By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rafael Grossi tweets that the purpose of his trip is “to find a mutually agreeable solution, compatible with Iranian law, so that the IAEA can continue essential verification activities in Iran.”
Chris Froome on his ISN debut: “I want to test my legs after a productive winter.”
The original deal hit an unexpected snag when the captured Hezbollah terrorists refused to go to Syria
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move is a reversal of U.S. relations under the Trump administration, which had maintained steady contact with Mohammed bin Salman, also known as “MBS.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Israeli civilian recently wandered into Syria, and now two terrorists are being traded with Syria to free her.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I apologize to the families of the martyrs and the Iranian people ... and am ashamed that a foolish athlete who only considers his personal interests traveled to Tel Aviv,” says the head of the Iranian Judo Association about Saeid Mollaei, now a Mongolian citizen.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Saeid Mollaei, who was forced to throw a match at the 2019 World Judo Championships to avoid a bout with Israeli counterpart Sagi Muki, is now competing on behalf of Mongolia.
Tehran has set its sights on the UAE due to its rapprochement with Israel and efforts to hinder Iran’s nuclear program, says The New York Times.
By Israel Hayom
The man responsible for the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist was fired by Iranian intelligence shortly before the hit took place, says Mahmoud Alavi
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
SOHR said the Israeli attack went on for a half-hour.
The treaty was signed on September 15, 2020. It recognizes each state's sovereignty.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A military source told SANA that the attack came from the direction of the Golan, “targeting some targets in the vicinity of Damascus.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz spoke on Wednesday with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu regarding “security challenges in the Middle East, and Syria in particular.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF Intelligence Division presented its annual intelligence forecast for the region in 2021.
An online investment conference was driven by the objective of assisting the Gulf state in meeting one of its central challenges, which came to light even more so amid the coronavirus pandemic.
By Israel Hayom
“We tell the Americans that you have failed in the battlefield of pressure against the Iranian nation,” says Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami.
By Israel Hayom
“The development of the Iranian nuclear program and the ballistic missile project endanger the entire region,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud tells an emergency meeting of the Arab League.
The Islamic Shiite Waqf Committee in Burj al Barajneh foundation is suspected of being used to hide ballistic missiles and launch sites, according to the Alma research organization.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The conversation took place a day after reports emerged from Syria that Russian forces were searching for the remains of IDF soldiers near Damascus.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The first shepherd admitted he was sent by Hezbollah.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lokman Slim, 58, a publisher and filmmaker, was part of a small group of Shi’ite Muslim political activists who openly criticized the terror group.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Ultimately, the IRGC is more dangerous than any of the groups listed, and constitutes a real and present danger to Iranian dissidents, the Jewish community and Canadians in general,” said B’nai Brith Canada.
By Israel Hayom
“One covert attack in the middle of the night, and everything would be over the next morning,” says the deputy police chief of Dubai.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Assadolah Assad, who served in the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was convicted of transporting explosives for an attack on leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran at the group’s annual rally near Paris in 2018.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A U.K.-based war monitor group reports that the alleged Israeli strikes targeted “several military positions,” and militias associated with Hezbollah and the Syrian Resistance for the Liberation of the Golan.
By Eliana Rudee
Yaakov Berg, who owns the Psagot Winery with his wife, expresses his hope that “peace with the Emirates will change our relationship with Palestinians.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Earlier on Wednesday morning, two Iranian cargo planes arrived in Syria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iranian nuclear program “a challenge we have to tackle immediately,” says U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hezbollah regularly uses shepherds to gather intelligence and check the readiness of the forces stationed on the border.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF stated that the drone crashed while on an operation on the Lebanese border, and that there is no fear of an intelligence leakage.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF noted that throughout last year, the Hezbollah terror organization has “continually violated” UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and other international resolutions.
The training meetings are hosted on Zoom by leading figures in the Israeli innovation industry.
A “return to the nuclear deal from 2015 or even a similar deal with a few improvements is bad and wrong . . . operationally and strategically."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They were joined by Ahmed Bin Sulayem, executive chairman of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre.
The Democrats were opposed to the deal from the beginning.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s military head has ordered plans for possible hit on Iranian nuclear sites.
Israel is also working on an assistance package for some 400 former SLA fighters currently residing in Israel • Defense Ministry official hails “first step on the path to correct a 21-year historic injustice.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Eitan Na’eh, the Head of Mission to the UAE is Israel’s former envoy to Turkey.
Reports indicate that Syrian anti-aircraft fire hit a civilian home.
By Israel Hayom
An Israeli official tells a London-based Arabic news outlet that the Saudis have cut off all behind-the-scenes coordination with Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The decline in negative comments towards Israel and normalization was in part due to the public awareness campaigns carried out by the various governments that joined the Abraham Accords.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel let Biden know there's more than just the nuclear front to deal with with Iran, and let Iran know that Israel won't accept Iran in Syria, even during the Biden administration.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The man, a shepherd, intentionally crossed the Blue Line from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the Har Dov area.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Masih Alinejad posted: “It’s time to remove the man who has banned 83 million Iranians from Twitter, bans US & European coronavirus vaccines and ordered the crackdown that killed 1,500 protesters.”
By Israel Hayom
“This is a historic day for Samaria and the entire State of Israel,” says Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“We have struck over 500 targets this year, on all fronts, in addition to multiple clandestine missions.”
Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen have threatened to attack Israel.
Some military officials have estimated that Iran will take advantage of the coming weeks before Joe Biden enters office to retaliate against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The flight by two Air Force B-52s was a response to intelligence that Iran may be planning to carry out attacks against U.S. allies in the region in the coming days, says senior U.S. military officer.
The average Gazan is not happy that Hamas is cozy with Iran, and blames Iran for the murder of Arabs throughout the Middle East.
The move is intended to express support for the Palestinian Authority, which demands that Hamas recognize the PA's full sovereignty over the Gaza Strip.
The organization has set up a project called “A Million Trees in Palestine” and seeks to take over territories in Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and Judea and Samaria.
Some 4,000 Israelis traveling to Dubai on a daily basis, especially from the Arab sector.
By Ariel Kahana
Senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner and U.S. special envoy Avi Berkowitz talk Abraham Accords, Israeli-Palestinian peace and Iran in a special interview from Morocco.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Morocco is home to one of the Diaspora's oldest Jewish communities, Jews first settled in Morocco when it was part of the Roman Empire. The country later became a haven for Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A joint U.S.-Israel delegation led by senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner and Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat will be aboard.
The organization’s self-described goal is to depose the Bahraini government with the intention of paving the way for Iran to exert greater influence in Bahrain.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the U.S. military presence in the Middle East was an “important element in regional stability, which must be preserved.”
By Israel Hayom
Tehran is also in talks to sell several domestically produced weapons systems, Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami says.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Revenge will be taken on those who ordered it and the murderers."
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) established training centers for children starting from age 12, with the objective of deploying them on the battlefield.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
One of the main purposes of the MOU is to examine opportunities for possible collaboration, including cross-listing of securities, mutual trading between members of the stock exchanges, investor access to both markets, the establishment of fintech and other market infrastructure technologies, and the sharing of data and other information for the development of new products.
By Israel Hayom
“Who would have believed that peace would come to our home in such a glorious way? It is a Hanukkah miracle,” says Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said “instead of a cold détente attained via surrender to unreasonable demands, these new agreements promote peace based upon common security needs and mutual medical, technological and financial benefits.”
The paper points to the fact that Prime Minister Netanyahu has excluded his Foreign and Defense Ministers from his meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince,.
Cairo is concerned that a Biden administration will be hostile, and will conclude a new nuclear deal with Iran that would undermine regional stability, say Egyptian officials.
By Eliana Rudee
The goal is to “encourage organizations, notably stemming from Israel’s civil society sector, to tell the ‘Israeli story’ to diverse global audiences utilizing social media.”
The 50 Jews in Bahrain arrived from Iraq, Yemen and Iran. they have lived in Bahrain for more than 140 years.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel demands that aid to Lebanese citizens doesn't find it's way to Hezbollah terrorists.
The sheikh has committed to investing some NIS 300 million over the next 10 years in the team.
“A vision has been set by the leaders of these countries,” said United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the United States Yousef Al Otaiba.
The new Kotel brochures in Arabic were produced in honor of the Abraham Accords signed with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and countries which will hopefully follow in their footsteps.
By Israel Hayom
Brig. Gen. Abdolrasool Ostovar served with Iranian general Qassem Soleimani,
The signers committed to teaching what unites Jews and Arabs and will become hubs of people-to-people cooperation and partnerships.
By Israel Hayom
Former Turkish Admiral Cihat Yayci is proposing a bilateral agreement on the countries' shared exclusive economic zones which would leave Israeli ally Cyprus in the lurch • Israeli official: Any proposal that comes at the expense of Cyprus is a non-starter.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Despite the U.S. sanctions imposed in October, Germany’s Bundesbank kept open multibillion-euro deposit accounts for Iranian banks to facilitate trade with the Islamic Republic.
“This was really a priority of the Trump administration since the day it began,” said U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. “It was a shocking surprise that was four years in the making, and I think the momentum will continue.”
A Jewish Agency emissary will be arriving in the UAE as early as next week to work with the local Jewish community.
Former Defense Minister Naftali Bennett talks to the foreign press about Iran's nuclear weapon scientist.
As of 2019, according to Rabbi Marc Schneier, it is estimated that about 150 families—some 3,000 Jews, live and pray freely in the UAE.
The partnership will target the agriculture sector, offices and apartment buildings, hotels, industry, and maritime.
The Counterterrorism Bureau put out on Monday a Basic concrete threat, the third most severe level.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A senior Israeli official is quoted as saying that Fakhrizadeh was one of Israel’s worst enemies, and without him, Iran would not have achieved what it did in the realm of long-range ballistic missiles.
Fakhrizadeh headed the “weaponization” group of Iran’s nuclear program, attended an underground nuclear-weapons test in North Korea in 2013 and was earmarked for the stage following a sufficient accumulation of uranium.
Iran has been using social media in Hebrew to rile up Israelis against PM Netanyahu.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“There is a great opening here for trade, the economy and tourism that, in effect, makes for a truly new and different Middle East,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel's first official business delegation landed in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, and met with Bahrain’s Minister of Industry and Commerce Ziad Al Zayani and with senior banking and business officials, on Wednesday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“How can Saudi Arabia educate Saudi youth of the mutual benefits of promoting relations with Israel if Israel is not even shown on the Saudi maps?” asked ZOA national president Mort Klein.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nobel laureate Lord David Trimble calls for the two leaders to be granted the award for their “far-reaching achievements, courageous leadership and relentless pursuit of peace.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Monday evening with Bahraini Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and discussed the strengthening ties between the two countries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Steinitz and Aoun have been exchanging messages via Twitter.
The study draws a business road map for future cooperation between both countries.
Abu Dhabi plans to invest $122 billion dollars in oil and natural gas over the next five years to boost production.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has remained silent on the reports.
Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that “Trump is unwittingly undermining American deterrence in the Middle East.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The information Iran has provided “doesn’t add up” from a technical standpoint, says U.N. nuclear watchdog Director-General Rafael Grossi.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The sanctions were announced on the one-year anniversary of street protests by Iranians.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iran has begun feeding uranium hexafluoride into the cascade of 174 IR-2m centrifuges recently installed at Natanz, says nuclear watchdog agency.