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Israel launches first-ever multitier missile defense test

Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2020

The Israel Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for the first time demonstrated a multilayered air defense system using the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow weapon systems in a recent series of tests.

Iron Dome successfully intercepts cruise missile for 1st time

Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Israel has successfully completed an air defense exercise that tested the abilities of the Iron Dome missile defense system to intercept cruise missiles for the first time, the Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday.

New paper warns Israel, Iran on collision course

Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2020

The US is making a mistake by leaving the Middle East to its own devices and this could lead to a conflagration between Israel and Iran, wrote former Turkish MP Aykan Erdemir and former US Ambassador to Turkey…

On 33rd anniversary, Hamas vows to free Palestine ‘from sea to river’

Posted on Monday, December 14, 2020

Hamas vowed on Monday to continue the fight against Israel “until the liberation of Palestine, from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River.”

Oman, Indonesia likely next countries to forge ties with Israel

Posted on Monday, December 14, 2020

Oman and Indonesia could be next in line to establish diplomatic relations with Israel in the coming weeks, a diplomatic source said Sunday.

Israel normalizes ties with Bhutan

Posted on Sunday, December 13, 2020

Israel established full diplomatic relations with Bhutan for the first time on Saturday night.

Palestinians ready to resume negotiations with Israel

Posted on Friday, December 11, 2020

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that the Palestinians are prepared to resume talks with Israel and that fresh negotiations should be based on resolutions passed by the United Nations on the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Jerusalem Post reports. Abbas…

Morocco, Israel Start ‘Great Light of Peace’

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2020

Israel and Morocco agreed Thursday to normalize relations in a U.S. brokered accord that Israel’s prime minister described as “another great light of peace.”

Polls show Sa’ar at 15-18 seats, remaking map and possibly unseating Netanyahu

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2020

A day after he announced his departure from Likud and the formation of a new political party to challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the country’s leadership, Gideon Sa’ar was off to an extraordinarily strong start Wednesday. Polls…

New parts of Herod’s palace unveiled, including 300-seat personal theater

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2020

Israeli authorities are set to unveil previously off-limits structures within King Herod’s palace-fortress Herodium, which the tyrannical Roman-era leader interred as his enormous burial plot.

Ministers approve draft of bill to enable adoption by same sex couples

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2020

Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn and Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli on Wednesday approved the draft of a bill that will change a decades-old law permitting adoption only for heterosexual couples and allow same-sex couples to be equally eligible.

Knesset dispersal bill advances with March 16 election date

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2020

The Knesset House Committee decided on Wednesday by a ten-to-seven vote to advance the Knesset dispersal bill.

Gideon Sa’ar quits Likud, ‘a tool for Netanyahu’s interests,’ to lead ‘New Hope’

Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar, long seen as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief rival within Likud, on Tuesday announced he was quitting Likud and will form his own right-wing party, to be called “New Hope,” and run for the…

Saudi Prince says Palestinians are rotting in Israeli concentration camps

Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Leading Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal has described Israel as a Western colonizing power that is holding Palestinians in concentration camps, Ynet News reports. Formerly the Saudi ambassador to the US and the UK and head of Saudi intelligence,…

Majority of Arab-Israelis support forming an Arab-Jewish party

Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Over 64% of Arab-Israelis support forming an Arab-Jewish party for the next Knesset elections, although the voter participation rate among Arab-Israelis is not expected to be high at just 55.6%, according to a new study by the Dayan…

Israel to get first batch of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines on Thursday

Posted on Tuesday, December 8, 2020

The first delivery of Pfizer vaccines will arrive in Israel on Thursday, according to multiple Hebrew media reports on Monday evening.

61% of Israelis willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19

Posted on Sunday, December 6, 2020

Some 61% of the Israeli public would be interested in being vaccinated for the coronavirus, a new survey has found. Some 18% would refuse to be vaccinated.

Direct conflict with Israel ‘could make Iran regional superpower’

Posted on Sunday, December 6, 2020

Hardline Iranian daily Kayhan on Sunday called on Tehran not to delay in exacting vengeance for the assassination of the country's nuclear mastermind last month.

‘Israel has tape of slain Iran nuke chief talking about building five warheads’

Posted on Sunday, December 6, 2020

Israel intelligence managed to recruit an Iranian official close to the recently assassinated Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and recorded the nuclear scientist speaking about his efforts to produce “five warheads” on behalf of the Islamic Republic, according to a Friday…

Hadassah research head raises questions about mRNA vaccine safety

Posted on Thursday, December 3, 2020

Prof. Yossi Karko, director of the clinical research unit at Hadassah-University Medical Center, has warned that the data published by Moderna and Pfizer about their coronavirus vaccine candidates is limited.

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