Breaking the Silence, a group that often makes unsubstantiated allegations about the IDF to foreign audiences, fosters anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, renowned Israeli journalist Ron Ben-Yishai wrote Tuesday in an op-ed for the Times of Israel. Ben-Yishai, who is a decorated IDF veteran and has covered Israeli security affairs for 46 years, wrote his piece in support of the non-profit organization Our...

The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced that it broke up a large Hamas terror cell that operated an explosives laboratory and planned to carry out suicide bombings, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The majority of the cell’s members were students at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, and...

The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security is the latest in a growing number of Congressional leaders to criticize the Obama administration for saying that it would circumvent newly-passed visa laws to address Iranian concerns and threats. Secretary of State John Kerry wrote a letter last week to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif,...

Two Israelis were killed and one more seriously wounded after a Palestinian stabbing attack at the Jaffa Gate outside the Old City of Jerusalem today. Ofer Ben Ari, a 46-year-old Jerusalemite with two daughters, was wounded by police gunfire in the process of subduing two Palestinian terrorists who had begun stabbing passersby. Shaare Zedek Medical Center announced his death moments...

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology broke ground for the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) in Shantou, on December 16. Due to open in 2016, it is expected eventually to accommodate 4,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students in engineering, science and life science. Leading the ceremony were former Israeli...

Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas terrorist who manages the group’s operations in the West Bank, was reportedly expelled from Turkey under pressure from the United States and Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. According to the Post, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and Hamas leader Khaled...

Twenty members of the House of Representatives, including key committee chairs, have written a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry blasting the Obama administration’s intention to bypass visa waiver restrictions that were overwhelmingly approved by Congress last week. As the Tower reported yesterday, Kerry had indicated to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that...

Over 650 of the nearly 700 medical personnel who have died in Syria since the start of the uprising against dictator Bashar al-Assad have been killed by the regime and its allies, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charged in a report last week. According to PHR, there have been 336...

The continued captivity of Robert Levinson nearly nine years after he was detained in Iran underscores the dangers foreigners face while visiting the Islamic Republic, Daniel Levinson, his son, wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Washington Post. Citing his father’s case, Levinson warned that in the wake of...

Israel’s education minister, Naftali Bennett, announced plans to open the Jewish state’s first Arab general academic college, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE), which is headed by Bennett, is set to approve the proposal for the establishment of a state-funded college in northern Israel. The CHE will either...