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Several rockets were fired from southern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon with at least one intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system over northern Israel, the military said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the launches came just hours after Lebanon’s Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah said it would support “all measures”...
This is the first Cambodian church that has hosted a CUFI event. The pastor shared with me that Cambodians can relate to the Jewish people and the Holocaust. Cambodians themselves were victims of genocide. In 1975-1979 about 2 million of them were slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge Communist regime. Many were scattered to other nations to escape the...
Suspected Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks have killed two Iranian military advisers, temporarily put the country’s two largest airports out of service, and raised fears of regional escalation.
While Israel has fought a shadow war with Iran in Syria for years, it has intensified recently, with near-daily airstrikes attributed to...
The Arab League was set to meet for an emergency session Wednesday after Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque overnight and clashed with Palestinians inside.
Jordan, in partnership with the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, had earlier called for the body to hold an emergency session.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israeli police arrested more than 350 Muslim rioters on Wednesday who had barricaded themselves inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The rioters, who had smuggled fireworks, clubs and stones into the mosque, blocked the doors inside using iron rods, closets and other objects, police reported.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
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,...
We hosted a very engaging group of 50 folks from a number of churches in the Anchorage area for the screening of “Never Again.” Following the showing, I shared what CUFI is currently doing in Alaska to combat anti-semitism, focusing on our pending HB2 - “The Israel Anti-Discrimination Act”. A time of Q and A followed. We received an offering of...
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...