Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday described Israel as a “cancerous tumor” and called for a “holy intifada” to destroy the Jewish state. Khamenei’s latest threat came in a speech introducing the regime’s sixth conference in support of a Palestinian intifada, or violent uprising against Israel. The conference was held in...

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The Israeli military is expecting a sharp increase in the number of female soldiers enlisting to serve in combat units, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. The spike is expected to be driven by the addition of a recently announced co-ed battalion that will be deployed in the Jordan Valley. The Israel...

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Israel has reportedly warned Hezbollah that it will harshly respond to any attack after reports that the Iran-backed terrorist group has obtained advanced weapons systems. The warning is thought to have been passed to the terrorist group via an unnamed Arab emissary, who spoke to the London-based Lebanese newspaper Al-Hayat on Sunday....

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After years of encountering disproportionate anti-Israel criticism and bias at the United Nations, the United States “will not turn a blind eye to this anymore,” new United States Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said on Thursday. Haley described her first meeting of the UN Security Council: The Security Council is supposed to discuss how...

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Two rockets were fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel on Monday morning. The Islamic State’s Sinai branch is likely to have been responsible for the attack. Nobody was injured and no damage was caused when the rockets landed in the Eshkol region of southern Israel. There were no rocket...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly asked President Donald Trump during their meeting in the White House on Wednesday for the U.S. government to officially recognize Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed in 1981. Trump’s approval of Netanyahu’s request would...

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Former Huffington Post reporter Hunter Stuart grew up believing that “that Israel is unjustly bullying the Palestinians,” but changed his views about the conflict when he moved to Jerusalem in 2015 to report from there, he wrote in this week’s issue of The Jerusalem Report. His views didn’t change right away. “I believe...

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Trump, Netanyahu Rethinking Peace Proposals President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint White House press conference on Wednesday, in which the two leaders hinted at a “regional approach” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that may or may not include a two-state solution, spurred observers to carefully parse their words in...

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The Indian Space Research Organization, the country’s national space agency, set a record on Wednesday by launching 104 satellites from a single rocket—with two Israeli-built research nanosatellites among them. One of them is the BGUSAT, Israeli academia’s first nanosatellite. It measures just 10x10x30 centimeters (a little bit larger than a milk...

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In assessing Wednesday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s former national security advisor said that wider and more open rapprochement between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors was a “realistic” prospect, even if not a guarantee. Speaking with reporters on Thursday, Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror recalled...

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