On Thursday, Times of Israel reporter Avi Issacharoff quoted an unnamed Israeli security official blaming Saleh al-Arouri, a Hamas operative now living in Turkey, for orchestrating the kidnappings last week of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach. Issacharoff reports: According to the unnamed official, Saleh al-Arouri — a former...

On Wednesday, an Israeli diplomat was appointed to serve on a United Nations committee focusing on “decolonization, Palestinian refugees and human rights, peacekeeping, mine action, outer space, public information, atomic radiation and University for Peace.” The Times of Israel reported: Israel overcame a coordinated effort by Arab states on Wednesday to thwart...

The Daily Star reported Monday that new batches of Hezbollah fighters were preparing to deploy into Syria as Iraqi Shiite militias – which had been battling on behalf of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime – were recalled back across the Syrian-Iraqi border to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...

Journalists on Wednesday worried that last week’s abduction of three Israeli teenagers risks triggering a full-blown conflict in the region. American, Israeli, and Fatah figures have all emphasized indications linking Hamas to the abductions. Veteran Arab affairs journalist Avi Issacharoff on Wednesday conveyed sentiments that Gaza residents are preparing for...

US pharmaceutical giant Merck (MSD) recently signed a cooperation agreement with the Chief Scientist of Israel, a deal which will boost Israeli life sciences companies and offer collaboration on joint technology projects. The Chief Scientist will assist Merck in identifying Israeli companies that are ripe for collaboration then grant financial...

Reps. Ed Royce (R-CA) and Eliot Engel (D-NY) – respectively the chairman and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee – on Tuesday released the text of a bipartisan letter that they indicated would soon be sent to President Barack Obama “noting that Congress played a central role in...

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon vowed on Tuesday to make Hamas “pay a heavy price” for the kidnapping of teenagers Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel. The Times of Israel reported on the defense minister’s comments: “Hamas in Judea and Samaria will pay a heavy price for the kidnapping,”...

As part of its effort to insure the safety and respect the privacy of innocent Palestinians, the Israel Defense Forces is using new technologies in its search for the three Israeli teenagers abducted on June 12. In Operation Brother’s Keeper, Israel has been using its recently improved Skylark UAV drones...

Three men were arrested Tuesday for threatening their relative, Mohammad Zoabi, an Arab-Israeli teen who posted a YouTube video expressing his solidarity with  Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel, the three Jewish-Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped last Thursday. The Times of Israel reports: “Three members of a Nazareth family were arrested on...

At least 31 people were killed Monday in barrel bomb attacks in the northern city of Aleppo, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog group: Some of the wounded were in a serious condition after the strikes on the Sukkari and Ashrafiyeh neighbourhoods, the Syrian Observatory for...