Iran tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile in violation of an existing United Nations Security Council resolution, Reuters reported Sunday. Iran tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of a United Nations ban, signaling an apparent advance in Iranian attempts to improve the accuracy of its missile...

The Washington Post‘s correspondent in Tehran, who was arrested by Iranian authorities more than a year ago and was held for nine months without charge, has been convicted in an espionage trial. Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American journalist, had been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for longer than the 444 days of the Iran...

A Palestinian woman detonated an explosive device in her car, seriously injuring herself and an Israeli police officer who stopped her as she neared a Jerusalem-area checkpoint, The Times of Israel reported today. Police said officers noticed a suspicious vehicle driven by a woman heading toward a checkpoint on the...

In a statement at a press conference on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the latest wave of terror against Israelis on “wild and mendacious incitement by Hamas, the Palestinian Authority [PA],” and others. While Mahmoud Abbas, president of the PA, has recently claimed that he seeks to avoid...

In the wake of Russian airstrikes in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has come within one mile of the northern border of Aleppo, Reuters reported today. Islamic State is now within 2 km (1 mile) of government-held territory on the northern edge of Aleppo which has...

Dr. Michael Satlow, a professor of religious studies and Judaic studies at Brown University, wrote today that the existence of a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount is “as historically certain a fact as one can get.” Satlow’s statement, published on his website, was prompted by a report yesterday in The...

The recent wave of Palestinian terror attacks against Jews and Israelis is largely due to a pattern of extreme radicalization that has taken place in eastern Jerusalem over the past twenty years, a recently retired former Shin Bet official told The Tower. “This process began when the Palestinian Authority was established...

A top Iranian general responsible for shoring up the support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was killed in a battle with anti-Assad forces outside the Syrian city of Aleppo, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. Brig. Gen. Hossein Hamedani died at the hands of “Daesh terrorists” on Thursday while conducting advisory...

The Israeli semiconductor company EZchip has been bought by the Silicon Valley internet network company Mellanox Technologies, with the share purchase valuing the company at approximately $811 million. Mellanox already maintains five offices in Israel. In 2011, Mellanox acquired the Israeli company Voltaire for $208 million. “The synergies between EZchip...

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee will become the first Indian president to visit Israel when he arrives next week. Israeli President Rueven Rivlin said that the trip will “deepen the friendship between our states, in the fields of economy, science, medicine, and agriculture.” Mukherjee will address the Knesset and meet with Prime Minister...