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The US imposed sanctions Thursday on an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official and others it says took part in wide-ranging plots to kill former national security adviser John Bolton and others around the world, including at least one additional US government official.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A Lebanese military tribunal has formally accused five members of Hezbollah and the allied Amal Movement of killing an Irish UN peacekeeper in 2022, a senior Lebanese judicial source told Reuters on Thursday.
Private Sean Rooney, 23, was killed on December 15 in the first fatal attack on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon since 2015.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams made the controversy surrounding a law student’s antisemitic remarks in a May 12 CUNY commencement speech his first order of business in his remarks at Gracie Mansion on May 31.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The head of the Shin Bet security agency was in Washington on Thursday for meetings with senior American officials amid growing US concern over the security situation in the West Bank and the deterioration of the Palestinian Authority, an Israeli official said.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An Israel Defense Forces exercise, dubbed “Firm Hand,” which began on Monday and will last two weeks, simulates a war beginning with a clash in the north and spreading to other fronts, including Iran.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Iran may be preparing to increase its attacks on US forces in Syria using “powerful armor-piercing roadside bombs,” according to a report at The Washington Post that is based on “classified intelligence reports.”
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
A woman who was critically wounded in an infamously deadly Palestinian terror attack and who has remained in a vegetative state for 22 years, has died of her injuries at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, hospital authorities said Wednesday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel is worried by reports of an interim nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran being reached “in the coming days and weeks,” Israeli media reported on Monday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
US lawmakers, local politicians and Jewish groups blasted the City University of New York and its law school on Tuesday for a commencement ceremony that featured a keynote speech seen as discriminatory against Jews.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday blasted a Palestinian columnist for the Qatar daily paper Al-Watan who authored a commentary in May calling on Palestinians to carry out terrorist attacks on Israelis, including calls for Arab countries to go on war footing against the Jewish state.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East arrived in Israel on Tuesday, a day after the Israeli military launched a two-week drill simulating a multi-front war.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Five terrorists died overnight Tuesday in an explosion at a base in Lebanon belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, according to Arabic-language media.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli troops came under attack on Monday night on Highway 60 near Kiryat Arba in Judea. The forces returned fire, and a search was launched for the assailants.
An Israeli military ambulance was damaged, but no injuries were reported, according to the Israeli military.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Taliban threatened on Sunday that it could conquer Iran as tensions increase over water disputes between Afghanistan and Iran, leaving at least three people dead.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israel has successfully tested a naval version of its land-based Iron Dome air-defense system, the C-Dome.
The interceptor was installed on the Israel Navy’s Sa’ar 6-class “Magen” corvette and was on target when faced with simulated threats such as rockets, cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A 32-year-old Israeli man was killed on Tuesday in a terrorist shooting near the Jewish community of Hermesh in northwestern Samaria.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Organizations that celebrated terrorist attacks against Israelis and support boycotting Israel have advised Meta, Facebook’s parent company, on its content moderation regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Iran enjoys an increasingly friendly environment in parts of Latin America, Colombia’s former president Ivan Duque said while in Jerusalem this week.
“That’s the case of Nicolas Maduro, who has become a strong friend of Iran,” Duque said Tuesday, referring to Venezuela’s socialist president.
Read more: The Times of Israel