Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set up a ministerial committee to decide  how Jerusalem should deal with the new Palestinian government that was jointly appointed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the terrorist organization Hamas. The first meeting on preparing plans on how to deal with the diplomatic and...

Veteran Israeli military analyst Amos Harel on Thursday assessed that a future war between Israel and Hezbollah seems increasingly likely and that Hezbollah may use the deterioration to launch a spectacular ground operation against Israel: While a balance of mutual deterrence has prevailed since the end of the Second Lebanon War nearly...

American and Hamas officials secretly met numerous times over the last six months, according to a report in the online news website BuzzFeed. The meetings were held between U.S. intermediaries and Hamas’ leadership, which lives outside the Gaza Strip in third-party countries ranging from Egypt to Qatar and Jordan. Topics...

Relatives of Daniel Cantor Wultz and other victims of terror won a procedural victory last Friday in their lawsuits against the Bank of China. The lawsuits stem from terror attacks in Israel between the years of 2003 and 2008. Wultz, a high school student from Florida vacationing in Israel with...

In a rare public display of Jerusalem’s  displeasure with the State Department, Israeli Ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer took to the Facebook social-media website to offer his views on the American decision to maintain ties with the new Palestinian government. The government was formed jointly by Hamas and Fatah. The...

The Palestinians are pulling the wool over the eyes of the international community by describing the new Palestinian Authority government as a cabinet of technocrats, according to Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz. The most important thing is not who are the personalities, or the ministers, but who sent them,...