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Qatar hit back over the weekend at suggestions that it supports the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, saying that “determined, collective action” is needed to end sectarian violence gripping Iraq and Syria, according to The Associated Press (AP). The comments came after a German official last week suggested that Qatar may play a role in…

Republican lawmakers on Sunday called for more aggressive U.S. action to defeat the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, accusing President Barack Obama of policies that have failed to thwart potential new threats on U.S. soil, according to Reuters. Representative Mike Rogers, Republican chairman of the House of Representative Intelligence Committee, urged the administration…

The Israeli Air Force on Sunday night targeted the rocket launcher from which rockets were fired at Jerusalem earlier in the day. “A short while ago, we struck the rocket launcher that fired at Jerusalem earlier this evening,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit wrote on Twitter. “Color red” rocket sirens were heard earlier Sunday evening in…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is continuing his quest to unilaterally achieve a Palestinian state. Aides to Abbas on Sunday told The Associated Press (AP) that he will soon appeal to the international community to set a deadline for Israel to withdraw back to the pre-1967 borders and make way for an independent Palestinian…

Southern Israel came under a massive rocket attack just before midnight on Sunday night. “Moments ago, four rockets were fired at Ashkelon from Gaza,” said the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit on Twitter. Four rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system over the city of Kiryat Malachi. Sirens were also heard in the Eshkol Region…

Just days after the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) last Tuesday released a video of the horrific decapitation of American journalist James Foley in Syria, an American journalist was released from the war-torn state. The journalist, Peter Theo Curtis, was abducted in Antakya, Turkey in October 2012, whereas Foley was kidnapped in Syria in November…

The IDF on Sunday assassinated another Hamas leader, Mohammed al-Ghoul, who was responsible for transferring funds to the terrorist organization and was the “Justice Minister” in the Hamas government. The pinpoint airstrike in northern Gaza took out al-Ghoul, confirmed the IDF. Palestinian Arab reports have confirmed the appraisal, saying al-Ghoul was killed in an airstrike on…

The left wing Meretz party is blaming Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the ongoing terror war that Hamas is waging against Israeli civilians. “The public must be told the truth in a clear way,” wrote Galon on her Facebook page. “It is either Kfar Aza or Migron, either Nirim or Yitzhar, either Kerem Shalom or…

The Israeli government ordered the closure of the Erez Crossing into Gaza on Sunday, after terrorists in the Hamas enclave peppered the point of entry for humanitarian supplies in the early afternoon. During that salvo of mortar fire around 2 p.m., which Hamas said consisted of 13 mortar shells, five people were wounded including two with critical injuries.…

Barrages of rockets at southern communities continue at an increased pace Sunday morning. In the latest salvo, five people were injured by a mortar shell fired at the Erez Crossing near the Gaza border. Two people have been injured critically and one is suffering moderate to serious injuries. The three have been treated at the…

Left-wing NGO B’Tselem released a statement condemning the execution of more than 20 people in Gaza by Hamas in a matter of days. The men were publicly executed for being “collaborators”, a term used to describe anyone thought to have cooperated with Israel. The killings followed the assassination of three senior Hamas leaders on Thursday…

No fewer than 570 rockets have been fired at Israel over a five day period, the Foreign Ministry revealed Sunday, tallying the total rocket count since Hamas broke an extended ceasefire on August 19.  Of those, more than 260 rockets that were launched from schools, more than 50 rockets from medical facilities and more than 130…

Police and rescue forces are continuing their efforts to locate Aharon Soffer, a 23-year-old hareidi yeshiva student from Jerusalem who disappeared in the Jerusalem Forest last Friday during a hike with a friend. Soffer was last seen on Friday at 12 p.m. in the Jerusalem Forest; his disappearance was announced by loudspeakers through various parts of…

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard said it has brought down an Israeli stealth drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the centre of the country. “A spy drone of the Zionist regime (Israel) was brought down by a missile… This stealth drone was trying to approach the Natanz nuclear zone,” the corps said in a…

There is anger in the kibbutz community of Nahal Oz over the cancellation Saturday of a planned visit by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, due to “security considerations.” The community is grieving after a four-year-old boy, Daniel Tregerman, was killed by a Hamas mortar shell Friday. Amid constant rocket…

Ukrainian separatists marched dozens of prisoners of war through the streets of Donetsk Sunday in an act timed to coincide with Ukraine’s official Independence Day. As Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, was speaking in Kiev to the soldiers and sailors in Independence Square, pro-Russian rebels in the east were staging a countermarch – parading captured…

New information was revealed on Sunday in relation to the assassination attempt on Hamas’s “military wing” Al-Qassam Brigades chief Mohammed Deif, in which his wife, son and daughter were killed last Tuesday. While it was earlier reported that a phone call from Hamas politburo leader Khaled Mashaal in Qatar gave away Deif’s location, Channel 10 reported on…

UNICEF Gaza Field Office chief, Pernille Ironside, held a press conference at the United Nations offices in New York City several days ago, “on the impact on children from the conflict in Gaza.”   Unlike UNRWA – which is charged solely with attending to Palestinian “refugees” – UNICEF  is the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund and…

Nearly 200 Hollywood actors and executives, including Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, have signed Creative Community for Peace’s pro-Israel, anti-Hamas open letter. “We, the undersigned, are saddened by the devastating loss of life endured by Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza,” the missive states. “We are pained by the suffering on both sides of the conflict…

Photographic evidence has been received from the vandalism attack on a Jewish school in Copenhagen last Thursday night, giving a more palpable sense to the rising global anti-Semitism during Operation Protective Edge. Carolineskolen, a school for some 200 students aged six to 16 in the Danish capital, was apparently broken into by vandals who cut…

In an on-again off-again pattern of nighttime rocket attacks targeting Israel’s major cities, terrorists in the Hamas stronghold of Gaza launched a salvo of several rockets Sunday night towards the Jerusalem area. “Color red” rocket sirens were heard in Beit Shemesh and several communities in the Jerusalem Hills, including Abu Gosh and Nave Ilan, as…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas revealed on Sunday that he intends to submit a “surprising” diplomatic solution to the “Palestinian issue” to US Secretary of State John Kerry sometime next week. According to Abbas, who spoke in an Egyptian television interview as cited by Haaretz, over the course of next week he will submit an…

Yedaya Sharchaton was driving with his wife Hadasah and one-year-old daughter Nitzan in Judea on Saturday night, when suddenly Arab terrorists threw rocks through the windshield, hitting Yedaya and causing the car to flip, wounding him critically in the process. Arutz Sheva spoke to Yedaya’s sister-in-law Tehila Malka, who like the Sharchaton’s lives in Yatir to…

Police and rescue forces are continuing their efforts to locate Aharon Soffer, a 23-year-old hareidi yeshiva student from America who disappeared in the Jerusalem Forest last Friday during a hike with a friend. Soffer was last seen on Friday at 12 p.m. in the Jerusalem Forest; his disappearance was announced by loudspeakers through various parts of…

Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari on Saturday night criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, saying that only wiping out Gaza would bring quiet to Israeli citizens. “I was convinced that after the terrible murder of Daniel Tragerman in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Israel’s leaders Ya’alon and Netanyahu would understand that with murderers…

Former IDF Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Avichai Ronski, levied criticism at IDF officials on Sunday, taking to Facebook to protest what military leaders say are the new goals of Operation Protective Edge.  “I really did not understand the words of our military leaders, who said the goal now is to bring negotiations,” Rabbi Ronski said, noting…

Five rockets were fired from Syria overnight Saturday and exploded near communities in the Golan Heights. The IDF said that there were no physical injuries in the attacks. Three sirens were heard in local communities before the rockets exploded. One power line sustained damage and residents reported power outages. In July, a rocket was fired…

The Lebanese Army has located the rocket launcher used to fire rockets on Israelis in the Upper Galilee on Saturday night, according to Lebanese news outlet A-Nusra. According to the outlet, the launcher is the area between the towns of Alma al-Shaab and Al-Tz’hira. The Lebanese army is currently attempting to move the launcher to one…

Four year-old Daniel Tragerman, hy”d, the victim of Friday’s mortar fire on Kibbutz Nahal Oz, was laid to rest Sunday morning at the Hevel Shalom cemetery in the Eshkol Region.  Daniel’s mother Gila eulogized him.  “I do not understand what’s going on at all, sweetie,” Gila stated. “I cannot believe I’m here to say goodbye.”…

At least rockets have been fired on Israeli civilians from Gaza in three hours Sunday, according to IDF Radio, with constant barrages on southern Israel since roughly 6:00 am.  No injuries have been reported.  A total of twelve rockets struck the southern Eshkol region Sunday morning; ten struck open areas and one hit a community. No…

British authorities have closed in on a number of suspects in the brutal murder of American journalist James Foley, British news outlets reported Friday, after linguistics experts determined that his executioner was a London immigrant to Syria.  Three suspects have been identified in the Foley murder thus far, the Telegraph reported Friday – as the Special Air…

Gaza Belt residents protested outside the Prime Minister’s House in Jerusalem on Saturday, after a series of rockets Friday caused several communities to evacuate.  The protesters put some remains of rockets at the entrance to the compound, and asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to meet with them personally – as well as work towards security and…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Saturday blasted Hamas officials for executing more than 20 alleged collaborators with Israel on Thursday and Friday, the Ma’an news agency reported. According to the report, the Secretary-General of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s office, al-Tayyib Abd al-Rahim, said that the executions had been conducted illegally outside of the Palestinian court…

The White House said over the weekend it was ready to “take action” against any threat to America as it indicated serious consideration of U.S. military strikes against the Islamic State (IS, formerly called ISIS) in Syria, AFP reports. The Pentagon has warned of the dangers of IS and said operations against it in Syria…

Israel is considering launching another heavy ground offensive into Gaza, Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) indicated Saturday, in the wake of renewed rocket fire and an exodus of Negev residents from their homes.  “Has the decision been made? No,” Erdan stated to Channel 2 News. “But we are closer to it than we ever have been.” …

Most of Hamas’s rocket arsenal has been decimated, a senior IDF officer stated Saturday, after the IAF hit multiple terror targets over the past week. “Rocket fire in the Gaza periphery is related to Hamas’s desire and ability to put pressure on Israel,” the official told Arutz Sheva on condition of anonymity. “We’re talking about 30%…

Sirens sounded in the Akko (Acre) region and the Galilee on Saturday night, amid a constant slew of rocket fire on the Negev from Gaza.  One rocket struck the Upper Galilee; no injuries or damage have been reported. The IDF has now confirmed that the rocket was fired from southern Lebanon. Initial reports stated that…

Funeral arrangements have been set for four year-old Daniel Tragerman, hy”d, who was killed by Hamas rocket fire Friday afternoon after a rocket struck near his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.  Daniel will be laid to rest on Sunday at 9:00 am at the Hevel Shalom cemetery in the Eshkol Region.  Daniel was reportedly at…

Egypt is to invite Israeli and Palestinian Arab delegations to return to Cairo to resume talks on a long-term truce for Gaza, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced on Saturday. “Egypt is going to invite delegates to return to the negotiating table to consider a long-term truce,” Abbas said after talks with EgyptianPresident Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Egypt’s foreign…

Hamas’s Qatar-based leader Khaled Meshaal has objected to Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comparison between the Palestinian Islamist terror group and the Islamic State, or ISIS. Speaking Thursday to visiting US Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Netanyahu said Israel was fighting the same war against Islamist terrorism as the US and other countries current working to combat the spread…

Hamas has signed a proposal for the Palestinian Arabs to apply to join the International Criminal Court at which legal action could be taken against Israel, a senior official of the Islamist terror movement said Saturday. “Hamas signed the document which (Palestinian) president (Mahmud Abbas) put forth as a condition that all factions approve, before he goes to sign the Rome…

A well-known Turkish Jewish couple have been murdered at their home in Istanbul, the Hurriyet daily reported on Friday. According to the report, police found the bodies of Jak Karako, 77, and his wife, Georgia Karako, 69, at their apartment in Istanbul’s Ortaköy neighborhood. Their caretaker, who fled the scene, is suspected to have stabbed…

Iran plans to send aid to Gaza after Egypt said it would allow the shipment to enter the territory, an Iranian diplomatic source said on Friday, according to AFP. The official IRNA news agency said Cairo had agreed to transfer humanitarian aid bound for the coastal enclave, citing a foreign ministry source in Tehran. The…

Amnesty International on Friday called on Hamas to stop the executions of suspected collaborators with Israel. The group’s call came amid reports that at least 18 more Gazans were put to death by firing squad for allegedly providing information to Israel. “This flurry of executions by Hamas is made even more shocking by the fact…

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas’s exiled leader Khaled Mashaal on Friday urged the United Nations to draw up a “timetable” for “the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories to end,” AFP reports. The two made the appeal during talks in Doha, as fighting continues in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Qatar’s state news agency QNA…

Security sources said on Friday evening that the mortar shell that killed a four-year-old boy in the Sha’ar Hanegev region was fired from an UNRWA-run school in Gaza. The boy has been identified as Daniel Tragerman. He was reportedly at home when the shell was fired, directly hitting a car that was parked near the…

Gaza terrorists continued their rocket attacks on Israel on Friday evening. While southern Israel was hit the hardest, rockets were also fired towards central Israel, including Tel Aviv. At least eight rockets and mortars exploded in the Eshkol region shortly after 8:00 p.m. No one was physically injured and there was no damage, as the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday evening warned Hamas that it would “pay a heavy price” after a four-year-old boy was killed in a mortar attack on southern Israel. “On behalf of the citizens of Israel, I express my deep sorrow and send condolences to the family of the child. At this difficult moment I…

One person was critically wounded on Friday evening, when a rocket fired from Gaza exploded in the city of Gan Yavne, in the Ashdod region. Two other people were lightly wounded from the rocket, which reportedly hit a vehicle. Magen David Adom paramedics took the victims to the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot. The attack comes…

A four-year-old was killed on Friday evening after a mortar launched from the northern Gaza Strip directly slammed into a car. The incident occurred in a kibbutz in the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council. According to Channel 2 News, terrorists in Gaza fired a barrage of mortars at the kibbutz, one of which exploded in a…

Arutz Sheva spoke about Operation Protective Edge with Dr. Yehuda David, a key figure in exposing the libel against the IDF over false charges of killing 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura in Gaza during the 2000 Second Intifada. David, who recently ran for Israeli president, took part in the ongoing Gaza operation.  “I’m still recuperating and couldn’t take part…

After a reportedly heated meeting with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, Qatar-based Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal has made an about-face, calling for the resurrection of truce talks in Cairo. Mashaal said Hamas “must return to indirect talks” with Israel, according to the Arabic-language Palestine Today, as cited by Walla!. “The resistance will ensure that…

The Pentagon broke multiple laws earlier this year, according to a government watchdog group, after it agreed to swap captive US soldier Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five top Taliban leaders in a landmark deal.  The nonpartisan US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report Thursday stating that the Defense Department not only failed to notify…

A new UN Security Council resolution proposed by Germany, Britain and France calling for an end to violence in Gaza contains some significant caveats that are reportedly garnering opposition from Israel. A senior European diplomat told Walla! on Thursday that the resolution proposal includes the removal of the blockade on Gaza, transferring control of the Hamas stronghold…

Moshir al-Masri, a senior Hamas figure, spoke on Tuesday about the tripartite meeting between Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, and Qatar Amir Sheikh Tamim Ben Hamad Al-Khamis in Qatar. According to al-Masri, the talk “focused on Palestinian demands” regarding possible a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.  Speaking…

The IDF has declassified a new special report detailing Hamas’s “illegal use of civilian infrastructure” throughout the course of Operation Protective Edge, which began July 8. The report was released on Tuesday, the same day that Hamas breached a ceasefire, and presents an irrefutable case against the terror organization utilizing intelligence maps, photographic and video evidence.…

Senior members of the IAF special reconnaissance Flying Camel Squadron discussed their role in gathering intelligence from the air during Operation Protective Edge, and noted frustration at having to abort airstrikes due to Hamas’s use of civilian cover. “We don’t have bombs on our planes; we have cameras that do intelligence work, and our job is…

A Jewish school in Copenhagen had its windows smashed and anti-Semitic graffiti referring to the conflict in Gaza spray-painted on its walls, the school said on Friday. “We know that a political message has been written on the walls but we don’t know who is responsible,” Jan Hansen, headmaster of Carolineskolen, told AFP. Messages daubed…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon declared on Thursday that Israel will continue to target the heads of the Hamas terrorist group “at any time and in any place”. “The Hamas commanders who were assassinated last night are responsible for many big terror attacks against Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers as well as the kidnapping of Gilad…

As Gaza terrorists kept up their rocket war against Israel on Friday, terrorists in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat apparently opened a salvo of their own, shooting at a Jewish home in the adjacent Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood. Police arrived in the neighborhood after receiving reports of gunshots heard from Shuafat. A bullet was found at the…

Far-left extremist group B’Tselem sympathized with Hamas terror on Friday, after it sent messages of condolences to a Gaza-based “human rights group” Al Mezan.  “B’Tselem expresses condolences to our colleague, the Executive Director of Al Mezan, who has lost his father and his father’s wife during a bombing from the [Israeli] Air Force,” the NGO said. …

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal held a second day of talks in Qatar on Friday, a Palestinian source told AFP, as fighting continued in Gaza. The meeting – hosted by Qatar’s emir – was a “follow up” to Thursday’s talks, which lasted nearly three hours, the source said on…

A rocket fired by terrorists in Gaza has caused considerable damage to a synagogue in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. Paramedics from the United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom emergency organizations rushed to the scene, after a massive explosion was heard. Three people were injured and have been evacuated for further medical treatment after…

A salvo of rockets landed close to a packed Israeli kindergarten in the south on Friday, breaking the calm after a relatively quiet night.  A five-rocket salvo saw the Iron Dome intercept two rockets over Ashkelon. Three rockets struck the western Negev; one of them landed just 12 meters (roughly feet) from a packed kindergarten.…

Outgoing UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay on Thursday condemned the UN Security Council for failing in Syria, as a UN report indicated the death toll there has reached over 191,369 people, spurred by horrific war crimes. “I firmly believe that greater responsiveness by this council would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” Pillay…

A 22 year-old UK citizen campaigned for women’s rights in Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in an odd way on Friday: by asking to have equal rights to murder as a terrorist herself.  “Any links 4 da execution of da journalist plz. Allahu Akbar. UK must b shaking up haha,” London native Khadijah Dare, who goes…

The US has joined the European push for a UN resolution to end the fighting in Gaza, Channel 10 reports Friday – and Israel might be considering accepting the terms of a potential proposal.  Political sources in Jerusalem, who asked to remain anonymous, told the news outlet that officials prefer to end fighting using Egyptian mediation –…

The Hamas regime in Gaza continues to execute its own civilians, even while engaged in a bloody war against Israel. In a central venue in Gaza City on Friday morning, 11 local Arab residents who were charged with “collaborating with Israel” were publicly executed by Hamas, according to the Arabic-language Al-Rai news agency. However, Hamas TV reported that the…

The Hamas terrorists who were eliminated by Israel “lived a month too long”, Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) said on Thursday. Ariel, who visited with residents of the communities in the Gaza Belt who are under continuous rocket fire, called for the continuation of the operation in Gaza and perhaps even for the renewal…

Amos Yadlin, formerly the head of Military Intelligence, said on Thursday that Israel had tried to eliminate Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas’s “military wing”, back in 2006, right before the Second Lebanon War. At a memorial service marking the 8th anniversary of the death of Lieutenant Colonel Emanuel Moreno, an IDF hero from the elite…

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday that the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group poses an “imminent threat” to the United States and may take years to defeat. “They are an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it’s in Iraq or anywhere else,” Hagel said at a Pentagon news conference,…

The United States condemned Hamas on Thursday over its threats to harm innocent civilians, after the group threatened to target the Ben Gurion International Airport with rockets. Deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf also called on Hamas to stop the rocket fire and on both sides to resume negotiations on a long-term ceasefire. “We also…

Britain, France and Germany have put forward key points of a new UN Security Council resolution on Gaza in a fresh bid to end six weeks of violence, diplomats said Thursday, according to AFP. The European initiative came as fighting flared in the six-week war, with Israeli airstrikes killing three top Hamas commanders and an…

The Ontario branch of the Canadian Federation of Students, representing more than 300,000 university students in the province, has unanimously passed a motion to boycott Israel, The Canadian Press reported on Thursday. Executive member Anna Goldfinch said the motion to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (or BDS) Movement received no opposition at its annual…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, warned on Thursday that terrorism has doubled its power. Speaking at a Security Council Debate on the subject of conflict prevention, Prosor said that radical extremism affected the entire world and not just Israel. He called for a “war against radical ideology”. “Radical extremism has touched every…

Hamas’s former prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, declared on Thursday evening that, despite the elimination of several of its leaders, the terror group will remain strong. “We want to emphasize that despite the pain of their deaths, Hamas’s history has demonstrated more than once that it is stronger after each elimination of a senior member,” he…

Terrorists in the Hamas enclave of Gaza on Thursday night set their sights on Be’er Sheva, launching a five rocket salvo that indirectly left a man in his forties with serious injuries. Two of the five rockets were shot down by the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, and another three fell in open ground causing…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hosted visiting Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) Thursday and told him that it is time for Israel and the US to unite in their fight against Islamist terrorism. “We face the same Islamist network and we have to fight it together,” said Netanyahu during a photo opportunity. “Hamas is ISIS, ISIS is…

Rocket sirens on Thursday night were sounded just ten minutes before 9 p.m. in Modi’in, as well as several communities in Samaria, and the Shfela lowland region between the Jerusalem hills and the coast. Reportedly, a rocket was shot down by the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system over Modi’in, about 25 minutes’ drive from Jerusalem,…

The Lebanese army has arrested an Arab citizen of Israel who cut through barbed wire to cross the border into Lebanon, a security official said on Thursday. “Ibrahim Zaydat entered Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon after cutting through a small section of barbed wire at the southeastern border, and was arrested by the army,” the official told AFP. Speaking on condition of anonymity,…

A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official last Wednesday declared that his organization has made a “political decision” to support Arab terrorists “slaughtering” Jews living in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. Jibril Rajoub, head of the PA Sports Authority and Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee, made the statements on the independent Palestinian Arab TV…

The armed wing of Hamas has executed three Palestinian Arabs and arrested seven others for allegedly collaborating with Israel during the Gaza war, a website close to the movement reported Thursday. The Majd website quoted a senior security official in the enclave as saying seven people had been arrested on suspicion of scoping out targets…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who took power after dictator Hugo Chavez died last March, made a surprise visit to Cuba on Tuesday to meet with the former Cuban despot Fidel Castro and bash Israel for its defensive operation in Gaza. “I congratulated Maduro for his extraordinary solidarity with the heroic people of the Gaza Strip,” the…

In an exclusive Arutz Sheva interview on Thursday, Hof Ashkelon Regional Council chairman Yair Farjoun said that his region, which has been battered by rockets from the terror enclave of Gaza, cannot continue under the current status quo. “Out of 160 rockets, 60 fell in our territory – that’s a serious blitz,” Farjoun commented about the renewed…

The armed wing of Hamas announced Thursday that three of its senior commanders were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades in a statement identified the leaders as Mohammed Abu Shamalah, Raed al-Atar and Mohammed Barhum. Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said eight people were…

A 33-year-old man has been wounded by rocket shrapnel in the Eshkol Regional Council, after Gaza terrorists pounded the southern area with rockets Thursday morning. The victim’s wounds were at first considered to be minor but are currently classified as moderate to severe. Hamas launched a large rocket salvo at the south on Thursday morning.…

The United States on Wednesday accused Israel of targeting members of a Palestinian family whose teenage son was kidnapped and killed in July, including two cousins, who are US citizens.    Tensions between Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem plunged to a new low on July 2 when 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was snatched from a…

A “death certificate” said to be that of Hamas’s military leader Mohammed Deif and currently circulating online has been dismissed as a forgery by the terrorist group. At least three people were killed in an Israeli Air Force strike which targeted the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade chief, two of whom were identified as his wife and son.…

Hundreds of passengers have arrived so far this morning to Ben Gurion International Airport, as Hamas’s threats to fire rockets at the airport as of 6 a.m. this morning fell flat. Hamas’s “military wing” had warned foreign airlines on Wednesday against flying into Tel Aviv, threatening to step up its six-week conflict with Israel after firing more than 100 rockets…

Communications Minister and Security Cabinet Member Gilad Erdan (Likud) has appealed for Israelis to be patient and to allow the IDF time to complete Operation Protective Edge, adding that the army was closer than ever to launching a full ground invasion of Gaza. Speaking in an interview with Army Radio on Thursday morning, Erdan revealed…

Anti-Israel British MP George Galloway has been questioned by police over his remarks declaring his constituency an “Israel-free zone”, but has declared he will not be silenced. According to Sky News, Galloway was questioned under caution over the remarks, which provoked an outcry on social media, and resulted in West Yorkshire Police saying it would…

Once again, a member of the Fatah movement which is touted as a “peace partner” for Israel has called for violence against Israel. “I support a powerful response by the resistance, but one that inflicts casualties, especially in the occupation army… because this is the best way to influence them,” said Tawfiq Tirawi, a member…

Following the targeted assassination attempt Tuesday night against Mohammed Deif, head of the Hamas “military wing” Al-Qassam Brigades, the body of another family member of the arch-terrorist has reportedly been found. Hamas emergency services spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP that on Thursday, the body of Deif’s three-year-old daughter Sara was pulled from the wreckage of the six-story…

After the Hamas terrorist organization finally admitted that it was indeed responsible for the June 12 abduction and murder of Eyal Yifrah (19), Naftali Frenkel (16) and Gilad Sha’ar (16) hy”d, Shurat Hadin (Israel Law Center) is pushing to ensure justice is served. In a letter appeal to US Attorney General Eric Holder, Shurat Hadin is…

A man who was seriously wounded by a Hamas rocket Thursday had been shielding children with his own body. The attack took place at about 10:20 a.m., at one of the communities in the Eshkol region. Magen David Adom (MDA) crews gave initial treatment to the man, who is 33. He was seriously wounded by…

Knesset ministers on Thursday authorized the enlistment of an additional 10,000 reserve duty soldiers to be called up by telephone for tzav shmoneh (emergency draft). The enlistment comes on the request of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, and after a Security Cabinet meeting on Wednesday at 2 p.m. As Operation Protective Edge enters its…

British and American intelligence services are hunting for the Islamic State jihadist who beheaded an American journalist, and have identified him as a British Muslim extremist known as “John”, according the Telegraph. “John” is said to be the leader of a contingent of British fighters for IS nicknamed “The Beatles”, due to their British nationality,…

Simcha Goldin, father of fallen soldier Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, has responded to news that one of the senior Hamas terrorists eliminated in an early-morning airstrike in Gaza was responsible for the attack which killed his son. Raed al-Attar was killed along with Mohammed Abu Shamalah and Mohammed Barhum in the pre-dawn IAF strike, representing a serious…

Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron (Yesh Atid) made it clear on Thursday morning at a gathering of the heads of the local Education Departments in Ramat Gan that the school year will start on time, despite the security situation. “The school year will begin as planned. We are prepared for any security-related occurrences,” the MK…

Bar Ilan University professor and brother-in-law of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Hagai Ben-Artzi has said that the IDF should only mount a full-scale invasion of Gaza to overthrow Hamas if the government will subsequently rebuild the Jewish communities of Gush Katif. Speaking to Arutz Sheva Wednesday, Professor Ben-Artzi noted experts have warned that any such…

Dr. Svetlana Bunimovich, lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Ariel, will present research done using mathematical models, to improve the treatment of bladder cancer, at a conference to be held at Ariel University next week (August 24-29). The conference will be opened by Senior Harvard Researcher Prof. Tamar…

A 33-year-old man has been wounded by rocket shrapnel in the Eshkol Regional Council, after Gaza terrorists pounded the southern area with rockets Thursday morning. The victim’s wounds were at first considered to be minor but are currently classified as moderate to severe. Hamas launched a large rocket salvo at the south on Thursday morning.…

Leftist and pro-Palestinian Arab activists rallied in Paris on Wednesday to urge Israel to end its airstrikes in Gaza, The Associated Press (AP) reported. About 300 protesters gathered near Napoleon’s tomb in central Paris, waving Palestinian flags and photos of people killed in airstrikes. Some banners read “No to the massacre in Gaza,” according to…

Hamas has finally admitted that it was behind the kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers Gilad Sha’ar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrah. Senior Hamas member Salah Al-Aruri told a conference of Muslim clerics in Turkey that it was indeed his organization that kidnapped and murdered the three boys in Gush Etzion back in June. “The…

A recent attempt to rescue American journalist James Foley and others in Syria failed, a U.S. official told CNN on Wednesday. The revelation came as new details emerged about the journalist’s final days in the hands of ISIS terrorists. The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed a rescue attempt was carried out this summer in Syria,…

A Canadian MP for the New Democratic Party (NDP) quit the caucus on Wednesday over what she felt was an excessively pro-Israel stance on the current conflict in Gaza, The Canadian Press reported. Sana Hassainia, who represents the Montreal-area riding of Vercheres-Les Patriotes, was specifically critical of NDP Leader Tom Mulcair in a blog post…

Channel 2 News reported on Wednesday evening that a heated argument broke out between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett at that day’s Cabinet meeting. According to the report, Netanyahu reprimanded the Jewish Home chairman during the meeting and demanded that Bennett stop speaking out against the government’s policy in Gaza. Arutz…

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday urged Israel and the Palestinian Arabs to return to the negotiating table to quickly agree on a lasting truce in Gaza. In a unanimously adopted statement quoted by AFP, the 15-member council “offered full support to the Egyptian initiative and called upon the parties to resume negotiations to…

Terrorists from Gaza fired a barrage of rockets towards southern Israel on Wednesday evening. Shortly after 11:00 p.m., sirens were heard in the vicinity of Ashdod as well as in Sderot and the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council. At least three rockets were fired towards the region, one of which was intercepted by the Iron Dome…

US President Barack Obama released a statement about murdered US journalist Jim Foley on Wednesday, one day after Islamic State (formerly Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS) released shocking footage of his decapitation.  “Today, the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group, ISIS,” Obama…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon spoke to the press Wednesday, providing direction and developments on the renewed fighting with Hamas.  “We are taking all measures to complete the campaign and the achievement of the prime goal – deterrence,” he said. “We will operate with discretion, responsibility and determination.” Netanyahu said that…

“There is no precedent for the importance of this role in Europe Israeli doctor,” says Dr. Leonid Eidelman chairman of the Israel Medical Association, Dr. Goldik election of a president of Carmel.  An Israeli doctor has been elected to be President of the European Society of Anesthesiology (ESA) on Wednesday, in what medical officials say is…

Both Israel and Hamas have pulled their delegations out of Cairo, following Hamas’s breaching of a six-day long ceasefire and then firing over 130 rockets into Israel in a 24-hour period.  Hamas officially declared the talks over on Al-Aqsa TV Wednesday night, then called on remaining Palestinian Arab representatives from Islamic Jihad and Fatah (Palestinian Authority, or…

Senior Hamas leader Mohammed Deif may have been killed in airstrikes, according to Fox News, despite Israel’s silence and Hamas’s denial of Deif’s death. Israeli intelligence officials told the news outlet that Deif – who is the head of Hamas’s “military wing,” the Al-Qassam Brigades – was killed during IAF airstrikes Wednesday, during the same attack that…

Hamas’s “military wing” warned foreign airlines on Wednesday against flying into Tel Aviv, threatening to step up its six-week conflict with Israel after firing more than 100 rockets on Israeli civilians and pulling out of peace talks.  “We are warning international airlines and press them to stop flying into Ben Gurion airport from 6 am (0300 GMT) Thursday,” Al Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu…

Hamas rockets have not hit an Israeli natural gas field, the IDF stated Wednesday, after the terror group’s “military wing” boasted two false hits about 30 kilometer (19 miles) from Gaza.  Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades claimed on its website that two rockets struck the Noa gas installation, which is owned by Nobly Energy and Delek.  Israeli…

Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi issued harsh words for Hamas Wednesday, after spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri reportedly said that “only [terror leader Mohammed] Deif will decide whether Gaza Belt residents return home.”  “Hamas does not determine the lifestyle of Israeli citizens,” Davidi fired. “It cannot be that Hamas still thinks it’s making decisions here.”  “Hamas’s words…

Four decapitated bodies were found north of the Sinai Peninsula Wednesday morning, about 15 kilometers from the border with Gaza. Residents of Sheikh Zaveid found the bodies; security forces in Cairo estimated that the deceased were kidnapped from the Egyptian capital on Monday morning. According to one police prediction, the four – who were last…

The barrage of rockets fired on Israeli civilian populations by Gaza terrorists continued Wednesday morning, after the ceasefire was breached the previous evening. Shortly after 11 a.m. four rockets fell on the Eshkol Regional Council area, with two of them landing in a local community. Light damage was caused by the missile volley to several…

MK Erel Margalit (Labor) sharply condemned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning, in the wake of the massive renewed rocket fire by Hamas terrorists since Tuesday afternoon in breach of the ceasefire. “Where is the prime minister?” asked Margalit on his Facebook page. “This is a disgrace, simply a disgrace. There’s no other definition of what…

Egypt on Wednesday called for a resumption of talks to achieve a long-term truce between Israel and Gaza-based terrorists, expressing its “profound regret at the breach of the ceasefire in Gaza.” Hostilities resumed late on Tuesday when Hamas launched a barrage of rockets, first at towns and cities in southern Israel and later, following an…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Wednesday weighed in on the resumption of Hamas’s rocket war against Israel, finding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s policy at fault ahead of a 2 p.m. Security Cabinet discussion of the situation. “I hope that now it’s clear to everyone that the policy of ‘quiet will be met by…

Police on Tuesday night discovered military equipment suspected as being stolen from the IDF in a home in the Arab-Israeli village of Deir al-Assad, located just north of Karmiel in the Galilee. The Karmiel police in their raid stumbled across roughly 1,000 rounds of 5.56 millimeter bullets, of the type used in IDF standard issue…

Muslim anti-Israel demonstrators attempted to force their way into a synagogue in Switzerland, the latest in a string of attacks on synagogues in Europe. The protest took place on Saturday, during the Jewish Sabbath, in front of the Beth Yaakov, or Grande, Synagogue in Geneva, according to JTA. The Intercommunity Coordination Against Anti-Semitism and Defamation…

Some 2,000 army reservists have been called back up to IDF service following the resumption of hostilities by Gazan terrorists on Tuesday. Most of the reservists are being called up to supplement regular forces already mobilized in the Gaza region. At least 60 rockets have been fired into Israel since Hamas broke yesterday’s ceasefire by…

MK Danny Danon (Likud) on Wednesday morning commented on the renewal of rocket fire and ceasefire breach by Gaza terrorists on Israel the day before, and pointed out who he held culpable for the free hand given to Hamas. “We now need to hammer in an additional final nail in the coffin of Hamas, we…

An Israeli diplomatic source confirmed Wednesday morning to Walla! that Israel tried overnight to eliminate Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’s “military wing,” the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades. Hamas has claimed that five bunker-buster bombs were fired by Israel targeting the elusive mastermind behind Hamas’s terror war. “The wife of the great leader (Deif) was martyred with his…

Arab League chief Nabil El-Araby accused Israel on Wednesday of “blocking” all attempts to end the Gaza conflict, a day after Hamas breached the six-day ceasefire and fired tens of rockets on Israeli civilians.  “Israel is blocking any kind of agreement leading to calm” in the Gaza Strip, Arabi told journalists. “The Arab League wants to reach a permanent…

Police Comissioner Yohanan Danino has ramped up police presence throughout Israel to full force Wednesday, in light of increased rocket fire on the South and Hamas’s breaching of a temporary truce.  Thousands of police deployed across the country will continue to work to maintain public safety and public order, Danino said. “The deployment will be…

Prominent hareidi leader Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach has said that given the current security situation “now is not the time” for demonstrations against the IDF draft, according to one of his leading followers. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, a leading follower of the rabbi said he was currently opposed to rallies such as the one which took…

Kenneth Roth, head of the US-based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW), has been caught directly condoning Hamas war crimes on his Twitter account. Blogger Elder of Ziyon on Tuesday revealed that early in the afternoon, roughly four hours before Hamas breached the ceasefire by firing rockets on Israel, Roth was busy trying to justify Hamas’s…

A German government minister has accused Qatar of funding the Islamic State terrorist group currently tearing through Iraq and Syria. “A story like this always has a history,” Development Aid Minister Gerd Mueller told public broadcaster ZDF. “Who is financing these troops? Hint: Qatar.” He did not elaborate on what evidence there was to support the claim,…

Balad MKs Hanin Zoabi, Jamal Zahalka and Basel Ghattas confirmed that they flew to Qatar on Wednesday, just days after denying they visited the country where Hamas leaders are serving in exile.  In letter sent to the Knesset Ethics Committee, which is headed by MK Yitzhak Cohen (Shas), the three Knesset members claimed that they…

The Turkish government is flying 17 wounded Arab residents of Gaza for medical treatment in Turkey on Wednesday, a day after the Hamas terrorists ruling Gaza breached a ceasefire and renewed rocket fire on Israel. The injured will be flown out through the Ben Gurion International Airport under the cooperation of Israel. Each of the 17…

IDF forces thwarted a stabbing attack at a checkpoint north of Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon. Forces arrested an Arab man who drove towards the Hawara checkpoint in Samaria, just south of Shechem, after discovering a knife on his person. Under interrogation, the suspect admitted he was planning to use the knife to attack soldiers at the…

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri has said that the elusive head of the terror group’s “military wing”, Mohammed Deif, is still “alive and well” despite an IDF assassination attempt which killed his wife and son.  “The occupation will pay for its crimes against the Palestinian people,” declared Abu-Zuhri, who added a chilling warning to the people…

An op-ed last Tuesday in a prominent Saudi Arabian newspaper justified statements from international anti-Israel rallies calling for Jews to be killed as an “understandable reaction” to the “barbaric war” Israel is conducting in Gaza. The piece in the Saudi Gazette, written by UK-based Pakistani journalist Ali Ashraf Khan, was translated and revealed by the Middle East…

The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) released a video on Tuesday which shows the beheading of American journalist James Foley, who disappeared in November 2012 in Syria, CNN reports. The video posted on YouTube contained a message to the United States to end its military operations in Iraq. In the video, Foley is seen kneeling…

Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk accused Israel on Tuesday night of having trying to eliminate the head of the group’s “military wing”, Mohammed Deif, in one of its airstrikes on Gaza. According to Reuters, Marzouk said Israel had broken the truce that was supposed to expire at midnight in order “to assassinate Mohammed Deif,” but…

Police in Ireland confirmed on Tuesday they are investigating a comment left on Twitter by soccer player Tommy McGuigan calling for his followers to punch Jews, reports the Ulster Herald. The All-Ireland winner, who has since deleted the comment, tweeted, “If you are lucky enough to know or work with a Jew, punch him right…

New York dignitaries from the Jewish and African-American communities held a joint press conference on Monday in Crown Heights, at the exact site where a young Jew was violently assaulted last Wednesday in the depraved “knockout game.” The “game,” generally “played” by African-American youth and which consists of sucker punching generally visibly Jewish passersby, left…

The IDF said late Tuesday night that a total of 50 rockets from Gaza had been fired towards Israel since the afternoon hours. According to the IDF Spokesperson, six of the 50 rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system. The rest exploded in open regions, causing no physical injuries or damages. The IDF…

A rocket barrage from Gaza on Tuesday evening targeted Jerusalem. Sirens were heard in the capital and its vicinity shortly before midnight. The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted a rocket over the region. There were no physical injuries or damages. The attack on Jerusalem follows a barrage of rockets that hit southern and central Israel…

Hamas declared on Tuesday night that Israel had “opened the gates of hell”. In a statement, the group’s so-called “military wing” said that it had resumed the rocket fire on Israel because the Israeli Air Force had launched an airstrike on a home in Gaza. The group warned that “the price will be a heavy…

A senior official who heads the Palestinian Arab delegation for talks on a long-term ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday night blamed Israel for the temporary ceasefire having collapsed. “The ceasefire has collapsed and Israel is responsible,” Azzam al-Ahmed, the head of the delegation in Cairo participating in indirect negotiations with Israel, told the AFP news…

Gaza terrorists kept up their rocket assault on Israel Tuesday night by firing a rocket barrage on the southern and Gush Dan central region several minutes before 11 p.m. At least one rocket reportedly hit open ground in Tel Aviv; another five hit open land in Be’er Sheva. Another rocket was reportedly shot down over…

As Gaza terrorists breached the ceasefire and renewed their rocket fire on Israeli civilian centers Tuesday, Arab terrorists in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem apparently didn’t want to be left out of the action. Two molotov cocktail attacks were launched in the eastern part of Jerusalem late Tuesday night. In the first incident two firebombs…

The Institute for National Security Studies head Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland on Tuesday criticized Israel’s policy of retaliatory airstrikes to Hamas rocket attacks, instead proposing anotherl idea – responding to missiles by cutting off supplies. As terrorists in the Hamas enclave of Gaza renewed their rocket barrage on Tuesday afternoon in breach of the…

The United States has condemned Hamas’s breach of the ceasefire Tuesday, blaming the Islamist terror group for the breakdown of talks over a long-term truce in Cairo. “Hamas has security responsibility for Gaza… Rocket fire came from Gaza,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said, blaming the Palestinian Islamist group for renewed fighting. “We are very…

The inspiring words left behind in the blog of IDF soldier David Menachem Gordon (21), who was found dead Tuesday after going missing Sunday, suggest that if his death was an act of suicide, it was not the result of depression caused by his army service. Writing on his Facebook page after leaving Gaza on July 25,…

The US State Department announced Tuesday its designation of the Al Qaeda-linked Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC), known as Majlis Shura al-Mujahidin, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Since its founding in 2012, the Gaza and Sinai-based MSC has claimed responsibility for a number of rocket attacks on Israel, including on Sderot and Eilat. The…

Roughly two-and-a-half hours after three rockets were fired at Be’er Sheva from the Hamas enclave of Gaza on Tuesday in breach of the ceasefire agreed between the sides, terrorists in the area reportedly continued their fire on Israel. There are conflicting reports as to whether mortar shells or a rocket hit open ground in the…

Anti-Israel British MP George Galloway expressed anger and frustration at the Israeli Ambassador’s decision to visit his “Israeli-free” city of Bradford. “[The ambassador’s visit] is a provocation to the 10s of 1,000s of people in Bradford who regard the Israeli ambassador as the plenipotentiary of a rogue and terrorist state,” Galloway told the BuzzFeed website on…

The body of missing IDF soldier David Menachem Gordon, 21, has been found dead just days after going missing Sunday. Gordon, who was a soldier in the Givati infantry brigade, was found with his weapon beside him. Military police have opened an investigation into the circumstances of his death. His family have been informed. Gordon was…

The Netanya Crime Unit arrested three Israeli Arabs on Tuesday, according to Channel 2, on charges of burglary and breaking and entering.  The three men, residents of Baka al-Gharbia in their 30s and 40s, allegedly committed a brutal break-in and robbery at the home of two Holocaust survivors.  Police believe that robbery was carried out…

The family of fallen soldier Sgt. Li Mat, hy”d, has taken on the Defense Ministry, Yediot Aharonot reports Tuesday, asking for the names of Mat’s siblings to be included on his headstone instead of just his parents.  Sgt. First Class Mat, 19, was killed with two fellow Paratroopers when he entered a booby-trapped house in Khan…

Pope Francis believes that he still has a maximum of three years left to live, he told reporters Monday, and indicated that he is considering early retirement.  “Another two or three years, and God will take me,” Francis said, speaking to reporters on his way back to the Vatican from South Korea. According to reporters…

Several high-profile entertainment industry leaders have teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported Monday, to call for the prevention of allowing Hamas and Islamic Jihad to re-arm.  Eighteen signatories signed the promotional poster, an ad that will run in this week’s Jewish Journal. The number signifies “life” in Hebrew, and…

Hundreds of protesters wearing yarmulkas, Stars of David and other Jewish symbols marched through a predominantly Muslim neighbhorhood of the Danish capital of Copenhagen, in a march against anti-Semitism late last week. Demonstrators included both Jews and non-Jews, and were protesting an alarming rise in anti-Semitism in the country which, like the rest of Europe,…

Contrary to reports by the joint Palestinian delegation to Cairo, Israeli representatives have not left Egypt after agreeing to lift the blockade on Gaza, according to a senior Israeli official involved in the negotiations. Talks are still continuing over core issues, including if and how the Israeli blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory could be eased…

Israeli diplomatic sources on Tuesday revealed that following this afternoon’s breach of the ceasefire by Gaza terrorists, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon have recalled the Israeli delegation from Cairo truce talks. Three rockets were fired at Be’er Sheva just before 4 p.m., with two of them hitting near the southern capital…

The Israeli Air Force has struck terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire this afternoon, following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s order to strike back hard against the perpetrators. Sources in Gaza reported at least one IAF strike on an open area, which did not cause any injuries. It is possible the…

Israel’s ambassador to Britain, Daniel Taub, visited the city of Bradford on Monday, following controversial comments by Bradford West MP George Galloway who declared the constituency an “Israel free zone” during a speech. According to the Telegraph Argus, Taub said he was in the city as a result of invitations from within its community and would…

The police’s Lahav 433 unit on Tuesday completed its investigation of Arab-nationalist MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad), and recommended putting the MK on trial for charges of incitement to violence and insulting a public worker. Last Monday Zoabi finally showed up for investigation at a Lod police station after Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein ordered her to do so. She more than…

On Tuesday afternoon shortly before 4 p.m., hours before the third extension of a ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist organizations of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza came to an end, rocket explosions were heard in Be’er Sheva. The IDF is currently conducting investigations, but has confirmed that three rockets exploded in the Be’er…

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri has accused Israel of “stalling” ceasefire talks in Cairo, hours before an extension of a temporary truce was due to expire.  “Israel is responsible for the stagnation of ongoing negotiations in Cairo,” he claimed Tuesday. “It’s dragging its feet and shows no desire to reach an agreement.”  Hamas’s comments surfaced…

The Finance Committee, headed by MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) will discuss the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s boycott of Israeli products on Tuesday, as well as its lasting implications.  “The Knesset’s Research and Information Center’s investigation shows the folly of the State of Israel, which allows the Palestinian Authority to celebrate at the Israeli taxpayer’s expense,”…

The Israel Police seeks the public’s help in search of a missing soldier, David Menachem Gordon, 21, who was last seen on Sunday at about 12:00 pm in the Medical Corps facility in Tzrifin.   Gordon is 170 cm tall, has a medium build, brown eyes and black hair. He was wearing the crisp, off-base…

Home Front Preparedness Committee Chairman MK Eli Yishai (Shas) called to officially recognize the Oslo Accords as a national tragedy on Tuesday, during a discussion on the foiled Hamas coup in Judea-Samaria. “The fact that we barely walked away from the expansion of Hamastan to areas of Judea and Samaria [now] controlled by [Palestinian Authority Chairman] Mahmoud…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will travel to Doha on Wednesday and hold talks the next day with the emir of Qatar and Hamas exiled leader Khaled Meshaal, the Palestinian ambassador in Qatar told AFP Tuesday.  Abbas’s visit to Qatar was initially announced for Monday by Palestinian officials who are in Cairo for indirect talks with Israel on a lasting truce in Gaza. Abbas…

The US State Department blacklisted a senior terrorist in the Islamic State (IS; formerly known as Islamic State in Iraq or the Levant, or ISIS/ISIL) on Tuesday, designating him as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” and prohibiting transactions with him under US law. “The Department of State designated Abu Mohammed al-Adnani as a Specially Designated…

Senior Fatah member Jibril Rajoub recently called on Hamas to “stop operating according to the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood” and “modify their position so that we may find common ground.” Rajoub made the statements in an August 13 interview with the official Palestinian Authority TV channel. The interview was translated and posted by the…

The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group that has seized large parts of Iraq threatened the United States on Monday it will attack Americans “in any place” if U.S. airstrikes in Iraq hit its people. According to Reuters, the threat was made in a video published by the group. The video, which shows a photograph of…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday announced on Monday that Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile was eliminated, declaring this an important achievement against the spread of dangerous weapons of mass destruction. According to The Associated Press (AP), Obama also warned that Syria’s government now must follow through on pledges to destroy its remaining weapons production…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas commented on Monday evening for the first time about the Israel Security Agency’s (Shin Bet) revelation that it foiled a Hamas network’s plot to carry out a coup in Judea and Samaria. In a statement quoted on Channel 2 News, Abbas said that the implications of the revealed plot…

The United Nations is ready to check imports of construction material sent to Gaza in order to ease Israel’s concerns that supplies could be used to rebuild Hamas tunnels, a UN envoy said Monday. UN Mideast envoy Robert Serry told the UN Security Council that reconstruction of Gaza remained the main priority once a durable ceasefire is agreed between Hamas and…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, suggested on Monday that the UN condemn Hamas – not Israel – over the goings on in Gaza. “This morning during a press stakeout I held at the UN, I talked about the word ‘disproportionate’. I can tell you that the only ‘disproportionate’ thing is the accusations…

Journalist and radio host Sharon Gal had harsh criticism on Monday over a supposed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, as reported by Palestinian Authority (PA) based media outlets. According to the reports, which were not confirmed by Israeli sources, the deal would include the opening of all border crossings in Gaza, the reconstruction of…

Intense battles raged throughout Tripoli, Libya over the past several days, especially in the southern part of the city where there are government offices and which is close to the international airport.  The current campaign began on July 13. Since then, several groups – including terrorist organizations affiliated with the jihadist Ansar al-Sharia movement which opposes…

Former Jewish school principal Malka Leifer will be extradited to Australia, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department announced. Leifer fled Victoria for Emanuel, in Samaria, eight years ago, to evade allegations of sexual assault.  Several students said Leifer, who was principal of Adass Israel School Elsternwick in suburban Melbourne, had improper conduct with them from 2004-2008. Leifer…

Finance Committee Chairman MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) called to suspend all notion of renewed peace talks on Monday, after the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) released for publication that a Hamas-led uprising was thwarted in Judea and Samaria.  “Today, once again, it was proven that it is impossible to abandon the security…

Six hundred Americans have decided to boycott Glasgow – but this time, the move is in support and solidarity for Israel.  A Fortune 500 company was due to bring the American delegation into the city – as well as thousands of dollars of tourist revenue – as a reward for the salesmen and women and…

A front-page story in Friday’s New York Times reported that an Israeli-honored Righteous Gentile had returned his award because of an Israeli airstrike that “flattened a house in the Gaza Strip, killing six of [his] relatives by marriage.” The Times quoted a surviving relative saying that “none of his family members were militants.” The tone of…

The Israeli and Palestinian teams to Cairo ceasefire talks have signed their initials to a permanent ceasefire agreement, according to an unconfirmed report by Bethlehem-based Ma’an news. Meanwhile, sources close to the Palestinian delegation in Cairo told the Al Quds newspaper Monday night that there has been a breakthrough in the talks that may make…

A large scale operation mounted from May to August by the IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) foiled a Hamas network’s plot to carry out a coup in the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Judea and Samaria. The news about the operation was under a gag order until today. The Hamas infrastructure in…

The tribal leader of the Shaitat Bedouin tribe in eastern Syria’s Deir Al-Zour region made an emotional appeal on Monday, asking his fellow Bedouin neighbors to join the war against the Islamic State (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS). Sunni Bedouin leaders initially pledged loyalty to the IS, which took…

A British supermarket chain is at the center of an anti-Semitism row, after a Jewish shopper found that the Kosher section had been completely removed, and was told by the store manager that Kosher food has been taken down because “We support Gaza.” Anti-Israel demonstrators had picketed the branch of Sainsbury’s in Holborn, central London,…

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry has claimed the death toll there has risen to 2,016 Monday, as some people injured in fighting between Israel and Gazan terrorist groups succumbed to their injuries.  Hamas claims more than three quarters of those killed in Operation Protective Edge are civilians, while the IDF says roughly 50% were combatants. Precise…

Norway announced on Monday that a group of international donors are to meet in Cairo to pledge funds for rebuilding the Hamas stronghold of Gaza, as soon as a truce deal is reached. The funds are to be raised under the proxy of Egypt and Norway, and will be transferred to Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman…

Arutz Sheva got the chance to sit down and discuss Operation Protective Edge with Anita Tucker, who helped found the community of Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif over 35 years ago before being expelled from Gaza in the 2005 Disengagement Plan. Tucker, who was a celery farmer in Gush Katif which produced around 10% of all Israeli agricultural…

The amendments to the Egyptian 11-point truce proposal submitted by the Palestinian Arab delegation in Cairo was revealed on Monday morning, hours ahead of the end of the current ceasefire at midnight. The response to the Egyptian proposal submitted by the delegation, which includes Hamas, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Islamic Jihad, was published in the…

Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq have retaken the country’s largest dam from Islamic State forces, in an important strategic advance. Backed by US air support Kurdish fighters ended IS’s 11-day control of the dam, which gave them effective control of northern Iraq’s water and electricity supply. There were also fears the Islamists could use…

The Defense Ministry on Monday decided to close the train lines from Ashkelon to the rocket-beleaguered town of Sderot, ahead of the end of the five-day ceasefire extension with Hamas on Monday at midnight. In order to deal with the impact of the train cancellation on Israeli citizens’ lives, bus service between Ashkelon and Sderot…

MK Ofir Akunis (Likud) dismissed on Sunday the United Nations’ probe into Israel’s alleged “war crimes” in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge. In a post on his Facebook page, Akunis pointed out the statements against Israel and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that have been made in the past by the head of the United Nations…

The IDF demolished on Sunday night the homes of the three terrorists who kidnapped and murdered Israeli teens Gilad Sha’ar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrah. According to a statement by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, the homes of terrorists Hussam Kawasmeh and Amar Abu-Eisha were demolished. The home of a third terrorist, Marwan Kawasmeh, was sealed.…

A large scale operation mounted from May to August by the IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) foiled a Hamas network’s plot to carry out a coup in the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Judea and Samaria. The news about the operation was under a gag order until today. The Hamas infrastructure in…

The Sainsbury’s supermarket chain issued a statement Monday morning apologizing for removing kosher products from one of its branches. It said: “We would like to apologize for any inconvenience or offencs caused. The decision was taken in one store only to move these chilled products to cold storage elsewhere in that store for a short…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Sderot on Monday and delivered a message of steadfastness, as the latest ceasefire between Israel and Hamas drew to a close. He met with representatives of the various youth movements that volunteered to work with local children in the shelters during Operation Protective Edge. Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi also attended…

Rabbi David Stav, a prominent religious-Zionist rabbi and head of the Tzohar rabbinic institute, has weighed into the recent controversy over intermarriage in Israel, saying that while the phenomenon is serious and must be combated, protests such as that which occurred yesterday outside a mixed-marriage ceremony were not the way. While intermarriage is widespread the…

Even as Egypt plays the role of intermediary in the ongoing truce talks between Israel and Hamas, an Egyptian soccer star has refused to play in a game of all-stars arranged by Pope Francis for “peace between Israel and Palestine.” The celebrity soccer match is to be held in Rome on September 1, and will…

The Prime Minister’s Office is unhappy with an appearance by Mossad Head Tamir Pardo before market leaders in early July, details of which leaked to the media. The PMO’s legal advisor, Shlomit Barne’a-Fargo, wrote a letter to the Movement for Quality of Government, in which she made it clear that Pardo’s appearance before the group…

Nobel laureate Professor Yisrael (Robert) Aumann is not surprised by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) decision to investigate “war crimes” accusations against Israel. According to Aumann the decision stems not from a concern over “the occupation” or about any Israeli treatment of Arab residents of Gaza – rather, according to the Nobel prize winner,…

The truce talks have “returned to the starting point,” a Hamas leader said Sunday night ahead of the current ceasefire ending Monday at midnight – a ceasefire he threatened would not be extended again. Hamas Deputy Leader Moussa Abu-Marzouk, part of the delegation in the Cairo truce talks, claimed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rejected the…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Monday responded to reports the day before that three Arab-nationalist Balad party MKs, Hanin Zoabi, Jamal Zahalka and Basal Ghattas, visited Hamas-sponsor Qatar in recent days. “The trip by the Balad party members, the party founded and led by Azmi Bishara who was accused of serious spying and fled Israel, proves again…

A report on Monday reveals that America and other Western countries are pressuring the Palestinian Authority (PA) not to carry out its threat of suing Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “war crimes.” PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki last Saturday threatened “we will go to the ICC, and put our signature on it.…

Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, made clear on Sunday that Tehran will reject any restraints on its nuclear operations outside the international rules set by the industry watchdog. “We will only accept the legal controls of the IAEA within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” he said during a visit by International Atomic Energy Agency chief…

Israel will end its export of poultry and dairy produce to the European Union from Jewish communities beyond the Green Line, Israeli and European officials said on Sunday, according to AFP. The restrictions stem from directives issued by the European Commission in February and affect chicken and milk products from communities in eastern Jerusalem, the…

The IDF is preparing for a possible resumption of rocket fire from Gaza on Monday evening, as the current five-day ceasefire is set to expire. The ceasefire is set to expire at midnight, but Hamas has been known to violate truces before they officially expire. The high alert for Monday evening comes in the wake…

The White House on Sunday said President Barack Obama had informed Congress he authorized U.S. airstrikes in Iraq to help retake control of the Mosul Dam, Reuters reported. “The failure of the Mosul Dam could threaten the lives of large numbers of civilians, threaten U.S. personnel and facilities – including the U.S. embassy in Baghdad…

United Nations humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Sunday on a visit to Iran that it will take months to repair damage to the UN’s infrastructure caused by the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. “Damage to hospitals, schools and UNRWA shelters where people displaced sought refuge will take months to rebuild,” she was quoted by AFP as…

Farah Mohammed Shirdon of Calgary, Canada, has reportedly been identified as having died fighting in the ranks of the extremist Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group in Iraq, where it has been committing brutal atrocities. Shirdon, whose family originally is from Somalia, appeared in an IS video months ago in April, in which he tore up…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has presented an agreement to the Gush Etzion Regional Council in Judea over a new community in the area dedicated to the memory of the three murdered teens Eyal Yifrah (19), Naftali Frenkel (16) and Gilad Sha’ar (16) hy”d. Tekoa Heh, a community of five families living in caravans, was established…

Diplomatic sources in Jerusalem said Sunday that the prime minister and defense minister will not hesitate to renew IDF activity in Gaza if the negotiations in Cairo fail to produce results. “The members of the delegation are in Egypt,” the sources said. “There are two possibilities – arrangement of the ceasefire in a way that…

The Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza on Sunday called for an escalation of terror attacks on Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria as an “expression of support” for the war on Israel being waged from Gaza. Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum told the Palestinian Arab Safa news agency that such terror attacks serve to wear down the “occupation” and press…

As truce talks in Cairo continued Sunday ahead of the five-day ceasefire extension ending Monday at midnight, Israel preempted any agreement by unilaterally offering Gaza a concession and lifting a ban on fishing in the Hamas enclave. Gaza fishermen have been blocked from their work since July 8, during the Hamas terror war on Israel,…

A senior IDF source revealed Sunday that in addition to supplying Hamas terrorists with weapons, including so-called “Judgement Day” missiles, Iran supported the Gaza terror group by launching a massive cyber assault on Israel during Operation Protective Edge. The source, a senior commander in the IDF Computer Service Directorate, told Walla! on Sunday that as Israel faced…

Three members of the Arab-nationalist Balad Knesset party, Hanin Zoabi, Jamal Zahalka and Basal Ghattas, took a trip in the last several days to Qatar, a key provider of funds to the Hamas terror government currently engaged in an open war on Israel. While there, Channel 2 reports that the three met with Azmi Bishara, the founder of…

Riot control measures were taken in Ferguson, MO on Sunday, as hundreds of demonstrators protesting the death of Black teenager Michael Brown defied a 5:00 am curfew in the embattled town.  At least three tear gas canisters were fired at the scene, as demonstrators demanded what they claim is the right to peaceful assembly.  Five…

“Intermarriage in Israel is simply a catastrophe,” venerated Zionist rabbi, Rabbi Chaim Druckman, told Arutz Sheva Sunday, in reaction to the high profile wedding between an Arab man and a Jewish woman in Rishon Letzion. “There is no other word for it but terrible assimilation,” he said. “It is very painful. We feel the pain…

Even as Israel eased the ban on Gaza fishermen Sunday in a “goodwill” gesture during the Cairo truce talks, Hamas declared that only it will decide “when Israelis return to their homes” in the rocket-beleaguered south. Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu-Zuhri said “the Israelis won’t be secure until our people are secure, until they remove the blockade…

Hundreds of protesters arrived to demonstrate Sunday night against the mixed marriage of a young couple from Yafo: Moral, a 23-year-old Jewish woman recently converted to Islam by her groom, Mahmoud Mansour, a 26-year-old Muslim Arab. At the protest led by the Lehava group which fights assimilation in Israel, former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari addressed…

The alarming spike in anti-Semitism in Europe since the start of Israel’s military operation against terrorists in Gaza has hit headlines repeatedly in the past few weeks, both in Europe itself as well as further afield. While not as seriously affected as countries on the European continent – such as France, Holland, Belgium, or Germany,…

Security Cabinet member, Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett called on Israel to immediately halt negotiations in Cairo on Sunday, saying any truce agreement is bound to bring another war with Hamas.  “This situation, in which we are biting our nails in nervous anticipation of a reply from a murderous terrorist organization should…

Minister of Science and Technology Yaakov Perry (Yesh Atid) called on Israelis to be more tolerant of Israeli Arabs in a Cabinet meeting  on Sunday, condemning prejudice that he linked to Operation Protective Edge.  “I want to issue a firm and unequivocal condemnation of the manifestations of racism we have witnessed since the beginning of Operation…

In yet another harrowing chapter in the tragic plight of Iraq’s Kurdish Yazidi population, eyewitnesses have described how girls raped by Muslim fighters from the “Islamic State” (formerly ISIS) committed suicide en-masse after returning to their families, as evidence of systematic rape by Islamists against non-Muslims continue to surface. Among the tens of thousands of…

Bentzi Gopshtain, director of the Lehava organization which combats assimilation in Israel, arrived at the Rishon Letzion Magistrates’ Court on Sunday morning, after Mahmoud Mansour filed a motion to block Lehava from protesting his wedding to a Jewish woman. Mahmoud is set to marry Moral, a Jewish 23-year-old woman who, like him, hails from Yafo,…

Nick Di Iorio, 28, Republican candidate for the 12th Congressional District in New York, experienced personally the precarious security situation in Israel on his visit to the Holy Land last week. A car driving Di Iorio from a visit to Sderot toward Jerusalem came under attack by a group of Arab boys “who hurled rocks…

Yom Tov Samia, formerly the head of the IDF’s Southern Command, said on Saturday night that Hamas’s terror tunnels in Gaza should have been taken care of long before Operation Protective Edge. Nevertheless, Samia told Channel 2 News, Hamas was dealt a huge blow by the IDF during the operation. “The Israeli public is not…

Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Friday called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to rescind its recent appointment of William Schabas as head of the UNHRC’s Gaza Commission, the Washington Jewish Week reported. According to the report, Schumer said that if Schabas’s appointment is not cancelled he will push for the United States to…

Thirteen years ago among the whirring looms of a garment factory in an eastern Pakistani city, a Muslim woman fell in love with a Christian co-worker. Now married with three children, Kalsoom Bibi and her husband Yousuf Bhatti have been shunned by their communities, endured death threats and an abduction, all in the name of religious honor in this…

An IDF officer has recounted in detail the dramatic moments he pursued Hamas terrorists into a tunnel in a vain attempt to rescue Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, who was last seen being dragged away after an attack in which terrorists breached a 24-hour humanitarian ceasefire. “Lieutenant Eitan”, who had got to know Goldin during their IDF…

A London theater at the center of a row over anti-Semitism row has backtracked on its decision to boycott the UK Jewish Film Festival due to it accepting funding from the Israeli embassy. After eight years of hosting the UKJFF, The Tricyle Theater had said it would condition hosting this year’s festival on it rejecting funding…

Members of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) are planning to carry out major terror attacks against targets in the United States or in Europe, American intelligence officials said Saturday. Five intelligence officials stated to Bloomberg News that there is evidence that the organization is running a sleeper cells around the world, outside of Iraq…

The American government has been asked by the international community to directly intervene in any truce agreement between Israel and Hamas, according to a report in Arabic daily Al-Hayat, and force Israel to agree to Hamas’s demands in future ceasefire agreements.  Egypt was reportedly behind the guarantee, as rumors swirl that the current conditions being discussed…

Pro-Palestinian thugs vandalized a Tesco store and attacked police officers in Birmingham, UK on Saturday, during a demonstration calling for a boycott of Israeli produce.  Between twenty and thirty police officer reportedly were called to restrain the mob, according to several British news sources, after the thugs began throwing Tesco products around in what quickly…

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.General Benny Gantz visited hospitalized soldiers wounded during Operation Protective Edge late last week at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer Hospital. Apart from meeting and speaking personally with wounded soldiers, Gantz spoke with medical staff and the head of the IDF’s Medical Corp and Department for Wounded Soldier. Gantz praised…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened Sunday morning’s cabinet meeting by emphasizing that Israel would not accept any ceasefire deal which compromised on its security. Netanyahu said Hamas had lost the recent round of fighting in Gaza, during which it suffered “harsh blows”, and vowed that Israel would not squander its military victory by capitulating during…

Germany’s foreign intelligence agency eavesdropped on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his predecessor Hillary Clinton, the BBC reported on Saturday, citing German media. The Der Spiegel magazine said the calls were collected accidentally and the recordings were destroyed immediately. Kerry has reportedly spoken to his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, about the claims. Correspondents…

The United States military confirmed on Saturday night it conducted nine airstrikes near Arbil and Iraq’s largest dam in an effort to help Kurdish forces retake it from violent extremists, AFP reported. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said fighter jets and drones had destroyed or damaged four armored personnel carriers, seven armed vehicles, two Humvees and…

Reports Saturday indicate that Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) forces in Iraq have killed 700 members of a tribe in eastern Syria over the last two weeks, and killed hundreds of the Yazidi ethnic minority on Friday and Saturday in massacres in northern Iraq. The terror group fell upon the Iraqi village of Kocho on…

Arab terrorists threw a molotov cocktail on Saturday night at an Israeli car near Bethlehem, adjacent to the Hussan Junction in the Gush Etzion area of Judea, leaving the driver of the car suffering from moderate wounds. After the firebomb exploded, inflicting damage on the car, a 40-year-old resident of Beitar Ilit driving the car was…

Several thousand showed up at a far-left rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday night against Operation Protective Edge, after 10,000 gathered in the same venue last Thursday to call for decisive military action in Gaza to return the security to Israel’s south. The rally on Saturday was organized by the extreme leftist Meretz…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, often touted internationally as a “moderate” alternative to Hamas, has declared its intentions to further increase its terror attacks against Israeli citizens. A new video released to YouTube by Fatah’s “military wing,” the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, declares the unity of Fatah’s various military branches, and announces a…

An Israeli official has told Walla! news that the chance of a lasting ceasefire deal before the current temporary truce expires on Monday night is very slim. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said the gulf between the two sides’ position meant that finding a compromise would be nearly impossible. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators…

Hamas has sounded a belligerent tone as negotiations for a long-term truce continue in Cairo. In a message posted on his Facebook page, Hamas’s “foreign affairs” chief Osama Hamdan said the Islamist terror group rejects the current Egyptian proposal, and pledged a “long war” of attrition against Israel. “Israel must accept the demands of the…

A gripping letter reportedly smuggled out of the Hamas terror enclave of Gaza reveals the nightmarish existence suffered by residents forced to dig terror tunnels for Hamas. Fox News exposed the letter, which was hand-written in Arabic by a 30-year-old resident of Gaza City, and smuggled out to Itzik Azar, an Israeli living in the coastal…

Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said Friday that Tehran is unlikely to reach a final nuclear accord with world powers by a November deadline, The Associated Press (AP) reported. The Iranian parliament’s news website quoted Zarif as saying that even if a general agreement is reached before the deadline, the two sides will require…

Islamists from the Islamic State (IS) killed 80 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority in a northern village on Friday, sources told Fox News. The Kurdish-speaking ethnic and religious group, which numbers in the hundreds of thousands in Iraq, has been persecuted in the north by IS, with at least 500 killed prior to Friday’s news,…

Israel’s Foreign Ministry welcomed on Friday the call by the European Union (EU) for terrorist groups in Gaza to disarm. The EU’s call came in a statement in which the bloc offered to take charge of Gaza’s border crossings and work to prevent illegal arms flows. “Israel, like the foreign ministers of the European Union…

Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah is greatly concerned about the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS. A day after he said in a meeting with the Lebanese Druze leader that IS is planning “on expanding toward Jordan and Saudi Arabia”, Nasrallah said in a speech on Friday that the group is an “existential threat” menacing…

Thousands of people have signed a petition to halt American television host Joan Rivers’ upcoming tour in Britain after her remarks about the crisis in Gaza, Al Arabiya reports. According to the report, the petition was created by Dipu Ahad, a Labour councilor from Newcastle, and has been signed by more than 20,000 people so…

The European Union (EU) on Friday offered to take charge of Gaza’s border crossings and work to prevent illegal arms flows, according to The Associated Press (AP). The EU is prepared “to play a strong role” in managing the crossings while assuring that Israel’s security is guaranteed, said the 28-nation bloc’s foreign policy chief, Catherine…

Three people were killed in Cairo on Friday as supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi held scattered protests for a second straight day, according to AFP. Clashes erupted at one protest between Morsi supporters and local residents. Two people were killed in the fighting and four police were wounded as they tried to disperse…

The Egyptian newspaper Al-Shourouq published on Friday afternoon what it said was an 11-point plan proposed by Egypt to Israel and Hamas in order to bring about a long-term ceasefire in Gaza. According to the report, the 11 points are as follows: Israel will stop the attacks in Gaza, from sea, land and air. There…

A prominent religious-Zionist rabbi was injured in a rock-throwing attack on his car north of Hevron on Friday. 79-year-old Rabbi Levinger is one of the founders of the modern-day Jewish community in Hevron, whose ancient Jewish community was wiped out during the 1929 Hebron Massacre by local Arabs. He is also one of the founders…

In a remarkably candid interview on Lebanese TV, the head of foreign relations at Hamas’s Information Ministry in Gaza explained how harassment, interrogations and deportations were used to ensure that journalists reporting from Gaza during Operation Protective Edge stuck to Hamas’s official line and did not report “the Israeli narrative”. Speaking to Mayadeen TV, Isra…

Left-wing newspaper Haaretz decried Friday what it called a “witch hunt” against leftists and civil rights organisations after the director of the national service administration, Sar-Shalom Jerbi, informed far-left NGO B’Tselem it was being blacklisted as an employer.   “I feel obligated to exercise my power and stop the state assistance provided to an organisation…

An Islamic Jihad spokesperson on Friday claimed that a truce deal with Israel will be signed as soon the current five-day ceasefire ends next Monday at midnight. “We expect a complete truce agreement to be signed right as the five-day ceasefire ends. The delegation has made much progress in ending the siege and the offensive…

A Dutch man who received the prestigious Righteous Gentile award from Yad V’Shem has given back his medal, Haaretz reported Friday, in protest of the civilian casualties in Gaza.  Henk Zanoli, 91, hid a Jewish child in his home between 1943 and 1945, saving the child’s life. Zanoli and his mother, Johana Zanoli-Smit, received the medal for their…

Almost in parallel of Economics Minister Naftali Bennett’s (Jewish Home) plan to unilaterally end the Gaza operation without a truce agreement with Hamas, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad said his group is also considering a long-term ceasefire, even without a deal. The senior Islamic Jihad terrorist, Halad al-Batash, said Thursday night that his organization…

Nadia Cohen, widow of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who was killed in Syria in 1965 and whose body has still not yet been returned to Israeli soil, has accused the state of Israel of abandoning her husband fifty years after his murder.  “Now, when we demand that Hamas return the bodies of the two soldiers…

Even as Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett on Friday pushed for a unilateral end of the Gaza operation, accompanied by several Israeli concessions and an essential return to the status quo, a fierce battle apparently awaits him – from within his own party. A debate has been raging within the Jewish Home party…

As the Security Cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem ended Friday morning, Cabinet member and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) called for Israel to unilaterally end Operation Protective Edge. The minister said Israel should stop the operation without an agreement with Hamas, allowing the IDF to continue actions against the terror…

Dozens of Jewish teenagers from Ukraine have been brought to summer camp in Israel as a relief from the raging conflict in Donetsk, through a special Jewish Agency for Israel project funded by the Jewish Federations of North America and UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. At the same time, there has been a significant increase in the number of immigrants…

British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening, and said both Israel and Hamas would need to take “difficult steps” to reach a long-lasting ceasefire in Gaza. “The Prime Minister reiterated his support for Israel’s right to defend itself and said he hoped that discussions in Egypt…

The South African Jewish Board of Deputies announced on Thursday that it will lay charges against a local official following a post on his Facebook page in which he called for an “eye for an eye against Zionist aggression”. The board’s David Sacks confirmed to the News24 website that charges will be laid and a…

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf on Thursday disputed an article in the Wall Street Journal which revealed that U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration stopped a shipment of missiles to Israel late last month and tightened weapons shipment procedures to Israel. According to AFP, while Harf acknowledged that the administration was looking carefully at arms shipments…

Leftist Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua is saying that Israel should not refer to Hamas as a “terrorist organization” but as an “enemy”. In an opinion piece published in the New Republic magazine, Yehoshua wrote that Israel should give Hamas the status of a “legitimate enemy”. “What accounts for the fact that, after the retreat of…

MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) said on Thursday that he objects to the police investigation against MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad). Explaining his position, Feiglin wrote on his Facebook page that it is the Supreme Court – not Zoabi – that is the problem, seeing as the Supreme Court overturned a decision banning Zoabi from running to…

MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said on Thursday that it is okay to say “no” to U.S. President Barack Obama if Israel’s security is at stake. “The United States is a senior partner of ours and is very important to us, but this partnership cannot come at…

The black flag of the Jihadist extremist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) was seen flying this week in front of a home in none other than Garwood, New Jersey. An uproar broke out after a picture of the flag was posted to Twitter on Tuesday by Marc Leibowitz, a former IDF paratrooper living in New…

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu asked the police to enhance both security and accessibility for the increasing numbers of Jews visiting the Temple Mount. Rabbi Eliyahu first participated in a Knesset Interior Committee session on the topic of conversions to Judaism on Wednesday. He then made a surprise visit to a sub-committee meeting held later the same day. His goal…

Islamic Jihad second-in-command Ziad Nahala was quoted on Friday in the Palestinian Authority (PA) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida saying that the war with Israel is “behind us,” the same day that a Security Cabinet meeting was to be held in Jerusalem. Nahala said “we have no choice but to reach a truce agreement. That stands at the head of…

Six wanted Arab terrorists were arrested in Judea and Samaria overnight Thursday/Friday, according to IDF sources.  Four of them were arrested in Deir Istiya, southeast of Qalqilya, and another Hamas terrorist was arrested in Beit Ummar, southwest of Bethlehem. They were interrogated by security forces.  In addition, Duvdevan special forces apprehended a Hamas member in…

Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business will launch a new curriculum and a new major in Business Intelligence and Marketing Analytics this fall. Incorporating state-of-the-art technique in modern business education philosophy, the new curriculum is designed to grant students the flexibility and options to create a customized, unique educational experience perfectly tailored to suit their career…

The Pentagon said on Thursday that the process of supplying weapons to Israel is being “constantly assessed”, AFP reported. A Pentagon spokesman said, according to the report, that there was an “existing” procedure for handling arm sales to Israel. “It’s a process that we’re constantly looking at, constantly assessing,” he said. “Certainly in light of…

Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders said Thursday that a truce agreement with Israel is “very close,” after a five-day extension to the ceasefire took effect the night before at midnight. A source in Hamas’s leadership abroad, as opposed to in Gaza, said Thursday night that the extension was sealed at the last minute because an…

The great majority of Americans reject US President Barack Obama’s policies on Israel, according to a recent poll. The poll, which studied the telephoned responses of over 1,000 random US voters, was conducted by Fox News.  Fifty-four percent (54%) of respondents noted their disapproval of Obama’s policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, whereas just 30% approved. The responses…

Jordan’s Arab Bank went on trial Thursday in New York, accused of aiding terror by transferring support funds to the families of Palestinian Arabs who died in the conflict with Israel, AFP reported. The families of several Americans killed in early 2000s attacks by the Hamas said the bank, which has a New York branch,…

The Palestinian Authority official daily has published five articles in the last six weeks accusing the United States of establishing the radical Islamic movement Islamic State (ISIS or IS), which has conquered vast territory in Syria and Iraq in recent months, reports Palestinian Media Watch. IS has declared itself a Caliphate, thereby claiming religious authority…

Around 10,000 Israelis poured into downtown Tel Aviv late Thursday, calling on the government and the army to end Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza once and for all. It was the first major demonstration in Israel since the country went to war against Hamas on July 8, launching a punishing air campaign followed by a…

Jewish Home Chairman and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday that it is time to stop the “unbecoming” negotiations with Hamas and opt for unilateral action against the terror organization. “Open up the crossings into Gaza for humanitarian equipment, and respond with disproprtionate force to any fire on the southern communities,” Bennett prescribed, as he…

Following reports that the American administration so upset with Israel that it has delayed a shipment of weapons to the embattled state, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) and Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) chided Binyamin Netanyahu for allowing the relationship with Israel’s ally to deteriorate. “The relations with the United States are a strategic…

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon hosted New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in his bureau Thursday. Cuomo is in Israel on a visit of identification with the Jewish state, and is accompanied by state senators and business leaders. In the course of the visit, Yaalon showed the visitors videos of Hamas using civilian human shields when firing at…

Volunteers and representatives of grassroots Zionist movement Im Tirtzu went to the open air market in Sderot Tuesday to help residents fill in complaint forms against Hamas and Qatar, Hamas’ main financial sponsor.  

The latest Knesset Channel poll indicates that the nationalist and religious bloc would surge if elections were held today. The poll gives Likud 28 seats (up from 19), the Jewish Home 19 (up from 12), Yisrael Beytenu 9 (down from 12), Shas 7 (down from 11), United Torah Judaism (UTJ) is unchanged at 7. All…

Arutz Sheva recently got the chance to sit down with Bruce Blakeman, a candidate for the Fourth Congressional District of New York, to discuss the increasingly tense relations between the American administration and Israel. Blakeman appraised that US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry are on the “far-left of the political spectrum…they are pro-Palestinian.” The…

Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) on Thurdsay responded to reports in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday night, which revealed that US President Barack Obama’s administration blocked a weapons transfer to Israel. According to the US and Israeli officials cited in the report, Obama halted a batch of Hellfire missiles that were requested in military-to-military channels as…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has written to complain to the US Postmaster General, after receiving widespread reports that US post offices around America have been refusing to accept mail to Israel. In the last several days ADL reports that it has received complaints from Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey, revealing postal customers were incorrectly told…

South African police have confirmed that they nearly nabbed the fugitive “Shuvu Banim” Hassidic leader Rabbi Eliezer Berland on Sunday, and further revealed that an international arrest warrant has been issued against him. Plainclothes police were hiding among attendees at a wedding ceremony Berland was preparing for one of his followers. Local hassidim hid the rabbi…

Hamas already breached the last 72-hour ceasefire three hours ahead of its conclusion Wednesday at midnight; on Thursday morning concerns were raised that it already had broken the newly achieved five-day ceasefire as well. Rocket warning sirens were sounded just after 10 a.m. on Thursday in the Eshkol Regional Council and Hof Ashkelon region, as…

Police in the Muslim-majority country of Malaysia are investigating a Malaysian teenager for “sedition,” after he “liked” a pro-Israel Facebook post. The 17-year-old student in the northern state of Penang “liked” a post that read “I love Israel,” and featured a picture of the Jewish state’s flag, Penang police chief Abdul Rahim Hanafi was quoted as saying Wednesday by Malaysian…

Anti-Semitic attacks on Israel have risen dramatically during Operation Protective Edge, and two recent incidents in Canada show that despite the government’s support for the Jewish state, there is much vitriol against it among leftists and Arab Canadians. At the height of the operation Canada’s National Post published an article focusing on Canadian lone soldiers. Nefesh B’Nefesh reports that 145…

Translated from the Hebrew site by R. Sylvetsky 6 large baking potatoes chopped meat, chicken or turkey 1 medium onion 1 tomato cumin, turmeric, salt and pepper olive oil canola oil for frying coarse salt, optional Use a spoon to remove potato and leave peel intact. Mix potato with the meat mixture, arrange on greased…

A new report reveals that US President Barack Obama’s administration stopped a shipment of missiles to Israel late last month and tightened weapons shipment procedures to Israel, as tensions between the two nations grow amid Operation Protective Edge. The report in the Wall Street Journal, released Wednesday night, cites US officials in Obama’s administration, who say they…

Hamas already breached the last 72-hour ceasefire three hours ahead of its conclusion Wednesday at midnight; on Thursday morning it proved that it does not intend to honor the newly achieved five-day ceasefire either. Rocket warning sirens were sounded just after 10 a.m. on Thursday in the Eshkol Regional Council and Hof Ashkelon region, as…

After the media controversy over false allegations that Givati Brigade Commnder Col. Ofer Winter had “discriminated” against women by uninviting star singer Sarit Hadad, the IDF praised the commander for his role in Operation Protective Edge. Arutz Sheva was on the scene at an event honoring the Givati soldiers held Tuesday at Nahshonit Park, located east…

Precisely now, as Hamas wages a terror war on Israel and signs of Islamic extremism are burgeoning among the Arab citizens of Israel, a Muslim man and Jewish woman are about to get married, ignoring the opposition of the bride’s father. Mahmoud (26) and Moral (23) met two years ago in their hometown of Yafo, a…