In response to increased cyber warfare, the Israel Defense Forces has doubled the number of soldiers trained specifically for combatting cyber-attacks on vital Israeli computer infrastructure. During Operation Pillar of Defense in November “a record number of such attacks was recorded, which came from over 180 different countries, mostly against government and...

Israel’s election is seeing its first official TV and radio campaign ads, which are heavily limited – to the relief of many voters inside Israel, and to the jealousy of many abroad – only during fixed times during the day and only within two weeks of voting. Polling throughout the...

Leading candidates from Israel’s major parties emphasized Tuesday that Iran’s atomic program, widely thought to have a clandestine weapons component, will constitute a central concern for Israel’s next government. The politicians’ statements, which came as part of a pre-election debate hosted by The Israel Project at the Hebrew University of...

Citing the risk of spillover from the conflict raging in Syria, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to build a security fence along the Israeli-Syrian border. Western analysts have become increasingly concerned about the degree to which Sunni-backed opposition forces have been infiltrated by hard-line Islamist elements, with the...

The first Israeli opinion poll of 2013 seems to confirm that the joint Likud Beiteinu party list of incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has seen its position erode in recent weeks. Wednesday’s Dahaf poll predicts that the list will win only 34 out of 120 Knesset seats in the...

A top adviser to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has declared that Israel will cease to exist in a decade, and is suggesting that Jews of Egyptian descent should evacuate the Jewish State and return to Egypt in order to make room for Palestinian refugees. The Muslim Brotherhood, to which the...