In his analysis of Operation Protective Edge, Ron Ben Yishai, military analyst of Yedioth Ahronot, wrote about the significance of the terror tunnel that was destroyed yesterday. The military wing, in addition to the failure of the kidnap of the three teens in Gush Etzion, suffered a severe setback on Sunday...

Israel will do what is necessary to stop rocket fire from Gaza, former Israeli national security advisor Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror said during a news conference hosted by The Israel Project on July 8. Israel gave Hamas 48 hours to stop the fire, with Egypt trying to broker the deal....

Last week Forbes magazine published its list of 25 hot Israeli tech startups. Author Ilya Pozin introduces the list with some background of the environment in which they operate. Israel’s dynamic tech startup scene is no secret. The country has been called the “start-up nation” for years and, today, only...

In the late hours of Monday night the IDF launched “Operation Protective Edge” in an effort to stop the rockets from that continued to strike at Israel from the Gaza Strip. #IDF has commenced Operation Protective Edge in #Gaza against #Hamas, in order to stop the terror #Israel's citizens face...

The State Department’s top war crimes official claimed on Thursday that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is guilty of  “crimes against humanity.” Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast quotes Steven Rapp, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for War Crimes and director of the Office of Global Criminal Justice. “This is...

A statement made Saturday by Hamas official Osama Hamdan said that the terrorist group would accept no ceasefire in its attacks on Israeli civilians unless Israel ended its blockade of Gaza. Hamdan’s remarks were reported on the Hamas website Al Qassam: Head of Hamas’s foreign relations Osama Hamdan said that...

A new Israeli study shows that scorpions are master architects when designing and building their burrows, even including a platform on which to warm up before the evening hunt. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev scientists Dr. Amanda Adams, a post-doc in the Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology...

Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) believes a couple of extremist Islamist groups are preparing for multiple attacks within Lebanon, with the main threat coming from ISIS. A military court charged 28 people with membership of ISIS on July 7. Seven others are already in custody. The charges leveled against the...

Israeli government ministers were among the many Jews who visited the family of 17-year-old Arab Jerusalem resident Muhammed Abu-Khdeir, who was apparently killed by right-wing radicals on July 2. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Muhammed’s father Hussein on July 7. “I would like to express my outrage and that...

A report that a Jewish family has been smuggled out of Syria and brought to Israel was cleared for publication on Thursday. Ynet reports: This was the first time in over three years of the Syrian civil war that a Jewish family has left the war-torn country for Israel. They...