drone strike Thursday (8th) in southern Lebanon targeted two Hezbollah operatives, reportedly including a senior commander in the…

News Digest — 2/8/24

In a press conference on Wednesday night (7th) , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas’ terms for accepting a…

Israel At War: Week 18

“In Your Dreams” could summarize Israel’s response to Hamas’s terms. They demand in return for releasing hostages that Israel withdraw…

News Digest — 2/6/24

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered IDF Chief Of Staff Herzi Halevi and the military to find other alternatives to…

News Digest — 2/5/24

President Herzog is always pleased to welcome foreign dignitaries to Israel,  but he will be particularly pleased on Tuesday (6th) when he greets…

News Digest — 2/2/24

Alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted Sayyidah Zaynab, a stronghold of Iranian militias, near Damascus early on Friday Morning…

News Digest — 2/1/24

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening (1/31) released a video in which he made a statement regarding the…

Ceasefire and Hostage Deal Imminent

A Paris proposal to release Hamas’s Israeli hostages and to reach a ceasefire is likely to move ahead, according to a senior Israeli official…

News Digest — 1/31/24

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday (30th) that his government will not agree to a mass release of jailed terrorists…

Israel At War: Week 17

Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the communities deeply impacted in the October 7 attack, had 80 casualties, 1 in 10 of their residents died, and 18 hostages taken…