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Dr. Daniel Vainstub has deciphered a decade long mystery, a shard from a jar with unknown writing. Long thought to possibly be of Canaanite origin…

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…

Greek police arrested two Pakistani nationals, allegedly for planning “mass casualty terrorist attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in the country…

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…

As the proposed judicial reform sparks protests throughout the nation, Israel’s government is working to reach a resolution…

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…

US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) called for the Biden administration to make its support of Israel contingent on the development of…

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…

David Stern, a former U.S. Marine, and his wife were attacked by a gun toting terrorist while driving through Huwara. David was wounded with gunshots…

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…

Being buried in the land of Israel is an honor for Jewish people all over the world, as many greatly desire the Holy Land to be their final resting place…

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…

In his photographic experience of the War in Ukraine, Lazar notes that he experienced “the full spectrum of human emotion—heartbreaking, bewildering…

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…

The Israel Defense Forces conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Jenin on Tuesday to apprehend the terrorist who murdered Israeli brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv…

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…

Rafael Grossi, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, confronted Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities…

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…

Upon seeing the title of this new book by Larry Loftis, I became immediately both excited and grateful. I heard Corrie Ten Boom’s story on…

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…

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted a rare daytime raid today in Nablus to arrest three terrorists responsible for the…

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…

In late January, a bill that would revoke the Israeli citizenship or residency of convicted terrorists and their families receiving financial…

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…

One week after two powerful earthquakes devastated portions of Turkey and Syria, the numbers tell a grim story….

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 catastrophic earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria on Monday morning have left thousands dead…

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…

Early Monday morning a massive 7.8 earthquake rumbled through Turkey and northern Syria. Sometime later, another massive quake registering 7.5 struck the same area…

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…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he would consider…

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…

In response to an IDF action Palestinian terrorists shot dead seven Jewish residents of Neve Yaakov neighborhood of Jerusalem and wounded three others…

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…

President Joe Biden nominated a Jewish candidate for the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Sarah Margon…

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…

As each year passes, knowledge of the atrocities of the Holocaust continues to decline in society. That worrying trend was…

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 United States has good news for Israel. On Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides stated he “has faith” in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

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…

“Senator leading the trip indicates Democrats are less comfortable with the makeup of the new Israeli government than the

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 has long faced disproportionate criticism from the United Nations, and the data from 2022…

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…

In the Nazi era, Jewish families often had little time to escape, often taking merely the clothes on their backs. Some hid precious belongings in…

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…

A rocket aimed at Israel from Gaza fell within the Strip well short of its target in Israel on Tuesday night. Hamas had threatened retaliation…

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

The saying “Necessity is the mother of invention,” summarizes this invention by Nino Ransenberg, “a businessman who travels incessantly…

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…

Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu plans to announce he has successfully formed a coalition government…

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…

While some question the validity of the account of Hanukkah, The Hasmonean Museum in Israel will display during the week of Hanukkah…

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…