The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) banned passenger flights from overflying Syria yesterday. Bloomberg News reported on the FAA’s announcement: “The ongoing armed conflict and volatile security environment in Syria poses a serious potential threat to civil aviation,” the agency said. “Armed extremist groups in Syria are known to be equipped...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on his security forces to investigate the coup attempt by Hamas that Israel announced it had broken up yesterday. The Time of Israel reports: Abbas indicated the report could severely impact the unity pact signed between Fatah and Hamas in June, saying it represents...

Terrorists in Gaza violated the ceasefire and fired three rockets that exploded in open areas near Beersheba and Netivot. Beersheva is Israel’s fourth largest city.  There were also unconfirmed reports of explosions near Ashdod and Ashkelon. No damage or injuries have been reported. The rocket attack came only hours after a Hamas...

When former Apple executive Eric Sirkin sailed from Silicon Valley to Silicon Wadi – figuratively speaking, though he does have a skipper’s license – he harbored a dream of building a multinational company in Israel. Four years later that dream has yet to be realized, but Sirkin has made smaller...

Today was the forty second day of Operation Protective Edge. The most important speech yet on the Hamas-Israel war, worth watching every minute. The brilliant @COLRICHARDKEMP: http://t.co/j6I6VwaXwz — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 18, 2014 Sources have confirmed that the ceasefire that was to expire at midnight has been extended another...

The Times of Israel reported today that the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, questioned the impartiality of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) when it deals with Israel. Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, criticizes the world body’s panel created to investigate...

The Washington Jewish Week reported Friday that Sen. Charles Schumer (D – NY) called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to rescind its appointment of Prof. William Schabas, a controversial professor with a long record of anti-Israel statement, from heading an investigation into possible war crimes committed by...

Iraqi and Kurdish forces, backed by American air strikes (see embedded video below) have driven Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces from the Mosul dam according to news reports today. Reuters reported that an Iraqi television station had announced the news: The television station quoted Lieutenant-General Qasim Atta,...

Hamas was plotting to start a third intifada and overthrow the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank according to information just cleared for public release by the Shin Bet and the IDF–suggesting that concerns of a vast strengthening of Hamas in the weeks leading up to the kidnapping of three...

Yesterday a senior Israeli defense official said that Iran launched a massive cyber-attack against Israel during Operation Protective Edge. The Times of Israel reported that most of the targets of the attacks were civilian, the IDF’s Twitter account was hacked, sending out a message that rockets had hit Israel’s nuclear...