The expense and effort that the terrorist organization Hamas is putting into building attack tunnels while the Gaza Strip, which it rules, is mired in poverty shows that “the last thing Hamas cares about is the welfare of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh wrote in...

One Israeli border policewoman was killed and another seriously injured during a shooting and stabbing attack carried out by three Palestinians outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Officials said that a quick response by security forces prevented a potentially much larger attack. The three assailants were killed. According to authorities, policewoman Hadar Cohen, 19,...

Cybersecurity researchers from Deutsche Telekom’s innovation lab at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba have discovered and traced six “botnet” hacking programs by analyzing data collected from past cyber-attacks. The breakthrough research may be of great importance to law enforcement agencies and cyber-security specialists around the world. “In this project,” explained Ariel Bar, one of the lead researchers...

The terrorist organization Hamas confirmed that at least two of its members were killed and eight others were missing after a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The group’s al-Quds TV channel identified one of the dead operatives as 23-year-old Haider a-Zaher. Hamas announced last week that seven of its members died when an attack...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s recent New York Times op-ed, which was critical of Israeli policy, is “unprecedented” in its focus on a single country, a Jerusalem Post analysis showed. Post diplomatic correspondent Herb Keinon noted in an analysis on Monday that of the 85 op-eds Ban has written since becoming secretary-general in 2007, “not one of...

Iran announced that it now has access to more than $100 billion in previously frozen assets due to sanctions relief granted by the nuclear deal, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The sum claimed by Tehran is nearly twice the estimate given last month by Secretary of State John Kerry, who said that...

Thousands of mourners marching at the funeral of a Palestinian Authority police officer who wounded three IDF soldiers during a shooting attack on Sunday chanted “death to Israel” and called for killing hundreds of Israelis, the Times of Israel reported on Monday. “It is time for the machine gun, to...

A United States District Court judge challenged the government’s decision to dismiss charges against an Iranian man accused of sanctions violations, Reuters reported on Monday. The U.S. government moved to dismiss charges against Alireza Moazami Goudarzi, who allegedly attempted to buy prohibited military equipment on behalf of Iran, as part of a deal that led...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week that Palestinian terror was “human nature,” a natural reaction to Israeli occupation. This led to a series of condemnations from Israeli officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the remarks gave a “tailwind to terror,” while former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren,...

Australia’s former national Labor Party president Warren Mundine said he was “disgusted” by a resolution being considered by the New South Wales (NSW) Labor Party to ban its members from traveling to Israel on trips sponsored by Jewish organizations, calling the move “an illogical, verging on anti-Semitic approach,” The Australian reported...