Israel News

Foiling potentially deadly attacks by the Hamas terror group, Israel recently intercepted a massive shipment of chemicals used to make rocket fuel that was headed to the Gaza Strip from Turkey, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. 

For the second time in as many days days, hundreds of Palestinians gathered to riot at the border separating the Gaza Strip and Israel, amid calls by Palestinian terror groups for a third intifada.

The Israel Air Force carried out strikes in Hama, Syria, on Wednesday night, according to Syrian state media. Just hours earlier, Syrian media had reported IAF attacks on targets in the nearby port city of Tartus.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) staged a major long-range strike drill in Greece this week, the latest in a series of drills aimed at preparing the military for a potential strike on Iran and its nuclear facilities.

Syrian state media on Wednesday accused Israel of carrying out an air strike over Tartus that killed two Syrian soldiers and wounded six others.

In a rare televised hearing before an unprecedented 15-judge panel, the Israeli High Court of Justice is set to rule on the legality of the Netanyahu government’s cancellation of the “reasonableness standard,” passed in late July.

Announcing that Israel has foiled 27 terror attacks by Iran this year alone, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency warned Sunday that if any Jew is harmed at the hands of the Iranians, there will be a price to pay “from deep inside Tehran,” i24News reports. The Iranian Mullah regime has long threatened to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday disclosed that Iran was building an airport in southern Lebanon a mere 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Israeli border, with the aim of using it as a launch pad for terrorist attacks against Israel.

Mossad Director David Barnea on Sunday warned Iran’s leaders that they would pay a direct price if Israelis or Jews are harmed in what he said was an ongoing, significantly stepped-up, state-organized Iranian terror effort worldwide.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has stripped Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the French capital’s highest honor after he made remarks about the Holocaust that repeated antisemitic tropes, her office said Friday.

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Monday that the longest continuous section of Jerusalem’s ancient Second Temple-era aqueduct has been unearthed in Givat Hamatos, the Jerusalem Post reports. Measuring around 300 meters (roughly 1,000 feet) in length, the section of aqueduct was discovered during excavations for land development by the Municipality of Jerusalem.

Using modern high-tech imaging, an Israeli archaeologist has been able to decipher the three-line First Temple period paleo-Hebrew inscription found on a cave near the Dead Sea in southern Israel in the 1970s as referencing the “Valley of Salt” cited in several Hebrew Bible Scriptures, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Archaeologists working in the Judean desert in Israel have made an “extremely rare” find of four 1,900-year-old Roman swords, which are believed to have been stolen from enemy soldiers by Jewish rebels during the 132–136 CE Bar Kochba revolt against the Roman Empire, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Israel, Germany, the European Union, and the United States have condemned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for remarks he made about Jews and the Nazi Holocaust.

Israel is reportedly reassessing its visa policies for Evangelical Christian organizations, including the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ), which fears it may have to close down.

A new excavation project in Jerusalem has unearthed steps unseen in over 2,000 years at a place where the New Testament records Jesus as having healed a blind man.

Over the weekend, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a virtual conference of approximately 400 Evangelical Christian leaders hosted by Mike Evans, the founder of Friends of Zion.

Scientists in Israel say they have managed to “create” an entity resembling an early human embryo without using sperm, eggs, or a womb.

Following widespread rioting by Eritrean illegal immigrants in Tel Aviv, MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionist Party) is proposing a new law which would ease the authorities’ ability to deport them.

During a ceremony welcoming the historic opening of Bahrain’s first Israeli embassy, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani made sure to reiterate that his country supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including Israel’s withdrawal to pre-1967 lines, the Jerusalem Post reports. Bahrain normalized diplomatic relations with Israel under the 2020 US-brokered Abraham Accords.