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Operation Protective Edge may have ended in a ceasefire last Tuesday, but the economic fallout to fund the counter-terror operation is just beginning to be felt as Knesset Ministers are to confirm a 1.9 billion shekel (roughly $531 million) budget cut Sunday morning. The ministerial meeting, which will be held in the Hof Ashkelon Regional…

An explosion occurred Sunday morning near the Rehelim Junction in Samaria, near Ariel, but thankfully caused no damage or wounds. IDF and police forces arrived at the station, which is on the side of the highway leading to Tapuach Junction, and likewise bomb sapper squads are on their way to the scene. The security forces…

Arab terrorists on Saturday night threw a molotov cocktail at “Beit Meyuhas,” an historical Jewish home from the 19th century CE in the City of David area just south of Jerusalem’s Old City. In the firebomb attack one 45-year-old Jewish man was wounded lightly, suffering first and second-degree burns to his head. Magen David Adom…

Hamas on Saturday declared that any attempts to disarm the terrorist groups in Gaza are “worthless,” the Ma’an news agency reported. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement quoted by the outlet that the demilitarization of the factions was “inconsistent with international law and our people will not allow it.” “It is not…

For the first time in six years, Turkey’s new president and former prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has shaken the hand of an Israeli official. Channel 10 News reported on Saturday that Erdogan shook hands with Yossi Levi Sfari, who is the director of the Israeli Embassy in Ankara, during an event marking the annual…

Local government leaders in the Gaza Belt region may boycott a special government session Sunday that is to be held in southern Israel. According to Israeli TV Channel 2, the special session was originally planned to take place in the Sderot municipality. However, this idea was shot down because Sderot’s mayor, Alon Davidi, attacked Defense Minister…

Egypt’s Grand Mufti has commuted the death sentence handed to the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader, Mohamed Badie, to a life sentence, reported Al Jazeera Saturday evening. A previously issued death sentence against Badie still stands. The death sentences for five others were also reduced to life on Saturday by Shawki Allam, the country’s highest religious authority.…

On Monday September 8th, 2014, at 1:15 p.m., the UN Permanent Mission of Palau, and the Engr Aja Eze Foundation are sponsoring a conference on “Global Anti-Semitism: A Threat to International Peace and Security” at the United Nations Headquarters facility in New York City. The counter-anti-Semitism conference will feature speakers who will explain how the…

In his first interview after the latest ceasefire in Operation Protective Edge, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu explained why he decided to opt for a ceasefire with Hamas, as opposed to continuing the campaign and unseating Hamas. Netanyahu told Channel 2 that while it is still possible that the IDF will eventually topple Hamas altogether, “today, when…

Notorious anti-Israel British MP George Galloway was hospitalized on Saturday after being assaulted in London. Galloway, who leads the far-left Respect Party, was posing for pictures in the UK capital when he was punched repeatedly by an attacker, who apparently “made reference to the Holocaust”, a spokesperson told the media. The precise motive is not yet…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) said Saturday night that Israel must initiate negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA) under Mahmoud Abbas. Livni explained to an interviewer on Channel 2‘s Meet the Press that the IDF’s Gaza operation proved that “military force cannot create long term change.” “It has been proven that there is also a…

Israeli security forces detained 597 terror suspects in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem in August, raising the number of terrorists and suspected terrorists in Israeli prisons to more than 7,000, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said. The majority of the arrests took place in eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem and in the Judean city of Hevron – both…

According to reports in Syria, dozens of UN peacekeepers from the Philippines who had been holed up in two military positions in the Syrian Golan escaped io Israel Saturday. The border gates were opened up to let them in. They had been surrounded by Syrian rebels from the Nusra Front. Filipino UN peacekeepers in the…

Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday he hopes the Security Council will be able to unanimously adopt a resolution on the situation in Gaza “in the next few days,” according to The Associated Press (AP). Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, whose country holds the council presidency this month, gave reporters no further details.…

Two days after a senior Iranian official revealed that the Islamic Republic is arming terrorists in Judea and Samaria, the Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards vowed that Iran will continue to support “the resistance” against Israel. According to the Fars news agency, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari underlined that the IRGC forces along with…

Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS) is working on biological weapons, according to data reportedly recovered from a IS-linked laptop, upping the ante in the global terror group’s pledge to spread Islamism around the world by force. Moderate rebels in Syria seized the generic-looking Dell laptop in a raid last year on an IS…

Two teenage girls have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to blow up a synagogue in Lyon, Newsweek reported on Friday, citing French news websites. According to JSS News and Europe 1, a source from the French security agency the Central Directorate of Homeland Intelligence revealed that two Muslim girls, aged 15 and 17, were…

Washington rushed to defend President Barack Obama’s comments Thursday night that the US has “no plan” to combat Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Syria, clarifying at a press conference that its options are “still under review.”  The key word missing is “yet.”  “The president hasn’t yet laid out a specific plan for military action…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon made clear on Friday that “there is no chance” that Hamas will receive a seaport in Gaza, one of its demands as a precondition for a ceasefire. Speaking to Channel 2 News in his first interview since the end of Operation Protective Edge, Ya’alon said that Israel had a clear victory…

Britain raised its terrorism alert on Friday to the second-highest level, with Prime Minister David Cameron saying the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) group operating in Syria and Iraq posed the country’s greatest ever security risk. According to a report by the Reuters news agency, the government in London said there was no evidence an…

Arab MKs Hanin Zoabi, Basel Ghattas, and Jamal Zahalka (Balad) participated at a Hamas “Victory Rally” on Friday, according to Channel 10, in the latest show of identification with Hamas terror in the wake of its war on Israeli civilians.  Hundreds of people participated in Friday’s march, which commenced in the Galilee’s Kafr Kabul.  The march,…

Ismail Haniyeh is apparently alive and well in Gaza, Yediot Aharonot reports Friday, after he posted photos of himself grinning and giving the “peace” sign outside the ruins of his former home in the Shati region.  The photos quickly went viral, as frustrated Israelis took note that Haniyeh’s expression was a little too joyous – especially in…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says that if Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas “gives Hamas a divorce”, he would be willing to resume peace negotiations with him. Speaking to Channel 10 News in an interview to air Saturday night and of which excerpts were published on Friday, Netanyahu said that Operation Protective Edge in Gaza…

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are at odds again, Palestinian sources told Walla! News Friday – this time, over rebuilding Gaza. Hamas stated repeatedly during Operation Protective Edge that it would allow PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to supervise Gaza’s reconstruction, following the IDF’s revelation that much of the construction materials shipped to the local government, which…

One night, as Ethan Gipsman, a light machine-gunner in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) from San Diego, California, stood guard over a group of suspected terrorists in Judea and Samaria, one of them asked him a surprising question: What was Ethan, an American, doing there? “He said, ‘I thought America had everything,’ ” Gipsman recalled.…

Twenty-five days after a near-fatal attack on Mount Scopus, during Israel’s self-defense operation in Gaza, Operation Protective Edge, Sgt. Chen Schwartz was released from Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem. Schwartz’s release was an emotional event Friday, after spending nearly a month being treated for wounds sustained by a terrorist on a motorcycle. The soldier…

Operation Protective Edge ended with a ceasefire deal on Tuesday, but on Friday the number of Israelis killed during the defensive operation rose to 71 as one wounded man died of his wounds. Natanel Maman hy”d, a 22-year-old IDF soldier who was critically wounded last Friday by shrapnel from a rocket that exploded next to…

Reports Friday indicate that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces have partially recaptured the Quneitra region just east of the Israeli-Syrian Golan Heights border, which rebel forces captured in intense fighting on Wednesday. According to the reports from the Iranian Fars news agency as cited by Walla!, the Syrian army has regained control over several Quneitra villages, including Jaba, Tel…

Aharon Soffer z”l, a 23-year-old yeshiva student from New Jersey who went missing last Friday in the Jerusalem Forest and was found dead on Thursday, was brought for burial at 9:30 Friday morning. The funeral procession was to leave from Even Haezel street in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ezrat Hatorah, and will conclude in…

Negotiations are reportedly underway on Friday to try and gain the release of 43 UN peacekeepers from Fiji, who were captured on Wednesday by Syrian rebel forces on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama released a statement saying “the latest information we have is that they are safe and I can…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was quoted in Palestinian Arab news sources as claiming that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to a Palestinian state on the 1949 Armistice lines – apparently Abbas actually said that the US, not Netanyahu, had made that agreement. Abbas’s actual statements from the recent interview were that the US…

A group of 230 Jews, reportedly from the cult group Lev Tahor, have started leaving the Guatemalan Indian village where at least some of them have lived for six years amid claims that they were threatened. Reports about the expulsion of Jews from San Juan La Laguna, located on the banks of Lake Atitlan 125 miles from the…

The jihadist Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) movement that has captured large portions of Iraq and Syria continues to gain strength, as yet another extremist Islamist group has pledged loyalty to the IS caliphate. Last week Ansar al-Islam, a Salafist group identified with Al Qaeda that is active in Iraq, announced that it is joining forces with…

Islamic State fighters executed scores of Syrian soldiers it captured when the group seized an airbase in the province of Raqqa over the weekend, Reuters reported Thursday. A video posted on YouTube and confirmed as genuine by an Islamic State fighter showed the bodies of dozens of men lying face down wearing nothing but their…

Iranian military leaders have openly boasted that they have begun to send weapons to Palestinian Arab terrorists in Judea and Samaria and elsewhere in the region, the Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday. The report quoted a top Iranian military commander who confirmed that weapon shipments to Judea and Samaria have already begun and that more…

Thousands of Islamic Jihad fighters paraded in Gaza City Friday, in a defiant show of force three days after a ceasefire ended Israel’s self-defense operation, Operation Protective Edge, in Gaza.  Terrorists at the march wore military fatigues and carried assault rifles and other light weaponry, with some holding aloft different types of rockets fired at Israel during the 50-day conflict…

Two terrorists were arrested near Bethlehem overnight Thursday/Friday, due to a joint effort by the IDF’s elite Duvdevan unit and the Judea-Samaria District Police, it has been cleared for publication Friday.  The suspects threw rocks at a vehicle near Beit Ummar last week, causing the driver to lose control and for the vehicle to flip…

Hate crime in Britain has reached the second-highest recorded levels in recent memory, a recent survey revealed by the Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors and combats anti-Semitism in the UK, after Operation Protective Edge in Gaza began on July 8.  Thousands of people have participated in anti-Israel protests, and the demonstrations have been accompanied by…

Iranian state news proudly presented the first images of a long-range “air defense” system Friday, the Bavar 373 missile, in a message to the international community about the military and defense capabilities of the Iranian Army.  The Bavar 373, named after the Farsi word for “Belief,” was developed as an alternative to the S-300, which…

The fears of homegrown Islamic extremism striking the streets of England were heightened recently by the gruesome video of the beheading of James Foley, a US journalist murdered by a British Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist in Syria. That British IS jihadist is far from alone in the ranks of the extremist group that…

Thousands gathered at the grave of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook zt”l on Friday, for the 79th anniversary of the passing of Israel’s first Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi and visionary founder of the religious Zionist movement. Among the visitors to the grave at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives were various leading rabbis and public figures, including Chief…

The work has been finalized on a stone memorial, constructed in honor of the three teens abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists on June 12: Naftali Frenkel (16), Gilad Sha’ar (16) and Eyal Yifrah (19) hy”d. The new monument was built next to the bus-stop and hitchhiking station where the three were abducted, in the…

MK Orit Struk (Jewish Home) had some criticism for Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) on Thursday, after he said that peace talks with the Palestinian Authority must be restarted. Lapid had said that Israel would strive to convene a regional conference that will bring about the demilitarization of Gaza in exchange for its rehabilitation…

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday “strongly condemned” the kidnapping of 43 peacekeepers from the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights, and called for their immediate release. In a statement, Ban also condemned the restriction of movement of UNDOF peacekeepers by armed elements of the opposition in two positions in…

The United States on Thursday accused the Syrian Al-Qaeda-affiliate Al-Nusra Front of detaining 43 members of a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights, near Syria’s border with Israel. “The United States strongly condemns the detention of UN peacekeepers and ongoing violence targeting the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights by…

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he would be sending Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East to build a coalition to combat the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, though he admitted he did not yet have a strategy to combat the group in Syria. According to AFP, Obama stressed that…

The string of rock-throwing attacks continued on Thursday, and once again a baby was the victim. A two-year-old girl was lightly hurt when Arabs threw rocks at the car she was in as it was travelling on Highway 60 near Huwara in Samaria. The windows of the car shattered onto the baby seat in the…

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the radical Muslim cleric who serves as president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, has come out sharply against the jihadist Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), which has captured large parts of Iraq and Syria. Qaradawi, who is also the spiritual guide of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, said the caliphate founded by…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas claimed on Thursday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had agreed to establish a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 borders, a claim that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) denied. Abbas, who spoke in a televised interview and quoted by the Ma’an news agency, said that Netanyahu had agreed to the…

It was confirmed on Thursday evening that, six days after he disappeared, the body of Aharon Soffer, a 23-year-old yeshiva student from New Jersey who went missing in the Jerusalem Forest last Friday, has been found. The body was found in a forest thicket near Ein Kerem around 4:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon. Police have confirmed that medical…

23-year-old Aharon Soffer’s body found near Ein Kerem after six days of intensive searches. It was confirmed on Thursday evening that, six days after he disappeared, the body of Aharon Soffer, a 23-year-old yeshiva student from New Jersey who went missing in the Jerusalem Forest last Friday, has been found. The body was found in…

Most Americans say they sympathize “a lot” (34%) or “some” (32%) with Israel, while roughly a quarter sympathize with Israel “not much” (15%) or “not at all” (12%), according to a new USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll There is less public sympathy for the Palestinians: 11% sympathize with Palestinians a lot, though 35% have some…

Senior IDF sources appraised on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces would attack the Syrian side of the Golan Heights over the course of the night, after the Quneitra border crossing to Israel on that side was captured by rebel forces the day before. According to the IDF sources, the Syrian army is currently…

Hamas’s Qatar-based political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal on Thursday vowed that his terrorist organization would not agree to Israel’s demands for a disarmament of Gaza. “The weapons of the resistance are sacred and we will not accept that they be on the agenda” of continuing negotiations with Israel to be held in under a month, Mashaal…

The Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) reportedly announced that starting Thursday night, all flights from Amsterdam to Ben Gurion International Airport will include a stopover in Cyprus. According to reports, the move comes due to “security concerns.” According to Yediot Aharonot, the change will have flights from the Netherlands stop-over in Cyprus for 40 minutes and then…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with regional council heads from the south in Be’er Sheva on Thursday afternoon, two days after he sealed a ceasefire with Hamas that Gaza Belt regional heads slammed as being a form of surrender. Attempting to respond to the criticism of abandoning the security in the south, Netanyahu stated “my…

Minister of Construction and Housing, Uri Ariel of the Jewish Home, estimated Thursday that his party will not leave the government anytime soon. Regarding the differences of opinion within the Security Cabinet in the course of the war, Ariel told IDF Radio: “I do not think our criticism was illegitimate. Every minister has his opinions…

Republican Congressional hopeful Bruce Blakeman continued his high-profile visit to Israel Thursday, meeting with yet more senior Israeli government officials and activists in Jerusalem. Hosted by prominent Zionist activist Dr. Joseph Frager, the exclusive event kicked off with addresses by senior Likud MKs Yariv Levin and Deputy Minister Tzipi Hotoveli (Likud). Both parliamentarians emphasized the…

The Jerusalem Municipality approved Wednesday the construction of the Ohr Sameach yeshiva building in the Shimon Hatzaddik / Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. The neighborhood is largely Arab but has a growing Jewish population. The building is to be constructed behind a gas station in the neighborhood, in a vacant lot that belongs mostly…

A poll of French opinion on Islamist group ISIS (also known as ISIL) show one out of ever six residents of the country as having a positive view of the terror group. Sixteen percent of French residents said that they would support the establishment of an Islamic “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, and perhaps beyond.…

The Taglit-Birthright Israel program has brought hundreds of thousands of young American Jews to Israel in the past 14 years; now, a new Hebrew track in partnership with the Israeli-American Council (IAC) seeks to widen that Israel experience. Under the new program, which is entitled IAC Shelanu, Israeli-Americans aged 18-26 will be able to experience Israel…

Social media and other news outlets in Lebanon and Syria reported on Tuesday that Ahmed Jibril, the 76-year-old head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command, had died. According to some reports, Jibril, whose group is loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, passed away in the Umia Hospital in…

The IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) prevented a major cyber attack on Israel during Operation Protective Edge, military officials say.  According to the IDF’s official blog, the unprecedented attack was carried out by anti-Israel hackers “from all over the world”, aided by the Iranian government. The coordinated attack was timed to…

The Palestinian Authority said Thursday that it was preparing to submit a demand that the UN Security Council set a timetable for a total Israeli withdrawal from Judea, Samaria, and most of Jerusalem. According to PA spokesperson Nabil Sha’ath, the Arab League will meet on September 5 to endorse the new PA plan. The plan…

According to reports, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met last week with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting was said to have taken place in Amman. The report, in the Jordanian daily Al’ad, quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the meeting occurred several days before the latest cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas…

Professor Avi Levy, head of the Hemdat Darom educational institution in Sdot Negev, told Arutz Sheva on Thursday that he was hopeful the region of southern Israel would be safe enough to begin the school year. For 14 years, he said, his college has been dealing with security issues. The institution is not protected against…

Ministers in his government may be highly critical of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s handling of the Gaza war, but none of them will be breaking up his government any time soon, said Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat. Speaking on Israel Radio, Livnat said that those criticizing Netanyahu for not going far enough in fighting…

Israel Police and the Shabak (Israel Security Service) announced Thursday that it had arrested several Arab-Israelis who are accused of aiding and abetting Hezbollah terrorists. The investigation into the detainees went on for several months, and they were arrested on July 27, the announcement said. The investigation was originally designed to uncover the massive drug…

One day after the end of Operation Protective Edge the Jewish Home party continues to ride high in the polls, as Prime Minister Netanyahu’s approval ratings continue to nosedive. The Haaretz/Dialogue poll also shows the traditional “right-wing” bloc of Likud, Yisrael Beytenu, Jewish Home, and hareidi parties Shas and United Torah Judaism, rising from 61…

Yet another Israeli drone has been reported downed – this time in Iraq. According to a report on the Lebanese Al Mayadeen TV channel, considered a mouthpiece for the Hezbollah terror group, an Israeli drone exploded in mid-air over Baghdad. The report claims that the drone was another Hermes-class craft, the same type of drone that…

Israel’s ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor has submitted a list of Hamas war crimes that took place during Operation Protective Edge to the UN Security Council. In a message accompanying the list, Prosor wrote that “despite the fact that the Council recognizes that Hamas has committed war crimes, nothing has been done yet about…

Amos Gilad, the former IDF general who was a member of the Israeli negotiating team that worked on the Gaza ceasefire, said Thursday that the indirect negotiation process between Israel and Hamas was one of the most “tiring” experiences he had ever been through. “You sit for hours in a room, waiting for the minor…

Hamas is split over the cease-fire with Israel, a report in Israel Hayom said Thursday. According to the report, Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, who lives in Qatar and is close to the heads of the government there, is sorely disappointed with the deal, and considers it a “Hamas failure,” the report said. Mashaal and those…

Korean Air will resume flying to Israel on September 13, after shutting down flights to and from Israel at the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in mid-July. Korean Air was the first international carrier to halt flights to Israel, citing safety concerns over flying into Ben Gurion Airport while Hamas rockets were fired at Israel.…

Syrian jets shelled rebel positions near a border crossing close to the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, rebels and residents told Reuters overnight Wednesday. Al-Qaeda’s Syria wing, the Al-Nusra Front, alongside moderate rebel groups who had launched the attack early on Wednesday on the border post were “holding ground” despite the heavy bombardment, according…

Syrian rebels have taken UN personnel prisoner after they took over the area near the Quneitra border crossing on the Golan Heights. The UN personnel were stationed on the Syrian side of the border. The UN later confirmed the initial reports of the incident, clarifying the 43 UN peacekeepers had been taken and that it…

An Egyptian jihadist group on Thursday released a video in which it claimed responsibility for beheading four men accused of being “Israeli informants” before showing the victims’ decapitated bodies. In the video, terrorists belonging to Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, considered the deadliest jihadist group in Egypt, say they killed the men in the restive Sinai Peninsula…

As the search continues for Aharon Soffer, a 23-year-old yeshiva student from New Jersey who went missing in the Jerusalem Forest last Friday, police are widening the area being searched and adding additional forces to the efforts. A body was found in Ein Kerem Thursday afternoon. Police are attempting to determine if it is Soffer’s.…

Egypt has opened an investigation into deposed president Mohammed Morsi for allegedly handing over to Qatar “documents relevant to national security,” AFP reported on Wednesday, citing Egypt’s state news agency MENA. Morsi is already facing the death penalty in several trials and his supporters have been the target of a bloody crackdown by the authorities…

The Obama administration is investigating reports from Syria that a second American was killed over the weekend while fighting alongside Islamist State (IS, formerly ISIS) extremists, USA Today reported Wednesday. The news comes a day after U.S. officials confirmed that 33-year-old Douglas McCain, who had lived in Southern California and Minnesota, died in a battle…

The United Nations on Wednesday referred to the shells fired from Syria which hit the Israeli side of the Golan Heights and called on all sides to “exercise restraint”. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Golan Heights observed a heavy fighting between the Syrian armed forces and armed members of the opposition in…

Ismail Haniyeh, a senior leader of Hamas and formerly its Prime Minister in Gaza, was taken to hospital on Wednesday evening, Channel 2 News reported. There were no details as to what the reason for the hospitalization was, or what his condition is. Senior members of Hamas, however, denied there was anything wrong with Haniyeh.…

Opposition leader and head of the Labor party, MK Yitzhak Herzog, said on Wednesday that there is no military solution to the situation in Gaza. Herzog, who spoke of the newly reached ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, said that the ceasefire must ultimately lead to a diplomatic move. “There is no military solution to this…

MK Danny Danon (Likud) on Wednesday evening dismissed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comments that Operation Protective Edge in Gaza was a success. Danon said that the purpose of the operation was to make the residents of the south feel safe from rockets, and had failed to achieve that goal. “The goal of the operation was…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who spoke on Wednesday at a press conference along with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, promised that if Hamas resumes the rocket fire towards Israel, it will be dealt an even harsher blow than during Operation Protective Edge. Ya’alon said that Israel had acted “in…

Rabbi Eldad Shmueli, an activist for the Jewish rights to King David’s Tomb in Jerusalem’s Mount Tzion, on Wednesday called on the public to visit the David’s Tomb Compound to fight the change in status quo that threatens Jewish access to the holy site. Speaking to Arutz Sheva about the impact of Operation Protective Edge, which reached…

The European Union (EU) on Wednesday welcomed a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza, calling for more talks to bring a “comprehensive and sustainable agreement.” “Simply returning to the situation before the latest conflict is not an option,” said a statement from the bloc’s diplomatic arm, the European External Action Service (EEAS). “A sustainable agreement should address…

At roughly 10 p.m. on Wednesday night two mortar shells struck the Golan Heights, hitting open territory to the north of the Quneitra valley. No injuries or damage was reported in the strike, which follows a day of continued shelling of the Golan from Syria. Just several hours earlier a 52-year-old Israeli was lightly wounded by…

Even as Prime Minister Binyamin touted a “great military and diplomatic achievement” against Hamas on Wednesday night, a new poll showed the Israeli public overwhelming disagrees with his assessment – and overwhelmingly disagrees with his leadership. The poll, which was conducted by Shiluv Millward Brown and iPanel for the Hebrew-language Channel 2 news site, found that a full…

GOP Congressional candidate Bruce Blakeman is to meet with leading Israeli officials and land of Israel activists in Jerusalem Wednesday, as part of efforts to promote ties between the State of Israel and the US. Blakeman, who is running for New York’s 4th Congressional District is in Israel with prominent pro-Israel activist Dr. Joe Frager. During his…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night attempted to respond to the outpouring of criticism for his unilateral decision the night before, in which he sealed a ceasefire deal with the terrorist group Hamas. “With the establishment of the ceasefire I can say that this is a great military and diplomatic achievement,” claimed Netanyahu, accompanied…

An Israeli was lightly wounded by tank fire in the Golan Heights late in the afternoon on Wednesday, after a possibly errant shell struck an Israeli community in the region.  The shell was fired from the Quneitra region of Syria, where intense fighting between the Syrian army and rebel forces has been raging all day.…

A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official last Friday opposed his organization’s aspirations to sue Israel for “war crimes” at the International Criminal Court (ICC). His reason – such a move might prevent Arabs under PA jurisdiction from “shooting Israelis.” The official, Abbas Zaki, is a leader in PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction. His comments…

Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari slammed the ceasefire deal between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas on Tuesday night, in a video message on his Facebook page shortly after the deal went into effect at 7 p.m.  “It’s clear to all of us that when a mouse fights with a lion, and the lion pleads for…

In a recent Friday sermon by a Muslim cleric in Azuqueca De Henares, Spain, the rampant anti-Semitism palpable in that country was put on display in rare fashion. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Monday translated the speech by Sheikh Saleheoldine El Moussaoui, who concluded his words with the rousing prayer: “Oh Allah, destroy the…

Two of Hamas’s major sponsors and backers, Iran and Qatar, have hailed the ceasefire agreement it reached with Israel Tuesday as a victory for the Gaza terror organization. Iran said Wednesday that Palestinians had emerged the victors and brought their Israeli foe “to its knees” during the 50-day conflict. “The heroic Palestinian people have forged…

Israel is claiming victory in the 50-day war with Hamas, which temporarily ended in a ceasefire that went into force Tuesday. “We were victorious in the negotiation phase,” said Liran Dan, Head of the National Information Directorate in the Prime Minister’s Office, in an interview with IDF Radio Wednesday. “The military blow that the IDF…

Turkey’s new premier and outgoing foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu leaves his successor a troubled legacy after a bold policy to expand Turkish influence across the ex-Ottoman empire left the country painfully exposed to the Syria and Iraq crises. Critics accuse Davutoglu of pursuing ideas that backfired disastrously by backing Islamic rebels in Syria who then went on to create…

The heads of local government in the Gaza Belt region are sorely disappointed with the prime minister for accepting a ceasefire with Hamas. Tamir Idan, who heads the Sdot Negev Regional Council, said that “if the reports in the mdeia are right, and the agreement for a ceasefire is for one month only, in which…

The search for the Yeshiva student who disappeared in the Jerusalem Forest some time this past Friday afternoon, Aharon Soffer, continues. A 100,000 shekel reward has been offered by Soffer’s parents to anyone offering information that can lead to the missing yeshiva student. Search and Rescue units from the Etzion Samaria-Judea unit are working together with the Jerusalem…

The name of the second man killed by a mortar shell that struck Kibbutz Nirim Tuesday has been cleared for publication. The victim is Shahar Melamed, 43. He is survived by three children and his wife, Anat. Melamed was born in the kibbutz and worked as manager of its garage. He is described as an…

Former British prime minister Tony Blair welcomed on Tuesday the announcement of an open-ended ceasefire in Gaza but expressed regret at the “tragic” loss of so many innocent lives, reports the Press Association. Blair, who serves as the Quartet’s Middle East peace envoy also congratulated the Egyptian government on its successful negotiations between Israel and…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Wednesday launched a verbal barrage on the ceasefire deal reached with the Hamas terrorist organization the night before. “It is forbidden to make peace with Hamas, and as long as Hamas exists it’s impossible to make peace,” wrote Liberman on his Facebook page. “As long as Hamas rules…

A United Nations humanitarian aid convoy crossed into Gaza from Egypt on Wednesday, for the first time since Israel imposed a security blockade on the Hamas-ruled terror haven in 2007. Egypt since last year has imposed a siege of its own on Gaza. The World Food Program (WFP) said the convoy, which entered Gaza through the Rafah Crossing, carried enough…

Naveh (7) and Yehiya (9) Tubul returned from their first day of school on Wednesday at a yeshiva in Nazareth Illit; on their way home, they were accosted by Arab children who asked if they were Jewish and proceeded to hurl rocks at them. Yehiya spoke to Arutz Sheva about the harrowing experience, saying “after we finished…

Pitched battles between Syrian president Bashar Assad’s forces and rebels, in the area of Quneitra, spilled over into Israel Wednesday morning. Two mortar shells exploded in the Israeli Golan Heights. They caused no casualties but damaged some vehicles. Shortly afterwards, an IDF officer was light-to-moderately wounded by what is believed to be stray gunfire from the…

Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) spoke in an interview on Wednesday about Operation Protective Edge, which reached a somewhat anti-climatic conclusion the night before at 7 p.m., when a ceasefire was signed between Israel and the terror organization Hamas. Talking to BBC‘s HARDtalk TV program, Steinitz summarized the 50 day operation as being “for nothing. This…

An 11-month-old baby girl was lightly hurt Wednesday when Arabs threw rocks at the car she was in, at Yitzhar junction in Samaria. A Magen David Adom ambulance that was alerted reached the junction and gave the baby first aid. It then took her to Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petah Tikva. The ambulance driver said…

After a year and a half of intensive operations and treatment, four-and-a-half-year-old Adelle Biton will be returning to her home in the town of Yakir, in Samaria, tomorrow (Thursday). But along with her family’s the joy at her return, there are also fears for the long road to recovery which lies ahead for the infant…

An American fighting for the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) was killed over the weekend in Syria, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, according to AFP. The United States had been aware that Douglas McCain, 33, a one-time aspiring rapper and basketball fan from California, was in war-torn Syria, the White House said, confirming his death.…

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel had a tense encounter with an Iranian fishing boat in the Gulf on Tuesday and fired a warning shot, the Pentagon said, according to AFP. The Coast Guard cutter Monomoy sent a small, inflatable boat to approach the Iranian dhow and when it got close, the Americans spotted two 50-caliber…

In welcoming the long-term ceasefire in Gaza, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced hope on Tuesday that it will set the stage for talks on a final Israeli-Palestinian Authority (PA) peace deal. “The secretary-general remains hopeful that the extended ceasefire will act as a prelude to a political process as the only way of…

MK Ofer Shelah (Yesh Atid) said on Tuesday that he hesitantly supports the long-term ceasefire in Gaza. “Israel’s real test starts now,” said Shelah, who called for Israel to turn the ceasefire into a long-term arrangement. “The fighting of the soldiers and the resolve of the people of the south allowed us to strike Hamas,…

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, chairman of the Jewish Home party, said on Tuesday that Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon should not be criticized for cancelling a visit to Kibbutz Nahal Oz for what was said to be “security considerations”. The cancellation of the visit caused anger among members of the kibbutz and was also criticized by…

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar declared on Tuesday that the group would build a seaport and airport in Gaza, even without permission. Al-Zahar hinted that any construction materials brought into Gaza for the purpose of its reconstruction will also be used for the construction of the seaport and airport. “We will build our airport and…

The United States gave full backing Tuesday to the announcement of a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the terror group Hamas, a truce that roughly half of the Israeli Security Cabinet opposed, but was not given a chance to vote on. US Secretary of State John Kerry called the deal “an opportunity, not a certainty,” even while…

The name of one of the victims of Tuesday’s mortar attack on Kibbutz Nirim in the Eshkol Regional Council was cleared for publication on Tuesday night: Ze’evik Etzion, 55. Etzion, the security coordinator of Kibbutz Nirim, was the first casualty in the attack. He was critically wounded and shortly thereafter died of his wounds. A…

One of the victims of Tuesday’s rocket attack on the Eshkol region was pronounced dead at the Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva on Tuesday evening. This brings the death toll in that attack to two, as one person was critically wounded in the attack and shortly thereafter died of his wounds. Five other people were…

While Gaza residents celebrated Hamas’s “victory” as a ceasefire with Israel went into effect at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, a senior Israeli diplomatic source argued that the hard-hit terror organization hadn’t won. The source told Arutz Sheva that “in recent days there was heavy pressure within Hamas to reach a ceasefire, as a result of the price…

Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service attended to 842 civilian casualties during 50 days of Operation Protective Edge, as terrorists in Gaza showered rockets and mortars on Israeli population centers. That number included five fatalities, and 37 people suffering various degrees of injury from rocket shrapnel. Of those, one was classified as “critically” wounded,…

Azzam al-Ahmed, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) delegation in the Cairo truce talks, revealed to AFP on Tuesday night what exactly was in the long-term ceasefire deal that Israel agreed to, and which went into effect at 7 p.m. that night. The first point raised was Gaza border crossings. Under the agreement, there will be an immediate…

Several senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders appeared in public on Tuesday shortly after a Gaza truce took hold, the first time they had done so since the conflict began on July 8. Among them was Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior member of the Hamas political wing, and senior Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed al-Hindi who gave…

Heads of the southern Regional Councils are protesting the new long-term ceasefire with Hamas, and urging their residents not to return to the homes they fled under intensive rocket fire. The head of the Eshkol Regional Council, Haim Yellin, noted that a man was killed and two others seriously wounded in his constituency just one…

Roughly half the cabinet was opposed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to agree to an open-ended ceasefire with Hamas – but the decision was passed unilaterally by the PM anyway. Government sources told Walla! news that a legal technicality meant the Prime Minister did not need to gain the approval of his cabinet to accept the…

Hamas has achieved a major achievement in its long-term ceasefire deal with Israel that started on Tuesday at 7 p.m., according to Channel 2 News’ military analyst Roni Daniel. Commenting on the rumored ceasefire shortly before it was confirmed by the government minutes before taking effect, Daniel noted that Knesset members previously threatened that Hamas will leave…

Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Spanish coach Oscar Garcia has stepped down from his post with the club over security fears due to the war in Gaza, the club said on Tuesday. “Oscar Garcia has announced he will be leaving Maccabi Tel Aviv FC due to the current security situation,” a statement on the soccer club’s official…

An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire began at 7 p.m. (16:00 GMT) today (Tuesday), after being officially accepted by the Israeli government just minutes before. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu informed cabinet ministers of the decision via a telephone call, just minutes before it was to go into effect.  Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish…

Israeli security assessments of the threat posed by Islamic State (formerly known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS) to the region indicate that its lawlessness, not the group itself, threaten the Middle East, according to a recent article. Dr. Yoram Schweitzer, of the Institute for National Security Studies, served as a strategic consultant…

The Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet) has published a report on Hamas’s use of public buildings as cover for operational activity. The ISA said that interrogation of captives taken in Operation Protective Edge gave a “somewhat disturbing” picture of Hamas’s use of civilians and public buildings to carry out military activity, “out of…

An Israeli air strike has destroyed much of one of Gaza’s tallest apartment and office buildings, setting off explosions and wounding 20 people, Gaza health officials said. Israel had no immediate comment on Tuesday’s attack. Seventy families lived in the building, which also housed offices and a shopping complex. It was known as the Italian…

The southern kibbutz community of Nahal Oz will name a new residential neighborhood after Daniel Tragerman hy”d, the four-year-old murdered by a Hamas mortar shell Friday. The neighborhood will include 40 housing units. Doron and Gila, Daniel’s parents, recounted their version of events during a noon press conference Monday. “This deadly mortar shell struck after several explosions…

A Hamas rocket scored a direct hit on a home in Ashkelon at about 6:30 Tuesday morning, causing light injuries to six members of the family that lives in it and to dozens of residents of nearby buildings. One of them, an eight year old boy, was reportedly injured in the face by broken glass. The…

A member of the Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS) has threatened that the organization would soon use unmanned drones to attack Israel. The IS member, a Canadian who left his country to fight alongside the IS in the areas of Iraq and Syria it declared to be an Islamic Caliphate, claimed on Twitter…

The United States is preparing military options, including surveillance flights, to pressure the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Syria, U.S. officials said on Monday, according to Reuters. They stressed, however, that no decision had been made to expand U.S. action beyond the limited airstrikes under way in Iraq. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the…

The United States said on Monday it was against Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas’s plan to go the United Nations and ask it to set a deadline for Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria. “We support President Abbas’s objective to achieve a two-state solution, but we believe that if the Palestinians resort to the ICC,…

A Jewish couple in New York were physically assaulted Monday by an anti-Semitic gang, who then fled the scene in cars flying the Palestinian Authority flag, according to the New York Post. Police sources say two cars and several motorbikes suddenly pulled up next to the couple as they were walking on East 63rd Street near Third…

After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday night called together senior security sources to discuss a long-term ceasefire with Hamas and other Gazan terrorists as proposed by Egypt, Palestinian Authority (PA) sources on Tuesday afternoon claim Israel has agreed to the truce. A senior PA official told AFP that a “permanent” ceasefire for Gaza has been reached…

The Jerusalem District Attorney on Tuesday submitted an indictment against Wael Karameh, an Arab resident of Jerusalem’s Anata neighborhood in the east of the capital, for aiding the murderers of Eyal Yifrah (19), Naftali Frenkel (16) and Gilad Sha’ar (16) hy”d. The indictment that was submitted to the Jerusalem Magistrates Court charged Karameh with disturbing court…

The owner of a house which suffered a direct hit in a rocket attack in Ashkelon this morning, has told of his “miraculous” escape. Yuval Cohen said his family was sleeping when the air raid sirens sounded, and says it was a miracle they had not been killed.   “We were in our bedroom when…

Four days have passed since the disappearance of Aharon Soffer, a 23-year-old hareidi yeshiva student from America who was last seen last Friday around noon in the Jerusalem Forest. Soffer’s family members expressed their great anxiety for his welfare, an anxiety has been heightened by rumors that he may possibly have been abducted. Three Israeli teens…

A rocket struck an empty kindergarten playground in Ashdod Tuesday afternoon, causing damage but leaving no injuries.  This is the fourth strike on a school in six weeks, and the third on a playground in seven days.  The previous rocket strike barely missed a packed kindergarten in Ashkelon; less than 24 hours earlier, a rocket wounded…

A Beitar Illit resident just barely escaped a lynching attempt Tuesday, after Palestinian Arab thugs from Husan attacked his vehicle. The Arabs attacked the resident near the entrance to Beitar Illit, reports say, and began dragging him into nearby Husan. According to 0404 news, during the attack the Arabs pelted his vehicle with rocks, as well…

Hamas’s true objective in Operation Protective Edge – and negotiations that may follow – is in “liberating” Jerusalem from the Jews, a Hamas spokesman stated earlier this week.  “The time has come for us to say that the true war is not aimed at opening border crossings,” Sami Abu Zuhri said. “Our true war is…

The Zionist Organization of America expresses “appall” at the Gaza resolution under UN Security Council consideration – and especially at the US for apparently agreeing to it. The proposed ceasefire resolution does not specifically condemn Hamas by name, but rather equates Hamas terrorism and the Israeli response to it. The resolution wording condemns “all violence…

Sirens sounded throughout the Upper Galilee close to 10:15 pm Monday night, just before a series of explosions were heard near Kiryat Shmona. The IDF confirmed that two rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel. No injuries or damage were reported. The IDF “retaliated with artillery fire towards the source of the attack,” the…

A new poll released by the Hebrew-language Channel 2 news site on Monday reveals that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s approval rating has fallen as a “casualty” in the faltering Operation Protective Edge. The poll, conducted by Shiluv Millward Brown and iPanel for the news source, found in the last four days Netanyahu’s support has taken a sharp…

The IDF continues to show that Hamas’s terrorist leaders are not immune in the war they started on Israel, as the son-in-law of Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum was killed on Monday. Abdullah Mortaja, the son-in-law of the Hamas leader, was killed in a strike by the IDF. Yedioth Aharonoth reported on his connection to Barhoum. The 27-year-old…

The White House said over the weekend it was ready to “take action” against any threat to America, as it indicated a serious consideration of US military strikes against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Syria. However, the move has simply drawn scorn from Syrian rebels fighting on the ground against IS terrorists up close.  “Airstrikes…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz as well as other senior security officials on Monday night, to discuss a proposed month-long ceasefire with Hamas. A diplomatic source told Walla! that Egypt gave Israel a detailed document outlining the ceasefire, adding that the Nile state is interested…

An informative new video posted to YouTube on Monday by the IDF shows how the damage in Gaza reported by the UN is only giving half of the picture, and skewing the facts on the ground. In the video maps published by the UN showing Gaza buildings damaged in Operation Protective Edge are represented by…

At approximately 6 p.m. on Monday evening Gaza terrorists launched a particularly ferocious mortar barrage on the Sedot Negev and Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council areas. A full 20 mortar shells peppered the Israeli communities in the course of a mere ten minutes – miraculously no injuries were inflicted by the onslaught. Around half-an-hour before the…

Hundreds of people have evacuated southern and Gaza Belt region communities, Israeli news outlets began reporting this week, as rocket fire from Gaza has escalated dramatically.  To help ease the lives of the displaced, a special program has begun through the city of Ariel and Ariel University in Samaria to host the evacuees and their…

The State of Israel will not sanction the organized evacuation of the Gaza Belt region, Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) insisted Monday night, despite the rocket fire pelting the communities near Gaza on a minute-by-minute basis.  “Just because someone says to himself, ‘I do not want my children in the line of fire, I…

Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) dismissed on Monday the threat against Israel issued by Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, as reported by his aides on Sunday. Those aides said that Abbas will soon appeal to the international community to set a deadline for Israel to withdraw back to the pre-1967 borders and make way…

The Chabad center in Mumbai will reopen its doors on Tuesday, nearly six years after terrorists stormed the building and killed six people inside during the 2008 attacks on the city, AFP reports. One of several high-profile targets assaulted by the gunmen, Chabad House in south Mumbai was left bullet-ridden and bereft of its directors…

The United States has prepared its own draft outline for a UN resolution demanding a ceasefire between in Gaza, Reuters reported on Monday. Diplomats told the news agency that Washington is now working with European powers and Jordan on a joint text for the resolution. U.S. officials and diplomats from other UN member states said…

Egypt is reportedly offering Hamas and Israel a new, month-long ceasefire, but Israel has yet to agree, media outlets reported on Monday. According to Army Radio, as part of the emerging truce, Israel will open the border crossings to Gaza and slightly increase the fishing area off the coast of Gaza. Senior sources in Cairo…

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Air Force, gave more details about an Israeli drone allegedly shot down over above the Natanz uranium enrichment site Sunday. Speaking on Monday night, Hajizadeh said that the drone was an Israeli-made “Hermes” drone with a maximum flight range of 1,600 km (994 miles) and a…

Three children were wounded on Monday evening in a rock attack in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem. The attack occurred when a 22-year-old Arab terrorist threw rocks towards a vehicle that was travelling in the neighborhood. Undercover police officers arrested the masked rock thrower, who tried to resist arrest by throwing rocks at…

Jihadi forces from the Islamic State organization have seized a military airport which was the last remaining Syrian army outpost in the country’s northern Raqqa province, capturing heavy weapons including missiles, tanks, artillery batteries, helicopters and warplanes. Tabqa airbase fell Sunday night after days of fighting claimed the lives of approximately 500 Syrian soldiers and…

Justice Minister and Security Cabinet member Tzipi Livni said Monday that the criticism being leveled at Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz – by unnamed Cabinet ministers, news reporters and residents of the Gaza Belt – is unfair. “The Chief of Staff has been wronged,” she told Walla! news. “I do not tend to hide behind…

Israel is set to accept an indefinite ceasefire with Gazan terrorist groups, which will last for a minimum of one month, unnamed security sources told Walla! news. Barring any last-minuted developments, the Egyptian-brokered deal will go into effect today, according to the source, ushering in an “open-ended” ceasefire between Israel and Gazan terrorists, primarily Hamas and Islamic…

Barak Seener, an Associate fellow at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies, thinks Israel is “choosing not to win” the war in Gaza. Seener – who has provided analysis and expert commentary for a range of international broadcasters and news outlets including the Associated Press, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Chinese CCTV, Fox…

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, has labeled Qatar “a Club Med for terrorists” and urged world leaders to pressure the gulf state to end its funding for Hamas. In a New York Times oped, Prosor insists that the only way to end ongoing violence between Israel and Gazan terrorist groups for good is…

Israeli social media users are challenging Argentinian-Spanish soccer superstar Lionel Messi to acknowledge the death of Daniel Tregerman, a four-year-old Israeli boy who admired the international soccer star. Daniel was killed by a Hamas mortar shell fired at his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz Friday. Last photos of Daniel show him sporting Messi’s number 10…

Hamas has been severely shaken by string of Israeli airstrikes targeting its most senior leadership in Gaza, and is continuing a witch-hunt against suspected “collaborators” in an effort to ascertain how Israel knew of their whereabouts despite their best efforts to remain undetected. Following a spate of at least 25 executions carried out by Hamas…

Gaza terrorists have fired tens of rockets at southern Israel Monday morning, as well as at least one long-range rocket at central Israel. At 6:00 a.m., the first salvo was fired at the Eshkol region. Two rockets exploded near the border between Israel and Gaza without causing any damage or injury. Fifteen minutes later, two…

Terrorist factions in Gaza are apparently split once again over the possibility of accepting an Egyptian ceasefire proposal, with Hamas stubbornly refusing to accept it and at least two Islamic Jihad leaders claiming a truce will come into effect imminently. Islamic Jihad official Khaled al-Battash told interviewers a ceasefire would be coming into effect “within…

In coordinated action between the IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) on Sunday, terrorists from the Gaza terror group “Army of Islam” were eliminated right before they were about to attack Israel. The terrorists were driving together in a car in Gaza City, and according to the IDF were about to launch rockets from…

Heavy mourning and difficult feelings pervade the family home of Daniel Tragerman, hy”d, the four year-old boy who was killed last Friday from fatal injuries after a mortar shell attack on his Nahal Oz home.  Doron and Gila, Daniel’s parents, recounted their version of events during a noon press conference Monday. “This deadly mortar shell…

Jordanian military prosecutors on Monday charged eight suspects, including a Syrian fugitive, with plotting to attack US soldiers and Israel’s embassy in the Hashemite kingdom, as well as trying to recruit people to join the Lebanese- based terror group Hezbollah. “State security court prosecutors accused the eight men with plotting to carry out terrorist acts, including attacks against US soldiers…

A British journalist working for Al Jazeera was held against his will while trying to get an interview at London’s Finsbury Park Mosque, which formerly was run by the notorious Al Qaeda cleric Abu Hamza, recently convicted on multiple terror charges. In an article Sunday, journalist Ben Flanagan documented his visit along with video footage filmed on…

Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) visited the house of four year-old mortar shell victim Daniel Tragerman hy”d Monday afternoon during the shiva (mourning) period, and gave a special warning to Hamas. “Hamas leaders should know that they will pay for the death of Daniel and what they are doing to the residents of the South,” Lapid said…

Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi David Lau on Monday took part in EduAction, the largest educational conference in Israel, where he was asked about what religious Jewish education can learn from the secular Israeli educational system. The word “secular” is lost in translation when it comes to Judaism according to Rabbi Lau, who spoke at the annual…

Tourism Minister Uzi Landau (Yisrael Beytenu) has asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to make the area near Gaza a VAT-free zone, like Eilat, for one year. In a letter addressed to Netanyahu, as well as to Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and Finance Minister Yair Lapid, he noted that “while the Security Cabinet runs the military…

The political chief of Hamas has called on President Barack Obama to intervene with the Israeli government to “lift the siege” of Gaza and push for a cease-fire in the conflict to stop a “holocaust” against the Palestinians. “You as the leader of the most powerful state in the world, I ask you to call…

Bruce Blakeman, a candidate for the Fourth Congressional District of New York, will be visiting Israel this week. Ahead of the visit, Blakeman and Congressman Peter King, who will be part of the trip as well, told Arutz Sheva that they support Israel’s right to defend itself from Hamas’s rocket attacks. “Hamas is a deadly…

Tehran will “accelerate” arming Palestinians in Judea and Samaria in retaliation for Israel allegedly deploying a spy drone over Iran, which was shot down, a military commander said on Monday. “We will accelerate the arming of the West Bank and we reserve the right to give any response,” said General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, commander of aerial…

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…

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…

Hours after Iran claimed it had brought down an Israeli stealth drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday that parts of the drone remained intact. General Ramazan Sharif, a spokesman for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, was quoted by The Associated Press (AP) as having told Iranian state television…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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%…

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.” …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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 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.…

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 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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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 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,…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…