Israel News

An ‘inner circle’ at the top of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is being accused of abusing authority for their personal gain, a confidential report from the United Nations office of ethics that was leaked to the Qatari Al Jazeera network claims.

The new Palestinian Authority textbooks have not changed much from the virulent antisemitism of the older editions, according to Algemeiner.

Two UN Economic and Social Council resolutions passed last week accused and singled out Israel as the only country violating women’s rights, according to UN Watch, a non-governmental organization.

A military exercise began Sunday afternoon in the southern city of Ashkelon and in the area adjacent to the restive Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

Israel and the United States completed a series of successful tests of their advanced Arrow 3 missile defense system in Alaska, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

Archaeologists have discovered remains more ancient and impressive than those previously discovered at the Philistine city of Gath, where the giant Philistine warrior Goliath was born and once lived.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared on Thursday a cessation to all agreements with Israel, including the security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

Israel’s left-wing Meretz party and former premier Ehud Barak’s Israel Democratic Party join forces ahead of September 17 elections to form a new political faction called ‘The Democratic Camp.’

The United States on Wednesday reportedly blocked an attempt to get the UN Security Council to issue a formal condemnation of Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes on the edge of Jerusalem earlier this week.

The U.S. derided the viability of reaching “international consensus” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Tuesday, further distancing itself from the two-state solution preferred by most of the world and drawing rebukes from its European allies.

An Israeli missile attack targeted Syrian military positions held by the government and its allies early on Wednesday, Syria’s state news agency said.

The forthcoming US peace plan will not be based on ‘fictions of international consensus’ or on international law, the Trump administration’s Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt said Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to decide soon on when to release a plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians that ‘will not be ambiguous,’ his Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday.

An Israeli representative was present at a briefing Sunday morning by US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook, who provided information on the US naval-defense operation dubbed ‘Operation Sentinel’ being undertaken in response to recent Iranian aggression in the Strait of Hormuz, Israel National News reported.

Iran’s supreme leader vowed on Monday that his country would not give up its stand on Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Excavations in Israel’s Galilee have uncovered remains of an ancient church said to mark the home of the apostles Peter and Andrew, the dig’s archaeological director said Friday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially surpassed founding father David Ben-Gurion as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister on Saturday, having notched up a list of diplomatic and economic successes but with right-wing leadership many see as deeply divisive.

Senior US officials are set arrive in the region next week to further discuss the Trump administration’s forthcoming Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, a senior US official told The Times of Israel Sunday.

Hezbollah has reportedly deployed its forces on the Lebanon-Israel border, The Daily Beast reported over the weekend, linking the move by the Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist group to the rising tensions in the Persian Gulf.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that if Israel was forced into another war with Hezbollah, ‘we will act with tremendous force and ensure our victory.’