Israel Aerospace Industries has signed a multi-billion dollar contract to assist in constructing America’s new F-35 Mark 2 stealth fighter. The company will provide the wings: Israel Aerospace Industries will build wings for the F-35 Lightning II stealth combat jet, which Lockheed Martin Corporation will begin producing in 2015. The...

Fatah and Hamas are again engaging in tit-for-tat infighting, casting new doubts on the chances for a Palestinian unity deal. This week Palestinian Authority security forces arrested Hamas members in the West Bank and Hamas lashed out against the Palestinian Liberation Organization over PLO accusations of Hamas “Talibanization” and “Muslim...

Iran has already crossed Israel’s nuclear red line, the former head of Israeli military intelligence said Tuesday. “By the summer, Iran will be a month or two away from a decision about the bomb,” said Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, now the director of the Institute of National Security Studies,...

Scores of people were injured in weekend clashes in Cairo after opposition activists clashed with Islamists who were rallying on behalf of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohamed Morsi. At stake are efforts by the Egyptian judiciary to limit and block a series of power grabs by Morsi designed to centralize...

A suspected Iranian agent has been arrested for “scouting” the Israeli Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal “with a harmful intention.” Embassy officials arrested the man and transferred him to local authorities after noticing suspicious behavior. The English-language Himalayan Times reported Saturday that Nepalese police investigators have opened an inquiry into Mohsin...

The Jerusalem Post reports that Bulgarian police last summer arrested an Iranian agent who was monitoring the Chabad Jewish center in Sofia. The agent carried a Canadian passport and reportedly entered Bulgaria from Turkey several weeks after the July 2012 Burgas bus bombing that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian....

The U.S. State Department this week released its annual human rights report. The watchdog group NGO Monitor unpacked the report, noting the contrast between investigators’ descriptions of Israeli and Palestinian judicial systems. Palestinian Authority and Hamas security forces conduct “arbitrary arrest and associated torture and abuse” in a judicial climate...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reaffirmed his intention to brush off repeated objections from the United States and from the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority, and to travel to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip later this month: Official Turkish sources told the al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

French media is reporting that Jordan has granted Israel the use of its airspace to monitor developments and potentially strike targets in Syria. Le Figaro reported that Amman has opened two air corridors to Israeli drones – one through southern Jordan opposite the Negev and the other in the vicinity of...

Two weeks ago Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili emphasized that Iran would harden its negotiating stance after its upcoming June presidential election: Iran has refused to do so during a decade of on-and-off negotiations, despite hardening economic sanctions, arguing its uranium enrichment has peaceful purposes only and therefore can...