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Sirens went off in Israel on Tuesday night—the night before Passover—as terrorists launched a total of 16 rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel.
Ten rockets were launched overnight and six in two separate barrages in the early morning hours on Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A military court in the Gaza Strip on Monday convicted six people of “collaboration” with Israel, sentencing two of them to death.
The court said in a statement that the death sentences would be carried out “one by firing squad and the other by hanging.”
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Biden administration has reportedly discussed a proposal for an interim Iran agreement with European and Israeli officials in recent weeks, Axios reported on Monday evening.
According to the report, the proposed agreement would see some sanctions being eased in exchange for a partial freezing of the Iranian nuclear program.
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Two Syrian civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike near Damascus early Tuesday, Syrian state media said.
The incident was the fourth airstrike attributed to Israel to hit targets in Syria in less than a week, and came a day after the Israeli Air Force downed a suspected Iranian drone in Israeli airspace.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a terrorist stabbing on Tuesday morning near Rishon LeZion in central Israel.
Civilians on the scene subdued the Palestinian attacker from Hebron, who has since been transferred to authorities for questioning, according to police.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The IDF has confirmed that the drone that invaded Israeli airspace from Syria and that it brought down on Sunday was Iranian and that it was shot down using special physical electronic means.
Initially, the details of the identity of the drone and how it was brought down were partially censored, since usually the IDF has shot down such invading…
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…