Demonstrations against the government’s judicial overhaul entered their 20th week on Saturday night, as compromise talks between the coalition and opposition remained stalled and the government’s opponents decried its budget priorities.
The United States and nearly all of Israel’s Middle East allies issued statements Thursday condemning Jerusalem over the visits lawmakers made to the flashpoint Temple Mount and the controversial annual march by religious nationalists through the Old City’s Muslim Quarter, which was again marred by violence and racism toward Palestinians.
US President Biden wants to push for a peace deal between Israel and its long-term foe Saudi Arabia, before he gets caught up in the 2024 presidential election campaign, two US officials with knowledge of the issue told Axios.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has discovered an ancient receipt or financial transaction dating back 2,000 years on the City of David’s Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem.
The US recently proposed to Israel that Washington and Jerusalem engage in “joint military planning” vis-a-vis Iran, according to a report Wednesday citing US and Israeli officials.
Palestinian armed factions have reportedly threatened to attack Israel in a new “powerful campaign” during the Jerusalem Day flag march planned for Thursday, i24News reports. The threats were reported by Arab media just days after a ceasefire ended last week’s round of violence between the Israel Defence Forces and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza.
Israel’s arch enemy Hamas did not join in last week’s five-day Gaza-Israel clash between the Israeli military (IDF) and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group, marking the third time since 2019 that the rulers of the Gaza Strip have stayed out of a Palestinian fight against Israel, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.
Israel has developed a cutting-edge new cannon that fires robotically loaded shells and is already being heralded as one of Israel’s best security projects, Ynet News reports. Known as Roem (“thunderous” in Hebrew), the cannon was developed by the Israel’s Defense Ministry and Israeli defense manufacturer Elbit.
After months of decreasing approval ratings over his controversial judicial reform plans, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a massive boost of approval following the IDF’s successful Shield and Arrow operation against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group last week, World Israel News (WIN) reports.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas compared Israeli rhetoric to Nazi propaganda, demanded Israel be suspended from the UN if it does not grant Palestinians a state and a “right of return” for millions of refugees, and denied Jewish ties to the Temple Mount during a speech at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday.
There have been ongoing recent discussions about holding a third summit between Israel and the Palestinian leadership, following talks held in Jordan in February, and Egypt in March, i24 News reports. The previous conferences involved delegations from Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) with assistance from US, Egyptian and Jordanian representatives, i24 News said.
Israel, the United States, and the United Nations thanked Egypt for its role in mediating a delicate ceasefire with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza on Saturday night, bringing five days of intense fighting between the two sides to a cautious end.
A fragile Egypt-brokered cease-fire between Israel’s army and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to hold Sunday after nearly 1,500 rockets reigned down on Israel in a five-day clash that killed dozens of people, mostly Palestinians.
Israel’s military confirmed Friday that it had killed the head of the armed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s rocket force and his deputy after hundreds of missiles were fired at the Jewish state.
Palestinian militants fired scores of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, setting off air raid sirens in several cities and prompting evacuations, Worthy News witnessed.
Gazan terrorists fired nearly 300 rockets at Israel over several hours on Wednesday afternoon, though nearly a fifth of them fell short inside the Strip, the Israeli military said, as it vowed to press an offensive against Islamic Jihad, but signaled it would seek to keep the engagement from snowballing.
David’s Sling, Israel’s newest anti-missile air defense system, successfully shot down its first rocket operationally during a barrage from the Gaza Strip targeting Israeli civilian centers on Wednesday.
After a tense day following Israel’s initiated Shield and Arrow to eliminate Islamic Jihad’s high command in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday that any escalation on the Palestinians’ part will be “answered with a decisive response.”
Thousands of Sderot residents were evacuated from the city Tuesday evening, accompanied by members of the Home Front Command as part of Mashav Ruach (Breeze) program, a response to Operation Shield and Arrow launched by the Israel Defense Forces early in the morning. The first phase of the evacuation included hundreds of families leaving on 25 buses. Most of them traveled to hotels in the Dead Sea.
Ukraine has received Israeli-made radar defense systems, which have already been deployed in Kyiv, the capital, as of Monday, Israeli media reported.