Daily News Surrounding Israel

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi penned a letter addressed to IDF service members in which he commemorates the 50th anniversary of the…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden met in New York yesterday (20th) for the first time since…

As Prime Minister Netanyahu left Israel for the United States he was greeted by protestors opposing his overhaul of the Supreme Court…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday (20th) with the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan waved a photo of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish Iranian woman, 22, killed in the…

NEW YORK – Iran’s President on Monday (18th) warned against normalization with Israel, denied his country had sent drones to Russia for use in the…

A terrorist attack was foiled in Jerusalem Monday morning (18th), hours after the end of…

On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the number of Jews worldwide stands at approximately 15.7 million compared to…

About 9.8 million people are living in Israel ahead of Rosh Hashanah, with the country’s population expected to reach…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plan to meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly…

Sinkholes opened on Eliezer Hoofien St. in Holon and Shirat Geulim St. in Herzliya on Wednesday (13th) as unseasonable…

Monday (11th) marked the 22nd anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks when terrorists flew hijacked planes into the…

I want to introduce you to a good friend of The Friends of Israel, Rabbi Shmuel Bowman, Executive Director of Operation Lifeshield in Israel…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday (10th) urged religious Jews to avoid traveling on the annual pilgrimage to Uman, amid the risks posed by…

Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant held a situational assessment on Thursday (7th) to discuss the defense establishment preparations ahead of the Jewish…

Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi traveled to the Gaza Strip this week, according to several reports in Palestinian…

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Wednesday the discovery of an ancient cache of Roman weapons…

Papua New Guinea opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem on Tuesday (5th), becoming the fifth country with a full diplomatic…

On Tuesday (5th), following engineering guidance and ISA intelligence, IDF and Israeli Border Police forces targeted a building that contained…

August 2023 has been a deadly month of terror attacks in Israel, and between August 5 to August 31, five people have been killed…

One person is dead and five young Israelis, three of them soldiers, were injured in a vehicular truck-ramming attack…

Saudi Arabia has proposed resuming financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA)…

The Israeli and American militaries will hold a series of pre-planned joint military drills in the coming…

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen defended his disclosure of private meetings with Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush, who for this meeting has been…

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the UN Headquarters in…

An Israeli air aggression put Aleppo International Airport out of service, the Syrian Defense Ministry said on…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Rabbi Slomo Koves and Rabbi Shmuel Oirechman on Thursday (24th) ahead of a discussion on…

A five-year-old boy was killed and at least 8 others injured in a rockslide at Nahal David near the…

Four people were killed in a shootout in the Western Galilee town of Abu Snan on Tuesday…

The year 2023 is shaping up to be one of the deadliest in terms of terror casualties for Israel in decades, with an average of one terror victim each…

The IDF, Shin Bet and the Border Police arrested two Palestinians Tuesday morning (22nd) suspected of carrying out the shooting attack in which…

The nearly two thousand year old aqueduct, built in the days of Herod, had a major collapse early Friday morning. The section of the aqueduct that collapsed was from…

An Israeli woman was murdered in a terror shooting attack on Route 60, near Hebron, in Judea and Samaria on…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian took advantage of his official visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday (17th) to reiterate the…

The United States has approved Israel’s sale of the Arrow 3 missile defense system to Germany, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced…

Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced that Paraguay will relocate its embassy to Jerusalem by the end of 2023, and Israel will…

Ryan Turell has set his hopes high: to become the first Jewish player in the NBA. Currently on the roster for the G League Detroit Cruise…

Some five years after Paraguay closed its embassy in Jerusalem, its new President , Santiago Pena announced Tuesday (15th) that the South American country will…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented Monday afternoon (14th) about  the Fitch Rating’s affirmation of Israel’s…

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed to not “lend his hand” to any harm caused to the Israeli military in a visit to…

More than 200 Israeli and Ethiopian Jews were rescued from war-torn northern Ethiopia on Thursday afternoon (10th) amid ongoing…

A Palestinian gunman was killed by Israeli forces near the northern West Bank city of Nablus before…

More than 400 Christian young adults attended the Israel on Campus Coalition National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., this week…

Defense Ministry personnel on Wednesday (9th) thwarted an attempt to smuggle into Gaza 10 reconnaissance drones concealed within a blackbag inside a…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is confident that Israel and Saudi Arabia will sign a peace agreement and that the ties between…

With the success of the Abraham Accords, the hope that a major piece of the program would be peace with Saudi Arabia…

Four Syrian soldiers were killed and four others were wounded in alleged Israeli air strikes near Damascus early Monday morning (7th)…

The head of the Palestinian Authority’s “Colonization and Wall Resistance Committee,” Minister Moayad Shaaban, and other committee members were filmed…

President Isaac Herzog visited a military post on the Lebanese border on Wednesday (2nd) delivering a stern message to Hezbollah amid increased…

The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah recently set up a tent in Israeli territory, which constitutes an act of provocation…

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah warned that armed groups in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and the Palestinian territories would “prevent attacks” on…

In three instances in Israel last week Israelis dealt with violent attacks from Palestinians. One of those occurred in a town near Nablus in…

Recent days have seen several security-related incidents along the Israel-Jordan border, as seven people illegally crossed into the country, sparking…

The IDF operated overnight in the Jenin “refugee” camp for the first time since its major counterterrorism operation in June and arrested…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene a discussion on Sunday (30th) that will focus on the…

Thousands of Jews are expected to visit the Temple Mount on Thursday (27th), Tisha B’Av, which is one of the prime days for…

On Monday, the Israeli Knesset passed the Reasonableness Standard Law, part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s set of…

Jews around the world are set to mark, remember and mourn on Tisha B’Av (the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av) Wednesday night (26th) and…

On July 24 the Knesset passed ‘the reasonableness’ bill, the first part of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s overhaul of the judiciary…

Three Palestinian gunmen were killed by Israeli forces while attempting an attack at a small Samaritan community in the northern…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was discharged from Sheba Medical Center on Monday morning (24th) after two days of recovery in the…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there are ongoing efforts to reach consensus ahead of the crucial Knesset vote on a bill aimed at…

Palestinian gunmen attacked Jewish worshipers at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus late Wednesday night (19th) according to a Thursday morning (20th) Israeli Defense…

Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the White House on Tuesday…

Two Syrian soldiers were injured after alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted sites in the Damascus area on Tuesday night (18th) according to…

US President Joe Biden spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening (17th) for the first time in four months and extended an invitation to…

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen landed in Kenya on Sunday (16th) for a short visit at the invitation of the African…

The Wall Street Journal on Friday morning (14th) published an op-ed harshly criticizing the Biden administration for its treatment of the Israeli…

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Serbia on Wednesday morning (12th) in what was the first…

Israel recently offered the nearly bankrupt Palestinian Authority (PA) a financial lifeline. The PA turned it down…

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will leave for an official visit to Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku on Wednesday evening (12th), the Defense Ministry…

The Knesset overnight passed along partisan lines a bill to restrict the use of the “reasonableness” standard by the Supreme Court. The bill was advanced by a vote of 64-56…

Over the past few weeks Israeli Defense forces have engaged terrorists in Jenin in combat. Following serious terror attacks, including the deaths of…

Israel’s security cabinet, by a majority of eight to one, with one abstention, voted Sunday evening (9th) to prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority…

The two terrorists that carried out Thursday’s (6th) shooting attack on a police car in the Samaritan neighborhood of Har Bracha were…

Two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel on Thursday (6th), one of them landing in Lebanese territory and…

The IDF struck the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning (5th) after five rockets were fired from the Strip toward the Sderot area in southern Israel…

The IDF on Sunday night (2nd) launched its largest operation in Jenin since the Second Intifada with a series of more than…

The Mossad Thursday evening (29th) revealed additional details about the planned Iranian terrorist attack against Jewish and Israeli targets in Cyprus which was thwarted…

Israeli police arrested 15 suspects for hanging a sign with photos of terrorists and waving flags of terror organizations after the Muslim Eid al-Adha…

The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee petitioned the European Union “to help the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israel for war crimes” on Tuesday…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to visit China next month in a move that is seen as undermining Jerusalem’s relationship with…

The Civil Administration’s Higher Planning Council on Monday (26th) approved the construction of approximately 5,700 units throughout Judea and Samaria…

Israel on Sunday evening (25th) confirmed Cypriot media reports that an Iranian terrorist attack against Israeli and Jewish targets in the Island nation of Cyprus was thwarted…

Nearly half of Israelis support the launch of a large-scale military operation in Judea and Samaria following recent deadly terror attacks, according to a new poll…

The IDF on Wednesday night (21st) killed a terror cell in the West Bank using a drone, an unusual move generally reserved for targeting major terrorists or…

Lebanese terror group Hezbollah set up a terrorist outpost in Israel sometime in the past few weeks. Hezbollah stationed eight armed terrorists in…

Hours after two Hamas terrorists massacred Israelis at a gas station in the Binyamin region north of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning to…

Israel’s Jewish population will number close to 12 million by the country’s 100th Birthday, according to a projection released by the Central Bureau of statistics…

Detractors of Israel accuse Israel of being ‘an Apartheid State’, racist, colonialist, and other pejoratives. However, the population of Israel’s ethnic and…

Multiple Israeli troops sustained injuries Monday (19th) after coming under fire while concluding an arrest in the West Bank city of Jenin. The fighters are said to have…

Five years after the U.S. dedicated its new embassy in Jerusalem, Russia is set to follow suit, Israel Hayom revealed. According to the newspaper, in a secret agreement…

Iran’s President arrived in Cuba early Thursday (15th) morning, according to Trabajadores, Cuban pro-government newspaper.  He was met at the airport by…

Israeli researchers recently made a breakthrough in the fight against cancer…

A Syrian soldier was seriously injured in alleged Israeli airstrikes that targeted sites near Damascus early Wednesday morning (14th), according to Syrian state…

Following the Nazis rise to power in 1933 they began their attacks on the Jews. An action in 1939 “designed to humiliate, punish, and exclude Jews” was the…

The Israeli government has informed the Biden administration of its intentions to approve 4,000 new housing units in Judea and Samaria this month…

A senior source in Israel responded to the concern of the diplomatic and security echelons following reports that Iran and the West may reach an agreement on a…

An attempted stabbing attack occurred on Friday morning (9th) at the Rantis checkpoint near Ramallah. A suspected terrorist who arrived at the scene tried to steal…

The political-security cabinet is expected to give its approval to a plan to attack Iran if such a proposal is raised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and…