Israeli diplomatic sources are expressing disappointment at the outcome of Tuesday’s meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu, who initiated the meeting, flew to Sochi in a small plane for a quick rendezvous on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. He was accompanied...

Mortars from across the Syrian border have again struck Israel’s Golan Heights, this time exploding in a popular Israeli tourist destination during the country’s Shavout holiday celebrations. Israeli officials closed the area to evaluate the incident, before concluding that the fire had been accidental. It was the first time that Mount...

Controversy continues to swirl around comments made earlier this month by a prominent Fatah official who declared that the Palestinians are enemies of Israel and would use nuclear weapons against the Jewish state if they possessed them. Jibril Rajoub, a member of the Palestinian Fatah faction’s Central Committee, made the statements...

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the world’s most influential Muslim preachers who regularly prays for the annihilation of the Jewish people, visited Gaza this week in a show of his support for the territory’s Hamas terrorist rulers. He claims to have previously been in Gaza in 1958. The octogenarian televangelist vowed...

Major natural gas reserves off Israel’s coast – some of which are already online – promise to redraw the geopolitical map in the Near East. The Washington Post colorfully explains: The huge reservoirs of natural gas discovered off the coast of Israel now flowing toward shore have the potential to...

Israeli intelligence sources dismissed today a new sensational account, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), regarding the fate of an Australian-born Jew who immigrated to Israel and became a Mossad agent, and who was eventually found dead at the age of 34 in a high-security Israeli prison cell on...