Two-thousand-year-old Dead Sea Scroll fragments, containing script previously invisible to the naked eye, were discovered and presented last week at an international conference honoring 70 years since the scroll’s discovery in a Judean Desert cave. The script was identified by an Israel Antiquities Authority researcher using advanced imaging technology originally...

President Donald Trump said that he will make his decision about whether or not the United States will stay in the nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday May 8 at 2 PM, Bloomberg News reported Monday. It is unclear whether or not Trump will stay in the deal. If Trump...

Six Hamas terrorists were killed in a large blast in the center of the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, claimed that six of its members were killed in the explosion and blamed the blast on Israel. A statement from the group said that...

Following a weekend during which Israeli officials warned that Iran was preparing to use proxies to attack northern Israel in retaliation for an airstrike against an Iranian airbase in Syria, a former Israeli national security advisor asserted that for any Iranian attack “there will be consequences.” Maj.-Gen. (Ret.) Yaakov Amidror...

Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group that exerts political and military control over Lebanon has won a “decisive” electoral victory and emerged stronger as the result of the first parliamentary elections held in that country in nine years, Reuters reported Monday. A coalition constituting Hezbollah and allied parties – including Amal, another...

The Sylvan Adams Velodrome in Tel Aviv, touted as the most advanced indoor cycling arena in the Middle East, was unveiled a few days before the Big Start of the Giro d’Italia road-biking race in Israel, scheduled to begin in Jerusalem on May 4 and reach Tel Aviv on May 5. The...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s apology for his widely criticized anti-Semitic remarks was rejected as insufficient by a number of commenters on Twitter, most notably former Knesset member Einat Wilf. Wilf, who is a leading thinker about Zionism, observed on Friday, “Key point to understand in #Abbas apology: For Palestinians, there is...

Background Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization which exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, on March 30 launched a six week long “March of Return” riot along the Gaza-Israeli border. Large groups of rioters marched on the border with the intent to breach the security fence and...

Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands, the reigning Giro D’Italia champion, won the first stage of the famed cycling competition in Jerusalem Friday, Agence France-Presse reported. It is the first time that one of cycling’s Grand Tour events has taken place outside of Europe. Teams from Dubai and the United Arab Emirates,...

Iran has maintained a significant interest in Iraq for many years, acting as a safe haven for dissidents from Saddam Hussain’s regime and, following the 2003 intervention, taking up a role as both a major political actor and providing support to Shiite militias who targeted coalition forces and the country’s...