Israel filed charges against three men who attempted to smuggle materials for weapons manufacturing into Gaza by sea, Israel Hayom reported today. The Israeli military says a boat carrying materials for making weapons was intercepted by the Israeli Navy last month en route to the Gaza Strip from the Sinai...

As the Lebanese army intensifies its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other Islamist groups, the United States, its allies and Iran are increasing their aid to Lebanon. Earlier this week, the U.S. delivered more than $25 million of American weapons, including heavy artillery, to...

Satellite imagery shows that Iran has continued asphalting a site where it is believed to have carried out testing necessary for detonating a nuclear bomb, according to a report yesterday from the Institute for Science and International Security. The military facility in Parchin has long been an issue of concern...

The Facebook postings of an Austrian hairstylist calling for the killing of Jews was deemed a legitimate way to express “displeasure toward Israel,” an Austrian prosecutor recently ruled, according to a report Wednesday by Benjamin Weinthal in The Jerusalem Post. Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of...

UNICEF calls pneumonia “the forgotten killer of children.” This severe infection in the lungs causes more deaths in kids under five years old than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. Treatment is simple and effective, but in developing countries the problem is diagnosing it in the first place. Two Israeli startups...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech, rather than being divisive, will address the Iranian threat which is a matter of bipartisan concern in the United States, David Hazony argued Monday in The Forward. Hazony is editor of The Tower. After asking, “[w]hat happens, however, when you actually bracket out the...

With an eye on the Iranian regime, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey could look to build their own nuclear programs, raising concerns that the failure to halt Iran’s nuclear program could trigger a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. This week Egypt and Russia announced a plan to...

Syrian government troops, bolstered by Hezbollah militants and officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), are continuing a recently-launched offensive in southern Syria. Opposition forces had been making inroads in the region, but on Tuesday the pro-regime forces had “taken a string of villages and hills” along the border of the Israeli...

Iran is marking the 36th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution with massive state-sponsored rallies. State television aired scenes from the rallies in Tehran and around the country on February 11, showing participants chanting (Persian link) “down with the U.S.”, “death to America” and “death to Israel.” On February 11, 1979, followers...

A bipartisan bill was introduced to the House of Representatives yesterday that would make the largest free trade agreement in history, between the United States and the European Union, contingent on the EU rejecting the anti-Israel boycott movement. The Times of Israel reports: The bill, which has been worked on for...