An editor of Newsweek Middle East launched into a Twitter tirade invoking several anti-Semitic tropes late last week, including that Jews are greedy and are not descended from biblical Hebrews, and therefore have no historical connection to Israel. After the magazine was criticized by pro-Israel bloggers last week for creating an inaccurate documentary video about...

After nearly a year of negotiations, Israel and the United States have signed a record $38 billion, 10-year military aid package. The deal is “the single largest military assistance package—with any country—in American history,” American ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said earlier this week. The current U.S.-Israel military aid agreement, which expires in 2018,...

Israel’s minister of construction signed a deal last week to build thousands of public housing units for the country’s Arab population. MK Yoav Galant (Kulanu) agreed to allocate 1.41 billion shekels ($374 million) toward building public housing for Israeli Arabs and to lift restrictions from construction on private land, Ynet reported. The deal, which was reached with...

The international charity World Vision has suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip after the director of its branch in the Palestinian territory was charged with funneling millions of dollars in aid to Hamas, Reuters reported on Friday. Israel froze World Vision’s accounts in Jerusalem following last month’s arrest of Mohammad el-Halabi, who is accused of diverting 60 percent...

The Israeli Air Force struck Syrian army positions near the border overnight Monday after a mortar shell hit the Israeli side of the Golan Heights hours earlier, Haaretz reported. Israel denied a claim by the Syrian army that it shot down two Israeli aircraft with surface-to-air missiles during the retaliatory raid. Monday’s mortar attack from Syria...

In Prof. Amir Amedi’s world-renowned Laboratory for Brain and Multisensory Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, people with vision impairment can “see” their environment with the aid of sensory substitution devices (SSDs) that provide visual information from sound and touch. Now, two of the lab’s groundbreaking inventions are being...

A rocket launched from Syria struck the Israeli Golan Heights on Monday night, the Israeli military said. No injuries were reported. Earlier today a projectile launched from Syria, hit the northern #Israeli Golan Heights. No injuries have been reported. #Syriaceasefire — Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) September 12, 2016 On Saturday, the...

Residents in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo said that they had been attacked by barrel bombs dropped by a government helicopter less than hour after a ceasefire went into effect, The New York Times reported Monday. A rebel group in the southern province of Dara’a also claimed to have killed...

Israel has started constructing an underground barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip to block the Islamist terrorist group Hamas from tunneling into its territory, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Israel’s Defense Ministry in July approved a budget of NIS 2 billion or $530 million to build the concrete barrier...

A raid by Israeli security forces on a home near Nablus in the northern West Bank on Monday yielded over 200 pounds of bomb-making materials, the Israeli military said. Overnight, forces near Nablus found 100+ kg of materials used to make explosives. 4 homemade bombs were also found, near Hebron...