Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar rejected a request on Tuesday from the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross to meet with Israelis believed to be held captive by the Gaza-based terrorist group. Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC had requested meetings with Avraham Abera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed, and Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima,...

A delegation of 52 American law-enforcement officers from 12 states, has arrived in Israel for the second consecutive year to train in counterterrorism tactics together with their Israeli counterparts. During their stay, the United States delegation is housed at the Beit Shemesh police academy, where officers will meet with special...

Israeli athlete Linoy Ashram, 18, won a historic bronze medal at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Pesaro, Italy, last Friday. The previous day, she and fellow Israeli rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin both won bronze medals in apparatus finals, Ashram for the ribbon and Rivkin for the hoop. Ashram won a silver and...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is launching its largest combat exercise in more than 20 years on Tuesday to test plans for a future conflict with Hezbollah on its northern border. The exercise is expected to last ten days and will include its multi-layered missile defense system and tens of thousands...

What do Shaquille O’Neal, Tom Kukoc and Moshe “Mickey” Berkowitz have in common? They are all being inducted into the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Hall of Fame in September. Berkowitz, 63, is widely regarded as Israel’s greatest-ever basketball player. He won 16 Israeli championships, 13 state cups and two European cups while...

The former Obama administration ambassador to Syria said this week that Iran’s presence in Syria is “the new reality that we have to accept, and there isn’t much we can do about it,” and that this reality “has made the situation worse for Israel.” Iran’s growing hegemony in the Middle East, marked...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) does not require suspicion of Iranian violations of the 2015 nuclear deal to demand access to military sites for inspections, two nuclear weapons experts argued in an analysis published Thursday. While Iran continues to insist that it will not allow inspections of its military...

Israel and donors to the country are said to spend at least $32 million on goods for Syrian civilians this year, including $26 million from donations and $6 million from the army budget for the cause, Haaretz reported. The numbers, obtained by the newspaper through the Freedom of Information Act,...

The Palestinian Authority forced a meeting with the families of terrorists on UN Secretary General António Guterres, and then lied about the chain of events. According to a spokesperson for the UN chief, Guterres was not scheduled to meet with relatives of Palestinian terrorists and the quotes released by the...

Orthopedic and plastic surgeons at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Medical Center-Ein Kerem successfully treated 42-year-old Gaza resident Muhammad Taluli, whose hand was disfigured from an extremely rare contagious condition, epidermodysplasia verruciformis, or “tree man syndrome.” Taluli suffered from painful tumors over his entire hand for the past decade, according to lead...