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A company from the elite Sayeret Givati unit, as well two other IDF companies, were transferred to reinforce Israeli security forces in the West Bank on Monday, as tensions rose and the manhunt for the terrorist behind the Huwara attack continued.
The decision to provide extra reinforcements in the West Bank came after two Israeli brothers,...
Hillel Menachem Yaniv and Yagel Ya’acov Yaniv, two brothers from the Har Bracha settlement in Samaria, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack in Huwara on Sunday afternoon.
Hillel was studying in the Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva and had recently completed his service in the Navy. Yagel was studying in the Givat Olga Hesder Yeshiva and had...
Two Israeli brothers were shot dead in a terror attack in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday, the military and medics said.
The Israel Defense Forces said a Palestinian gunman opened fire from close range at an Israeli-owned car on the Route 60 highway, then fled the scene, apparently on foot.
Read more: Times of Israel
February saw three terror attacks by Palestinian youths, two of whom were 13 years old and one of whom was 14. All were from eastern Jerusalem. The attacks have refocused attention on anti-Israel incitement in Arab schools, including in the capital.
“Arab children in east Jerusalem are marinated in incitement,” said Maor Tzemach, chairman of...
Members of a neo-Nazi group rallied Tuesday night outside the Broadway theater that is hosting “Parade,” a play about the 1915 lynching of a Jewish man in Georgia.
“It was definitely very ugly and scary, but a wonderful reminder of why we’re telling this particular story, and how special and powerful art and particularly theater can be,” star...
Thousands of Palestinians furious over the Israeli military’s latest deadly incursion into Nablus held midnight marches throughout The West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in the pre-dawn hours Friday, calling for revenge and setting off low-level clashes with security forces in some places.
Protesters took to the streets in cities throughout the...
Law enforcement and Jewish groups in the US are urging vigilance ahead of an antisemitic “national day of hate” planned by white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups for Saturday.
The white supremacists have called for followers to distribute antisemitic messaging with banners, stickers, fliers and graffiti. There are no known threats of violence...
The international community must act against Iran and prevent it from becoming a nuclear threshold state for the sake of Ukraine, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan told the General Assembly on Wednesday.
“Ukraine has been a testing ground for Iran,” Erdan said as he referenced the military alliance between Tehran and Moscow,...
An airstrike in Damascus over the weekend that was attributed to Israel targeted a meeting of Syrian and Iranian experts in producing drones, according to a report Wednesday.
Syria has said five people were killed and 15 wounded in the attack on Saturday night. The Israeli military has not commented on the strike, per its policy of not...
Israeli warplanes carried out bombing raids against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, the military said, hours after Palestinians fired six rockets into southern Israel in an apparent revenge attack for a deadly Israeli incursion into Nablus a day earlier.
Fighter jets hit a Hamas weapons workshop in central Gaza...
Oman has opened its airspace to overflights by Israeli airlines, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced on Thursday.
“This historic decision will shorten the time of flights from Israel to Asia and lower ticket prices. I thank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the National Security Council and the director general of the Foreign Ministry,” said...
The Israeli military said Tuesday it has sentenced a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group to 22 months in prison after his arrest helped spark three days of heavy fighting in Gaza last year.
Bassam al-Saadi's sentence was handed down as part of a plea deal that included suspending an additional sentence and ordering al-Saadi to pay...
(February 22, 2023 / JNS) In a series of secret meetings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the heads of Israel’s security forces to significantly ramp up preparations for a strike on Iran’s nuclear installations, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.
The meetings, five in number, were attended by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant,...
Hamas's military spokesman, Abu Obeida, warned that the factions in the Gaza Strip are "losing patience" after 10 Palestinians were killed and over 100 others were injured in armed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Nablus on Wednesday. Leaders in the local branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other local terrorist groups...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan on Monday condemned Palestinian terrorism during a speech in the UN Security Council.
Erdan’s speech followed the Security Council’s passing a presidential statement denouncing “continuing Israeli settlement activities.” The presidential statement marks the first time that the Security...
Ties among Abraham Accords nations are growing stronger despite the normalization agreements’ lack of popularity in the Arab partner countries.
This is according to the Abraham Accords Peace Institute (AAPI)’s recently released 2022 Annual Report, which examines avenues to improve and expand the agreements initiated by President Donald Trump in...
Representatives of 14 African and Arab countries will convene in Jerusalem next month for the first ever Arab-Africa-Israel conference on Middle East security.
The event comes during a diplomatic tug of war in Africa between supporters and opponents of Israel, which saw a public row when a senior Israeli diplomat was ejected from the African...
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Tuesday called on the United States to issue a credible military threat against Iran, after International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors found uranium enriched to near weapons-grade in the Islamic Republic.
“Iran is very close to 90% enrichment of uranium. The United States must put a credible military...
Israel has intensified its efforts to clinch closer military and intelligence ties with Saudi Arabia under the new government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in order to face the threat posed to the region by Iran, Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing six unnamed individuals.
Read more: Times of Israel
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday said a suspect who had been detained by troops after crossing the border from Syria into the Golan Heights last month was involved in efforts by the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group to gather intelligence on Israel for future attacks.
Ghaith Abdullah, according to the IDF, was part of the so-called “Golan...
