Israel will “decisively defeat” Hezbollah should another war erupt as it did ten years ago, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot wrote on Sunday in a statement on the IDF’s website marking ten years since the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War. Eisenkot noted that Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel, and...

Shortly after arriving home from his whirlwind diplomatic tour of Africa, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Sunday in Jerusalem, the first visit by a high-ranking Egyptian official in nine years. The two leaders discussed Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s proposal for a regional peace summit in Cairo. Netanyahu said at...

A set of mosaics depicting two scenes from the Hebrew Bible has been discovered by archaeologists carrying out excavations at a fifth century synagogue in Israel’s Galilee, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced this week. “This is by far the most extensive series of biblical stories ever...

Famed American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino was honored for his contribution to cinema at the 33rd Jerusalem Film Festival on Thursday. “Wow, sababa,” Tarantino said, offering some Hebrew slang (meaning “cool”) to the audience upon accepting the lifetime achievement award, the Times of Israel reported. “There is something special about receiving this prize...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized the bonds that unite the Rwandan and Jewish people when he toured the Kigali Genocide Memorial in the Rwandan capital on Wednesday. In a joint press conference with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the prime minister referred to the memorial as “exceptionally moving, jolting even.”...

The Israeli Defense Ministry and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have successfully completed a test to ensure that both countries’ missile defense systems can work in sync, the Defense Ministry revealed on Wednesday. The five-day-long test, which was the first of its kind, assessed the connectivity between American systems and Israel’s “David’s...