יום שלישי, 7 יולי 2026Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Follow Us
יום שלישי, כ״ב תמוז תשפ״וTuesday, July 7, 2026
Follow Us

Sections

Hizbullah

Op-Eds

Aleppo Brings Hizbullah Back Into The Frame

By Ben Cohen

If Hizbullah comes out of the Syrian war with its prestige strengthened and its threat level boosted, there’s every reason to fear the next target will be Israel.

Op-Eds

The Moral Psychosis Of Demonstrating In Support Of Hamas

By Richard L. Cravatts

The multiculturalism that animates the hate-Israel crowd is sprinkled with code words of oppression

Moshe Feiglin

We Are The Good Guys

By Moshe Feiglin

The Gazan octopus arm is a test case, as the rest of the arms are closely watching it.

Terrorism / Syria / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Islamists / Israeli Arabs

Israeli Arab Citizen Charged with Joining Syrian Jihadists

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Nearly 1.5 million Arabs are Israelis. Most are decent citizens, even if not Zionists. But more and more want to destroy Israel. For the first time, an Israeli Arab allegedly joined Syrian jihadists.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / News Briefs / Islamists / United Nations (UN)

Jihadist Control at Israel’s Northern Borders Casts Shadow of War

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

Israel / Syria / News Briefs

Fierce Clashes between Rebels and Hizbullah at Lebanese Border

By Jewish Press News Desk

Fierce clashes have broken out between Hizbullah’s terrorist army and Syrian rebels, increasing the threat that the civil war will spread as far south as Israel's border with Lebanon, where the fragile government fell last week. Syrian opposition sources told the London-based Arabic language Al Asharq Awsat that Hizbullah suffered heavy casualties and that dozens […]

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / Jewish / US / News Briefs / Europe

US Jewish Leaders Hope Decision Will Spur EU to Ban Hizbullah

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is urging European nations to follow the example of France’s declaring Hizbullah a terrorist organization. “We welcome the French government’s decision, [which] follows the declaration by the Bulgarian government of Hizbullah’s responsibility for the attack in Burgas in July, 2012 and the conviction of a Hizbullah […]

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs

Report: Prisoner X Bungled Attempt to Win Over Hizbullah Aide

By Jewish Press News Desk

The scheme backfired and led to the exposure and jailing of two valuable Mossad informants.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / US / News Briefs

Israel to Ask Obama to Attack Syria if Hizbullah Gets Missiles

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israel already has bombed at least once a Syrian attempt to ship anti-aircraft missiles to Hizbullah. Israel will use Obama’s visit to ask United States to do the work the next time, or at least back an Israeli strike.

Terrorism / Israel / Iran / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Europe / Holocaust

Peres Tells EU Parliament, ‘Europe Has Divorced Its Past’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

President Shimon Peres told the European Union Parliament Tuesday, “In the past thousand years, more Jews lived in Europe than in any other continent.  Alas, more Jews were murdered in Europe in the last hundred years than in the preceding two thousand years.” The first Israeli president to address the current arrangement of the EU […]

Israel / Syria / Hamas / Iran / News Briefs / Egypt

Israel Creating Virtual Embassies in Middle East

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

Israel is utilizing new media technology to developing innovative ways to extend hands of friendship to countries in a volatile Middle East. “We are exploring government, people and societies … trying to skip over the borders and using the new media to create virtual embassies," which speak directly to those in the Arab world, said […]

Terrorism / Israel / US / Hamas / News Briefs / Turkey / Europe

Hamas Re-Working Its Image to Pressing US to Remove Terror Label

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hamas is trying to re-work its image as a terrorist organization to convince the United States and the European Union remove it from the list of sponsors of terrorism. The campaign comes at the same time that pressure is growing on the EU to add Hizbullah to the list of terrorist organizations. The Egypt Independent […]

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / News Briefs / Europe

How Does EU Avoid Defining Hizbullah as Terrorist Organization?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hizbullah has killed hundreds of civilians and American soldiers in dozens of attacks in 20 years, but the EU has withheld defining it as a terrorist group. Peres and ‘Lawfare” start asking, “Why?”

Terrorism / Iran / News Briefs

Hizbullah Denies Syria Rebels' Claim They Hit Nasrallah’s Deputy

By Jewish Press News Desk

Syrian rebels have claimed that they wounded Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s top deputy in the bombing of a Syrian army convoy, but Hizbullah immediately denied it. A Lebanese newspaper reported that rebels said Naim Qassem was with senior army officers loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad when the explosion hit the convoy on the Damascus-Beirut […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / News Briefs / Islamists / United Nations (UN)

Sky: UN Adviser Kidnapped in Syria near Israeli Border

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The report has not been verified, and there are no details concerning who kidnapped the victim, Carl Kampo from Austria.

Terrorism / Israel / Middle East / Levant

Peres asks EU What Does It Take to Brand Hizbullah ‘Terrorists’

By Jewish Press News Desk

President Shimon Peres called on the European Union Thursday to face the facts and follow the American lead in blacklisting Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. Speaking at a ceremony on the 93rd anniversary of the death of Zionist pioneer Joseph Trumpeldor, the president cited Hizbullah’s proven involvement in terrorist attacks in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Nigeria. […]

Terrorism / News Briefs

Hizbullah Fingered in Cyprus Terror Plot against Israelis

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The noose tightened on Hizbullah Wednesday after a Swedish-Lebanese citizen on trial in Cyprus admitted that the terrorist organization recruited him to stake out areas where Israelis gather. Hossam Taleb Yaacoub traveled to Cyprus on business and with no ulterior motives, according to his lawyer, before Hizbullah hooked him into cooperating with it. Cyprus police […]

Syria / News Briefs

Syrian Rebels Threatened to Take On Hizbullah in Lebanon

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Syrian Free Army warned Hizbullah Wednesday it will open a new front in Lebanon in the ongoing war against the Syrian-Hizbullah alliance if the terrorist organization continues to fight for Syrian President Bashar Assad. “"We are announcing and warning that if Hizbullah will not stop shelling the Syrian lands, villages and civilians from inside […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Middle East / Levant

If Hizbullah is the ‘Party of God,’ Who is Nasrallah Worshipping?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hassan Nasrallah has led Hizbullah – the “party of God” in Arabic - for 21 years. His army has killed hundreds of Jews, but now his opponents in Lebanon charge he is targeting them instead of Israel.

Fundamentally Freund/Michael Freund

Europe’s Hizbullah Hypocrisy

By Michael Freund

Only a unified and coherent E.U. stamp of disapproval can shut down Hizbullah's European lifeline.

IDF & Security / Middle East / Levant

Report: Israeli Planes Bombed Hizbullah Spy Post in Lebanon

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israel bombed a Hizbullah listening post in Lebanon Sunday night, unaffected by Syrian and Iran threats to retaliate for the bombing of anti-aircraft missiles on the their to Hizbullah.

This Ongoing War

Indicators of the Road Ahead for Israel

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Looking ahead, there's more than a little reason to take a sober view of the future.

IDF & Security / Iran / News Briefs

Israeli War Games Simulate Strike on Iran

By Malkah Fleisher

A massive war game simulation by the Institute for National Security Studies of the IDF’s engagement after a strike on Iran recently took place, illustrating Israel’s increasing preparedness for putting a military end to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

IDF & Security / Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

IDF Evacuates Visitors to Upper Hermon Due to Approach of Armed Syrians

By Malkah Fleisher

A group of visitors to Mount Hermon in Israel’s north were evacuated on Wednesday when a group of armed Syrians approached the border.

IDF & Security / Middle East / Levant

Reports Of Syrian Maneuvers Prompt Israeli Military Concerns

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering a preemptive military strike against several Syrian chemical weapons storage depots and Scud missile sites. The goal is to prevent embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad from transferring the unconventional arsenal to Hizbullah or the Iranian Revolutionary Guards if Assad appears on the verge of being toppled from power by opposition forces.

Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Europe

UK Urges EU to Classify Hizbollah Military Wing as Terrorist Group

By JTA

Britain's Foreign Minister William Hague urged the European Union to place Hizbullah’s military wing on its list of terrorist organizations.

Op-Eds

Syria's Civil War is Spilling into Lebanon

By Michael J. Totten

Extremist Sunnis could eventually ruin what began as a peaceful movement for reform and change in Assad's Syria. It would be even more tragic if they did the same thing in Lebanon after the Beirut Spring showed so much promise.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Gas Masks for Israelis and how Aliyah is Flourishing

By Moshe Herman

Yishai and Malkah discuss threats to Israel from both Hizbullah and Syria and how gas masks are being issued to Israelis. They move on to talk about how despite reports in the international media that states otherwise, Aliyah to Israel has barely been affected.

Israel / Middle East / Levant

Hizbullah Recruits Israeli-Arab Terror Cells

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – A new phase in the covert war between Israel and Iran’s proxy Hizbullah militia is taking place within the borders of the Jewish state, as Hizbullah has recruited scores of Palestinians and Israeli Arabs for missions ranging from arson to suicide bombings.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / Global

Israel Tightening Security Measures At Home And Abroad

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – Israel’s global intelligence apparatus is being stretched thin as Iranian- controlled Hizbullah terror squads and pro-Assad Syrian chemical warfare teams are threatening to attack more Israeli citizens abroad and within Israel itself.

IDF & Security / Middle East / Levant

Israel Considering Preemptive Strikes Against Syria

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz to draw up plans for a possible series of preemptive strikes against various Scud missile installations and suspected WMD (weapons of mass destruction) sites across Syria, as the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship appears to be entering a dangerous phase.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / US

Unease Grows In Israel Over U.S. Mideast Diplomacy

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – In a meeting with a visiting U.S. delegation fresh off nuclear talks in Baghdad, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak and National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror expressed their government’s growing concerns over America’s diplomatic negotiations with Iran.

Israel / Global

Darshan-Leitner Wins Prize for Fighting Terror in Court

By Malkah Fleisher

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, received an award Tuesday night for her role in fighting terrorism through international courts and defending the civil rights of Israeli terror victims. Having dealt a heavy blow to Syria, now she's after the Bank of China.

Israel / Middle East / Levant

Nasrallah: We Will Strike Tel Aviv

By Malkah Fleisher

In a televised speech in suburbs south of Beirut on Friday, Hizbullah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah boasted that his sophisticated terror network is capable of hitting any target “in Tel Aviv and occupied Palestine”, and would target Tel Aviv in a future war.

Analysis / Global

Syrian Crisis May Top Agenda At Bibi-Obama Meeting

By Steve K. Walz

The Iran issue may be moved somewhat down the agenda as flailing Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is being pressured by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to move both his WMD cache and long-range Scud missiles to well-protected Hizbullah bases inside Lebanon.

Editorial

Iranian Attacks

By Editorial Board

The two apparently coordinated attacks on Monday against Israeli diplomatic personnel present Israel with a significant challenge of how to respond, aside from an obvious concern for the safety of its citizens abroad.

Middle East / Levant

Hizbullah Comes to Assad’s Defense; Opposition Increases Pressure

By Sam Ser

“The Syrian people are living their worst period,” parliament member Imad Ghalioun said in an interview from Egypt on Sunday night.

News Briefs

Nasrallah Rebuffs UN Secretary General's Call To Disarm Hezbollah

By Jewish Press Staff

Hizbullah leader: "The armed resistance will stay and will increase its power."

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

UN Chief to Assad: 'Stop Killing Your People'

By Sam Ser

“Stop the violence. Stop killing your people,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said in a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose troops have killed more than 5,000 people during a 10-month-old uprising.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

View all
cross