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The US Marine Corps has successfully completed its first live-fire test of an air defense system incorporating the Iron Dome interceptor. The system combines American and Israeli technology: US-made radar and command-and-control center, alongside Rafael Advanced Defense Systems’ Iron Dome interceptor (the Tamir model) and mobile launcher. Raytheon…
Jewish leaders in Chicago are urging the local prosecutor to upgrade the charge against a Muslim man who allegedly shot a Jewish man walking to synagogue on Saturday in West Rogers Park, home to one of the city’s largest Orthodox Jewish populations, to a hate crime.
Read more: Jewish Insider
Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah on Tuesday elected its deputy secretary general Naim Qassem to replace secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Sept. 27.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel’s airstrikes early Saturday didn’t just destroy critical Iranian military infrastructure. They also battered the reputation of Russian military equipment, which has already been pummeled by poor performance during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Read more: MSN
Iran’s government has proposed to triple its military budget, its spokeswoman said Tuesday, as tensions with arch-rival Israel rise following recent tit-for-tat missile strikes.
Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani outlined the move that would see “a significant increase of more than 200 percent in the country’s military budget” at a news…
One person was killed in the northern Israeli town of Ma’alot Tarshiha on Tuesday by a Hezbollah rocket fired from Lebanon.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel’s Knesset on Monday made it illegal for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to operate in Israeli territory, and for state officials to cooperate with the agency.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israeli government took the extraordinary step Monday of convening its weekly cabinet meeting in a fortified underground facility in Jerusalem, marking what security officials called a “new reality” in protecting the country’s senior leadership. The unprecedented relocation from the cabinet’s traditional chamber at the Prime Minister’s Office…
Germany has approved $102 million in arms sales to Israel since August, officials in Berlin revealed on Thursday.
The German Foreign Ministry announced the figures after a far-left lawmaker in the country’s federal parliament sought clarification regarding recent reports that Germany was holding up arms exports to the Jewish state, according to…
In a significant advancement toward completing its high-powered laser interception system, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced Monday morning the signing of a $550 million deal to expand its laser-defense capabilities through the Iron Beam program, partnering with lead developer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems.
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The head of the Israel Defense Forces has said Israel restrained itself in its weekend attack on Iran, in comments published Sunday, as the country girds for a possible response from Tehran.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Friends and colleagues paid tributes Sunday to five soldiers who died in battle against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon the previous evening, including teacher Cpt. (res.) Rabbi Avraham Yosef Goldberg, the beloved rabbi of a Jerusalem high school, as well as two other religious Zionist educators.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A year and a day after launching ground operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces on Monday continued to engage terrorist forces across the coastal enclave.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Russia earlier this year provided satellite data to help Yemen’s Houthi rebels strike ships in the Red Sea, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The US daily — citing “a person familiar with the matter” and two anonymous European defense officials — reported that the data was transmitted by members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard…
An Israeli delegation, led by Mossad Chief Dedi Barnea, is expected to travel to Qatar on Sunday to renew negotiations for a hostage deal, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed Thursday evening. In response, the families of the hostages demanded that Netanyahu grant the delegation full authority to secure an agreement for the return of all…
Five Israeli reserve soldiers were killed during fighting with Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon on Thursday night and 19 others were wounded, some of them seriously, the IDF said on Friday,
The slain IDF reservists were named as:
Maj. (res.) Dan Maori, 43, from Beit Yitzhak-Sha’ar Hefer.
Cpt. (res.) Alon Safrai, 28, from…
The Times said Khamenei instructed the military to prepare different plans to respond to an Israel strike on Iran. Four officials in the Islamic Republic told the paper that if an Israeli attack would cause substantial damage, Iran would respond but if the attack is limited to military installations and weapons stores, there may be no Iranian…
UNRWA on Thursday confirmed that one of its staffers was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza a day earlier, after Israel named him as a Hamas Nukbha force commander.
Read more: The Times of Israel