Live updates on Israel, regional security, U.S.–Israel relations, and developments affecting the Body of Christ in the Middle East.
New US law threatens Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation
Posted on Monday, December 31, 2018
The security cooperation between the Palestinian Authority and Israel hangs in balance due to a new US legislation, which is expected to take effect next month, that threatens to bankrupt the government in Ramallah and collapse its security…
Trump: We give Israel billions, it can defend itself in Syria
Posted on Wednesday, December 26, 2018
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was not worried that pulling troops out of Syria could endanger Israel, citing vast American military aid to the Jewish state and saying it could defend itself.
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.
