Live updates on Israel, regional security, U.S.–Israel relations, and developments affecting the Body of Christ in the Middle East.
Snap elections may put Trump’s peace plan on back-burner until summer
Posted on Monday, December 24, 2018
Israel’s early election will significantly delay the publication of the US administration’s much-awaited proposal for Israeli-Palestinian peace, experts said Monday, as the White House keeps the plan on the back-burner for fear of influencing the vote.
Netanyahu: Israel developing missiles ‘no other country has’
Posted on Monday, December 17, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said that Israel is developing missiles with 'special capabilities that no other country has,' during a visit to state-owned defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries.
U.S. Navy may stop docking in Haifa after Chinese take over port
Posted on Monday, December 17, 2018
The US Navy has acknowledged that its longstanding operations in Haifa may change once a Chinese firm takes over the civilian port in 2021, prompting Israel’s national security cabinet to revisit the arrangement, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
‘Hezbollah evades Israeli bombs in Syria by flying Russian flag’
Posted on Monday, December 17, 2018
Moscow is allowing fighters from Hezbollah and other pro-Iranian Shiite groups operating in Syria to carry Russian flags in order to protect them from Israeli airstrikes, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday.
IDF official: Hezbollah unable to produce precision weapons
Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2018
Hezbollah's missile arsenal has been static for years and the organization lacks the industrial ability to convert, upgrade or produce precision weapons, Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Tamir Heyman said Tuesday.
Netanyahu: Hezbollah will get ‘unimaginable blow’ if it attacks
Posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited the north Tuesday for the second time in less than a week, said that the uncovering of the third Hezbollah attack tunnel is part of the process of 'systematically dismantling' these weapons.
US fails to win UN condemnation of Hamas militants in Gaza
Posted on Thursday, December 6, 2018
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday.
Israel to protest Hezbollah tunnels as violation of U.N. resolution
Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Israel will submit a protest to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the president of the Security Council, which this month is held by Cote d'Ivoire, against aggressive actions emanating from Lebanon, the Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday,…
Sanhedrin Dedicating 3rd Temple Altar on Last Day of Hanukkah
Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2018
The re-established Jewish Sanhedrin is pushing the envelope on the rebuilding of the Temple next Monday, the last evening of Hanukkah, by consecrating a stone altar and reading of a declaration to all nations intended as an invitation…
