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04/26/2021
A growing number of leaders from Israel to Congress are increasing pressure on corporate America and President Biden to avoid making a bad deal with Iran that would lift sanctions or provide cash aid to Tehran without major concessions to end its terrorism, nuclear and other malign activities.
The pressure campaign comes after the...
04/26/2021
Tensions have escalated for days after jihadist groups in the Gaza Strip fired more than 40 rockets at Israel
After days of absorbing rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Israel's military and political leaders finally seem to have lost patience, presenting the terrorist group with an ultimatum.
"If the rocket fire...
04/26/2021
WASHINGTON—A group of boats from Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps harassed two U.S. Coast Guard ships earlier this month in the Persian Gulf, Navy officials said, the first such incident in a year.
The incident occurred April 2, just as the U.S. and Iran announced they would conduct negotiations toward renewing the...
04/26/2021
A high-profile Israeli security delegation, headed by Mossad Director Yossi Cohen, is arriving in Washington this week to discuss the dangers of restoring the original 2015 Iranian nuclear accord just days after the White House signaled that the Biden administration will not be swayed to change its policy on the deal.
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04/25/2021
At least 40 rockets have been fired into Israel by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip over the weekend, marking the most dramatic escalation in tensions between the two sides in months.
Three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, one of which was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system....
04/26/2021
It appears that it’s not a regular week in Iran unless the country is showing off more drones and warning about how it can strike at Israel or everywhere else in the Middle East. People are taking notice as well because US Central Command head Kenneth McKenzie has warned that US air superiority has suffered due to Iran’s drone...
04/25/2021
Protesters in Tel Aviv and Paris gathered on Sunday to demonstrate against the decision of France’s highest court that found the Muslim murderer of elderly Jewish Frenchwoman Sarah Halimi not criminally responsible as he had smoked cannabis before throwing the victim off the balcony to her death.
The court on Tuesday rejected a...
04/25/2021
Israel won't abide by any agreement that does not protect the country for Iran existential threat against it, Ambassador Gilad Erdan told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday.
"Israel, as you know, is in a unique position. We are the only country in the world that the Iranian regime threatens to annihilate. For Israel,...
04/25/2021
An Israeli security delegation due to visit Washington on Monday will not change the Biden administration's position on rejoining the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at a press briefing on Friday.
The team of senior officials led by Mossad Director Yossi Cohen and National Security Advisor Meir...
04/24/2021
Two minor Gaza factions claim responsibility for attacks, say more launches coming
Tor Wennesland, the UN special envoy for the Middle East peace process, called on Saturday for an immediate halt to rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli targets.
"The indiscriminate launching of rockets toward Israeli population centers violates...
04/25/2021
Iran's top military general on Sunday threatened to retaliate against Israel after an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Syria was attacked on Saturday, killing three people on the vessel.
"Israelis think they can keep hitting Syria and make mischievous moves elsewhere and in the seas and not receive any response," Chief of Staff of...
04/23/2021
For the first time in ten months, no new COVID-19 daily deaths were reported Thursday in Israel, according to the latest Health Ministry figures.
In data released Friday, the death toll remained unchanged from the day before at 6,346. The last date there were no new fatalities was June 29, when morbidity levels remained subdued...
04/22/2021
Operations carried out by the Israel Navy in what is dubbed the “war between wars” have been kept in the shadows, until recently.
But a series of leaks to the media, and reports on Iranian attacks against Israeli-owned civilian cargo ships, revealed the intensity of the ongoing shadow war between Jerusalem and Tehran in the areas...
04/23/2021
Kochavi to discuss Iran's regional threat and Hezbollah during his first official US trip as IDF chief
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi will travel to the United States on Sunday, the Israeli military said on Friday.
The official US trip will be Kochavi's first, with the IDF chief accompanied by other senior military...
04/23/2021
One Iraqi soldier said wounded in second attack on US assets in less than a week
Three rockets crashed into a base at the Iraqi capital's airport housing US troops Friday, security sources said, in the latest attack coinciding with tensions between Baghdad's allies Tehran and Washington.
One of the sources told AFP the...
04/22/2021
Israeli fighter jets are flying alongside Emirati aircraft this week as part of a major international aerial exercise hosted by Greece, simulating in-air dogfights, large airstrikes and rescue operations, the Israeli military confirmed on Tuesday.
This is not the first time that Israeli and Emirati pilots have flown with one...
04/22/2021
In less than nine months, an assassin on a motorbike fatally shot an Al Qaeda commander given refuge in Tehran, Iran’s chief nuclear scientist was machine-gunned on a country road, and two separate, mysterious explosions rocked a key Iranian nuclear facility in the desert, striking the heart of the country’s efforts to enrich uranium....
04/22/2021
It is commonly understood that Christians living in Lebanon consider themselves second-class citizens and live in fear of persecution. With Hezbollah—which called for the establishment of sharia law in Lebanon in its original 1985 manifesto—expanding its influence in Lebanon, having infiltrated Lebanon’s parliament, military, and...
04/22/2021
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the resolution of the nuclear issue lies in a return to the original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed in 2015.
“It is obvious to everyone, to the 5+1, Europe and the region, that the deal should be implemented accurately … no more and no less,” he stated...
04/22/2021
In the biggest defense agreement yet between Israel and Greece, officials from both countries signed a government-to-government contract last week in Athens, which will see Israel’s Elbit Systems company construct a state-of-the-art international flight training center in Greece.
The agreement, worth approximately $1.6 billion,...
