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01/07/2021
The Tel Aviv municipality building will light up with the colors of the US flag following the riot and invasion of the Capitol building on Wednesday afternoon, Tel Aviv Mayor and Israelis Party leader Ron Huldai announced on Thursday morning.
"Tonight, we will light up the municipality building with the US flag to strengthen and...
CUFI Founder and Chairman Pastor John Hagee Released the Following Statement Earlier Today
01/06/2021
The events we are witnessing at the Capitol today are an un-American abomination and a disgrace to our democracy. There is absolutely no justification for the violence that is transpiring. There is nothing patriotic about storming our Capitol....
01/06/2021
CUFI Coffee Break
Lesson 48
After three years of sustained rocket fire from Gaza, Israel’s people could take no more. The IDF entered Gaza on December 27, 2008. Israel’s objective during the operation was to stop the smuggling of weapons into Gaza and to stop indiscriminate rocket fire into Israel.
First, Israel initiated air...
01/06/2021
Sudan says it has signed the “Abraham Accords” with the US, paving the way for normalization of ties with Israel.
The move came during Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s visit to Khartoum, as he became the first senior American official to land there since President Donald Trump’s administration removed the African country from...
01/05/2021
South Korea has demanded the ship's release and deployed a destroyer to the area
Iran said Tuesday it had stepped up its uranium enrichment, amid heightened tensions with arch-foe the United States and after Iran seized a South Korean tanker in strategic Gulf waters.
On Monday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)...
01/05/2021
Steel sector an 'important revenue source for the Iranian regime' and its 'corrupt leaders,' Treasury says
The US Treasury Department slapped new restrictions on the Iranian economy on Tuesday, this time targeting the country's steel sector.
According to a Treasury press release, the sector is "an important revenue source for the...
01/06/2021
The FBI is probing the breach of an air traffic control system after a broadcast from an unknown source threatened to fly an aircraft into the US Capitol building late Tuesday as revenge for the assassination of a top Iranian official a year ago.
The story was first reported by CBS news, but confirmed by other US media. However,...
01/05/2021
Nearly five years ago to the day, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Pastor John Hagee and his dear friend Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg for an exclusive interview about their relationship and Hagee’s organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Scheinberg’s San Antonio synagogue, Congregation Rodfei Sholom, had recently been...
01/05/2021
The Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that the Greek government has approved a $1.68 billion agreement to purchase training aircraft from Israel and for an Israeli defense contractor to establish a flight school for Greece’s air force.
The deal, which still must be signed by the two countries’ defense ministries, will see...
01/05/2021
Palestinian assailant approached soldiers at the Gush Etzion junction
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) shot and killed a would-be Palestinian assailant who attempted to attack them with a knife at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank.
Initial reports did not suggest that anybody else was wounded in the attack
Read More: I24
01/04/2021
Iran is continuing to show that it plans to develop nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned after Iran announced it had resumed 20% uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility on Monday.
“Iran’s decision to continue violating its commitments, to increase the level of enrichment and advance its abilities...
01/04/2021
Iran’s clerical regime on Monday temporarily released an Iranian Jewish woman who was arrested for her alleged visit to Israel.
“Farahnaz Kohan, an Iranian Jewish woman was released from Evin prison. The 50-year-old woman was detained for undisclosed period, due to alleged travel to Israel---a crime in the Islamic Republic of...
01/04/2020
The drones will undertake short and long range 'combat and surveillance' simulations
Iran's army is set to hold a "joint and large-scale" drone drill with its different divisions primarily in central Iran on Tuesday, the state news agency IRNA reported.
The two-day drill will involve "hundreds of operational drones of the army's...
01/04/2021
Hours after the US said it would turn around the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its strike group, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was already hunting for vessels to harass. They wanted to find a ship to seize, much like they had mined six ships in the Gulf of Oman in May and June 2019, seized a British ship in the summer...
01/03/2021
WASHINGTON — The US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz will remain in the Gulf due to “recent threats” by Iran, the Pentagon said Sunday, following reports the ship was returning home in what some read as a sign of de-escalation.
The Nimitz has been patrolling Gulf waters since late November, but American media said this week that the...
01/04/2021
Authorities arrest Iranian cell on suspicion of planning to carry out attack against Israeli destinations
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) thwarted an Iranian terror attack that was planned to take place in Dubai on the anniversary of the killing of top commander Qasem Soleimani, Hebrew-language broadcaster Channel 12reported on...
01/03/2021
Israel delivered the second of two Iron Dome defense system batteries to the US Army over the weekend, the Defense Ministry said Sunday.
The move was carried out by the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO), a division in the ministry’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D).
The batteries will be...
01/03/2021
The new year is off to a great start for 300 new Ethiopian immigrants, who just made aliyah in the first immigration flights of 2021.
The flights, arriving on the first day of the year, were part of Operation Rock of Israel, the latest airlift to help Jews in Ethiopia make aliyah and were carried out by the Jewish Agency and other...
12/30/2020
New York City police released footage on Wednesday of a man suspected of vandalizing four Brooklyn synagogues last weekend.
In a video published by PIX11 News, the man is seen vandalizing the Young Israel of Midwood, one of a string of similar incidents that took place on Saturday night. The other three synagogues targeted were...
01/02/2021
Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it plans to enrich uranium to up to 20% purity, a level it achieved before its 2015 accord, at its Fordow site buried inside a mountain, the agency said on Friday.
The move is the latest of several recent announcements by Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency that it plans...
