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04/29/2021
State Department spokesperson says Israel's actions are not apartheid
The United States on Wednesday rejected a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing Israel of "committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution" against Palestinians under control of the Israeli government.
“It is not the view of this...
04/29/2021
After US President Joe Biden made only brief mention of Iran’s nuclear program during his first speech to Congress, Israel’s Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan said Thursday that Jerusalem will not allow its security to be dependent on or bound by an international agreement that it is not a party to.
Erdan’s comments came hours...
04/28/2021
National security advisors discuss Iranian threat as nuclear talks continue in Vienna
The United States and Israel have agreed to set up an inter-agency working group focused on the increasing regional threat posed by Iranian-produced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Precision Guided Missiles, the White House said on Tuesday....
04/28/2021
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired two mortar shells toward Israel after midnight Tuesday, with both projectiles falling inside the coastal enclave, the Israel Defense Forces said.
There were no reports of injuries or damage.
The launches triggered warning sirens in Israeli communities near Kissufim and came after a...
04/27/2021
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots near three Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps boats in the Persian Gulf after the vessels approached at close range and ignored repeated appeals to pull back, the Navy said Tuesday.
It was the second tense encounter at sea in less than a month, after about a year of no such incidents,...
10/09/2020
Ninety-one-year old Holocaust survivor Irving Roth and 36-year-old former radical Islamist Kasim Hafeez are now close friends. After Hafeez noticed the concentration camp number on Roth’s forearm, he had it imprinted on his own arm as a sign of solidarity.
The story of the two men, told against a background of historical and...
04/27/2021
Israeli soldiers on Tuesday downed a drone belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror organization after it entered Israeli airspace, the military said.
Soldiers also located a second drone that was downed on the Israel-Lebanon border several months ago, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
“The drone was under...
04/27/2021
Israel welcomed 104 olim (new immigrants) from North America at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Monday. The group arrived on a specially chartered New York-Tel Aviv flight, facilitated by the organization Nefesh B’Nefesh, in cooperation with the Israeli Aliyah and Integration Ministry, the Jewish Agency, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael...
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...