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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,...
04/22/2021
Rocket sirens heard in Bedouin area of Negev, near Israel's alleged nuclear facility in Dimona
The Israel Defense Forces struck targets in Syria in response to an anti-aircraft rocket that had missed its target and flown deep into Israeli territory early Thursday.
Syrian state media SANA said the country's air defenses responded...
04/22/2021
Sirens went off early Thursday morning in Abu Qrenat area of the Negev, according to the Israel Defense Forces, which said the details are under investigation.
A boom was heard from southern communities, such as Beersheba, all the way to Jerusalem, according to Israeli media reports. The siren sounded at 1:41 am.
Shortly afterward,...
04/21/2021
Congressional Republicans unveiled on Wednesday what they described as the largest package of Iran sanctions in history, a largely symbolic move meant to handicap the Biden administration's diplomacy with Tehran and send a message that GOP lawmakers will not roll over as crippling economic sanctions on the hardline regime are lifted....
04/21/2021
Fighter jets to engage in mock dogfights, simulate attacks on land targets and evasive maneuvers
Israeli and Emirati pilots are among those taking part in a major international exercise hosted by Greece this week.
The annual drill, dubbed INIOCHOS, began on Sunday and is expected to wrap on on Friday. As part of the mid-sized...
04/21/2021
Israel and the United Arab Emirates have signed an agreement for extensive cooperation in the health sector, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced on Wednesday, as Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi revealed that the two countries are working on mutual vaccine recognition to allow tourism and business exchange to resume.
The...
04/21/2020
Iranian state media highlighted a “powerful explosion” that they said took place at a “sensitive Israeli missile factory” during a test. A similar report appeared in Haaretz, and it seems that Iranian media took their information from there.
The Iranian reports come in the wake of Iran accusing Israel of “nuclear terrorism” for an...
04/20/2021
A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers is introducing legislation that would provide $30 million over five years to facilitate joint cybersecurity partnership programs between the United States and Israel.
The legislation comes as Washington continues to grapple with an escalating series of cyberattacks in which Russian...
04/20/2021
Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Tuesday warned Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group that it will suffer “heavy consequences” if it acts against Israel.
Touring the IDF’s Northern Command with senior military commanders, Gantz said the Israel Defense Forces “is ideally prepared along the northern border and definitely on the Lebanese...