An international group of retired military officers and diplomats published a report outlining the challenges democratic nations face when fighting against irregular combatants, including terrorist organizations, who often exploit social and mainstream media to amplify their propaganda. The High Level Military Group (HLMG) presented their study at the Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday. Titled “Our Military Forces’ Struggle Against Lawless, Media Savvy Terrorist Adversaries,”...

Israel’s annual Space Week is underway, and science enthusiasts are looking forward to inspecting relics of the Columbia space shuttle, which were brought from the U.S. for temporary display in Israel for the first time. NASA loaned the Israel Air Force Center in Herzliya artifacts used by Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon on...

The expense and effort that the terrorist organization Hamas is putting into building attack tunnels while the Gaza Strip, which it rules, is mired in poverty shows that “the last thing Hamas cares about is the welfare of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh wrote in...

One Israeli border policewoman was killed and another seriously injured during a shooting and stabbing attack carried out by three Palestinians outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Officials said that a quick response by security forces prevented a potentially much larger attack. The three assailants were killed. According to authorities, policewoman Hadar Cohen, 19,...

Cybersecurity researchers from Deutsche Telekom’s innovation lab at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba have discovered and traced six “botnet” hacking programs by analyzing data collected from past cyber-attacks. The breakthrough research may be of great importance to law enforcement agencies and cyber-security specialists around the world. “In this project,” explained Ariel Bar, one of the lead researchers...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s recent New York Times op-ed, which was critical of Israeli policy, is “unprecedented” in its focus on a single country, a Jerusalem Post analysis showed. Post diplomatic correspondent Herb Keinon noted in an analysis on Monday that of the 85 op-eds Ban has written since becoming secretary-general in 2007, “not one of...