Live updates on Israel, regional security, U.S.–Israel relations, and developments affecting the Body of Christ in the Middle East.
Israel quiet over ‘hotline’ with Russia on Syria
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2015
It speaks volumes that Russia, rather than Israel, has been going public with details of a 'hotline' and joint air exercises they have launched to avoid an accidental clash in the skies over Syria.
Jordan wants to send Arab troops to Temple Mount
Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2015
While France is facing Israeli criticism for suggesting the deployment of international observers to the Temple Mount, WND has learned the Kingdom of Jordan is floating its own plan to consolidate power at the holy site, proposing non-uniformed…
Wall placed between Jewish, Arab Jerusalem neighborhoods
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2015
Jerusalem police began on Sunday to place portable concrete slabs between the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv in the capital’s southeast and the Arab neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, in a bid to stem a series of terrorist…
Israel-Palestine Update: 28 Dead In 12 Days Of Violence
Posted on Monday, October 12, 2015
Violence erupted for a 12th day in Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank Sunday with an Arab-Israeli stabbing four people near a bus stop in northern Israel, Reuters reported. Twenty-four Palestinians and four Israelis have died…
With Israel visit, Quartet aims to kick-start peace talks
Posted on Friday, October 9, 2015
Representatives of the Middle East Quartet will visit the region next week to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and push forward with a renewed efforts to revive the stalled peace process.
Under pressure: Netanyahu faces political attacks as violence continues
Posted on Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Thousands of conservative activists came together outside of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem Monday night to protest the alleged incompetence of the current government in dealing with the current upswing in violent riots and attacks in…
Mahmoud Abbas Says Palestinians Are No Longer Bound by Oslo Accords
Posted on Thursday, October 1, 2015
Demonstrating a new level of tension with Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority declared on Wednesday that his people were no longer bound by mutual agreements with Israel, including the Oslo Peace Accords, which created the…
Putin seeks to ease Israeli fears in rare Netanyahu meeting
Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to worry about the Russian military buildup in Syria as the two men held talks in Moscow on Monday, their first face-to-face meeting in nearly two years.
Netanyahu to quiz Putin on Russia’s reinforcement of Syria
Posted on Monday, September 21, 2015
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Moscow on Monday to seek reassurance from President Vladimir Putin about Russia's military deployment in Syria and to lay out Israel's concerns about the risk of weapons reaching militants on its borders.
