Citing the destruction of the last known terror tunnels, Israeli sources said that both the Israeli government and Hamas had agreed to an Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire. Ynet reports: Political sources in Jerusalem said Monday night: “Israel supports the Egyptian initative, Israel wanted a ceasefire without preconditions; today the tunnel demolition was completed.” The...

An IDF soldier was shot near Hebrew University in Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus campus late this afternoon. The suspected terrorist responsible was clad in all black and fled on a motorcycle. The Jersualem Post reports: An IDF soldier was shot in the stomach by a suspected terrorist in a tunnel in Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus...

The Times of Israel reported yesterday that last week’s initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange of Mobileye, an Israeli startup that makes automobile accident avoidance systems, raised $890 million, a record for an Israeli company in the United States. The previous record is held by Partner Communications...

An analysis by Jerusalem Post diplomatic correspondent Herb Keinon of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Saturday night speech about Operation Protective Edge observed that Netanyahu made a veiled reference “to key Sunni countries in the region, particularly Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.” The significance of this reference, according to...

A Palestinian took an excavator from construction site where he was working and rammed it into a bus this afternoon in Jerusalem. During the attack one man was killed and several more were reported injured. The Times of Israel reports: A tractor driven by a Palestinian man rammed into a bus in...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a strong condemnation on August 4 of a major increase in anti-Semitic acts worldwide since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s attempt to end Hamas’ rocket fire and terror attacks. “Ban Ki-moon has deplored the recent upsurge in anti-Semitic attacks, particularly in Europe, in connection...

Today was the twenty-seventh day of Operation Protective Edge and the sixteenth day of ground operations in Gaza. More proof that the IDF is seriously good at social media — and that they are fighting an evil, despicable enemy. pic.twitter.com/BhkPhMCPrw — Ken Gardner (@kesgardner) August 4, 2014 At a time...

Israel started redeploying troops out of sections of Gaza over the weekend as it began considering the next stage of Operation Protective Edge. Palestinian civilians confirmed seeing soldiers leaving their cities. Israel has not entirely left the Palestinian coastal enclave with forces positioned up to half a mile inside Gaza...

Jonathan Kay, an editor at Canada’s National Post and a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, observed in an article published Friday that compared to previous wars against Palestinian terrorists since 2002, Israel seem less isolated internationally as it conducts Operation Protective Edge to fight Hamas’ terror infrastructure. Kay notes that...

Three Israeli engineers are among the most powerful women in the tech industry, according to a new list published by Business Insider. The online business news site has released its annual report on the ‘most powerful women engineers in the world’ to show that despite being outnumbered 3:1 by men in...