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06/19/2021
Strengthening military coordination against Iran will be a main topic of IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi’s visit to Washington, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
According to a report in Walla News and confirmed to the Post, Kohavi will discuss expanding and increasing military coordination with the forces of CENTCOM –…
06/20/2021
Iran’s sole nuclear power plant underwent an unexplained temporary emergency shutdown, state TV reported on Sunday.
An official from the state electric energy company, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last “for three to four days.”
He said that power…
06/17/2021
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, will depart for his first official military visit to the US on Sunday to talk with his counterparts about the Iranian nuclear threat and other challenges in the region.
Kochavi will be a guest of the the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United…
06/18/2021
Without Israel as its primary target for condemning resolutions and direct isolation, the United Nations (UN) would have little reason to exist. It does not condemn or act against state-sponsorship of terrorism by Iran. It looks the other way at ethnic cleansing in China. It is impotent in responding to Russia seizing the territory….
06/17/2021
The IDF struck a Syrian outpost near the city of Quneitra on Thursday, marking the first strike on the northern border by the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
The post, some 150 meters away from the border, was affiliated with the Syrian Army’s 90th Brigade and First Corps, and had been frequented by Hezbollah…
06/17/2021
The IDF attacked targets in Gaza Thursday night in response to incendiary balloon attacks launched from the region, Palestinian media reported.
No injuries have been reported so far. The IDF allegedly forewarned Gaza residents prior to attacking 10 Hamas targets in the Strip, N12 news reported. The strikes were carried out near…
06/16/2021
The US Senate passed by a voice vote on Monday a resolution “unequivocally condemning the recent rise in antisemitic violence and harassment targeting Jewish Americans, and standing in solidarity with those affected by antisemitism, and for other purposes.”
Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) and James Lankford (R-Oklahoma),…
06/16/2021
Gulf Arab states said on Wednesday it would be dangerous to separate global powers’ nuclear deal with Iran from Tehran’s missile program and “destabilizing” behavior, and reiterated a call that they be included in the dialogue.
World powers and Iran entered a sixth round of talks in Vienna on Saturday to revive the 2015 nuclear…
06/17/2021
The IDF destroyed a Syrian army outpost frequented by Hezbollah officials, according to a Ynet report.
The outpost, which was destroyed by IDF tankfire, had welcomed senior Hezbollah officials responsible for terrorist activities in the Syrian Golan on numerous occasions.
Read More: Jerusalem Post
06/16/2021
Israel’s premier responded that he would “work to reinforce Israeli-Moroccan relations in all areas”
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Wednesday became the latest signatory of the Abraham Accords to offer his country’s and his personal congratulations to newly installed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
In his letter, the…
06/16/2021
“Israel, you are not alone. … We represent 10 million-plus people in America and these people say to you Israel, we have your back.”
That was the message of Pastor John Hagee, chairman and founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States. Hagee was in Israel on a June 13-14…
06/13/2021
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is visiting Israel as part of a “solidarity mission” to the U.S. ally — just as Democrats are fighting among themselves over their positions on the conflict between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas.
“No matter the challenges, the people of Israel always celebrate life and thank God for…
06/15/2021
At least 10 fires caused by arson balloons on Tuesday ahead of planned flag march in Jerusalem
Incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip sparked at least 10 fires in southern Israel on Tuesday, according to the Southern District Fire and Rescue services.
Most of the blazes were in thorny fields with Eli Cohen, spokesperson…
06/15/2021
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz told interim American envoy to Israel Michael Ratney on Monday that the Jewish state will continue to work with the US on preventing a nuclear Iran.
“I emphasized that ours is a dialogue between strategic allies and friends in closed rooms, who share a concern for the stability and best…
06/15/2021
Ebrahim Raisi’s record of fierce loyalty to Iran’s ruling clerics helps explain why the senior judge is a front-runner in Friday’s presidential election, a contest the authorities have limited almost exclusively to hardline candidates like him.
A win for Raisi, 60, an implacable critic of the West whose political patron is Supreme…
06/15/2021
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi will fly to Washington on Saturday evening, a month after he was set to go to discuss the Iranian threat and other regional challenges.
During his trip, which will be his first as Israel’s top military officer, he is expected to meet with his American counterparts in an attempt to persuade…
06/13/2021
Israel’s 36th government passed a vote of confidence at a special Knesset session on Sunday night with Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett sworn in as the country’s 13th prime minister.
Bennett has replaced now-former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who held the position for the past 12 years and who served another three years…
06/13/2021
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley joined Evangelical leader Pastor John Hagee, the founder and chairman of Christians United for Israel, on a solidarity mission to the Jewish state over the weekend.
The CUFI delegation said on its website last week that it would visit communities “impacted by the recent…
