Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended an official ceremony of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Thursday afternoon, during which the remaining items belonging to the late Zachary Baumel were handed over to the prime minister.
Thirty-seven years after the Battle of Sultan Yaqub during the Lebanon War, the body of Sergeant Zachary Baumel, one of the MIA IDF soldiers has been returned to Israel.
The UN General Assembly convened a special session on Tuesday to adopt a resolution condemning hate crimes. In its original version, the proposal only referred to Islamophobia, but after a diplomatic effort led by Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, with many UN states, the proposal was changed and condemned anti-Semitism as well.
Brazil opened a new trade mission to Israel in Jerusalem on Sunday, appearing to edge back from earlier signals it would follow the United States by moving its full embassy to the contested city.
The IDF used a new system, the “Sha’aga” (“Roar”) to disperse violent demonstrators that took part in riots at the Gaza Strip border over the weekend. The rioters numbered in the tens of thousands, ending with four people dead, and hundreds injured.
On Saturday morning, IDF troops apprehended two children near the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip. The children were carrying a knife. Following an initial inquiry by IDF troops in the field, the children explained that they had intended to infiltrate into Israel with a knife so that they would be apprehended and sent to prison.
The Syrian military released a statement Wednesday saying that Israel launched raids on an industrial zone in the northern city of Aleppo, causing damage only to materials, while opposition sources said the strikes hit Iranian ammunitions stores and a military airport used by Irans Military forces.
Israeli cave explorers said Thursday that a salt cave with striking stalactites near the Dead Sea is the world’s longest, beating the record-holder in Iran. The cave named Malham, stretching over 10 kilometers (6.25 miles), runs through Mount Sodom, Israel’s largest mountain, and spills out to the southwest corner of the adjacent Dead Sea.
Impressive remains of a Jewish village from the Hasmonean period, approximately 2000 years ago, are currently being uncovered in a salvage excavation conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Sharafat neighborhood of Jerusalem, where an elementary school will be built.
After some Hamas officials claimed a rocket attack on central Israel early Monday morning which injured seven had been ‘accidental’ or caused by ‘bad weather’, senior officials in the Gaza-based terror organization and Egypt now say that the attack was intentional – and carried out at the behest of Iran, with the intention of altering the outcome of Israel’s upcoming general election.
Three children from the Chabad community in Lod were diagnosed with measles earlier this week, Kikar Hashabbat reported. According to the site, all of the children attend the same daycare, and two of them were completely unvaccinated.
A senior Israeli official on the prime minister’s plane referred to the wave of IDF attacks in Gaza in response to the recent rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza, emphasizing that “There is no agreement on a ceasefire, we are prepared to do even more.”
Israeli warplanes attacked some 15 terror targets in the northern Gaza Strip overnight Monday, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. Among the targets that were attacked were a military compound belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in Beit Hanoun and a military compound belonging to the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in Beit Lahiya.
Arab media reported a cease-fire between the Hamas Islamic movement in Gaza and Israel came into effect at 10 PM this evening. A Hamas leader in Gaza claimed the cease-fire was achieved through intensive Egyptian mediation over the last few hours.
israelnationalnews US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference at the White House Monday afternoon. The two leaders met as President Trump prepared to sign an executive order officially recognizing Israel’s sovereignty on […]
The IDF confirmed Monday afternoon that the military response to the firing of a rocket at central Israel by terrorists in the Gaza Strip had begun.
A rocket fired from Gaza early Monday morning severely damaged two houses near Tel-Aviv in the Sharon region. Magen David Adom reported that six of the residents of the home were injured, including a 50-year-old woman in light to moderate condition, as well as a man and a woman and two babies who suffered light injuries.
