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An IDF soldier was killed in what’s been described as an extremely rare event during a routine training exercise overnight on Israel’s Golan Heights Wednesday, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit announced.
He was identified by the military as 19-year-old Sgt. Eytan Pichman from Beersheba. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
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The United Nations, despite having voted for the re-establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, remains a cesspool for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias. The most striking recent example came in an interview in which Miloon Kothari, a member of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) for Israel and the Palestinian...
The military on Wednesday announced the overnight arrests of three suspects linked to shooting attacks near the Palestinian village of Silwad, along with six other suspects across the West Bank.
During the arrests in Silwad, Israeli troops fired at a suspect who attempted to flee, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The suspect was arrested...
Nearly 30 House Democrats have signed onto a draft letter expressing fresh concerns about the Iran nuclear deal, which appears to be moving toward a conclusion following months of stalled negotiations.
The letter is being circulated by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), who previously marshaled the support of 18 House Democrats to publicly express...
President Isaac Herzog on Monday called for the reclamation of the word Zionist as a positive term, saying it has been turned into a slur to abuse Jews and Israelis.
Speaking at an event marking the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, Herzog said Zionists — people who believe in the right and necessity of Jewish self-determination...
A report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog warns that Iran is pressing ahead with an upgrade to its advanced uranium enrichment program, Reuters revealed on Monday.
The development comes as the West waits for Iran’s response to a “final” proposal to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
According to the International Atomic Energy...
Russia has faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones acquired from Tehran in August for use in its war with Ukraine, according to Biden administration officials.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the US intelligence assessment, did not detail the "numerous failures." They added that the US assesses that...
Two Palestinians were arrested by Israeli security forces near the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday morning after an hours-long siege on a home.
For several hours, the security forces surrounded the house that the two suspects were in. The suspects were identified by the Border Police as Nabeel Sawalhi and Nihad Owais, who had been involved...
Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said Monday that Israel carried out “countless operations” against Iran’s nuclear program when he led the spy agency.
Speaking in English at an event in Switzerland marking 125 years since the First Zionist Congress, Cohen also hit out at the emerging nuclear accord between Iran and world powers.
“During my...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz landed in Tokyo on Monday for an official visit celebrating 70 years of diplomatic relations between Israel and Japan, the first time in a decade an Israeli defense minister is visiting the East Asian nation.
Accompanied by Israeli ambassador to Japan Gilad Cohen, Gantz will conduct meetings with Japanese government...
Mossad chief David Barnea will travel to Washington next week as part of Israel’s intensifying efforts to shape the emerging nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers, which in its current form both Barnea and senior government figures have lambasted as a bad deal.
A senior government official confirmed Sunday that the White House was...
An airstrike Thursday on the Syrian city of Masyaf attributed to Israel hit a missile warehouse containing more than 1,000 Iranian-made missiles, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Saturday.
The warehouse, in the city’s Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC) complex, stored thousands of medium-range,...
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is hoping to talk to President Biden about the new Iran nuclear deal that appears to be nearing fruition, but lately, he has not had much luck, according to reports.
According to The Jerusalem Post, Lapid has been unable to get Biden on the phone, with the White House first blaming the president's recent vacation...
Student organizations at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law are facing backlash from their own dean after adopting a statement that pledges to not invite any Zionist or pro-Israel speaker to give lectures.
Law Students for Justice in Palestine at Berkeley Law made an Aug. 21 post on Instagram stating that nine other student...
Instead of performing open-heart surgery, with all its risks, to repair a defective aortal arch that has an aneurysm – a bulge in a blood vessel caused by a weakness in the blood vessel wall – interventional cardiologists at the Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem are the first in Israel to fix it by minimal...
Members of an Iranian opposition group have filed a lawsuit against the president of Iran for his role in the 1988 massacre of dissidents just weeks before he intends to speak before the U.N. General Assembly.
"The plaintiffs actually suffered the injuries that they claim they suffered; the people who were murdered actually were murdered. They...
Iran on Wednesday launched exercises to test its combat and reconnaissance drones, state media reported, amid U.S. concerns over the possible supply of Iranian-made unmanned aircraft to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine.
The two-day war-games will involve 150 drones and will cover Iran's Gulf coast and most of its territory, state television...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Israel and the US will “continue to expand cooperation in the face of Iran’s aggression,” during his visit to the US Central Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday.
Gantz made his comments while touring the air refueling wing of the base alongside US Central Command chief...
Finally, powerful state officials are flexing their muscles to combat rising anti-Semitism.
A group of 18 treasurers, including from large states like Florida, Ohio and North Carolina, is pushing back against financial-services firm Morningstar for using its power to advance the anti-Israel cause. The financial officers join attorneys general...
Israeli Air Force F-35 advanced fifth-generation fighter jets penetrated Iranian airspace multiple times over the last two months, according to the Saudi media outlet Elaph. Both Iranian and Russian radars failed to locate them, according to the report.
According to the news site, Israel and the US have conducted large-scale exercises over the...