Terrorism

Lior Weintraub, Vice President and Director of the Israel Office of The Israel Project, hosted journalists Tal Shalev and Neri Zilber to review an intense week in Israel on the latest Tipping Point podcast. The three discussed how early elections in Israel were avoided last minute and how long the government...

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The ongoing Paris trial of fifteen defendants linked to Hezbollah is a sign that Europe needs to “cease minimizing the threat” from the Iran-backed terror group, two experts in terror finance asserted in a report published Monday. Despite the implications of the case, Toby Dershowitz and Serena Frechter, respectively, the...

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Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched a short-range ballistic missile against Saudi-led forces backing the internationally-recognized government of Yemen, Seth Frantzman reported  Monday in The Jerusalem Post. Citing reports in the Iranian media, Frantzman wrote that the missile, called the Badr P-1, had been unveiled last month by Houthi forces boasting that...

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The decision of Education Minister Naftali Bennett to keep his party, Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home), in the government has forestalled talk of early elections, for now, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Following the resignation of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and the exit of his party Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel is...

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The United States Coordinator for Counterterrorism said that Iran spends nearly $1 billion annually supporting terrorist groups across the Middle East, Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe reported Thursday. Of the total, Amb. Nathan Sales said that Iran gives $700 million to the Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah; $100 million to Hamas and other...

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Major human rights Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have failed to condemn the barrage of rockets and mortars fired indiscriminately into Israel by Hamas, a survey published Tuesday by the watchdog group NGO Monitor concluded. Even though Hamas fired an estimated 460 projectiles into Israel on Monday and Tuesday — making it the heaviest bombardment...

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