Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, who was imprisoned in the FSU for Zionist activity, became the first Israeli politician to address the Russian parliament.
UNRWA launched a fundraising campaign using a photograph of a child in wartorn Syria, giving would-be donors the impression that the scene is in the Gaza Strip.
Retired general and leading security expert John Allen told The Jerusalem Post that if Syria were to gas Israelis, it would be “virtually regime suicide.” Backing a recent assessment by a senior Israeli military official, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis told a news conference in Tel Aviv Friday morning that Syria still possesses chemical weapons. Meeting with his... Read more »
'The update to the IDF before the attack in Syria is further proof of the strength of the relationship and depth of the connection between Israel and the US.'
A British warship on Tuesday conducted a joint exercise with the Israeli navy before docking in the port of Haifa for a visit that comes at a time of heightened tensions in the eastern Mediterranean.
A number of Syrian families who found refuge in Gaza after the civil war erupted in 2011 and are now trapped in Hamas-run enclave, remain ineligible for most social services granted to Palestinians, and cannot travel abroad.
Israel has purchased and is now deploying drones along its northern border to assist in monitoring and addressing various threats from Syria, where a civil war has been raging for more than five years.
Calling the use of chemical weapons 'a barbaric tool, repugnant to the conscience of mankind,' US Ambassador Samantha Power urged the UN Security Council to take 'strong and swift action' against the perpetrators.
Gal Gadot, the Israeli actress who plays Wonder Woman in the film Batman vs Superman, is the star of a new campaign to highlight the uniqueness of Israeli women; Eight severely injured Syrians were evacuated by Israeli helicopters, and much more.
Israeli international relief organization IsraAid has been helping West Virginia homeowners with the tremendous amount of damage caused by flash floods in June; The IDF treats hundreds of Syrians wounded in the ongoing civil war in that country, and much more.
On July 20, 1949, the Syrian-Israeli Armistice was signed. Syria was the last of the Arab countries that had attacked the newly established State of Israel to sign an armistice agreement.
The IDF shelled two military positions used by the Syrian army in the Golan Heights late Sunday in response to stray fire that landed in the vicinity of Israel’s security fence late Saturday and which luckily injured no one.
Israeli food products with Hebrew labeling have been delivered to a displaced persons camp near the rebel-controlled Syrian city of Quneitra. The local government council said that it “severely condemns the distribution of aid baskets coming from the enemy Israel."
The Hezbollah terror organization is digging tunnels from Lebanon into northern Israel, much like those dug by Hamas into southern Israel, the Lebanese daily Al-Safir, which is known for its support for Hezbollah, reported on Wednesday.
Hezbollah's involvement in the conflicts in Syria and, more recently Iraq, risks a spillover of sectarian tensions into Lebanon where the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front are reported to be expanding, UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen warned Friday.
The tranquility of country life contrasts sharply with Middle East tensions all around. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently drew renewed attention to the Golan Heights by vowing to forever hold the Golan.
The possession of chemical weapons by ISIS in close proximity to Israel would be perceived as crossing a "red line." Israel would take immediate action to destroy the threat.