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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $740.5 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2021 on Tuesday that includes the continuation of American assistance to Israel for missile-defense programs and other initiatives.
The Pentagon blueprint for the upcoming year allocates $500 million towards missile-defense systems in Israel...
JTA — The government of Spain has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism.
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain issued a statement Wednesday thanking the Spanish government for its decision.'
The IHRA working definition describes various forms of anti-Semitism, including hatred and...
2,700-year-old administrative storage center from days of Kings Hezekiah and Manasseh found at site
A significant administrative storage center from the days of Jewish Kings Hezekiah and Manasseh has recently been uncovered at archaeological excavations in the Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced in...
The second day of the trial of a German neo-Nazi for a gun attack on a synagogue in the central city of Halle on Yom Kippur last year saw the defendant smiling widely as video footage of his outrage was broadcast on a screen in the courtroom.
German media outlets reported that the 29-year-old gunman, Stephan Balliet, wore a “big grin” as...
Hezbollah has been prodded to respond to the death of one of its fighters in Syria in what it says was an Israeli airstrike this week.
The terrorist group which has thousands of fighters, more than 150,000 missiles and controls part of the government of Lebanon says that Ali Kamel Mohsen was killed on July 20. Other members of the group may also...
CUFI's Coffee Break - Lesson 24
Palestinian National Identity: Ancient or Relatively Recent
Soon after the rebirth of the modern state of Israel, the Jewish state began developing its state infrastructure and fighting off multiple threats to its existence. Meanwhile, the Palestinian nationalist ideology continued to establish itself. There are...
One of the largest collections of royal Kingdom of Judah seal impressions has been uncovered at a massive First Temple-period public tax collection and storage complex being excavated near the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem. The main Iron Age structure is exceptional in terms of both its size and architectural style, said Israel...
Iranian supreme leader tells Iraqi PM he expects his country to expel US forces from region
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei threatened Washington on Tuesday over the killing of Iranian top general Qasem Soleimani in January in Iraq.
“They killed your guest in your house and blatantly confessed to it,” Khamenei told Iraqi counterpart Mustafa...
Screaming anti-gay, antisemitic and anti-black invective, about two dozen members of an American neo-Nazi organization marched through the streets of a central Pennsylvania city last weekend.
According to local media reports, the neo-Nazi thugs were largely unchallenged as they paraded through Williamsport.
Under the banner of an organization...
The Star of David has been deemed "hateful imagery" by Twitter, which is locking the accounts of users who display it in their profile pictures.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism has reported that several Twitter users have contacted them in recent days to report that their accounts had been locked by the social media platform. The reason given?...
The Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist movement announced on Tuesday that Ali Kamel Mohsen Jawad, a member of Hezbollah, was killed in alleged Israeli airstrikes in Damascus on Monday night. Israel is concerned about a possible response from Hezbollah, according to KAN news.
Five pro-Iranian militants were killed and four others were wounded in the...
A West Bank military court sentenced a Palestinian teenager to life in prison Tuesday for the murder of Israeli-American Ari Fuld in a 2018 stabbing terror attack at the West Bank’s Gush Etzion Junction.
The Judea Military Court also ordered 17-year-old Khalil Jabarin to pay NIS 1,250,000 ($365,128) to Fuld’s family as compensation.
The court...
The Netherlands paid part of the salaries of two terrorists involved in killing 17-year-old Rina Shnerb last year, Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok and Development Minister Sigrid Kaag admitted to parliament on Tuesday.
The killers are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terrorist group in the EU, and...
In 1993, archaeologists working at the Tel Dan site in Northern Israel unearthed an Aramaic inscription featured on a monumental stone jab. Once deciphered, the artifact offered something absolutely unprecedented: the first archaeological reference to biblical King David.
The issue of the historicity of the monarch had been debated by scholars...
A community center in the German city of Bremen linked to the Shi’ite terrorist organization Hezbollah is funneling money to the organization in Lebanon, according to a German intelligence report released on Thursday.
According to the report, the Al-Mustafa community center “is involved in the financial support” of Hezbollah, according to The...
“There is no way to describe the acts of heroism and the danger they took upon themselves and all those around them to shelter an entire family,” said Sarah Yanai upon reuniting with the Greek woman who, along with her two sisters, hid her and five other members of her family during the Holocaust.
“The feeling is very emotional and very exciting....
Five Iran-backed fighters were killed in an Israeli missile strike south of the Syrian capital, a Britain-based monitoring group said Tuesday.
The missile attack on Monday night hit weapons depots and military positions belonging to Syrian regime forces and Iran-backed militia fighters south of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for...
10 operatives arrested over plot to attack Israelis, kidnap soldier to seek release of jailed terrorists
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) thwarted a terrorist plot by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) group, the agency announced Tuesday.
A PFLP cell was planning to launch attacks in the West Bank, the agency revealed,...
Iran has reportedly suspended the decision to execute three protesters whose cases were part of a global social media campaign that eventually became the subject of a US President Donald Trump tweet. According to reports the sentence was suspended and the lawyer for the protesters has sought a retrial with the Supreme Court. It now looks...
BAGHDAD — A rare daytime rocket attack hit Baghdad’s Green Zone on Sunday, security sources said, as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met top Iraqi officials.
At least two rockets hit outside the US embassy in the high-security zone, they told AFP.
Diplomats based in the neighborhood said they could hear sirens blaring for around an...
