By Josh Hasten
Rabbi Yissachar Krakowski and team prepared 300 kosher meals over the course of the two-day event in the United Arab Emirates.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley will happen, but not in the near future, says senior adviser Jared Kushner.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Monday flight on a Boeing 737-800 numbered #LY971• Return flight to Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday numbered #LY972.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hezbollah has tried at least twice to attack Israel but failed to inflict casualties.
An “unprecedented” media campaign is being waged against the “resistance,” says Hezbollah chief • U.N. Security Council reduces the size of its peacekeeping force in Lebanon, but expands its mandate.
Hezbollah is unconcerned if its actions cause an out-of-control spiral.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Ashkenazi called on Germany to “join and support the joint global effort against the Iranian threat and the restoration of the arms embargo on Iran.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Athens and Ankara are holding naval exercises in the area amid an ongoing dispute over energy resources.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Iran has more than three tons of uranium enriched to four percent, and at least 1,000 tons of yellowcake.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S secretary of state will also visit the UAE and Bahrain on his current trip, according to the State Department.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Saleh al-Arouri, who attended the meeting in Istanbul, calls his organization’s abduction and murder of three Israeli teens in 2014 a “heroic operation.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Cypriot owner of the vessel that brought the explosives to the Beirut port in 2013 is said to have taken a $4 million loan from a bank accused of laundering funds for the Lebanese terror group.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The warning by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came one day after the United States initiated the mechanism for the U.N. Security Council to snapback sanctions on Iran.
"I opposed the deal because it was based on a fundamental lie: that somehow Iran had given up on its quest for nuclear weapons."
Six of the UAE's most distinctive and impressive landmarks were sculpted from sand at Tel Aviv's Geula Beach.
The sanctions come despite the historic U.S.-brokered agreement last week to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE.
Israel says Hezbollah was involved in the assassination and tampered with the investigation.
In an unusual move, the Prime Minister's office released a detailed denial to the report that Prime Minister Netanyahu approved the US sale of advanced F-35 aircrafts to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of the peace deal. Since the deal was revealed, Jared Kushner, the White House and reporters have made many claims […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The invitation was written in Arabic.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Muslims at Al Aqsa (on the Temple Mount) have threatened to assault and mistreat any Muslim who visits the holy site under Israeli auspices.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We’ll be doing a snapback. You’ll be watching it next week,” says the U.S. president.
The UAE censored Israeli websites and blocked phone calls to and from Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The administration hopes the seizures will deter shipping companies from dealing with Iran and Venezuela.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Turkey must reverse course on this destabilizing action to renew the United States’ confidence in our defense relationship,” according to Michael McCaul (R-Texas).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
We condemn every form of normalization with the occupation, which we consider a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause,” said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum in a statement.
Between 500 and 600 Azerbaijani Jews marched along the Old City of Jaffa and then demonstrated outside of the Armenian Cultural Center and the Armenian Church.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Hezbollah’s weapons have nothing to do with fighting Israel or protecting Lebanon, and everything to do with maintaining the group’s grip on power in Lebanon, according to Lebanese MP Wehbe Katicha.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The status quo in Lebanon is unacceptable,” says U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft. “Now is the time to ... enable the [peacekeeping] mission to fully achieve what it was set out to accomplish.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Greece, Israel, and Cyprus have established an alliance to counter Turkey. Greece and Cyprus are historic adversaries of Turkey.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In addition to Democrats, reportedly, the U.S. State and U.S. Defense Departments have been for continuing the aid, while many in the White House have advocated halting it.
The last time it was at this high level of preparedness was during the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.
Lebanon has been looking for the “smoking gun” that will prove Hezbollah’s responsibility for the ammonia nitrate cargo that was stored in the port and which exploded and caused destruction and death throughout the Lebanese capital.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I feel as if I were reborn today,” the father of the family says. “I am so happy to have met all my children and grandchildren.”
Iran's military forces are spread out over 125 locations in Syria, including on the border with Israel.
The leaders of the Dubai congregation say they represent a growing trend in the acceptance of the Jewish State among its more benign neighbors in the region.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The American Jewish Committee called on former Prime Minister Carl Bildt to apologize.
Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, said Elliott Abrams “will have little time to settle in,” citing the upcoming deadline to extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran.
The man who ran the Port of Beirut is...
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality lit up its building façade on Wednesday evening with the colors of the Lebanese flag in solidarity with the Lebanese people following the disaster in Beirut on Tuesday, generating controversy as opponents said it was displaying the flag of an enemy country. “Humanity precedes any conflict, and our hearts go out […]
Another video from the Beirut tragedy, this one with a particularly sad ending.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“There were no casualties ... firefighters are trying to contain the fire,” stated Iranian TV • Investigation is underway.
The Lebanese Hezbollah Interactive Map notes that Hezbollah is very public about its social and political activities, but the group goes to great lengths to conceal its covert and illicit pursuits.
Lebanon is unlikely to accept the offer from the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Condemning Jerusalem for having allowed Jews to pray on the holy site during Tisha B’Av, Amman calls it a “place of worship for Muslims only.”
While the people of Lebanon are suffering, look where there money has gone...
Residents were told to go indoors.
Gunfire was exchanged between a Hezbollah terror cell and the IDF, in the Har Dov region.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
IDF Chief of Staff, Major General Aviv Kochavi, toured the Northern Command on Saturday, received an intelligence update, and met with the top brass.
Foreign sources say an Israeli drone was shot at.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Within Hezbollah they are calling for revenge against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A missile depot and other weapons warehouses were also destroyed, reported Syrian media.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Professor Ahmad Nofal: “When we liberate Palestine, we will uproot the synagogues and the Jews and throw them into the sea.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
One terrorist said that he drew inspiration for planning and carrying out the attacks from the August 2019 PFLP attack on Ein Danny, in which 17-year-old Rina Shnerb was murdered and her father and brother were injured.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
From 2009 through 2011, Usama Hamade, 55, conspired with others to export U.S. origin goods to a terrorist-designated entity.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Iranian judiciary said that the man gave the U.S. and Israel information on the movements of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, killed in January by an American drone.
Every few months a drone is flown into Israel from Lebanon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ruling was due to the movement “failing to rectify its legal status under Jordanian law,” official says.
A new report is calling on the U.S. to designate three Iranian organizations as terror groups.
By Israel Hayom
Maj. Gen. Esmail Ghaani warns “major events” are about to befall Israel and the U.S., hints USS Bonhomme Richard fire was Iranian retaliation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iran's judiciary said that Asgari sold data related to Iran’s missile program to the U.S. intelligence agency.
Almost all of the sites are in southern Beirut, an area controlled by Hezbollah, and are located in civilian neighborhoods, inside private houses, medical centers, churches, industrial sites, public offices, fast food chains, and in open spaces nearby.
Security cameras record from Rt. M4 in Idlib, Syria, this week: a joint Turkish-Russian patrol triggers a powerful roadside charge. Three Russian soldiers were injured, according to reports. H/T Abu Ali Express.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russia, China, Iran and Turkey are “key players in espionage and influence directed against Germany,” according to a report.
Professor Muhammad al-Rabban published an article in Tel Aviv University’s Kesher journal on Jewish history, titled “A Contribution towards improving the image of the Prophet Muhammad in the eyes of the Israeli public: Muhammad’s covenants and correspondence with the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Iranians are in dilemma: they do not want to escalate the situation before the US election in November, but they do want to retaliate,.
A terror cell in Gaza thought they were working for ISIS against Hamas, but were unwittingly working for Israel.
As of Tuesday morning, Iranian authorities and state media have not commented on the incident.
This joint initiative brings together some of the region’s most active players in the response to COVID-19.
"The underground facility that was damaged in Natanz is at the heart of the debate on Iranian violations of the nuclear agreement."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Efforts are also underway to push for the extradition of Ahlam Tamimi, the mastermind behind 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 people, including two Americans.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Two Arab-Israeli women taken into custody on June 6 • Lebanese terror group uses ex-Israeli Lebanese journalist for recruitment.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Only the military wing of Hezbollah has been designated as such.
The Hemmat Missile factory is part of Iran's precision missile program, with annexes in Syria and Lebanon. for Hezbollah's missile program.
The State Dept. has removed Saudi Arabia from its list of the worst offenders on human trafficking.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Although Israel and the UAE don’t have formal diplomatic relations, the two nations have grown closer amid the Iranian threat.
The Lebanese Army is reportedly holding exercises with UNIFIL near Rosh Hanikra.
Iran's cybersecurity chief threatened Israel, if they discover that Israel was behind the explosion.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Iranian regime and its proxies continued to plot and commit terrorist attacks on a global scale,” states the report’s foreword.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It apparently would assist in combating pirates and foreign vessels, and could be finished by March 2021.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog called on Iran to “fully cooperate” with it in implementing its Weapons Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol and “satisfy the IAEA’s requests without further delay.”
Egypt's absence is a message to Ramallah as to how much they actually care if Israel applies Israeli law over Jewish communities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media is expected to make sweeping changes at VOA, which has been plagued by allegations of corruption, mismanagement, liberal bias and other issues.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The US's Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act sanctions Syrian regime leaders for war crimes against the Syrian population.
Israeli officials believe Qatar is delaying the funds transfer for fear of being accused by the international community of supporting a terrorist organization and facing subsequent sanctions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In a televised address to the Lebanese people on Tuesday, Hassan Nasrallah threatens that those in Lebanon who try to use the economic unrest in Lebanon to weaken his organization will be killed.
By Israel Hayom
The message seems to be that while Abu Dhabi disagrees with Jerusalem on Israeli sovereignty, it won't be a roadblock to building relations with Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ahead of IAEA meeting, Tehran says relations with the U.N. nuclear agency will “become difficult” if it continues to pursue “anti-Iranian claims” founded upon documents provided by Israel.
Israel has remained silent on the reports.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat tweeted that it is “a nice surprise reading a tweet in Hebrew” by a UAE official.
Over 4,000 Syrian refugees had been quietly brought to Israel to receive medical treatment.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh says the refusal is due to the fact that the aid from Abu Dhabi was coordinated with Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel and the UAE do not have formal diplomatic relations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The suspect, identified as Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, is accused of relaying to Israel and the U.S. information regarding slain IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some 150 Emirati engineers, researchers and scientists have been working on the Emirates Mars Mission since the project was inaugurated in 2014, and is slated to arrive in Mars’ orbit by 2021.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iranian-backed militias brought in reinforcements to the position three days ago, says UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
By Israel Hayom
The center, reportedly known as the “Khan Abu Khadija,” was renovated by the Turkish government aid organization TIKA, which has been investing heavily in eastern Jerusalem in recent years.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul Rahman, said “Israel was likely responsible.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Continued Israeli talk of annexing Palestinian lands must stop," tweeted UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash.