More than a week after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped, observers are focusing on the increasingly strained ties between Hamas, the terror group that is believed to be behind last week’s abduction, and Fatah, the rival faction with whom Hamas entered into a unity agreement last month. Veteran Arab affairs...

While hunting for three abducted teenagers throughout the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces has uncovered dozens of tunnels believed to be used by terrorists. Some of the tunnels were found by soldiers inside the homes of Palestinians, under large pieces of furniture and laundry machines. According to one senior...

Reactions continue to mount against the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) General Assembly, which voted Friday to support a motion supporting divestment from three companies doing business with Israel. Critics included leaders of the Reform Jewish movement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and pastors within the church. The narrow vote was a nominal...

A mortar or anti-tank missile fired from Syria killed an Israeli teenager and seriously wounded his father south of the Kuneitra crossing on the Golan Heights. The boy, identified as Mohammed Karkara, was apparently accompanying his father to work with a civilian crew doing maintenance work on the border fence....

While many sports fans were shocked that defending champion Spain were knocked out of the 2014 World Cup so quickly, a red ruffed lemur at the Zoological Center Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan could have warned them not to expect success. Max the lemur is serving as Israel’s ‘Paul the octopus’ in...

Suspicions that Hamas was behind last week’s kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers deepened Thursday, with an Israeli security official naming Saleh al-Arouri, the founder of Hamas’s armed wing in the West Bank, as  a key figure behind the abductions: The official claimed al-Arouri, who used to live in a village...