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An Israel Air Force fighter plane shot down a drone flying over the Gaza Strip on Monday, the military said, adding that it had not represented a threat.
The army said that the drone “was identified in the skies over Gaza and was monitored the entire time by the air force until it was shot down.
Read more: The Times of Israel
After stumping epigraphers for over a decade, a mysterious First Temple-era inscription uncovered at the Ophel, a stone’s throw from Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, may finally have been deciphered.
According to a new study by Dr. Daniel Vainstub, the seven-letter inscription etched on a large clay jar records one of the ingredients found in the…
Israeli forces on Monday arrested two Palestinians in Nablus suspected of aiding the terrorist who wounded two soldiers in a drive-by shooting in the village of Huwara on March 25, the military said in a statement.
During the counterterrorism operation in the northern Samarian city, gunmen fired on Israeli forces, who returned fire. Two…
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told lawmakers Wednesday that China, Russia, and Iran would be a problem for the US “for many years to come” as the three are working more closely together.
Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Milley said Russia and China are “getting…
Security forces were on alert in Jerusalem and the West Bank as tens of thousands of Muslims took part in mass prayers on the second Friday of Ramadan, including at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount.
Border Police deployed 2,300 soldiers in Jerusalem and its surroundings and in the West Bank, the force said in a statement.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen spoke by phone on Thursday evening, Washington time, according to a readout from the U.S. State Department.
Blinken “reaffirmed the importance of the enduring U.S.-Israel bilateral relationship.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on Damascus shortly after midnight Friday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
The report identified the dead officer as Milad Heydari, saying he was an adviser. No rank was given, but the report said he was “martyred” in the attack,…
CyberWell, an online antisemitism database, released a new report that shows wide disparities in the types of antisemitism social platforms see – and in how much they remove.
CyberWell founder and CEO Tal-Or Cohen said the report was conducted as an attempt for social platforms to start taking hate speech more seriously.
Read more: The…
Russia is set to receive further weapons deliveries from Iran, as Tehran works to “solidify” the relationship between the two countries, according to a new assessment.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, met his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in Moscow on Wednesday. The pair likely discussed the Russian use of Iranian…
Greek police arrested two Pakistani nationals Tuesday who were allegedly planning mass-casualty terrorist attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in the country.
Israel’s Mossad spy agency, which aided the Greek investigation, said in a statement that the two were part of an Iranian terror network.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Two Syrian soldiers were wounded on Thursday by an Israeli missile strike near Damascus, according to Syrian state media.
The strike occurred at approximately 9 a.m., with the missiles being launched from the direction of the Golan Heights, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported, citing a military source.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The official Facebook site of the “al-Aqsa library,” an organization of the Jordanian Wakf (Islamic religious trust), published an invitation to a tour following the “sins of the Nakba” in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Katamon.
This comes against the background of recent strains in the relations between Israel and Jordan. The signature of the…
The draw for the Under-20 FIFA World Cup that was scheduled to take place in Indonesia next week will be postponed, a source told Reuters after Bali’s governor refused to host Israel’s team.
The Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) said the draw that was to be held on Friday had been canceled. FIFA was still conducting checks on tournament…
Two major diplomatic rounds of talks may take place in the coming weeks. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, agreed to a meeting in the next week or weeks during Ramadan, according to a Monday report. At the same time, Turkish media reported that the deputy foreign…
Researchers have known for some time about the DNA mutations that lead healthy pancreatic cells to turn cancerous. What was not understood is how pancreatic cancer cells metastasize and invade other organs.
On March 22, the peer-reviewed journal Nature published a new study led by Israeli researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem that…
The Martyr Omar Abu Laila Battalion said its ‘soldiers were preparing many surprises that would shake the brutal entity’
A new armed Palestinian group has been established in the northern West Bank town of Salfit, media reported on Sunday.
The Jerusalem Post learned that a number of terror militias have been operating there for several…
The airstrikes the US carried out against Iran-backed forces in Syria last week are continuing to reverberate across the region. The Syrian regime, backed by Iran and Russia, is taking a tougher stance than in the past.
The regime has condemned the US strikes, and US President Joe Biden also warned on Friday that the US would “act forcefully”…
Security forces led by Jerusalem District Police have been preparing for possible violence during Ramadan, which began on Wednesday evening and is due to continue until April 21. Hamas leaders threatened to respond to any perceived upset to the status quo on the Temple Mount with “an explosion,” and called on Palestinians in Judea and Samaria to…