Five rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza Tuesday evening. Two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system before they could explode in populated areas. One of the rockets fell short and exploded in a Palestinian home in Gaza. The blast from that rocket killed...

It was reported Monday that Israel had charged Ziad Awad and his son Izzedin Hassan Ziad in the Passover eve killing of police commander Baruch Mizrahi. Mizrahi’s pregnant wife Hadas and a son were injured in the attack. The New York Times reports on the arrests: Ziad Awad, now 42, was...

The third intifada has begun in the West Bank, according to the man who led Hamas’ regime in Gaza until the power-sharing deal brought in a Fatah-Hamas Palestinian government in June. Former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh described the clashes as an “intifada,” or uprising. “We’re not saying the intifada will start;...

The campaign for the release of three Israeli teens abducted on June 12 by Hamas has found its way to soccer’s World Cup in Brazil. Dozens of Brazilians gathered outside a World Cup stadium in Rio de Janeiro to try to raise awareness among the hundreds of journalists and many...

In Why Are Student Leaders and Jewish Bruins Under Attack at UCLA?, which appears in the June 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, UCLA student Tessa Nath gives an in-person account of the ways that anti-Israel activists contributed to a destructive campus atmosphere. She describes how she felt as she waited to speak at a...

Israeli researchers have found a new tiny molecule that could spell great news for people suffering from depression. According to the World Health Organization, such mood disorders as depression affect some 10% of the world’s population and are associated with a heavy burden of disease. E xisting anti-depressants are not...

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Baghdad Monday to meet with Prime Minister Nour al-Maliki, with the intent of urging the Iraqi leader to accelerate the formation of an inclusive, unified government amid reports of further Sunni extremist gains and unrest across the country. The visit comes following reports...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that forthcoming evidence would implicate Hamas in the abductions, as the search continued through the weekend for three Israeli teenagers kidnapped earlier this month: He insisted that the government had “unequivocal proof” that the kidnapping was Hamas’s doing, and that he had provided it to...

The Times of Israel reported Monday that Israel is actively seeking to dampen escalatory tensions along the Israel-Syria border: A senior military official noted Monday, however, that Israel had no interest in military escalation along its northern borders, as the IDF was focused on an operation in the West Bank...

Jordan is facing threats on three fronts: from Syria, ISIS in Iraq and potentially from Hamas in the West Bank, former head of the Israel Defense Forces Operations Branch Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv told a news conference of The Israel Project on June 24. The threat to Jordan from ISIS,...