Tens of thousands of mourners from around Bosnia and abroad gathered in the town of Srebrenica on Tuesday for the annual commemoration of the 1995 massacre here, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two.
The six-month-long mass protests in Israel against the government’s plans for judicial reform intensified into a planned “Day of Disruption” on Tuesday after part of the planned new legislation passed the first of three stages in the Knesset on Monday night, i24 News reports.
The Palestinian Authority on Monday rejected Israel’s demands for helping prevent the collapse of the PA.
The Knesset will vote Monday evening on a bill to restrict the use of the “reasonableness” standard by the Supreme Court.
The IDF and the US have started another joint drill which is a not-so-veiled threat against Iran, the military announced on Monday.
The UK-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research has reported that the numbers of Jews now leaving Russia and Ukraine for Israel could soon reach “exodus” levels, the Religion News Service (RNS) reports. The IJPR defines “exodus” as the departure of 50% to 75% of Jews in a country over ten years.
he Defense Ministry and military said Sunday that the Israeli Air Force and Rafael defense firm had successfully completed a recent series of tests with the David’s Sling medium-range air defense system.
Israel will act to prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the security cabinet voted on Sunday.
Against all odds, and at a time when relations between Israel and the United States are not at their peak, Jerusalem and Washington are advancing a secret plan to establish a continuous land bridge connecting the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel, leading from the Persian Gulf straight to Israel’s seaports. This is intended for the export of goods from the East to Europe through Israel, and later for tourist movement as well.
The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on Iranian advanced arms depots in Damascus overnight Thursday, but Syrian air defense systems were not activated, Ynet has learned.
Comments by Israeli leaders in the aftermath of a two-day incursion in the Jenin refugee camp indicate that the Israel Defense Forces will take repeated military action against Palestinian terror.
A rocket launched from Lebanon at Israel on Thursday morning exploded in Israeli territory, close to the northern village of Ghajar, the military said.
A new haredi city is planned for the Bnei Shimon Regional Council in the northern Negev.
Israel launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, after factions there fired rockets into Israel overnight. The military said it hit a Hamas weapons production and underground facilities. The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted the rockets but s one house was hit by parts of a rocket, in the southern city of Sderot causing damage but no injuries.
Israeli forces initiated their withdrawal from the Palestinian city of Jenin on Tuesday, marking an end to one of the largest military operations in the occupied West Bank in recent years, according to defense sources and witnesses. The operation aimed to dismantle the infrastructure and weaponry of armed Palestinian groups in the Jenin refugee camp. Since its start on Monday, over 1,000 troops had been deployed, resulting in the death of at least 12 people, according to Palestinian officials.
Islamist terror group Hamas said Tuesday it was responsible for a car ramming and knife attack in Israel’s coastal city of Tel Aviv that injured at least nine civilians.
In a groundbreaking study that may offer cancer patients a much safer alternative to chemotherapy, scientists at Israel’s Tel Aviv University were able to permanently eliminate 44% to 60% of melanoma cancer cells in mice by encoding a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA molecules and injecting it directly into the animals’ tumor bed, the Jerusalem Post reports.
IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari said Tuesday with regard to the IDF anti-terrorism operation in Jenin that all but 10 terror targets were eliminated on the first day of the campaign.
Hundreds of anti-government protesters converged on Ben Gurion International Airport on Monday afternoon, with some in the crowd scuffling with police who tried to clear them from blocking access to the terminal that handles most flights in and out of the country.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is working aggressively to expand its terrorist operations in Judea and Samaria, forming new terror cells across the area with help from Iran, a senior member of the organization said over the weekend.