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The IDF is refusing to comment on a report on a Syrian television channel associated with the rebels, according to which Israel attacked the Al Maza airport west of Damascus. The IDF Spokesperson's office says they never comment on this kind of reports. The Suria Mubasher TV channel said Israel bombed advanced weapons and Radar […]
By JTA
The president will have to report every 90 days on how the policy is being implemented.
It took the IDF more than eight hours to draw up a response to the incident for the Jewish Press.
By JTA
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his Israeli counterpart, Moshe Ya'alon, will meet this week. A Pentagon official told JTA that the two defense chiefs would meet in Washington on Friday, but did not provide further details. Israel and the United States are closely cooperating in tracking Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program and formulating […]
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant … and that’s why Falk wants to shut us down."
By JTA
To passersby on Sunday, the crowd had a simple message, one that rings sympathetically to American ears.
A proud antisemite.
"The Government of Israel Liaison Officer informed UNDOF that the IDF had provided emergency medical treatment to a total of 16 armed members of the opposition."
Israel and the Palestinians separately marked the start of the 1967 war.
Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, is establishing a development information system center in the Negev, the latest addition to a growing list of some of the largest American-based companies to set up operations in Israel. The center will be part of the IDF Intelligence Corp's technology campus in the Negev. Israel has agreed […]
By JTA
Some clerk in the US might start looking for a new job. The US is building a secret missile site in Israel. A public posting asked for bids, with details of the site. Now the enemy knows where to bomb.
Israel security personnel have broken up another Hamas terrorist cell linked with one of more than 1,000 terrorists and security prisoners freed last year to bring home kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), IDF and police arrested Bachar Attalah Sa'ad, who lives near Ramallah, on charges of plotting to kidnap an […]
Another Arab with Israeli citizenship has been exposed as a traitor. Zahar Ben Omar Yusfin, of the Arab city Shfaram, located immediately east of Haifa, allegedly handed over to a Hezbollah agent intelligence information of an IDF base. He was charged with “making contact with an enemy agent, assisting a banned organization, and passing on […]
Everyone is going nuts over Assad’s statement that he already has received Russia’s sophisticated S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. But when did Assad ever tell the truth?
Remember Hamas missiles on Israeli cities? Remember last year’s bloated deficit? Haredi MKs don’t. Everything was great, they say, until Lapid’s universal draft, which turned Syria against Israel.
JERUSALEM – Sirens wailed across Israel on Monday, as the country’s Home Front Command began testing a new nationwide alert system as a measure to warn the citizenry of what to do in the event of an impending missile attack. Conventional methods, as well as smartphone and social media applications, were used in the test.
A poll commissioned by the Knesset Channel 99 revealed that two-thirds of Israelis favor jailing Haredim who refuse to join the armed forces. Almost the same majority backed extending the length of service for Hesder yeshiva students, according to the poll, quoted by the Jerusalem Post. The Peri Committee recommended treating Haredi draft dodgers as […]
Israelis cannot count on the Iron Dome anti-missile system to protect them if enemies across the northern border launch a massive missile attack, Home Front Minister Gilad Erdan warned Tuesday. He said people should face the fact that the Iron Dome system cannot cope with hundreds of incoming missiles. The military will examine “how to […]
Lapid’s sounds like Bibi on the “peace process.” He has no trouble raising a regressive tax that hurts the middle class. But give the Haredim a break from the draft? Not in this government. We’ll see.
Once upon a time journalists covered the news. Now journalists are the front lines for terrorists can shoot at Israeli soldiers before journalists shoot the pictures, but who gets the credits?
The officer said that the road is not being built because we are afraid, but because the IDF is unable to contain the attacks.
Israelis protested and held vigils in locations around Judea and Samaria on Friday. The locations where the vigils were held were selected based on locations on the road where Jews have been recently attacked by Arabs. Some of the locations included the roads near Beit El, the Beitar Junction on Road 60, El Arub near […]
Observers of the world body in Geneva said the annual hypocrisy reached a new low this year.
Israeli soldiers on Tuesday arrested three Palestinian Authority security officers who murdered 24-year-old Ben-Yosef Livnat at Joseph’s Tomb two years ago but spent only one year in a PA jail before being freed. An IDF investigation of the incident confirmed Palestinian Authority claims that Livnat and other Jews tried to enter the holy Jewish site […]
The annual Home Front Drill is quite routine. This year there are more reasons for Israelis to take it more seriously, such as Assad, Hezbollah and chemical weapons, for starters. Hope for the best.
An IDF soldier was killed Tuesday afternoon in a training accident on the Golan Heights. The soldier, in the Combat Engineering Corps, was clearing anti-tank mines when one mine unexpectedly exploded.
Israel is uncovering terror cells in Judea and Samaria at an alarming rate. This time, a Hamas cell was nabbed before it could murder an Israeli. The Palestinian Authority’s silence speaks loudly.
The Palestinian Authority is supposedly on top of terror. So why did the IDF have to raid a wanted terrorist’s home in Samaria and confiscate hundreds of bullets, guns, knives and IDF uniforms?
Residents of the Haredi Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem hurled dozens of rocks at Haredi soldiers Sunday, according to Jerusalem police. No one was reported injured. Firemen were called to the scene to put out fires that the attackers set in large garbage containers. When the police arrived, the stone attackers fled.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli and Arab firefighters worked together to extinguish an arson fire in Beit El.
The crossings and IDF checkpoints in Judea and Samaria have been the source of much confusion and debate worldwide. Crossings and checkpoints, while both provide important security benefits, are different. Crossings are facilities used by Palestinians to enter from Judea and Samaria into other regions of Israel. Checkpoints, on the other hand, operate during times […]
Tourists landing at Ben Gurion Airport soon may see guards toting the Israel-made Tavor rifle instead of the traditional M-16, according to Israel defense, The Micro Tavor is shorter but heavier than the M-16, and started replacing the M-16 in IDF combat units approximately three years ago.
By Ben Sales
TEL AVIV – Twice in three days, Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace and fired on suspected weapons caches bound for Hizbullah – and, so far at least, nothing has happened in response.
Israel is a step ahead of terrorists – but only one step ahead. A Ramallah area terrorist cell linked with Gaza planned to kidnap a soldier and fire rockets on Israel. The Shin Bet foiled the plot.
The heinous crime that put “Prisoner X” Ben Zygier in an Israel jail where he killed himself was not known until today: He butchered a secret Mossad operation to bring home the remains of 3 soldiers.
Syria aims missiles at Israel. Lebanon on alert. Israel moves Iron Domes to the north. War? If war were likely, Bibi would not be in China. The IDF already has re-opened air space in the north.
The Israel Armed Forces is proposing that women and men both serve in the army for the same amount of time for equal positions. Men soldiers currently serve for three years and women for two years. The IDF wants to cut the men’s service to 32 months and extend the service for women as well […]
Hitler wanted to exterminate Jews. Lapid only wants to exterminate the Haredi habit of not to work or serve in the IDF. That is enough for a Haredi columnist to compare Lapid’s and Hitler’s speeches.
An American intelligence official, speaking on the basis of anonymity, told Reuters that Israel did not notify the Obama administration before the two bombing missions last weekend that targeted Iranian missiles destined for the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Israel informed the United States of the pre-emptive counterterrorist operation after the attacks. Unlike many previous secret maneuvers […]
Syria and Israel stepped closer to getting ready for war Sunday, with Syrian missiles reportedly deployed and aimed at Israel, which has closed off air space in the north to civilian air traffic. Arkia airlines told Channel 2 television that "due to IDF instructions on the closure of airspace in the North until May 9, […]
One basic difference between Israel and Arab nations: The Jews warn and warn and warn and finally strike when there is not choice. Arabs attack and attack until there is not choice but to warn.
There is basic similarity between the Boston Marathon bombers and Hamas. When a terrorist or killer , call him what you will, gets his hands on weapons, almost nothing will stop him from using them.
Arabs mistakenly attacked an Arab car, and a group of Arab stone throwers were captured.
The IDF has confirmed reports that Lebanese soldiers caught an Israeli citizen who jumped over the border fence near Rosh HaNikra, on the northeast Mediterranean Coast. His identity has not been released, and it is not known if he is Jewish or an Arab, nor are there any clues regarding his motives. Israeli army officials […]
JERUSALEM – With strong evidence that Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used chemical weapons against civilians, Israeli and Western military commanders are contemplating a series of air strikes and commando operations against a select group of targets inside Syria.
Obama gets ready to strike Assad. Hezbollah drags Lebanon into the war. And guess who is the most likely victim? Israel. That’s why the IDF called up 2,000 reservists for a surprise drill in the north.
A direct hit was confirmed by the IAF.
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The IDF said it will stop using shells containing white phosphorus, although the military’s controlled use of them is legal. Phosphorus generally is used to set up smokescreens to hide troop movement and was used in the Operation Cast Lead campaign in the winter of 2008-2009. The material can cause serious burns, but Hamas claimed […]
Palestinian Authority Arabs Monday morning hurled rocks at motorists on Route 443, which connects Modi’in with Jerusalem, despite two checkpoints on the highway that also serves as alternate route to Highway 1 to Jerusalem. No injuries were reported. The Supreme Court three years ago ordered that the government open the road to Palestinian Authority drivers, […]
Rada, an Israeli company, is gearing up for production of its new tactical radar that the U.S. Army and the IDF may use to pinpoint the source of mortar fire and rocket fire. Rada has successfully tested its Multi-mission Hemispheric Radar (MHR), the independent Israel Defense website reported. The U.S. Army asked Rada to carry […]
The government and Hamas act like two lightweight boxers. A jab here, and fake there – until a “lucky” punchy Hamas gives the IDF an excuse to deliver a 1-2, but not a knockout.
When a presumed enemy drone is spotted on the way to enter your air space, and your Prime Minister is flying nearby, you don’t take any chances. Netanyahu’s tour in the north was halted in mid-air.
Hizbullah is playing games again – war games. It is dragging Lebanon into the Syrian war by fighting rebels. Today, the Air Force downed a drone flying towards Israel, presumably sent by Hizbullah.
An IDF soldiers was wounded in the head by a rock-throwing Palestinian Authority terrorists Wednesday afternoon and is being treated in an Israeli hospital for light to moderate wounds. Arabs attacks soldiers in the Tulkarem area, approximately less than 10 miles east of Netanya.
If Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid has any hopes of gaining one or even two Haredim as his fans, his deputy Finance Minister blew it “on air” when he called Haredim “parasites” on a Haredi radio program.
A Palestinian Authority rock-throwing terrorist was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences and another 58-year sentence for the murders of an Israeli man and his infant son ear Kiryat Arba two years ago. Waal al-Araja, whose wages as a PA security officer are partly paid for by American and European Union aid, was sentenced Tuesday […]
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has won a 10-15 year contract potentially worth $2.5 billion to build the wings for the F-35 stealth bomber, which is due to arrive in Israel in 2016. IAI and Lockheed Martin have begun setting up the production line for the F-35's wings at an Israeli facility, the Israeli business website […]
The IDF arrested on Monday a Palestinian Authority Arab from a family affiliated with Hamas after he was spotted taking pictures of a Jewish community located between Hevron and Arad, the Jewish Press has learned. Sources said that the Arab is part of a clan that lives next door to the community of Beit Yatir, […]
Jordan is jittery as Syrian chaos and bloodshed goes from worst to worst. Abdullah had no choice but to ditch hopes for Assad and let Israel use its air space to attack Syria with drones, if need be.
Police have arrested an African immigrant who charged at Knesset Member Elazar Stern in Tel Aviv Sunday night, hit him, knocked his kippa off his head and then stepped on the kippa several times. MK Stern is a product of a national religious yeshiva, former head of the IDF Manpower Department and now presents Tzipi […]
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A new home for Lone Soldiers in Israel was opened in Ramat Gan with a special ceremony marking the conclusion of the $5 million project launched by Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, headed by Elias and Lila Kalimian and family of Great Neck, N.Y. Thousands of young men and women from around the world […]
Kerry showed Ankara how much the Boston Marathon bombings affected him. Now he understands why Turks are angry at Israel for the Mavi Mamara flotilla clash. Go figure.
Chief of the Defense Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces General Thomas J. Lawson arrived in Israel today for his first visit to the country as commander of the Canadian Armed Forces. His arrival coincided with the first official visit by U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. Gen. Lawson will be hosted by the IDF […]
Turkey and Israel once were good friends until Erdogan went berserk when Israel defended itself against Gaza missiles and then Turkish terrorists. But the Iranian threat has a way of uniting old friends.
Who cares whether Hagel loves or hates Israel? The US needs the Jews. He brought money and parroted the official line: ‘Israel has the right to defend itself.” Thank you. He even visited Yad VaShem.
Nira Lee grew up in Tempe, Arizona as a Zionist but firmly planted in the USA, until she saw the destruction following the Second Lebanon War during a visit to Israel. Now she is Lieutenant in the IDF.
Hamas is either playing war games again or again are losing control of rival terrorists. Either way, two rockets or mortar shells hit southern Israel, which probably will respond “proportionately.”
During a Passover tour, participants were shocked to see the monument of Joshua Salome desecrated with black spray paint.
Israel can bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities by itself and is preparing to do so, if necessary, IDF Chief of Benny Gantz told Voice of Israel public radio on Tuesday, Independence Day. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Iran has missiles capable of bombing Tel Aviv and Haifa. Gantz said, “We will do what is […]
IDF Chief of Benny Gantz said that the military lacks manpower and that he would be happy if Haredim youth serve in the army. He told the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot newspaper that Haredim soldiers have “brought good results wherever they have served to date, and they will learn that army service benefits them as well.… […]
This really is Independence Day! Satmar sets up an emergency panel to hustle IDF Draft Refugees’ out of Israel lest they be contaminated by serving the country. Let them be America’s problem.
The IDF soon will install protective systems onboard its smartphones used by the IDF to protect them against digital Trojan horses and prevent various spyware software using the devices eavesdropping, Israel Defense reported. The military’s Information Security department has determined there has been a significant rise in risks to the sensitive data found on cell […]
Israeli Air Force pilots won’t be flying the controversial and costly F35 Stealth Lightning fighter plane before 2016, but everyone now has a glimpse of how the advanced jet makes a vertical landing.
Palestinian Authority media report that the IDF shot a disabled man who had been in a wheelchair. So how did he manage to throw hammers at soldiers and try to snatch a rifle. IDF: Terror plot foiled.
Yoni Netanyahu, the brother of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who was killed in the Entebbe rescue, was an inspiration to Natan Sharansky while imprisoned in a Soviet jail, the former Refusenik said Sunday. Speaking to 5,000 Masa Israel Journey participants at a Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers ceremony, Sharansky said, “While in the Soviet prison, […]
Israeli reserve soldiers prevented a major terrorist attack in Sunday by arresting a Palestinian Authority terrorist at the checkpoint immediately west of Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv. The highway to the checkpoint is the main artery for Ginot and Karnei Shomron and Kedumim, The terrorist was caught with an improvised firearm, ammunition and a […]
Take 740 gallons paint, let a Yemenite Chabadnik work day and night for three weeks and – presto – see a huge Israel flag display in Eilat that can be seen from Jordan.
”From the moment the state was established, it has not ceased to wish for peace with its neighbors and to the same degree, its enemies have not ceased from their aspiration to wipe it off the face of the earth” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday afternoon as Israel prepares to observe Remembrance Day for […]
Fed up with the rise in Arab terrorism around them, Efrat residents held their first street protest in recent times.
When Israel uses Western culture to win over Arabs, its collective cheek gets smacked. Example: After Netanyahu apologized for soldiers defending themselves, their IHH attackers said they will sue.
Senior IDF spokeswoman Lt. Col. Leibovich never was able to convince her father to speak of his horrors in surviving the Holocaust, even after she visited Auschwitz. Her daughter broke the silence.
Middle East power vacuums are fuel for war. A withdrawal of Assad’s army from across the Golan Heights, and fierce clashes between Hizbullah and Syrian rebels, threaten Israel on both northern fronts.
An early warning siren wailed in the Sderot area Sunday night, hours before a nationwide siren reminds the country of the Holocaust. “The journey for justice and freedom is not yet over,” said Peres.
A woman who survived the Holocaust had no idea at the time that her son would command Israel’s army. On Monday, Benny Gantz will become the first IDF Chief of Staff to lead the March of the Living.
The infiltrator strolled right across the heavily guarded border.
Kerry visits next week to reincarnate the peace process. How will he finesse a new PA terror attack on an IDF checkpoint, where soldiers killed the terrorist? Move the checkpoint to the Mediterranean?
On Wednesday evening a number of Palestinian terrorists attacked an IDF pillbox in Einav, near Tul Karem.
United Nations “peace process” coordinator Robert Serry underplayed Wednesday morning’s rocket attacks on southern Israel while wagging his finger against any retaliation, which was “proportional” by virtue of two bombing attacks that caused no casualties. While citing the Kassam rocket attacks on the town of Sderot as “violations of the ceasefire,” Serry added that they […]
An annual quota of approximately 7,000 Haredim would be paid while learning in yeshiva for three years before serving in the IDF or doing national service, under a plan by Industry and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party. He also proposed that 1,800 of them would be exempt from service and […]
The Hillel board was conned into believing that Breaking the Silence was needed to amplify the tintinnabulation of hatred already ringing across U.S. campuses from such groups as the BDS movement and the annual Israel Apartheid Week hate fiestas.
Indictments were brought against the terrorists in the military court in Judea for severe security violations.
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A gag order has been released on the arrest and indictment of 30 Palestinian Authority terrorists from the Bethlehem area, where President Barack Obama visited last week. The defendants, believed to be part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), were charged with carrying out machine gun and firebomb attacks on Israeli civilians from Kibbutz Migdal […]
Passover interview: Rolin Abdallah grew up in an Arab country with no knowledge of her Jewish heritage. Today, she is IDF soldier Dina Ovadia. Here is a Cinderella and Haggadah story rolled into one.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that he expects Israel to compensate Turkey and lift the maritime blockade against Hamas before Ankara normalizes relations with Jerusalem. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey on Friday, almost at the same time President Barack Obama left Israel for Jordan, over the “tragic” results of […]
What will Israel get in return for Netanyahu’s apologizing to Turkey for IDF soldiers defending their lives? A former senior adviser to Hamas says Abbas may visit Gaza with Erdogan.
IDF troops captured a Palestinian terrorist near Shechem (Nablus) who was carrying a hidden pipe bomb on his person. The bomb was destroyed in a controlled explosion. The terrorist was brought in for further interrogation.
This latest draft represents a 30% increase in the number of Haredim drafted into the battalion.
By David Wilder
Some of the people were wearing masks with pictures of Obama on them. Most of the pushing and shoving centered around a banner sign they were carrying.
Obama uttered ominous hints that he continues to whitewash terror to advance the “peace process.” The president laid the groundwork for telling Israelis what is best for them when he speaks tomorrow.
Four wounded Syrians arrived at the Israeli-Syrian border Tuesday and received medical treatment on site from Israeli soldiers, the IDF website reported. Two of the casualties were treated adjacent to the border fence and were returned to Syria afterwards. Due to the severity of their injuries, two of the Syrians were transferred to Israeli hospitals […]
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