Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman acknowledged his country’s recent airstrikes against Syrian targets, saying in an address to European Union ambassadors on Wednesday that the strikes were meant to prevent Hezbollah from receiving “advanced weapons, military equipment and weapons of mass destruction.” Though it is unusual for an Israeli government official...

The Israel Defense Forces held a large-scale drill near the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, improving preparedness for possible cross-border terrorist attacks from the coastal enclave. The drill, which was led by the military’s Gaza division and included the evacuation of an Israeli school near the Gaza border, tested how the army would respond to terrorist infiltrators...

While President-elect Donald Trump will likely be stricter in enforcing the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran, the incoming administration should not ignore the threat that Iran’s chemical and biological weapons programs pose, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Monday at Forbes. Enforcing the...

In a wide-ranging interview conducted via videoconference for the 2016 Saban Forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised his country’s relationship with the United States, reiterated his continued concerns about Iran’s destabilizing behavior, and expressed frustration that Palestinian leaders have refused to return to the negotiating table. The state of...

A solar electricity generator and storage batteries are providing constant electricity for the first time to Nkaiti Medical Center in Minjingu, a village of about 7,000 subsistence farmers and cattle ranchers in Tanzania—thanks to the Tel Aviv University chapter of Engineers without Borders. Since Minjingu is not connected to the...

Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey handed his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday, becoming Jerusalem’s first ambassador in Ankara after six years of frosty relations. Eitan Na’eh and his family were greeted by Erdoğan during a brief ceremony in the presidential palace, shortly after a military band...